Western Wayne School District: Planned Course Overview
Course Name: AP English Literature (Engl 165)
Grade: 12
Check one ( ) ____Quarter _____Semester ___Full Year
42 minutes per day
1st Quarter
Time
45 days
(ongoing)
Standards/
Categories/Anchors
Vocabulary Units 1-6
1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.6, 1.7
R11.A.1.1 Identify and
apply the meaning of
vocabulary.
Essential Questions
Instructional
Programming (content/method)
What tools can be used to
understand, define, and apply
vocabulary?
Daily review of vocabulary using
workbook exercises.
How can context clues help students
define new vocabulary?
How can part of speech help student
define and apply vocabulary?
How is vocabulary found in everyday life
and writing?
Objective quizzes
after each unit
and cumulative
tests every three
units
How do authors use
archetypes, patterns, symbols,
and other literary conventions
and how does knowing about
these conventions help
readers understand literature?
Review chapters (teacher does a
sample PowerPoint presentation).
Individual or small
group PowerPoint
presentation of a
chapter
What are the essential literary
elements in Their Eyes Were
Discuss and analyze how setting, the
journey archetype, the frame story,
R11.A.1.2 Identify and
apply word recognition
skills.
10 days
How To Read Literature
Like a Professor by
Foster
1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6
R11.B.1.1 Interpret,
compare, describe,
analyze, and evaluate
components of fiction
and literary nonfiction
How do authors use archetypes,
patterns, symbols, and other literary
conventions and how does knowing
about these conventions help
readers understand literature?
Evaluation
R11.B.1.2 Make
connections between
texts.
R11.B.2.1 Identify,
interpret, describe, and
analyze figurative
language and literary
structures in fiction and
nonfiction.
6 days
Their Eyes Were
Watching God by
“Booknotes”
organizer; AP
Western Wayne School District: Planned Course Overview
Course Name: AP English Literature (Engl 165)
Grade: 12
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Hurston
1.1, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5
Watching God?
symbolism, and folklore function in the
novel.
multiple choice
passage; 2 AP timed
essays (function of
setting, symbolism,
or function of a
death scene)
How does the form of the
Italian and English sonnet
affect the content?
Annotate and analyze sonnets for use of
apostrophe, alliteration, stanza, rhyme
scheme, metaphor, and simile.
Identify the structural characteristics of
the Italian and the English sonnet and
AP timed essays:
Keats’ “Bright
Star/Frost’s “Choose
Something Like a
Star” OR Keats’
R11.A.1.3 Make
inferences, draw
conclusions, and make
generalizations based
on text.
R11.A.1.4 Identify and
explain main ideas and
relevant details.
R11.A.1.5 Summarize a
fictional text as a whole.
R11.B.2 Understand
literary devices in
fictional and nonfictional
text.
R11.B.2.1 Identify,
interpret, describe, and
analyze figurative
language and literary
structures in fiction and
nonfiction.
R11.B.2.2 Identify,
interpret, describe, and
analyze the point of view
of the narrator in fictional
and nonfictional text.
6 days
Italian and English
sonnets:
A variety of sonnets
from Shakespeare,
Western Wayne School District: Planned Course Overview
Course Name: AP English Literature (Engl 165)
Grade: 12
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Donne, Millay and
others
1.3, 1.4, 1.5
understand how the structure affects
the content.
“When I Have
Fears”/Longfellow’s
“Mezzo Cammin”
Analyze through discussion and close
reading exercises how the point of view,
symbolism, religious allusions/imagery,
and narrator function in the novel.
“Booknotes”
organizer; AP timed
essay (distortion,
“alienated”
characters, or
madness topics);
group presentations
on a variety of
themes
R11.B.2.1 Identify,
interpret, describe, and
analyze figurative
language and literary
structures in fiction and
nonfiction.
R11.B.2.2 Identify,
interpret, describe, and
analyze the point of view
of the narrator in fictional
and nonfictional text.
