A.P. English Literature & Composition
Instructor: Amy L. Buckley
Contact Info: amy.buckley@lcps.org
A.P. ENGLISH LITERATURE & COMPOSITION 2014-2015 SYLLABUS
Course Description:
The AP English Literature and Composition course is designed to engage you in the careful reading and critical analysis of
imaginative literature. Through the close reading of selected texts, you can deepen your understanding of the ways
writers use language to provide both meaning and pleasure for their readers. This course will include intensive study of
representative works from various genres and periods, concentrating on works of recognized literary merit -- from the
sixteenth to the twentieth century -- but, more importantly, you must get to know a few works well. You should read
deliberately and thoroughly, taking time to understand a work's complexity, to absorb its richness of meaning, and to
analyze how that meaning is embodied in literary form. In addition to considering a work's literary artistry, you should
consider the social and historical values it reflects and embodies. Careful attention to both textual detail and historical
context should provide a foundation for interpretation, whatever critical perspectives are brought to bear on the literary
works studied. Writing will be an integral part of this course and will focus on the critical analysis of literature , including
expository, analytical, and argumentative essays. The goal of these writing assignments is to increase your ability to
explain clearly, cogently, even elegantly, what you understand about literary works and why you interpret them as you
do.
Required Resources:
3-ring binder
Spiral notebook
Loose Paper
Pen (2 colors)
Grading:
If the homework assignment is necessary for that day’s lesson and participation, you will be asked to complete an
alternate assignment, and you will receive a zero for that day’s assignment. Otherwise, late work (aside from essays) is
penalized by five (5) points each day it is late after the due date unless you are absent. All assignments have different
point values and can be found on Clarity.
Grading scales for in-class timed essays:
1st Quarter
9=100
8=99
7=97
6=95
5=89
4=86
3=82
2=78
1=75
2nd Quarter
9=100
8=99
7=96
6=92
5=87
4=82
3=78
2=70
1=65
3rd Quarter
9=100
8=98
7=95
6=89
5=84
4=75
3=70
2=65
1=50
4th Quarter
9=100
8=98
7=95
6=89
5=80
4=70
3=65
2=60
1=50
A.P. English Literature & Composition
Instructor: Amy L. Buckley
Contact Info: amy.buckley@lcps.org
Essays/Papers:
You will be required to write a one-page typed, double-spaced thought paper every month on a variety of
topics/readings. Requirements for thought papers will be given in class upon the first assignment. All essays/papers
must be submitted online on turnitin.com by the date assigned. All essays/papers are to be typed with your name, date,
and period at the top with correct MLA parenthetical citation and a correctly cited bibliography.. Late essays/papers will
receive -10 points for each day that they are late. Thought papers will be worth 150 points and longer take-home essays
will be worth 200 points. Timed essay tests are worth 200 points. Regular timed essays are worth 100 points. If asked,
you will be required to revise essays to receive a final passing grade. You may receive a penalty if the first essay is not a
true final copy. If you choose not to revise, your essay will automatically receive a 50%. You are always welcome to
revise your paper if your final essay grade is a “B”, but you are not required to do so.
Absences
Use my Broad Run web page when you are absent to stay up-to-date on assigned work and contact me or your absentee
partner for more information or instructions. You are expected to be prepared for the next class after an absence. Any
homework that was due on the day you were absent is due immediately upon your return. You will have the BRHS
allowed days for absentee work. If you are present on the day we do not meet, you are still held accountable for coming
by the classroom and turning in material or picking up materials. If you fail to do so, late fees will most likely apply.
**I will NOT be available to help you with make-up work once the class bell rings. Please see me before or after school
or make an appointment.
Snow Days:
Be prepared to keep up with your reading during snow days so make sure you take home your books. The syllabus will
shift if we are out for a week. I will post a revised syllabus if that is the case.
Plagiarism:
Plagiarism is defined as using another person’s work or ideas without giving proper credit. Any attempt to take credit
for work that is not your own will lead to an F on the assignment and disciplinary action as outlined in the student
handbook. All outside sources, including the text you are analyzing, need to be cited at the end of your essay and in
MLA parentheticals throughout your essay.
Classroom Etiquette:
Because this is an Advanced Placement class, you are expected to behave like college students. This means refraining
from all distracting behavior, including participating in irrelevant discussions, using personal electronic devices, and
completing work for another class. If I see or hear your cell phone, I will take it from you until class ends. If I see it or
hear it on a second occasion, you will be asked to surrender your phone upon entering the classroom until a new
quarter begins. Tardiness is a serious distraction, and Broad Run’s tardiness policy will strictly be enforced.
Website
The syllabus, complete with the course schedule (subject to change) is posted on Broad Run’s website under my name.
Important announcements pertaining to scheduling changes due to inclement weather will be posted on the website as
they arise. Please check the website frequently for announcements. For any last minute changes, I will send an email
blast via your turnitin.com account email.
A.P. English Literature & Composition
Instructor: Amy L. Buckley
Contact Info: amy.buckley@lcps.org
Writing Center
Broad Run will be offering a Writing Center during both lunch periods. The Writing Center’s trained tutors can help you
revise your essays. I expect your final essays to reflect your best work so you should always revise.
Textbooks:
You are expected to look over the novels and plays for the year and purchase or download them all by the assigned due
date. If you need financial aid, please see me privately.
A.P. English Literature & Composition
Instructor: Amy L. Buckley
Contact Info: amy.buckley@lcps.org
First Quarter Syllabus (“A” Day)
Week
Date
Description
Sept 2
Getting to know each other
Introduction to AP Literature & expectations
Discuss reading list/syllabus
Assignments:
Book money/order Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde—due 9/8
Buy/choose reading list books by 10/1
Buy a spiral by 9/8 (Monday)/sign up for turnitin.com
Sept 4
Continue to get to know each other
First timed essay-discuss format-diagnostic
Handout: “Your Brain on Fiction”-discuss
Assignment:
Sign up to turnitin.com
Sept 8
Journal: tell me about yourself; why AP not DE; expectations of AP
Topic: Critical Reading
Why is Critical Reading important?
Handouts: “How to Critically Read”; “Close Reading of a Literary Passage”
Assignment:
Read College Admissions/Essay handouts: “Don’t Be Bland”;
“Your Brain on Melville”; “Inside the Admissions Process at GWU”
Sept 10
Journal: Response to HW
Annotating Prose--notes
Topic: Annotating text
Read and annotate “Tell Tale Heart”-Poe
Assignment: Finish annotating “Tell Tale Heart”
Sept 12
Journal: Circles of Meaning—notes
Collect “Tell Tale Heart” annotating sections
Topic: Analytical Tools for Reading Better
Finding “meaning” in literature.
