Syllabus: AP Lit and Comp

Unit 1: Welcome and Summer Reading

• How to Read Literature Like a Professor,  choice novel

Unit 2: Art and Beauty

• How to talk about and analyze poetry

• Short works and poetry from the Literature book: 

  • "Everyday Use," "Constantly Risking Absurdity," "Starry Night" and more!

Unit 3: Greek Tragedy

• Elements of tragedy, the Hero's Quest

  • Antigone

Unit 4: Theme in Context

• "Dover Beach," "The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock," "Araby"

Unit 5: Shakespearean Tragedy

• About reading and interpreting Shakespeare

  • Hamlet

Unit 6: The Research Paper/1984

• How to write a literary research paper

• The MLA format

• Proper citation

• Choosing and narrowing topics

Unit 7: Independent Novel

• Multiple options, TBA

Unit 8: War

• Literature of wars from WWI-Present

  • "Dulce et Decorum Est," The Things They Carried and many more

Unit 9: Women and Men

• A Doll's House, "A&P," "Shiloh," "Good Country People," and more

Unit 10: Parents and Children

• Death of a Salesman, "Those Winter Sundays," "The Mother" and more