AP English Literature Unit Calendar: Civil Monsters Masquerading

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AP English Literature Unit Calendar:
Civil Monsters Masquerading as Men: A Journey into the Heart of Darkness
“We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.” – Marlow, speaking of his quest to find Kurtz in Heart of
Darkness
“Horror has a face... and you must make a friend of horror…. [T]hese were not monsters, these were men... trained cadres.
These men who fought with their hearts, who had families, who had children, who were filled with love ... but they had the
strength ... to utilize their primordial instincts to kill without feeling.” – Colonel Kurtz speaking to Captain Willard in
Apocalypse Now
“There’s many a beast then in a populous city, / And many a civil monster.” – Iago, speaking to Othello in Othello
“If you only knew the power of the dark side.” – Darth Vader, speaking to Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes
Back
“Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny.” – Yoda, speaking to Luke Skywalker in Star Wars:
Return of the Jedi
"Everyone carries a shadow," wrote psychologist Carl Jung, "and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the
blacker and denser it is." Jungian psychology refers to this unknown dark side of the personality as “the shadow archetype,”
and it manifests itself symbolically in literature and film in the form of actual characters who serve as dark shadows of the
protagonists. Darth Vader, Lord Voldemort, and Gollum, for instance, all serve as literal antagonists, respectively, to Luke
Skywalker, Harry Potter, and Frodo Baggins, but they also act as figurative shadows of the heroes themselves. They all
represent the subconscious dark sides of the heroes’ personalities, and all three characters struggle to avoid giving in to this
darker nature. Pay attention to a similar dichotomy between light and dark as we study Joseph Conrad’s novella Heart of
Darkness and William Shakespeare’s tragedy Othello (and the film adaptations of these texts). The former text follows the
protagonist on a literal quest into the heart of Africa to find an ivory trader named Kurtz, but the story is really a psychological
journey into the dark side of human nature. The latter text presents the tragic downfall of the noble Othello at the hands of the
conniving Iago, but the story is really a psychological exploration of what causes a civil man to become a murderous monster.
While reading these stories, look for glimpses of yourself in these characters. Do you have a dark side, a shadow? Are you
merely a monster masquerading as a man?
Anchor Texts: Joseph Conrad’s novella Heart of Darkness; William Shakespeare’s tragedy Othello
Supplementary Texts: Francis Ford Coppola’s film adaptation of Heart of Darkness (Apocalypse Now); Kenneth Branagh’s film
adaptation of Othello; Various poetry/prose selections for AP essay analysis
Permission Slip: Apocalypse Now and Othello
As part of our current unit, we will be viewing scenes from Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 film Apocalypse Now (based on Joseph
Conrad’s novella Heart of Darkness) and Kenneth Branagh’s 1995 film version of William Shakespeare’s Othello. Both films are
rated R and thus require parent permission:
_____ My son/daughter ______________________________________ has permission to watch scenes from these films in
class.
_____ My son/daughter ______________________________________ does not have permission to watch scenes from these
films in class. (He/she will not be penalized in any way for not participating.)
Parent signature: _________________________________________________________________________________________
1/4/16
1/5/16
1/6/16
1/7/16
1/8/16
TEACHER WORK DAY
– NO SCHOOL
AP Essay #6 Prompt
Analysis (Heart of
Darkness opening
scene)
AP Essay #6 Prompt
Analysis (Heart of
Darkness opening
scene)
AP Essay #6 Prompt
Analysis (Heart of
Darkness opening
scene)
AP Essay #6 Prompt
Analysis (Heart of
Darkness opening
scene)
Unit Introduction
Read Heart of
Darkness, Ch. 1, pp.