Circles of Meaning & 10 Patterns of Meaning
Creating clever theses: iceberg; Handout: “Sample Student Analytical Thesis Statements”
Assignment: Type up 5 different thesis statements analyzing a book or a movie utilizing
the generalized meanings to help you form a more specific fabulous argument.
Sept 16
Journal: Pixar thesis
Share homework—underline meaning--turn in theses—revised for meaning if none
Topic: Analytical tools for reading more critically (Literary Criticism)
Learn Mythological Criticism: symbolism, archetypes, and motifs; the journey circle
Assignment: Read “Godfather Death” online and take Mythological notes
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A.P. English Literature & Composition
Instructor: Amy L. Buckley
Contact Info: amy.buckley@lcps.org
Week
Date
Description
Sept 18
Journal: Create a thesis analyzing “Godfather Death”—zero credit if no notes
Topic: Mythological Criticism
Watch and take notes on the documentary on Star Wars through Mythological lens.
Assignment:
Choose a heroic journey movie, watch it again, and analyze it through
Mythological lens as the documentary of Star Wars did but utilizing the
Hero’s Journey and additional symbolism unique to that movie. 2 pages
typed, double-spaced. Turnitin.com by 9/28.
Sept 22
Journal: “Exercise 8” (13, Understanding Style)
Topic: Writing in AP: “Outside-of-Class Essays” Handout
Topic: Introduction to Psychological Criticism
Assignment: Print out and bring in Narrative Terms
Sept 24
Journal: Narrative Terms ½
Topic: Pyschological Criticism continued
Topic: Gender Criticism
Readings: “Two Complementary Critical Readings” of “The Birthmark”—
Gender & Psychological
Assignment:
Read “Rapunzel” and write two different thesis statements, one
analyzing it through a Psychological perspective and the other from a
Gender perspective. Typed.
Sept 26
Journal: Narrataive Terms ½
Discuss homework & turn it in
Topic: Sociological Criticism/Marxist Criticism
Handout: “Why So Many Exams? A Marxist Response” (The Informed Argument, 514)
Read “The Three Apprentices” and analyze. Thesis in spiral.
Turn in spiral for grading.
Assignment: Thought Paper Instructions & Handout on Response to Stories
Thought Paper #1 due 10/5 on turnitin.com
Bring Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde to class on Monday.
Sept 30
Journal: Define “horror”
Unit 1: Crime & Horror in the Victorian Age
Lecture: “Why is this era so important to our literature?
“What is horror?” according to the Victorians
Introduction to Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
Assign annotating chapters.
Assignment: Read & annotate Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by 10/8
Oct 2
Journal: Writing work
Unit 1: Crime & Horror in the Victorian Age
Topic: “Open Essay Rubric” How to write open essays: revise first essay and turn in.
Assignment: Read & annotate Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by 10/8
Four
Five
A.P. English Literature & Composition
Instructor: Amy L. Buckley
Contact Info: amy.buckley@lcps.org
Week
Date
Description
Oct 6
Journal: : “Developing a Tone Vocabulary”: Tone story
Unit 1: Crime & Horror in the Victorian Age
Topic: “The Grotesque” Prose Essays—careful reading: Quoyle excerpt with sample essays
Assignment: Finish reading Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
Oct 8
Journal: Small Group Discussion “Rules” & Expectations
Lecture on Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
Begin small group discussion on Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
Assignment: Timed Essay TEST on 10/15
Oct 10
Journal: Notes: how to study for a timed book essay test. How to take notes on your notes.
Extra Credit for those who do.
Finish small group discussion on Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
Assignment: Timed Essay Test & bring in Lady Audley’s Secret or The Picture of Dorian
Gray
Six
Seven
October 13: Columbus Holiday
Oct 15
Timed Essay TEST: Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
Turn in spiral.
Unit 1: Crime & Horror in the Victorian Age
Introduction to Lady Audley’s Secret and A Portrait of Dorian Gray
Assign annotation sections
Assignment: Read and annotate either book by 11/6
Oct 17
Journal: Elements of mystery
Unit 1: Crime & Horror in the Victorian Age
Readings: “The Parwat Ruby”-Delia Sherman-discuss (“Mystery”)
Assignment: Read and annotate either book by 11/6
Oct 21
Journal: Intro to Sherlock Holmes--notes
Unit 1: Crime & Horror in the Victorian Age
Read, discuss, and analyze: “The Man with the Twisted Lip”- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
(Sherlock Holmes)
Read, discuss, and analyze: “The Devil of the Marsh”-H.B. Marriott-Watson
Assignment: Read and annotate either book by 11/6
Oct 23
Journal: Writing work
Unit 1: Crime & Horror in the Victorian Age
“Alone at Last”-Russell Stockton & “A Jury of Her Peers”-Susan Glaspell (“Mystery”)-Discuss
Assignment: Read and annotate either book by 11/6
Eight
A.P. English Literature & Composition
Instructor: Amy L. Buckley
Contact Info: amy.buckley@lcps.org
Week
Date
Description
Oct 27
Journal: Intro to Browning--notes
Unit 1: Crime & Horror in the Victorian Age
Readings: Readings: From “My Last Duchess” & “The Laboratory”-Robert Browning
Assignment: Read & annotate Lady Audley’s Secret or the Portrait of Dorian Gray 11/6
Thought Paper #2 due 11/5 on turnitin.com
Oct 29
Journal: Writing work
Unit 1: Crime & Horror in the Victorian Age
“A Bottomless Grave”—Ambrose Bierce
“Harlequin Valentine”-Neil Gaiman (“Mystery”)-discuss
Assignment: Read & annotate Lady Audley’s Secret or the Portrait of Dorian Gray 11/6
Thought Paper #2 due 11/5 on turnitin.com
Oct 31
Unit 1: Crime & Horror in the Victorian Age
Lecture on “Faces in the Victorian Age” & “Hysteria”
Excerpts from both books.
Timed Prose Essay
Turn in spiral.
Assignment: Read & annotate Lady Audley’s Secret or the Portrait of Dorian Gray 11/6
Thought Paper #2 due 11/5 on turnitin.com
Nine
END OF QUARTER: Work Days, Monday-Tuesday, November 4-5
A.P. English Literature & Composition
Instructor: Amy L. Buckley
Contact Info: amy.buckley@lcps.org
Second Quarter Syllabus (“A” Day)
Week
Date
Description
Nov 6
Unit 1: Crime & Horror in the Victorian Age
[LIBRARY]: Begin small group discussions-- Check annotation sections
Nov 10
Unit 1: Crime & Horror in the Victorian Age
[LIBRARY}: Small Group Discussions on either book.
