11AP

Welcome to 11AP! Here is a little information about the course! 

This is not an easy undertaking by any means, but it will be a worthwhile journey. You will be impressed by your brain's ability if you give your all this year in class and at home. The purpose of this course, as is the purpose of college first-year literature classes, is to guide and enable you to read complex texts with understanding and to write literary responses that are rich and complex.  In this class, you will learn that writing is a craft as we closely focus and examine fiction, non-fiction, poetry, essays, and drama. 

This course is challenging, time-consuming, intellectually stimulating, and truly for students who ENJOY reading a variety of texts as well as participating in thoughtful discussions about characters, themes, and writing style.  In order to be prepared for the examination in May, time must be invested outside of the classroom.  Buy a review book ASAP and start practicing. Class attendance and participation is crucial to success.  It is expected that you are prepared every day for seminars, exams, timed-writes, presentations and other assessments.

The texts selected are chosen to help ensure success on the examination in May.  We will read numerous stories, poems, and novels throughout the year.  It’s a GREAT idea to purchase the novels so that you will own and interact with the text more fully. The works cover differing times, places, cultures, genders, religions and races.  This is college board approved material. Good readers are able to experience other lives, times, triumphs and failures which enrich us as humans. The course will include Lord of the Flies, The Awakening, The Great Gatsby, and The Tragedy of Macbeth.  Books will be completed in about three weeks with reading quizzes to keep you on track.  Each novel will be assessed afterwards in a free-response essay. 

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REGENTS EXAM IS IN JANUARY

AP EXAM IS IN MAY