Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition Ms. Buchanan-Lind B203 303-982-1922 (vm) [email protected] [email protected] (student use only) https://sites.google.com/a/jeffcoschools.us/ms-buchanan-s-website/ap-literature-andcomposition/ap-syllabus-and-summer-work

Course Description: Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition is a full year

course that is, in essence, a college level English class offered on a high school campus. The reading and writing experiences will be similar to those commonly found in introductory college literature courses. Students will take the Advanced Placement Literature and Composition test in May 4, 2016. The scores will be reported to colleges and units of credit given based on the policy at the individual college. Students enrolled in this class are expected to make a commitment to a rigorous curriculum of literary analysis and composition. Literature Component: Advanced Placement Literature and Composition students will demonstrate the ability to: 1. read critically, ask pertinent questions about what they read, recognize assumptions and implications, and evaluate ideas. 2. read with understanding a range of literature that is rich in quality and representative of different literary forms and historical periods. 3. show an understanding of literature by analyzing specific literary texts in excerpts and in whole works, identifying plot, theme, point of view, characterization, setting, tone, mood, and style. 4. read a literary text analytically, seeing relationships between form and content. 5. complete a close reading of a specific text selection, identifying diction, syntax, figurative language, satire, irony, style, denotative and connotative meaning. 6. describe how language contributes both literally and figuratively to the meaning of a work. 7. respond actively and imaginatively to a literary work by describing its stylistic features, evaluating them in light of the theme, entertaining alternative approaches, or dramatizing the circumstances or effects of the work. 8. draw conclusions about the themes of a work, appraising them and speculating independently on related ideas. 9. think reflectively about what they have read and discussed and apply their findings to their own lives. 10. value literature as an imaginative representation of truth or reality. Writing Component: Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition students will demonstrate the ability to: 1. view writing as a developed discipline that includes collecting information, formulating ideas and determining their relationships, drafting paragraphs and arranging them in an appropriate order with transitions between them, and revising what they have written. 2. write as a way of discovering and clarifying ideas. 3. write an essay of literary analysis discussing the salient literary features of a specific text, displaying an effective thesis and organizational structure, including the selection of appropriate detail to support the thesis, insight, and efficient use of diction and syntax. 4. respond directly and efficiently to questions that require a timed essay, organizing quickly and clearly, focusing on major points that provide a competent response to the question as asked and developing each major point fully.

5. write appropriately for different occasions, audiences, and purposes (persuading, explaining, describing, and interpreting). 6. use the conventions of standard written English with skill and assurance. 7. maintain a consistent tone and appeal (emotional, logical, or ethical) through precise syntax, phrasing, and diction. 8. summarize clearly and accurately the ideas of others. 9. collect data from secondary sources, use it judiciously, and document it accurately. 10. respond insightfully to quotations selected from literature studied.

Rubrics: All in-class essays are scored using a 9 Point rubric similar to rubrics used to score AP compositions. All other assignments will be scored using assignment-specific rubrics.

Assessments and Instructional Strategies: 1.

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Essays (in and out of class), reflections(informal each class meeting, formal each six weeks), and summaries, college application essays/scholarship essays Reading response quizzes Multiple choice reading assessments Projects such as independent novel projects/presentations and poetry presentations Socratic Seminars, Last Word Protocols, Chalk Talks, text-based discussions, textrendering discussions, Scored Discussions, fishbowl discussions Brief lectures

Explorations of the Human Experiences through Literature: The following themes will be explored via multiple sources throughout the year. Moral ambiguity Power Religion/supernatural Racism Evil Gender Roles Insanity Cultural Values Isolation Religion Conformity Government Science Sense of self Parent/Child Relationships Environment I use the following texts to explore the various themes: Summer Reading and Writing: All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy Assessment: Essay and discussion Seniors will submit a college and/or scholarship essay they wish to use. I will read and respond with comments. It is worth 100 points, and it is scored with a rubric—provided to students in their summer packet. I am available to edit and/or help students with future college/scholarship essays. Juniors will submit a personal narrative in answer to a prompt. I will read and respond, grading it by using a specific rubric that is provided with their summer packet. Literature Studied this Year:: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey “Misery” by Anton Chekov “Caged Bird” by Maya Angelou “Sympathy” by Paul Laurence Dunbar “A Caged Bird” by Sarah Orne Jewett Assessment: Essay and discussion