Assignment: Timed Essay TEST & Bring either Wuthering Heights or Dracula
Nov 12
Timed Essay TEST
Unit 1: Crime & Horror in the Victorian Age
Introduction to the Gothic and Wuthering Heights/Dracula
Assign annotating sections
Assignment: Read & annotate either Wuthering Heights or Dracula by 12/15
Nov 14
Journal: “The Secret of the Ouija Board,” The Week February 14, 2014
Unit 1: Crime & Horror in the Victorian Age
Wuthering Heights/Dracula
Readings: “The Mirror”-Haruki Murakami (“Mystery”)-discuss
Penny Dreadfuls in the Victorian Age (extra credit)
Assignment: Read & annotate either Wuthering Heights or Dracula by 12/15
Thought Paper #3 due by 11/24
Nov 18
Journal: Writing Work
Unit 1: Crime & Horror in the Victorian Age
Readings: Love Poems: Derrick Brown, “A Finger, Two Dots, Then Me”
“The Rememberer”-Aimee Bender (“Relationships”)-discuss
Assignment: Read & annotate either Wuthering Heights or Dracula by 12/15
Thought Paper #3 due by 11/24
Nov 20
Journal: Writing Work
Unit 1: Crime & Horror in the Victorian Age
Reading: e.e. Cummings Packet (“Love” poetry)
Assignment: Read & annotate either Wuthering Heights or Dracula by 12/15
Nov 24
Journal: Writing work
Unit 1: Crime & Horror in the Victorian Age
Timed Prose Essay
Turn in spiral.
Assignment: Read & annotate either Wuthering Heights or Dracula by 12/15
Thought Paper #3 due by midnight
Nov 26-28
Thanksgiving Break
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Two
Three
Four
A.P. English Literature & Composition
Instructor: Amy L. Buckley
Contact Info: amy.buckley@lcps.org
Week
Date
Description
Dec 1
Journal: Writing Work
Unit 1: Crime & Horror in the Victorian Age
Topic: Timed Poetry Essay Introductions
Assignment: Annotations due 12/15
Dec 3
Journal: Writing Work
Unit 1: Crime & Horror in the Victorian Age
Topic: Timed Poetry Essays
Assignment: Annotations due on 12/15
Dec 5
Journal: Writing Work
Unit 1: Crime & Horror in the Victorian Age
Topic: Timed Poetry Essays
Assignment: Annotations due on 12/15
Dec 9
[LIBRARY]
Unit 1: Crime & Horror in the Victorian Age
Lecture on Wuthering Heights
Dracula watch video.
Assignment: Finish annotating book
Take Home Essay #1 due 1/11
Dec 11
[LIBRARY}
Unit 1: Crime & Horror in the Victorian Age
Turn in spiral.
Wuthering Heights video
Dracula lecture/finish video.
Assignment: Finish annotating book
Take Home Essay #1 due 1/11
Dec 15
[LIBRARY]
Unit 1: Crime & Horror in the Victorian Age
Finish Wuthering Heights video: Begin small group discussion
Dracula: Begin small group discussion
Assignment: & Take Home Essay #1 due 1/11
Dec 17
[LIBRARY]
Unit 1: Crime & Horror in the Victorian Age
Small group discussions
Assignment: & Take Home Essay #1 due 1/11 Timed Essay TEST 12/19
Dec 19
Timed ESSAY TEST
Assignment: Bring War Book choice after break
Five
Six
Seven
Winter Break: December 22-January 2
A.P. English Literature & Composition
Instructor: Amy L. Buckley
Contact Info: amy.buckley@lcps.org
Week
Date
Description
Jan 6
Journal: “The Tiananmen Square Protest”-The New York Times
“The Khmer Rouge & Cambodia”-The Cold War Museum
“Battle of Thermopylae”—Kennedy Hickman
Unit 2: Modern Literature: War
Introduction to Banyan & Sons of Heaven
Assign annotating sections
Assignment: Read & annotate either In the Shadow of the Banyan Tree, Gates of Fire,
or Sons of Heaven by 2/6
Jan 8
Journal: War Poetry: “You Make Holy War”-Aja Monet
Unit 2: Modern Literature: War
Reading: “Foster, You’re Dead”-Philip K. Dick (“War”)-discuss
Assignment: Read & annotate either In the Shadow of the Banyan Tree, Gates of Fire
or Sons of Heaven by 2/6
Jan 12
Journal:Intro to Seamus Heaney (notes)
Unit 2: Modern Literature: War
Readings: Seamus Heaney Unit, “From Stepping Stones” (“War”-DE)
Assignment: Read & annotate either In the Shadow of the Banyan Tree, Gates of Fire
or Sons of Heaven by 2/6
Midterm Exam: Two Timed Essays
Jan 14
Journal: Writing work
Unit 2: Modern Literature: War
Readings: “Bread & Bombs”-M. Rickert
“The Emerald City.” The Opposite of Lonliness. Marina Keegan
Assignment: Read & annotate either In the Shadow of the Banyan Tree, Gates of Fire or
Sons of Heaven by 2/6
Thought Paper #4 Due by 1/28
Jan 16
Midterm Review/or, carry over day
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Nine
Midterm Week: January 19-23
A.P. English Literature & Composition
Instructor: Amy L. Buckley
Contact Info: amy.buckley@lcps.org
Third Quarter Syllabus (“A” Day)
Week
Date
Description
Jan 27
Journal: 2nd Semester Expectations--notes
Unit 2: Modern Literature: War
Midterm Review: Students read a short story: “Dulce et Decorum Est” Packet & “Episode of
War” & “What You Left in the Ditch”
Assignment: Read & annotate either In the Shadow of the Banyan Tree, Gates of Fire,
or Sons of Heaven by 2/6
Jan 29
Journal: Intro to Comedic Terms (notes)
Unit 3: Satire & Comedy (1700’s-2000’s)
Difference between satire & comedy—notes
Practice finding them in excerpt from Saturday Night Live skit
“The World is a Beautiful Place”-Lawrence Ferlinghetti (poem)-discuss satire
Assignment: Read & annotate either In the Shadow of the Banyan Tree, Gates of Fire,
or Sons of Heaven by 2/6
Feb 2
Journal: “Safe”-Ted Kooser (poem)
Unit 3: Satire & Comedy (1700’s-2000’s)
Readings: “Poet for Our Times” and “Making Money” (93-95)-Carol Ann Duffy—discuss (25)
Midterm Review: Watch excerpt from Jon Stewart and American Dad and take notes.
