AP ENGLISH LITERATURE    13501

5 credits      

This senior course is for advanced students in English who are capable of doing college-level work.  Study in this course centers on the reading of fiction, drama, and poetry, and texts are analyzed through a variety of means (thematic, historical, formal and structural among them).  Course readings represent the British and Western literary tradition, from the Ancient world and through the present.  Selections represent a variety of authors, including Sophocles, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Austen, Beckett and Achebe.  Students also pursue a rigorous independent reading program.  This course develops students’ advanced critical reading, analytical and writing skills, oral interpretation fluency, and discussion seminar skills. Advanced work in critical writing culminates in a research paper written in the second semester.  All students enrolled in AP classes are required to take the AP exam.  Please note:  there is a required summer assignment for this course.