8 days
One Flew Over the
Cuckoo’s Nest by Kesey
1.1, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6
R11.A.1.3 Make
inferences, draw
conclusions, and make
generalizations based
on text.
R11.A.1.4 Identify and
explain main ideas and
relevant details.
R11.A.1.5 Summarize a
fictional text as a whole.
R11.B.1.1 Interpret,
compare, describe,
analyze, and evaluate
components of fiction
What are the essential literary
elements in One Flew Over the
Cuckoo’s Nest?
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and literary nonfiction
R11.B.1.2 Make
connections between
texts.
R11.B.2.1 Identify,
interpret, describe, and
analyze figurative
language and literary
structures in fiction and
nonfiction.
R11.B.2.2 Identify,
interpret, describe, and
analyze the point of view
of the narrator in fictional
and nonfictional text.
2 days
“My Last Duchess” by
Browning
1.1, 1.3, 1.6
R11.A.1.3 Make
inferences, draw
conclusions, and make
generalizations based
on text.
R11.A.1.4 Identify and
explain main ideas and
relevant details.
R11.A.1.5 Summarize a
fictional text as a whole.
R11.A.1.6 Identify,
describe, and analyze
genre of text.
R11.B.2.1 Identify,
How is the character of “My
Last Duchess” by Browning
portrayed?
Annotate the poem identifying phrases
that indicate the personality of the
narrator in this dramatic monologue.
Annotation and
class discussion
Western Wayne School District: Planned Course Overview
Course Name: AP English Literature (Engl 165)
Grade: 12
Check one ( ) ____Quarter _____Semester ___Full Year
42 minutes per day
interpret, describe, and
analyze figurative
language and literary
structures in fiction and
nonfiction.
R11.B.2.2 Identify,
interpret, describe, and
analyze the point of view
of the narrator in fictional
and nonfictional text.
8 days
The Awakening by
Chopin
1.1, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5
R11.A.1.3 Make
inferences, draw
conclusions, and make
generalizations based
on text.
R11.A.1.4 Identify and
explain main ideas and
relevant details.
R11.A.1.5 Summarize a
fictional text as a whole.
R11.A.1.6 Identify,
describe, and analyze
genre of text.
R11.B.2.1 Identify,
interpret, describe, and
analyze figurative
language and literary
structures in fiction and
nonfiction.
R11.B.2.2 Identify,
What are the essential literary
elements in The Awakening?
Analyze and discuss how setting,
symbolism, imagery, and foil characters
function in the novel.
Incorporate published criticism about
the novel as sources for a research
paper on the novel.
“Booknotes”
organizer; class
discussion; AP timed
essay (function of a
setting, contrasting
places, OR function
of a confidante);
research paper.
Western Wayne School District: Planned Course Overview
Course Name: AP English Literature (Engl 165)
Grade: 12
Check one ( ) ____Quarter _____Semester ___Full Year
42 minutes per day
interpret, describe, and
analyze the point of view
of the narrator in fictional
and nonfictional text.
Western Wayne School District: Planned Course Overview
Course Name: AP English Literature (Engl 165)
Grade: 12
Check one ( ) ____Quarter _____Semester ___Full Year
42 minutes per day
2nd Quarter
Time
45 days
(ongoing)
Standards/
Categories
Vocabulary Units 7-12
1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.6, 1.7
Essential Questions
What tools can be used to
understand, define, and
apply vocabulary?
R11.A.1.2 Identify and
apply word
recognition
skills.
2 days
“Metaphors” by Plath
and “Barbie Doll” by
Piercy
1.3, 1.6
Instructional
Programming
(content/method)
Evaluation
Daily review of vocabulary using
workbook exercises.
How can context clues help
students define new vocabulary?
How can part of speech help
student define and apply
vocabulary?
How is vocabulary found in
everyday life and writing?
Objective quizzes after
each unit and cumulative
tests every three units
Annotate the poems and discuss
how the metaphors about women
relate to the novel, The
Awakening?