Assignment: Read & annotate either In the Shadow of the Banyan Tree, Gates of Fire,
or Sons of Heaven by 2/6
Feb 4
Journal: “How to Write About Satire”: (112-114)
Unit 2: Satire & Comedy (1700’s-2000’s)
Readings: “A Meditation upon a Broomstick”-Jonathan Swift (49-50)
“The Latest Decalogue”—Arthur Clough (76-78)
Assignment: Finish annotating In the Shadow of the Banyan Tree, Gates of Fire, or Sons of
Heaven
Feb 6
Journal: M/C Practice-discuss
Unit 3: Modern Literature: War [LIBRARY]
Lecture on In the Shadow of the Banyan Tree
Begin Small Group Discussion for Sons of Heaven & Gates
Assignment: study your book
Feb 10
Unit 3: Modern Literature: War [LIBRARY]
Turn in spiral.
Lecture on Gates of Fire & Sons of Heaven
Small Group Discussion
Assignment: study your book
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A.P. English Literature & Composition
Instructor: Amy L. Buckley
Contact Info: amy.buckley@lcps.org
Week
Date
Description
Feb 12
Unit 3: Modern Literature: War [LIBRARY]
Finish small group discussions.
Assignment: Timed Essay TEST on 2/17
Bring The Unbearable Lightness of Being next class
Four
President’s Day
Feb 17
Timed Essay TEST: War Book
Unit 4: Modern Literature: Life’s Journey
Introduction to The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Assign annotating sections
Assignment: Read and annotate book by 3/11
Feb 19
Journal: M/C Practice
Unit 4: Modern Literature: Life’s Journey
Reading: “Wine”-Doris Lessing (“Relationships”)-discuss
Excerpt from D.H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow—discuss Feminism in both books
Assignment: Read and annotate book by 3/11
Thought Paper #5 due 2/29
Feb 23
Journal: “Ode on a Grecian Urn”-John Keats
Unit 4: Modern Literature: Life’s Journey
Readings: “Reading Aloud.” The Opposite of Lonliness, Marina Keegan
Assignment: Read and annotate book by 3/11
Feb 25
Journal: Writing Work
Unit 4: Modern Literature: Life’s Journey
Readings: “An Afternoon in Jerusalem,” The Inheritance of Exile, Susan Darraj, 2007. Discuss.
Assignment: Read and annotate book by 3/11
Thought Paper #5 due 2/29
Feb 27
Journal: M/C Practice
Unit 4: Modern Literature: Life’s Journey
Sonnet Review & Analysis
Assignment: Read and annotate book by 3/11
Thought Paper #5 due 2/29
March 3
Journal: Writing work
Unit 4: Modern Literature: Life’s Journey
Prose Essay: excerpt from Johnny Got His Gun with essay sample reminders (class set)
Assignment: Read and annotate book by 3/11
March 5
Journal: “Why We Care About Whales.” The Opposite of Lonliness. Marina Keegan
Unit 5: Modern Literature: Life’s Journey
Turn in spiral.
[Reading: “The Adulterous Woman”—Albert Camus-discuss]
Assignment: Read and annotate book by 3/11
Five
Six
A.P. English Literature & Composition
Instructor: Amy L. Buckley
Contact Info: amy.buckley@lcps.org
Week
Date
Description
March 9
Journal: Writing Work
Unit 4: Modern Literature: Life’s Journey
Readings: “How I Met My Husband”—Alice Munro—Discuss & Analyze
Assignment:
Finish reading and annotating book by 3/11
March 11
Unit 4: Modern Literature: Life’s Journey
Lecture: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Large Group Discussion
Assignment: study your book
March 13
Journal: M/C Practice
Unit 5: Modern Literature: Life’s Journey
Small Group Discussions
Assignment: study your book
March 17
Journal: Writing Work
[LIBRARY]
Unit 4: Modern Literature: Life’s Journey
Finish Small Group Discussions
Assignment: Timed Essay TEST on Journey Book
Watch and analyze Equilibrium, In Time, Children of Men, Elysium,or V for Vendetta
(Thought Paper #6 due 3/27).
March 19
Timed Journey Book TEST & Timed Poetry Essay
Turn in spiral.
Assignment: Bring Society Book: Handmaid’s Tale or 1984
Thought Paper #6 due 3/27
March 23
Journal: TedTalk Response
Unit 5: Modern Literature: Society
Introduction to dystopian literature; Handmaid’s Tale, and 1984
Assign Annotating Sections
Assignment: Read and annotate either Handmaid’s Tale or 1984 by 4/20
Thought Paper #6 due 3/27
March 25
Journal: Icarus” poem by Edward Field
Unit 5: Modern Literature: Society
Reading: excerpt from The Unincorporated Man, “Virtual Reality” (“Society”)-discuss
TedTalks-discuss: “Surveillance State”
Assignment: Read and annotate either Handmaid’s Tale or 1984 by 4/20
Thought Paper #6 due 3/27
March 27
Journal: M/C Practice
Unit 4: Modern Literature: Society
Readings: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock-T.S. Eliot
Assignment: Read and annotate either Handmaid’s Tale or 1984 by 4/20
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Eight
Nine
End of Quarter: Spring Break March 28-April 5
A.P. English Literature & Composition
Instructor: Amy L. Buckley
Contact Info: amy.buckley@lcps.org
Fourth Quarter Syllabus (“A” Day)
Week
Date
Description
April 8
Journal: pre-Harrison Bergeron
Unit 4: Modern Literature: Society
Readings: Harrison Bergeron
Assignment: Read and annotate either Handmaid’s Tale or 1984 by 4/20
April 10
Journal: M/C Practice
Unit 4: Modern Literature: Society
Watch and Discuss 2018 with regard to Harrison Bergeron
Assignment: Read and annotate either Handmaid’s Tale or 1984 by 4/20
Take Home Essay #2 due 4/26
April 14
Journal: Excerpt from Under the Feet of Jesus (Prose Handout-write a thesis/intro)
Unit 4: Modern Literature: Society
Watch “Person of Interest” episode and discuss.
Assignment: Read and annotate either Handmaid’s Tale or 1984 by 4/20
Take Home Essay #2 due 4/26
April 16
Journal: Literary Criticism: Sociological/Economical
Unit 4: Modern Literature: Society
Topic: Economic Reading of The Devil & Tom Walker, Washington Irving
Assignment: Finish reading dystopian books
Take Home Essay #2 due 4/26
April 20
[LIBRARY]
Unit 4: Modern Literature: Society
Lecture: 1984
Begin small group discussion for Handmaid’s Tale
Assignment: Take Home Essay #2 due 4/26
April 22
[LIBRARY]
Unit 4: Modern Literature: Society
Lecture on Handmaid’s Tale.
