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GENERAL COURSE OBJECTIVES ARE TO PREPARE STUDENTS FOR
College level reading, thinking, and writing -- with an emphasis on the analysis of fictional, dramatic, and poetic texts
Conducting varied forms of physical and digital research for the purpose of creating and supporting personal claim(s) for education and life
Becoming familiar with college media center databases and the Library of Congress organizing system
Proficient completion of the AP Exam in the Spring
Listening and speaking to make contributions to academic discourse
Managing and organizing time and available resources
Career planning and preparation
*75% Major & 25% CW/HW determines Summative Grades
**College Board Course Description ~ https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/courses/ap-english-literature-and-composition
AP Literature & Composition General Course SyllabusUNITS WITH READING CONTENT/ACTIVITIES & WRITING/SKILLS COMPONENTS I. PREJUDICE -- September to October:
II. PARIAH -- October to November:
III. POWER -- November to December:
IV. PURPOSE -- December to January:
V. POETRY -- will “float” from September through January and cover a range of topics/works
AP Literature & Composition General Course SyllabusUNITS WITH READING CONTENT/ACTIVITIES & WRITING/SKILLS COMPONENTS I. PREJUDICE -- September to October:
- Summer Selections
- Ibsen’s A Doll’s House or Wilson's Fences
- Reader’s Response Entries
- Socratic Seminar Sessions and “Jigsaw”
- Quizzes
- Written drafts
- Reviewing rhetorical analysis and College Board’s exam expectations
- Rhetorical Analysis Presentation
- Major Thesis Essay(s)
II. PARIAH -- October to November:
- Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest or Shelley's Frankenstein
- Reader’s Response Entries
- Socratic Seminar Sessions and “Jigsaw”
- Quizzes
- Written drafts
- Reviewing poetry analysis and College Board’s exam expectations
- Becoming familiar with “books of literary merit;” selecting a novel/play for major independent study and beginning the reading and annotating of it
- Major Thesis Essay
III. POWER -- November to December:
- Shakespeare’s Othello and/or Hamlet
- Reader’s Response Entries
- Socratic Seminar Sessions and “Jigsaw”
- Quizzes
- Written drafts
- Conducting timed poetry writing(s), revisions, final submissions
- Completing independent study reading; beginning research and starting creation of content for major research paper
- Major Thesis Essay
IV. PURPOSE -- December to January:
- Sartre's No Exit and/or Camus' The Stranger
- Reader’s Response Entries
- Socratic Seminar Sessions and “Jigsaw”
- Quizzes
- Written drafts
- Continuing research for the major independent study
- Completing and submitting draft for the Major Research Paper
V. POETRY -- will “float” from September through January and cover a range of topics/works
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