Annotation and class
discussion
R11.B.1.2 Make
connections between
texts.
7 days
A Doll’s House by Ibsen
1.1, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5
What are the essential
literary elements in A Doll’s
House?
How did the play show a
change in drama to realistic
conventions?
Read aloud in class (if the number
of students permit).
Discuss how the realistic
conventions (unity of time and
place, and natural dialogue)
function in the play.
Compare style of the excerpt Lady
Windermere’s Fan by Wilde to
Ibsen’s style in A Doll’s House.
“Booknotes”
organizer; AP timed
essay (possible topics:
relevance of a work
written before 1900,
how does a playwright
control the audience’s
responses to a main
character)
7 days
Ethan Frome by
Wharton
What are the essential
literary elements in Ethan
Novel to be read independently.
Analyze and discuss how a frame
story and distanced narrator
“Booknotes” organizer;
AP timed essay
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10 days
1.1, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.8
Frome?
How can setting reflect and
magnify our understanding of
character?
How are similar
characteristics, themes,
techniques used to express
meaning between different
works of literature?
function in the novel.
(possible topics: the
function of violence,
what is a central
question raised); major
paper: compare &
contrast 2 of 3 (Their
Eyes Were Watching
God, Ethan Frome, The
Awakening)
Poetry (poems with
multiple choice
questions from released
AP exams):
“Facing It”
“My Picture”
“Albuquerque
Graveyard”
“Ogun”
1.1, 1.3, 1.6
Much Ado About
Nothing by Shakespeare
1.1, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5
What are the essential
literary elements in poems
that contribute to meaning?
Method varies: read poems
aloud in class, model
annotation, work through mc
questions in small groups then
work to consensus.
Class participation; score
on mc questions.
What are the essential
literary elements in Much
Ado About Nothing that
contribute to the comic
effect?
Read the play independently
and view the drama in class.
Analyze the use of
stock/stereotype characters,
foil characters, and parallel
plots.
“Booknotes” organizer;
AP timed essay (possible
topics: use of foil or
stereotype characters )
Western Wayne School District: Planned Course Overview
Course Name: AP English Literature (Engl 165)
Grade: 12
Check one ( ) ____Quarter _____Semester ___Full Year
42 minutes per day
Western Wayne School District: Planned Course Overview
Course Name: AP English Literature (Engl 165)
Grade: 12
Check one ( ) ____Quarter _____Semester ___Full Year
42 minutes per day
3rd Quarter
Time
45 days
(ongoing)
Standards/
Categories
Vocabulary Units 13-15
1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.6, 1.7
R11.A.1.2 Identify and apply word
recognition skills.
20-25 days
2 days
Invisible Man by Ellison
1.1, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5
Poetry:
“Ballad of Birmingham” by Randall
“A Dream Deferred” by Hughes
1.3, 1.4, 1.5
R11.B.1.2 Make connections
Essential Questions
Instructional
Programming
(content/method)
Evaluation
What tools can be used
to understand, define,
and apply vocabulary?
Daily review of vocabulary
using workbook exercises.
How can context clues help
students define new
vocabulary?
How can part of speech
help student define and
apply vocabulary?
How is vocabulary found in
everyday life and writing?
Objective quizzes after
each unit and cumulative
tests every three units
What are the essential
literary elements in
Invisible Man that
contribute to its overall
effect?
Independent reading of
each section of the
novel.
Analyze and discuss the
use of symbolism,
allusions, and
characterization.
“Booknotes”
organizer; AP timed
essay (possible topics:
How do the poems
reflect the themes of
Invisible Man and Go Tell
It on the Mountain?
function of symbols,
allusions, imagery;
significance of the
opening chapter;
function of a character
who appears briefly; how
a work creates a mixture
of pleasure and
disquietude in the
reader); ABC book
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Course Name: AP English Literature (Engl 165)
Grade: 12
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between texts.