Begin small group discussion for 1984
Assignment: Take Home Essay #2 due 4/26
April 24
[LIBRARY]
Unit 4: Modern Literature: Society
Finish Small Group Discussions for Handmaid’s Tale
Assignments:
Timed Essay TEST Intro/Thesis for dystopian book 4/28
Take Home Essay #2 due 4/26
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Three
A.P. English Literature & Composition
Instructor: Amy L. Buckley
Contact Info: amy.buckley@lcps.org
Week
Date
Description
April 28
Timed Essay Intro/Thesis—last one
Carry over for any assignments missed.
Assignment: Full timed M/C TEST
April 30
Review M/C TEST
Turn in spiral.
Assignment: Study for AP Exam
Four
Five
May 4-8
AP EXAMS WEEK 1
Six
May 11-15
AP EXAMS WEEK 2
May 18
Topic: Flash Fiction
May 20
Topic Flash Fiction
Assignment: Be thinking about your own flash fiction
May 22
Topic Flash Fiction
Assignment: Write your own flash fiction on turnitin.com by 5/28 & bring in to class 5/27
Seven
Eight
Memorial Day
May 27
½ Coffeehouse: share flash fiction
May 29
½ Coffeehouse: share flash fiction
Nine
Senior Exemption: June 2 & 4
Final Exam: June 4
A.P. English Literature & Composition
Instructor: Amy L. Buckley
Contact Info: amy.buckley@lcps.org
First Quarter Syllabus (“B” Day)
Week
Date
Description
Sept 3
Getting to know each other
Introduction to AP Literature & expectations
Discuss reading list/syllabus
Assignments:
Book money/order Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde—due 9/9
Buy/choose reading list books by 10/1
Buy a spiral by 9/9/sign up for turnitin.com
Sept 5
Continue to get to know each other
First timed essay-discuss format-diagnostic
Handout: “Your Brain on Fiction”-discuss
Assignment: Sign up to turnitin.com
Sept 9
Journal: discuss expectations/notes
Topic: Critical Reading
Why is Critical Reading important?
Handouts: “How to Critically Read”; “Close Reading of a Literary Passage”
Assignment: Read College Admissions/Essay handouts: “Don’t Be Bland”;
“Your Brain on Melville”; “Inside the Admissions Process at GWU”
Sept 11
Journal: Annotating Prose--notes
Topic: Annotating text
Read and annotate “Tell Tale Heart”-Poe
Assignment: Finish annotating “Tell Tale Heart”
Sept 15
Journal: Circles of Meaning—notes
Collect “Tell Tale Heart” annotating sections
Topic: Analytical Tools for Reading Better
Finding “meaning” in literature.
Circles of Meaning & 10 Patterns of Meaning
Creating clever theses: iceberg; Handout: “Sample Student Analytical Thesis Statements”
Assignment: Type 5 different thesis statements analyzing a book or a movie utilizing the
generalized meanings to help you form a more specific fabulous argument. Due Friday, 9/19
Sept 17
Journal: Pixar thesis
Topic: Analytical tools for reading more critically (Literary Criticism)
Learn Mythological Criticism: symbolism, archetypes, and motifs; the journey circle
Assignment: Read “Godfather Death” online and take Mythological notes
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Two
Three
A.P. English Literature & Composition
Instructor: Amy L. Buckley
Contact Info: amy.buckley@lcps.org
Week
Date
Description
Sept 19
Journal: Create a thesis analyzing “Godfather Death”—zero credit if no notes
Share 5 theses homework—underline meaning--turn in theses—revised for meaning if none
Topic: Mythological Criticism
Watch and take notes on the documentary on Star Wars through Mythological lens.
Assignment:
Choose a heroic journey movie, watch it again, and analyze it through
Mythological lens as the documentary of Star Wars did but utilizing the
Hero’s Journey and additional symbolism unique to that movie. 2 pages
typed, double-spaced. Turnitin.com by 9/28.
Sept 23
Journal: “Exercise 8” (13, Understanding Style)
Finish Star Wars Documentry if necessary, turn in notes.
Topic: Introduction to Psychological Criticism & Gender Criticism (“Rapunzel”)
Assignment: Print out and bring in Narrative Terms---fill in the 1st 1/2
Sept 25
Journal: Narrative Terms ½
Topic: Pyschological Criticism continued
Topic: Gender Criticism
Readings: “Two Complementary Critical Readings” of “The Birthmark”—
Gender & Psychological
Assignment:
Read “Rapunzel” and write two different thesis statements, one
analyzing it through a Psychological perspective and the other from a
Gender perspective. Typed.
Complete Narrative Terms 2nd 1/2
Sept 29
Journal: Discuss Narrataive Terms ½
Discuss homework & turn it in
Topic: Writing in AP: “Outside-of-Class Essays” Handout
Topic: Sociological Criticism/Marxist Criticism
Handout: “Why So Many Exams? A Marxist Response” (The Informed Argument, 514)
Read “The Three Apprentices” and analyze. Thesis in spiral.
Turn in spiral for grading.
Assignment: Thought Paper Instructions & Handout on Response to Stories
Thought Paper #1 due 10/10 on turnitin.com
Bring Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde to class
Oct 1
Journal: Define “horror”
Unit 1: Crime & Horror in the Victorian Age
If necessary, finish Sociological Criticism.
Lecture: “Why is this era so important to our literature?
“What is horror?” according to the Victorians
Introduction to Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
Assign annotating chapters.
Assignment: Read & annotate Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by 10/14
Oct 3
Journal: Writing work
Unit 1: Crime & Horror in the Victorian Age
Topic: “Open Essay Rubric” How to write open essays: revise first essay and turn in.
Assignment: Read & annotate Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by 10/14
Four
Five
A.P. English Literature & Composition
Instructor: Amy L. Buckley
Contact Info: amy.buckley@lcps.org
Week
Date
Description
Oct 7
Journal: : “Developing a Tone Vocabulary”: Tone story
Unit 1: Crime & Horror in the Victorian Age
Topic: “The Grotesque” Prose Essays—careful reading: Quoyle excerpt with sample essays
Assignment: Annotate & read Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde due 10/14
Oct 9
Journal: Small Group Discussion “Rules” & Expectations for next week.
Lecture on Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
Show video clip & discuss
Assignment: Finish reading & annotating Dr. Jekyll
Six
Seven
October 13: Columbus Holiday
Oct 14
Small Group Discussions on Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
Journal: Notes: how to study for a timed book essay test. How to take notes on your notes.