1-5 & work on DRJ
(10 entries per
chapter for 30 total)
Read Heart of
Darkness, Ch. 1, pp. 610 & work on DRJ (10
entries per chapter for
30 total)
Preview this semester’s
senior project
assignments
Begin Heart of
Darkness MWDS (5
entries per chapter
for 15 total)
Read Heart of
Darkness, Ch. 1, pp. 1115 & work on DRJ (10
entries per chapter for
30 total)
1/11/16
1/12/16
1/13/16
1/14/16
1/15/16
Open-Ended 4T Thesis
(prep for AP Essay #7)
Open-Ended 4T
Thesis (prep for AP
Essay #7)
Open-Ended 4T
Thesis (prep for AP
Essay #7)
Open-Ended 4T Thesis
(prep for AP Essay #7)
Open-Ended 4T Thesis
(prep for AP Essay #7)
Quiz: Heart of
Darkness, Ch. 1
Socratic Seminar #1:
Heart of Darkness, Ch.
1 (5 MWDS entries
due)
Vocabulary Quiz #14
Read Heart of
Darkness, Ch. 1, pp.
21-26 & work on DRJ
(10 entries per
chapter for 30 total)
Read Heart of
Darkness, Ch. 2, pp.
27-31 & work on DRJ
(10 entries per
chapter for 30 total)
Read Heart of
Darkness, Ch. 2, pp. 3236 & work on DRJ (10
entries per chapter for
30 total)
1/18/16
1/19/16
1/20/16
1/21/16
1/22/16
Open-Ended 4T Thesis
(prep for AP Essay #7)
Open-Ended 4T
Thesis (prep for AP
Essay #7)
Open-Ended 4T
Thesis (prep for AP
Essay #7)
Open-Ended 4T Thesis
(prep for AP Essay #7)
Open-Ended 4T Thesis
(prep for AP Essay #7)
Quiz: Heart of
Darkness, Ch. 2
Socratic Seminar #2:
Heart of Darkness, Ch.
2 (10 MWDS entries
due)
Vocabulary Quiz #15
Read Heart of
Darkness, Ch. 2, pp.
37-48 & work on DRJ
(10 entries per
chapter for 30 total)
Read Heart of
Darkness, Ch. 3, pp.
49-53 & work on DRJ
(10 entries per
chapter for 30 total)
Read Heart of
Darkness, Ch. 3, pp. 5458 & work on DRJ (10
entries per chapter for
30 total)
Read Heart of
Darkness, Ch. 1, pp.
16-20 & work on DRJ
(10 entries per
chapter for 30 total)
View scenes from
Apocalypse Now
Weekly vocabulary list
due (first one will be
done together)
AP Essay #7 Prompt
Analysis
AP Essay #6 (Prose)
due to turnitin.com
by 11:59 pm
MLK HOLIDAY – NO
SCHOOL
Weekly vocabulary
list due
View scenes from
Apocalypse Now
Senior Project Work
Day
1/25/16
1/26/16
1/27/16
1/28/16
1/29/16
AP Essay #8 Prompt
Analysis (Poetry
Compare/Contrast)
AP Essay #8 Prompt
Analysis (Poetry
Compare/Contrast)
Quiz: Heart of
Darkness, Ch. 3
Socratic Seminar #3:
Heart of Darkness, Ch.
3 (15 MWDS entries
due)
TEST: Heart of
Darkness
Read Heart of
Darkness, Ch. 3, pp.
59-63 & work on DRJ
(10 entries per
chapter for 30 total)
Read Heart of
Darkness, Ch. 3, pp.