10 days
Go Tell It on the Mountain by
Baldwin
1.1, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5
What are the essential
literary elements in Go
Tell It on the Mountain
that contribute to its
overall effect?
Review the novel
(summer reading)
“Booknotes” organizer;
multiple choice passage;
AP timed essay (possible
topics: parental conflict)
Western Wayne School District: Planned Course Overview
Course Name: AP English Literature (Engl 165)
Grade: 12
Check one ( ) ____Quarter _____Semester ___Full Year
42 minutes per day
4th Quarter
Time
45 days
(ongoing)
Standards/
Categories
Vocabulary--Review
1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.6, 1.7
R11.A.1.2 Identify and
apply word
recognition
skills.
5 days
5 days
Prose close reading:
passages and multiple
choice questions from
released AP exams
“The station wagons…”
“I dream of a larger and
more populous house…”
“Maud Martha”
“Time was an
Englishman…”
(and others)
1.1, 1.3, 1.6
Poetry close reading:
Poems and multiple
choice questions from
released AP exams
“Body and Soul”
“
1.1, 1.3, 1.6
Essential Questions
Instructional
Programming (content/method)
Evaluation
What tools can be used
to understand, define,
and apply vocabulary?
Continue review of vocabulary, using it
in speech and writing.
How can context clues help students
define new vocabulary?
How can part of speech help student
define and apply vocabulary?
How is vocabulary found in everyday life
and writing?
Cumulative test and
final exam.
What skills do the
students need to hone to
better prepare for the AP
exam, specifically on
prose passages?
A variety of methods: read the
passages aloud, model annotation,
read the passage for homework and
complete the questions in class;
work toward consensus on answers.
Class participation;
score on mc
questions.
What skills do the
students need to hone to
better prepare for the AP
exam, specifically on
poetry sections?
A variety of methods: read the
poems aloud, model annotation,
read the passage for homework and
complete the questions in class;
work toward consensus on answers.
Class participation;
score on mc
questions.
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3 days
Prose passage analysis
essay: prose passages
from released AP exams
“
1.1, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6
What skills do the
students need to hone to
better prepare for the AP
exam, specifically on
prose analysis essay?
5 days
Poetry analysis essay:
poems from released AP
exams
Dickinson and Frost
“Night” poems
“
1.1, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6
What skills do the
students need to hone to
better prepare for the AP
exam, specifically on
poetry analysis essay?
3 days
Free response essay:
Prompts from released AP
exams
1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6
Approx. 15
days
Literary Merit Paper
1.1., 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.8
R11.B.1.2 Make
connections between
texts.
A variety of methods: read the
passages aloud, model annotation,
read the passage for homework and
complete an outline of an essay, or
write an opening or a specific
number of body paragraphs, or
write the entire essay in class.
A variety of methods: read the
poems aloud, model annotation,
read the poem for homework and
complete an outline of an essay, or
write an opening paragraph or a
specific number of body paragraphs,
or write the entire essay in class.
Share and critique
student essays.
What skills do the
students need to hone to
better prepare for the AP
exam, specifically on the
free response essay?
Review “booknotes” organizers.
Review a list of free response
prompts from previous AP exams;
brainstorm possible works of literary
merit to use with each prompt;
write an opening paragraph or a
specific number of body paragraphs,
or write the entire essay in class.
Share and critique
student essays.
What qualities in a
literary work make it a
“work of literary merit”?
Read a specified number of either
young adult or popular books
(number depends on time remaining
after the AP exam). Annotate the
text, noting the qualities that make
it (or do not make it) a work of
literary merit; incorporate ideas
from How to Read Literature Like a
Professor and all skills learned
3 to 5 page paper
with textual support
arguing whether the
work(s) read are of
literary merit and
why.
Share and critique
student essays.
Western Wayne School District: Planned Course Overview
Course Name: AP English Literature (Engl 165)
Grade: 12
Check one ( ) ____Quarter _____Semester ___Full Year
42 minutes per day
throughout the year.