Extra Credit for those who do.
Assignment: Timed Essay Test & bring in Lady Audley’s Secret or The Picture of Dorian
Gray
Oct 16
Timed Essay TEST: Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
Unit 1: Crime & Horror in the Victorian Age
Introduction to Lady Audley’s Secret and A Portrait of Dorian Gray
Assign annotation sections
Assignment: Read and annotate either book by 11/7
Oct 20
Journal: Elements of mystery
Unit 1: Crime & Horror in the Victorian Age
Readings: “The Parwat Ruby”-Delia Sherman-discuss (“Mystery”)
Assignment: Read and annotate either book by 11/7
Oct 22
Journal: Intro to Sherlock Holmes--notes
Unit 1: Crime & Horror in the Victorian Age
Read, discuss, and analyze: “The Man with the Twisted Lip”- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
(Sherlock Holmes)
Read, discuss, and analyze: “The Devil of the Marsh”-H.B. Marriott-Watson
Assignment: Read and annotate either book by 11/7
Oct 24
Journal: Writing work
Unit 1: Crime & Horror in the Victorian Age
“Alone at Last”-Russell Stockton & “A Jury of Her Peers”-Susan Glaspell (“Mystery”)-Discuss
Turn in spiral.
Assignment: Read and annotate either book by 11/7
Oct 28
Journal: Intro to Browning--notes
Unit 1: Crime & Horror in the Victorian Age
Readings: Readings: From “My Last Duchess” & “The Laboratory”-Robert Browning
Assignment: Read & annotate Lady Audley’s Secret or the Portrait of Dorian Gray 11/7
Thought Paper #2 due 11/9 on turnitin.com
Eight
Nine
A.P. English Literature & Composition
Instructor: Amy L. Buckley
Contact Info: amy.buckley@lcps.org
Week
Date
Description
Oct 30
Journal: Writing work
Unit 1: Crime & Horror in the Victorian Age
“Harlequin Valentine”-Neil Gaiman (“Mystery”)-discuss
“A Bottomless Grave”—Ambrose Bierce
Turn in spiral.
Assignment: Read & annotate Lady Audley’s Secret or the Portrait of Dorian Gray 11/7
Thought Paper #2 due 11/9 on turnitin.com
END OF QUARTER: Work Days, Monday-Tuesday, November 4-5
A.P. English Literature & Composition
Instructor: Amy L. Buckley
Contact Info: amy.buckley@lcps.org
Second Quarter Syllabus (“B” Day)
Week
Date
Description
One
TEACHER WORKDAYS: November 3-4
Nov5
Unit 1: Crime & Horror in the Victorian Age
Lecture on “Faces in the Victorian Age” & “Hysteria”
Excerpts from both books.
Timed Prose Essay
Assignment: Finish Lady Audley’s Secret or the Portrait of Dorian Gray
Thought Paper #2 due 11/9 on turnitin.com
Nov7
Unit 1: Crime & Horror in the Victorian Age
[LIBRARY]: Begin small group discussions-- Check annotation sections
Thought Paper #2 due 11/9 on turnitin.com
Nov 11
Unit 1: Crime & Horror in the Victorian Age
[LIBRARY}: Small Group Discussions on either book.
Assignment: Timed Essay TEST & Bring either Wuthering Heights or Dracula
Nov 13
Timed Essay TEST—bonus for interacting with notes
Unit 1: Crime & Horror in the Victorian Age
Introduction to the Gothic and Wuthering Heights/Dracula
Assign annotating sections
Assignment: Read & annotate either Wuthering Heights or Dracula by 12/16
Nov 17
Journal: “The Secret of the Ouija Board,” The Week February 14, 2014
Unit 1: Crime & Horror in the Victorian Age
Wuthering Heights/Dracula
Readings: “The Mirror”-Haruki Murakami (“Mystery”)-discuss
Penny Dreadfuls in the Victorian Age (extra credit)
Assignment: Read & annotate either Wuthering Heights or Dracula by 12/16
Thought Paper #3 due by 11/25
Nov 19
Journal: Writing Work
Unit 1: Crime & Horror in the Victorian Age
Readings: Love Poems: Derrick Brown, “A Finger, Two Dots, Then Me”
“The Rememberer”-Aimee Bender (“Relationships”)-discuss
Assignment: Read & annotate either Wuthering Heights or Dracula by 12/16
Thought Paper #3 due by 11/25
Nov 21
Journal: Writing Work
Unit 1: Crime & Horror in the Victorian Age
Turn in spiral.
Reading: e.e. Cummings Packet (“Love” poetry)
Assignment: Read & annotate either Wuthering Heights or Dracula by 12/16
Two
Three
A.P. English Literature & Composition
Instructor: Amy L. Buckley
Contact Info: amy.buckley@lcps.org
Week
Date
Description
Nov 25
Journal: Writing work
Unit 1: Crime & Horror in the Victorian Age
Timed Prose Essay
Assignment: Read & annotate either Wuthering Heights or Dracula by 12/16
Thought Paper #3 due by midnight
Nov 26-28
Thanksgiving Break
Dec 2
Journal: Writing Work
Unit 1: Crime & Horror in the Victorian Age
Topic: Timed Poetry Essay Introductions
Assignment: Annotations due 12/16
Dec 4
Journal: Writing Work
Unit 1: Crime & Horror in the Victorian Age
Topic: Timed Poetry Essays
Assignment: Annotations due on 12/16
Dec 8
Journal: Writing Work
Unit 1: Crime & Horror in the Victorian Age
Topic: Timed Poetry Essays
Turn in Spiral.
Assignment: Annotations due on 12/16
Dec 10
[LIBRARY]
Unit 1: Crime & Horror in the Victorian Age
Lecture on Wuthering Heights
Dracula watch video.
Assignment: Annotations due on 12/16
Take Home Essay #1 due 1/11
Dec 12
[LIBRARY}
Unit 1: Crime & Horror in the Victorian Age
Wuthering Heights video
Dracula lecture/finish video.