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad “The Hollow Men” by TS Eliot “Dante’s Inferno” excerpt by Aligheri “White Man’s Burden” by Stevenson “Them Bones” by Lucille Clifton “Racism in Heart of Darkness” by Chinua Achebe “Body Rituals of the Nacirema” “Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist” by Avenue Q players “Hollow Men” by REM Assessments: Essay and discussion The Picture of Dorian Grey Oscar Wilde Gothic Victorian Poetry “Two in One” by Flann O’Brien Assessments: Essay and discussion Poetry: Poetry presentations, Responses, poetry terms: chiasmus, anaphora, conceit, synechdoche Assessment: Presentations and essays A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen Hamlet by William Shakespeare Assessments: Essay and discussions Poetry Study: Sonnet, aubade, villanelle, ballad, ode, epithalamion, sestina Romantics including Blake, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Gray, Byron Bless Me, Ultima. by Rudolfo Anaya Assessments: Essay and discussion Latin American Poetry Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro “Barbie Doll”-Marge Piercy “August 2026”-Ray Bradbury “Rape of the Lock”-Alexander Pope “The Second Coming”-William Butler Yeats “Dulce et Decorum Est” and “Anthem for Doomed Youth”-Wilfred Owen Assessments: Essay, discussion One to two independent novels: essays, novel presentation Poets we study include: Christopher Marlowe Samuel Taylor Coleridge William Wordsworth William Blake George Gordon, Lord Byron Alfred, Lord Tennyson Pablo Neruda Langston Hughes Maya Angelou Billy Collins Wilfred Owen Adrienne Rich Gwendolyn Brooks EE Cummings

Sir Walter Raleigh John Donne John Keats Percy Bysshe Shelley Alexander Pope Seamus Heaney Lucille Clifton Countee Cullen Sylvia Plath Ted Hughes Anne Sexton Imamu Amiri Baraka Marianne Moore Margaret Atwood

Students will also receive a test preparation book and a poetry packet.

Works Cited* The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Major Authors. Stephen Greenblatt, ed. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2006. The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry. Ellmann, Richard, and Robert O’Clair, ed. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1988. Perrine’s Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry. Arp, Thomas R., and Greg Johnson, ed. Boston: Thomson and Wadsworth, 2005. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. Gibaldi, Joseph, ed. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2003. Hodges’ Harbrace Handbook. Hodges, John, Suzanne Strobeck Webb, Robert Keith Miller, and Winifred Bryan Horner, eds. Boston: Heinle and Heinle Thomson Learning, 2001. The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms. Murfin, Ross, and Supryia M. Ray. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2003.

*Supplemental material

Free Reading Choices

Please choose _____ novels/plays to read this year. Due dates will be provided during class. 16th-19th Century Writers: Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote Hugo, Victor: The Hunchback of Notre Dame Tolstoy, Leo: Anna Karenina Eliot, George: Middlemarch Hardy, Thomas: Tess of the D’Urbervilles Far from the Maddening Crowd Return of the Native Dickens, Charles: Hard Times Oliver Twist Austen, Jane: Sense and Sensibility Emma Persuasion Pride and Prejudice De Balzac, Honore: Cousin Bette Gaskell, Elizabeth: Wives and Daughters Dumas, Alexandre: The Count of Monte Cristo Doestoevsky, Fyodor: The Brothers Karamazov Crime and Punishment

20th-21st Century Writers Atwood, Margaret: Cat’s Eye Wilderness Tips The Handmaid’s Tale Oryx and Crake Alias Grace Life Before Man Allende, Isabel Daughter of Fortune Portrait in Sepia Baldwin, James Go Tell It on the Mountain Camus, Albert The Stranger Cather, Willa Death Comes for the Archbishop The Song of the Lark The Professor’s House Haruf, Kent Plainsong Esquibel, Laura Like Water for Chocolate Golden, Arthur Memoirs of a Geisha Guterson, David Snow Falling on Cedars Miller, Arthur Death of a Salesman Heller, Joseph:Catch-22 Hurston, Zora Neale Their Eyes Were Watching God Cisneros, Sandra Caramelo Hemingway, Ernest The Sun Also Rises

The Old Man and the Sea For Whom the Bell Tolls Maugham, Somerset The Razor’s Edge Of Human Bondage Ellison, Ralph The Invisible Man Wharton, Edith A Son at the Front Ethan Fromme The Age of Innocence Tan, Amy The Joy Luck Club The Kitchen God’s Wife The Hundred Secret Senses The Bonesetter’s Daughter McCullers, Carson The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Faulkner, William Light in August Fitzgerald, F. Scott This Side of Paradise Tender is the Night The Beautiful and Damned Walker, Alice The Color Purple The Temple of My Familiar By the Light of My Father’s Smile Morrison, Toni Paradise The Bluest Eye Porter, Katherine Anne Ship of Fools Wilder, Thornton The Bridge of San Luis Rey O’Brien, Tim In the Lake of the Woods See, Lisa Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Martel, Yann The Secret Life of Pi Rand, Ayn The Fountainhead Atlas Shrugged Woolf, Virginia Orlando To the Lighthouse Mrs. Dalloway Garcia Marquez, Gabriel One Hundred Years of Solitude