Teacher: Benjamin Clark
Year:
2008-2009
Course: A.P. Eng. Lit.-Comp.
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The Search for Identity
Essential Questions
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Skills
What gives us our identity?
1. AP Thematic Essay Questions Write a college application
essay.
What happens when identities
2. AP Close Reading Essay
collide?
Analyze works of literature to
examine themes relating to
3. How Form is Function
identity.
What is the relationship between
multiple critical lenses and our
4. Applied Aesthetics
self?
Read closely and with a critical
eye.
5. Syntax
If language shapes identity, how
does it do so?
Understand the connection
6. Schools of Literary Criticism
between form and function in
literature.
What is the relationship between
beauty and truth?
Research different schools of
literary criticism and apply one of
these schools to a work of
literature.
Analyze a work of art and speak
about it in terms of truth, beauty,
form, and purpose.
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T How was Puritan literature
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M and practices of the time?
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Skills
How are the principles of Puritan
literature reflected in the diaries,
histories, and poetry of the
1600's?
O Unit II. What it Truth?Narrative Tradtions; Illusi - Unit Begins end of Week 10
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Essential Questions
What is truth? Is it absolute or
relative?
Content
Skills
Essays on Philosophy and Post- Write competente AP Close
Modernism.
Reading essays.
What is the relationship between AP Close Reading Essays
truth and language?
AP Thematic Essays
How willing are we to embrace
truth?
AP Poetry Essay
Write competent AP Open Ended
essays.
What if a “truth” impels us to
violate an essential element of
our self-concept?
AP Multiple Choice Questiions
Write personal essays.
Do texts present truths or
undermine them?
Multi-genre writing about a
chosen topic
Answer AP Multiple Choice
questions
Personal Essays (What is Truth) Write using a variety of genres.
Understand how form is function
in literature
Scansion in Poetry
Outside Reading
Essential Questions
Content
What is the value of a book?
various American poets
depending on student choice-What are ways to share a book? including but not limited to poets
from the Harlem Renaissence,
Emily Dickinson, Ted Kooser,
William Carlos Willams, Maya
Angelou. and others
online discussion skills
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identify and analyze major
themes, characters, and symbols
in a novel
contribute meaningfully to an
online discussion
explain themes, characters,
symbols in a book in a nontraditional, non-written way
What is Truth ? continued
Essential Questions
Content
Skills
Content
Skills
False cognates
Essential Questions
How do false cognates in
Spanish/English interfere with
meaning?
Compare false cognates in
English/Spanish.
Write sentences for false
cognates in English.
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J The Nature of Good and Evil
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Content
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U What are good and evil?
AP Open Ended Essays.
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AP Multiple Choice questions.
R Is evil an intrinsic element of
human nature?
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AP Close reading essays.
Skills
Skills
Write well-organized timed
essays.
Argue a postion effectively orally
and in writing.
What happens when moral
systems collide?
Essays, short stories, plays,and Learn and apply new vocabulary.
poems which explore the theme
of good and evil?
Revise and peer edit student
writing for clarity and style.
What is the difference between
The
Frame
Narrative.
sin and evil?
Compare and contrast works of
literature as they deal with a
Imagery.
How does narrative point of view
specific theme.
affect the presentation of good
Diction.
and evil?
Syntax
Theme
Poetry
Essential Questions
How does poetry differ from
prose?
Content
Scanning poetry.
Skills
Scanning poetry.
Figurative language.
How do poets express their ideas
and emotions?
Imagery in poetry.
Identifying figurative language:
similes, metaphors,
personification.
How does poetry analysis
increase our understanding and
enjoyment of reading a poem?
Music in poetry.
Identifying images in poetry.
Types of poetry--sonnets,
narrative, lyric, etc.
Identifying musical devices:
alliteration, assonance,
consonance, rhyme, etc.
Tone.
Analyzing poetry for tone.
Walt Whitman
Analyzing poetry for meaning.
Identifying symbols in poetry.
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The Nature of Good and Evil
Essential Questions
What are good and evil?
Is evil an intrinsic element of
human nature?
Content
Heart of Darkness and various
essays on good and evil in the
novel
Skills
Argue a postion effectively in
writing and orally
Learn and apply new vocabulary
AP Open Ended Essays.
What happens when moral
systems collide?
AP Multiple Choice questions.
What is the difference betwen sin AP Close reading essays.
and evil?
Essays, short stories, plays,and
How does narrative point of view poems which explore the theme
of good and evil?
affect the presentation of good
and evil?
The Frame Narrative.
Revise and peer edit student
writing for clarity and style.
Compare and contrast works of
literature as they deal with a
specific theme.
Wrte effective timed essays.
Imagery.
Diction.
Syntax
Theme
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Heart of Darkness and various
essays on good and evil in the
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Is evil an intrinsic element of
human nature?
Skills
Write well-organized timed
essays.
novel
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Open Ended Essays. AP Multiple
What happens when moral
Choice questions. AP Close
systems collide?
reading essays. Essays, short
What is the difference between stories, plays,and poems which
explore the theme of good and
sin and evil?
evil? The Frame Narrative.
How does narrative point of view Imagery. Diction. Syntax Them
affect the presentation of good
and evil?
Argue a position effectively orally
and in writing.
Learn and apply new vocabulary.
Revise and peer edit student
writing for clarity and style.
Compare and contrast works of
literature as they deal with a
specific theme.
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AP Exam Prepartation/Senior project
Essential Questions
What are the most effective
strategies for answering AP
Multiple Choice Questions?
Content
Process of Elimination for MC
questions.
Close reading of prose and
How does a student organize
poetry.
and structure effective AP essay
answers?
How to organize, structure, and
prepare effective AP essays?
What is the connection between
form and function?
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What are the most effective
strategies for answering AP
Multiple Choice Questions?
Process of Elimination for MC
questions.
How does a student organize
and structure effective AP essay Close reading of prose and
answers?
poetry.
Organization and structure of
What is the connection between effective AP essays.
form and function?
Skills
Close reading of prose and
poetry passages.
Recognize and explain the
connection between form and
function.
Skills
Close reading of prose and
poetry passages.
Recognize and explain the
connection between form and
function.