64-70 & work on DRJ
(10 entries per
chapter for 30 total)
View scenes from
Apocalypse Now
Submit MWDS & DRJ
to Turnitin.com by
11:59 pm
After test: Begin
Othello MWDS (3
entries per act for 15
total)
No vocabulary
list/quiz this week due
to Friday’s test
AP Essay #7 (OpenEnded) due to
turnitin.com by 11:59
pm
2/1/15-2/5/16
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

Prep for AP Essay #8: Comparison/Contrast of Eliot’s “The Hollow Men” & Hughes’
“The Negro Speaks of Rivers”
Review of Heart of Darkness multiple choice passages (paired thematically with
scenes from Apocalypse Now)
Vocabulary Quiz #15
2/8/15
2/9/15
2/10/15
2/11/15
2/12/15
AP Essay #8 Prompt
Analysis (Poetry
Compare/Contrast)
AP Essay #8 Prompt
Analysis (Poetry
Compare/Contrast)
AP Essay #8 Prompt
Analysis (Poetry
Compare/Contrast)
AP Essay #8 Prompt
Analysis (Poetry
Compare/Contrast)
AP Essay #8 Prompt
Analysis (Poetry
Compare/Contrast)
Weekly vocabulary list
due
Staged Reading:
Othello 1.2 & work
on DRJ (5 entries per
act for 25 total)
Staged Reading:
Othello 1.3 & work
on DRJ (5 entries per
act for 25 total)
Quiz: Othello, Act I
Vocabulary Quiz #16
View scenes from film
version of Othello
Staged Reading: Othello
2.1-2 & work on DRJ (5
entries per act for 25
total)
2/15/15
2/16/15
2/17/15
2/18/15
2/19/15
WINTER BREAK
WINTER BREAK
WINTER BREAK
WINTER BREAK
WINTER BREAK
2/22/15
2/23/15
2/24/15
2/25/15
2/26/15
Open-Ended 4T Thesis
(prep for AP Essay #9)
Open-Ended 4T
Thesis (prep for AP
Essay #9)
Open-Ended 4T
Thesis (prep for AP
Essay #9)
Open-Ended 4T Thesis
(prep for AP Essay #9)
Open-Ended 4T Thesis
(prep for AP Essay #9)
Staged Reading:
Othello 1.1 & work on
DRJ (5 entries per act
for 25 total)
Vocabulary Quiz #17
Weekly vocabulary list
due
Staged Reading:
Othello 2.3 & work on
DRJ (5 entries per act
for 25 total)
Quiz: Othello, Act II
View scenes from
film version of
Othello
Staged Reading:
Othello 3.1-2 & work
on DRJ (5 entries per
act for 25 total)
Staged Reading:
Othello 3.3-4 & work
on DRJ (5 entries per
act for 25 total)
Senior Project Work
Day
AP Essay #8 (Poetry)
due to turnitin.com
by 11:59 pm
2/29/16
3/1/16
3/2/16
3/3/16
3/4/16
Open-Ended 4T Thesis
(prep for AP Essay #9)
Open-Ended 4T
Thesis (prep for AP
Essay #9)
Open-Ended 4T
Thesis (prep for AP
Essay #9)
Open-Ended 4T Thesis
(prep for AP Essay #9)
Open-Ended 4T Thesis
(prep for AP Essay #9)
Quiz: Othello, Act III
Staged Reading:
Othello 4.1-2 & work
on DRJ (5 entries per
act for 25 total)
Staged Reading:
Othello 4.3-5.1 & work
on DRJ (5 entries per
act for 25 total)
Vocabulary Quiz #18
Socratic Seminar #1:
Othello, Acts I-III (9
MWDS entries due)
View scenes from film
version of Othello
3/7/16
3/8/16
3/9/16
3/10/16
3/11/16
AP Essay #10 Prompt
Analysis
AP Essay #10 Prompt
Analysis
AP Essay #10 Prompt
Analysis
TEST: Othello
No vocabulary
list/quiz this week due
to Friday’s test
Quiz: Othello, Acts
IV-V
Socratic Seminar #2:
Othello, Acts IV-V
(15 MWDS entries
due)
Weekly vocabulary list
due
Staged Reading:
Othello 5.2 & work on
DRJ (5 entries per act
for 25 total)
AP Essay #9 (OpenEnded) due to
turnitin.com by 11:59
pm
View scenes from
film version of
Othello
Senior Project 15-1515 Blog Check Due
(including picture of
product)
Unit Introduction: TBA
Submit MWDS & DRJ
to Turnitin.com by
11:59 pm
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