Assignment: Finish annotating book
Take Home Essay #1 due 1/11
Four
Five
Six
A.P. English Literature & Composition
Instructor: Amy L. Buckley
Contact Info: amy.buckley@lcps.org
Week
Date
Description
Dec 16
[LIBRARY]
Unit 1: Crime & Horror in the Victorian Age
Finish Wuthering Heights video: Begin small group discussion
Dracula: Begin small group discussion
Assignment: & Take Home Essay #1 due 1/11
Dec 18
[LIBRARY]
Unit 1: Crime & Horror in the Victorian Age
Small group discussions
Assignment: & Take Home Essay #1 due 1/11 Timed Essay TEST 1/7
Seven
Winter Break: December 22-January 2
Eight
Jan 5
[LIBRARY]
Unit 1: Crime & Horror in the Victorian Age
Finish Small group discussions
Assignment: Take-home essay due 1/11
Timed ESSAY TEST 1/7; Bring War Book choice
Jan 7
Timed Essay TEST
Journal: “The Tiananmen Square Protest”-The New York Times
“The Khmer Rouge & Cambodia”-The Cold War Museum
“Battle of Thermopylae”—Kennedy Hickman
Unit 2: Modern Literature: War
Introduction to Banyan & Sons of Heaven & Gates of Fire
Assign annotating sections
Assignment: Read & annotate either In the Shadow of the Banyan Tree, Gates of Fire,
or Sons of Heaven by 2/9
Jan 9
Journal: War Poetry: “You Make Holy War”-Aja Monet
Unit 2: Modern Literature: War
Reading: “Foster, You’re Dead”-Philip K. Dick (“War”)-discuss
Assignment: Read & annotate either In the Shadow of the Banyan Tree, Gates of Fire
or Sons of Heaven by 2/9
Jan 13
Journal:Intro to Seamus Heaney (notes)
Unit 2: Modern Literature: War
Turn in spiral.
Readings: Seamus Heaney Unit, “From Stepping Stones” (“War”-DE)
Assignment: Read & annotate either In the Shadow of the Banyan Tree, Gates of Fire
or Sons of Heaven by 2/9
Midterm Exam: Two Timed Essays
Nine
A.P. English Literature & Composition
Instructor: Amy L. Buckley
Contact Info: amy.buckley@lcps.org
Week
Date
Description
Jan 15
Journal: Writing work
Unit 2: Modern Literature: War
Readings: “Bread & Bombs”-M. Rickert
“The Emerald City.” The Opposite of Lonliness. Marina Keegan
Assignment: Read & annotate either In the Shadow of the Banyan Tree, Gates of Fire or
Sons of Heaven by 2/9
Thought Paper #4 Due by 1/28
Midterm Week: January 19-23
A.P. English Literature & Composition
Instructor: Amy L. Buckley
Contact Info: amy.buckley@lcps.org
Third Quarter Syllabus (“B” Day)
Week
Date
Description
Jan 28
Journal: 2nd Semester Expectations--notes
Unit 2: Modern Literature: War
Midterm Review: Students read a short story: “Dulce et Decorum Est” Packet & “Episode of
War” & “What You Left in the Ditch”
Assignment: Read & annotate either In the Shadow of the Banyan Tree, Gates of Fire,
or Sons of Heaven by 2/9
Jan 30
Journal: Intro to Comedic Terms (notes)
Unit 3: Satire & Comedy (1700’s-2000’s)
Difference between satire & comedy—notes
Practice finding them in excerpt from Saturday Night Live skit
“The World is a Beautiful Place”-Lawrence Ferlinghetti (poem)-discuss satire
Assignment: Read & annotate either In the Shadow of the Banyan Tree, Gates of Fire,
or Sons of Heaven by 2/9
Feb 3
Journal: “Safe”-Ted Kooser (poem)
Unit 3: Satire & Comedy (1700’s-2000’s)
Readings: “Poet for Our Times” and “Making Money” (93-95)-Carol Ann Duffy—discuss (25)
Midterm Review: Watch excerpt from Jon Stewart and American Dad and take notes.
Assignment: Read & annotate either In the Shadow of the Banyan Tree, Gates of Fire,
or Sons of Heaven by 2/9
Feb 5
Journal: “How to Write About Satire”: (112-114)
Unit 2: Satire & Comedy (1700’s-2000’s)
Readings: “A Meditation upon a Broomstick”-Jonathan Swift (49-50)
“The Latest Decalogue”—Arthur Clough (76-78)
Assignment: Finish annotating In the Shadow of the Banyan Tree, Gates of Fire, or Sons of
Heaven
Feb 9
Unit 3: Modern Literature: War [LIBRARY]
Lecture on In the Shadow of the Banyan Tree
Begin Small Group Discussion for Sons of Heaven & Gates
Assignment: study your book
Feb 11
Unit 3: Modern Literature: War [LIBRARY]
Lecture on Gates of Fire & Sons of Heaven
Small Group Discussion
Assignment: study your book
Feb 13
M/C Fridays: Intro & Practice
Unit 3: Modern Literature: War [LIBRARY]
Finish small group discussions.
Assignment: Timed Essay TEST on 2/18
Bring The Unbearable Lightness of Being next class
One
Two
Three
A.P. English Literature & Composition
Instructor: Amy L. Buckley
Contact Info: amy.buckley@lcps.org
Week
Date
Description
Four
President’s Day
Feb 18
Timed Essay TEST: War Book
Turn in spiral.
Unit 4: Modern Literature: Life’s Journey
Introduction to The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Assign annotating sections
Assignment: Read and annotate book by 3/16
Feb 20
Journal: M/C Practice
Unit 4: Modern Literature: Life’s Journey
Reading: “Wine”-Doris Lessing (“Relationships”)-discuss
Excerpt from D.H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow—discuss Feminism in both books
Assignment: Read and annotate book by 3/16
Thought Paper #5 due 2/29
Feb 24
Journal: “Ode on a Grecian Urn”-John Keats
Unit 4: Modern Literature: Life’s Journey
Readings: “Reading Aloud.” The Opposite of Lonliness, Marina Keegan
Assignment: Read and annotate book by 3/16
Feb 26
Journal: Writing Work
Unit 4: Modern Literature: Life’s Journey
Readings: “An Afternoon in Jerusalem,” The Inheritance of Exile, Susan Darraj, 2007. Discuss.
Assignment: Read and annotate book by 3/16
Thought Paper #5 due 2/29
March 2
Journal: M/C Practice
Unit 4: Modern Literature: Life’s Journey
Sonnet Review & Analysis
Assignment: Read and annotate book by 3/16
Thought Paper #5 due 2/29
Journal: Writing work
Unit 4: Modern Literature: Life’s Journey
Prose Essay: excerpt from Johnny Got His Gun with essay sample reminders (class set)
Assignment: Read and annotate book by 3/16
Five
Six
March 4
March 6
Journal: “Why We Care About Whales.” The Opposite of Lonliness. Marina Keegan
Unit 5: Modern Literature: Life’s Journey
[Reading: “The Adulterous Woman”—Albert Camus-discuss]
Assignment: Read and annotate book by 3/16
A.P. English Literature & Composition
Instructor: Amy L. Buckley
Contact Info: amy.buckley@lcps.org
Week
Date
Description
March 10
Journal: Writing Work
Unit 4: Modern Literature: Life’s Journey
Readings: “How I Met My Husband”—Alice Munro—Discuss & Analyze
Assignment:
Finish reading and annotating book by 3/16
March 12
Unit 4: Modern Literature: Life’s Journey
Lecture: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Assignment: Finish Annotating
March 16
Unit 5: Modern Literature: Life’s Journey
Turn in spiral.
