AP ENGLISH LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION:
PURPOSE OF THE COURSE:
1. Survey of British Literature (all historical backgrounds of different periods from 500 a.d. present)
2. AP Close Reading and Writing strategies: AP Exam—May 2015
(Any student who chooses not to take the AP exam must complete a separate research project in lieu of the
AP PREP Project due at the end of the year.)
SUMMER READING: Beowulf, Grendel, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (SUMMER READING
SHEETS TO FILL OUT); English History Made Brief, etc.
1ST Quarter:
College Essay
In-class Essay on Beowulf
In-class Essay on Grendel
Art Museum Project
2nd Qtr:
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Canterbury Tales
In-class essay on Canterbury Tales
Research Project on Middle Ages and Canterbury Tales
3rd Qtr:
Hamlet (play)
In-class Essay on Hamlet
Out –of- class paper on language in Hamlet
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (play)
Biography Essay
In-class essay on passage from a novel/play
In-class essay on poetry
Romantic/Victorian Novel: Choice (Pride and Prejudice, Frankenstein, Picture of
Dorian Gray)
Romantic Novel Essay
Written Satire-Group
4th Qtr.
Novel Choice (selected list)
In Class Essay on Novel
Importance of Being Earnest (play)
AP practice tests and essays
ALL YEAR: through “Moodle Responses” and short written assignments—FOCUS ON POETRY.
Other Reading: selections from British Literature textbook associated with different historical periods; English
History Made Brief; Sound and Sense
OBJECTIVE TESTS on most of the major units of history/literature