Small Group Discussions
Assignment: study your book
March 18
Journal: Writing Work
Unit 4: Modern Literature: Life’s Journey
Finish Small Group Discussions
Assignment: Timed Essay TEST on Journey Book
Watch and analyze Equilibrium, In Time, Children of Men, Elysium,or V for Vendetta
(Thought Paper #6 due 3/27).
March 20
Timed Journey Book TEST & Timed Poetry Essay
Assignment: Bring Society Book: Handmaid’s Tale or 1984
Thought Paper #6 due 3/27
March 24
Journal: TedTalk Response
Unit 5: Modern Literature: Society
Introduction to dystopian literature; Handmaid’s Tale, and 1984
Assign Annotating Sections
Assignment: Read and annotate either Handmaid’s Tale or 1984 by 4/21
Thought Paper #6 due 3/27
March 26
Journal: Icarus” poem by Edward Field
Unit 5: Modern Literature: Society
Reading: excerpt from The Unincorporated Man, “Virtual Reality” (“Society”)-discuss
TedTalks-discuss: “Surveillance State”
Assignment: Read and annotate either Handmaid’s Tale or 1984 by 4/21
Thought Paper #6 due 3/27
Seven
Eight
Nine
End of Quarter: Spring Break March 28-April 5
A.P. English Literature & Composition
Instructor: Amy L. Buckley
Contact Info: amy.buckley@lcps.org
Fourth Quarter Syllabus (“B” Day)
Week
Date
Description
April 6
TEACHER WORKDAY
April 7
Journal: M/C Practice
Unit 4: Modern Literature: Society
Readings: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock-T.S. Eliot
Assignment: Read and annotate either Handmaid’s Tale or 1984 by 4/21
April 9
Journal: pre-Harrison Bergeron
Unit 4: Modern Literature: Society
Readings: Harrison Bergeron
Assignment: Read and annotate either Handmaid’s Tale or 1984 by 4/21
April 13
Journal: M/C Practice
Unit 4: Modern Literature: Society
Watch and Discuss 2018 with regard to Harrison Bergeron
Assignment: Read and annotate either Handmaid’s Tale or 1984 by 4/21
Take Home Essay #2 due 4/26
April 15
Journal: Excerpt from Under the Feet of Jesus (Prose Handout-write a thesis/intro)
Unit 4: Modern Literature: Society
Watch “Person of Interest” episode and discuss.
Assignment: Read and annotate either Handmaid’s Tale or 1984 by 4/21
Take Home Essay #2 due 4/26
April 17
Journal: Literary Criticism: Sociological/Economical
Unit 4: Modern Literature: Society
Topic: Economic Reading of The Devil & Tom Walker, Washington Irving
Assignment: Finish reading dystopian books
Take Home Essay #2 due 4/21
April 21
[LIBRARY]
Unit 4: Modern Literature: Society
Lecture: 1984
Begin small group discussion for Handmaid’s Tale
Assignment: Take Home Essay #2 due 4/26
April 23
[LIBRARY]
Unit 4: Modern Literature: Society
Lecture on Handmaid’s Tale.
Begin small group discussion for 1984
Assignment: Take Home Essay #2 due 4/26
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Two
Three
A.P. English Literature & Composition
Instructor: Amy L. Buckley
Contact Info: amy.buckley@lcps.org
Week
Date
Description
April 27
[LIBRARY]
Unit 4: Modern Literature: Society
Small Group Discussions
Assignments:
Timed Essay TEST Intro/Thesis for dystopian book 5/1
April 29
M/C Practice: 1 Prose/1 Poetry
Finish Small Group Discussions.
Assignment: Full timed M/C TEST
May 1
Timed Thesis & Intro
Practice M/C
Turn in spiral.
Assignment: Study for AP Exam
Four
Five
May 4-8
AP EXAMS WEEK 1
Six
May 11-15
AP EXAMS WEEK 2
May 19
Topic: Flash Fiction
May 21
Topic Flash Fiction
Assignment: Be your own flash fiction on turnitin.com by 5/28 & bring in to class 5/27
Seven
Eight
Memorial Day
May 26
½ Coffeehouse: share flash fiction
May 28
½ Coffeehouse: share flash fiction
Nine
Senior Exemption: June 3 & 5
Final Exam: June 3
A.P. English Literature & Composition
Instructor: Amy L. Buckley
Contact Info: amy.buckley@lcps.org
Thought Paper #1:
Literary Criticism Practice
 “Young Goodman Brown”-Nathanial Hawthorne
 “The Rocking Horse Winner”—D.H. Lawrence
 “Battle Royal”—Ralph Ellison
 “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall”—Katherine Anne Porter
Thought Paper #2:
Short Story Analysis—Horror & Crime
 “The Hound of the Baskervilles“ --Sherlock Holmes—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
 “The Cask of Amontillado”—Edgar Allan Poe
 “A Rose for Emily”-William Faulkner
 “A Good Man is Hard to Find”—Flannery O’Connor
Thought Paper #3:
**Give sample of “Poetry Analysis of e.e. Cummings” by Bob Nikunen
Poetry:
 “A Chilly Night”-Christina Rossetti
 “Hermaphroditus”-Algernon Charles Swinburne
 “Death”-Emily Bronte
 “Lady Freedom Among Us”—Rita Dove
Thought Paper #4:
 “The Ledge”—Lawrence Hall
 “Little Herr Friedemann”—Thomas Mann
 “The German Refugee”—Bernard Malamud
 “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”—Joyce Carol Oates
Thought Paper #5:
Poetry: Compare/Contrast poetry
 Keats: “The Eve of St. Agnes” & “Porphyro”
 “She Walks In Beauty”-Lord Byron & “Sonnet 130”-William Shakespeare
 “Give All to Love”-Ralph Waldo Emerson & “Maidenhood”—Henry W. Longfellow
 “Weekend Glory”-Maya Angelou & “The Unquiet City”-Chris Manswell
Thought Paper #6:
Movie analysis