AP English Literature and Composition notebook
 Items are dated
 Items are labeled
 Items are in order
 20 Aug.: Syllabus
 21 Aug.: Stages in the development of a lifelong reader
 21 Aug: Learning styles
 25 Aug.: Dense question strategy
 25 Aug.: Works listed on the open question since 1971
 27 Aug.: T-chart—traits of works with and without literary merit
 2 Sept.: Notes for Hawthorne, “The Birthmark”
 2 Sept.: Unit 1 goals and vocabulary
 2 Sept.: Multiple-choice questions and stems
 3 Sept.: Notes for London, “To Build a Fire”
 4 Sept.: Notes for Melville, “Bartleby, the Scrivener”
 8 Sept.: Notes for Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues”, Walker, “Everyday Use”, Theme
exercise
 9 Sept.: Notes for Mansfield, “The Garden Party”, Symbolism exercise
 10 Sept.: Notes for Joyce, “Araby”
 15 Sept.: Notes for Woolf “Kew Gardens”, Hemingway, “Hills like White Elephants”
including handout on style
 16 Sept.: Notes for Chopin “The Story of an Hour”
 17 Sept.: Notes for Perkins, “The Yellow Wallpaper”
 18 Sept: Notes for O’Conner, “A Good Man is Hard to Find”
 22 Sept.: Notes for Desai, “Studies in the Park”
 23 Sept.: Notes for Garcia Marquez, “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World”
 24 Sept.: Notes for Calvino, “Mr. Palomar” and Rushdie, “At the Auction”
 29 Sept.: Notes for Conrad, “Heart of Darkness”
 1 Oct.: Notes for Conrad, “Heart of Darkness”
 2 Oct.: Notes from movie, “The Dead”
 6 Oct.: Notes for Joyce, “The Dead”
 7 Oct.: Notes for Kafka, “The Metamorphosis”
 8 Oct.: Notes for Kafka, “The Metamorphosis”
 27 Oct.: Unit 2 goals and vocabulary
 28 Oct.: Notes for Moore, Frost
 29 Oct.: Notes for Heaney, Hopkins, Style Notes
 3 Nov.: Notes for Elliot, Pound, Williams, Style Notes
 5 Nov.: Notes for Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Style Notes
 6 Nov.: Notes for Donne, Arnold, Style Notes
 10 Nov.: Notes for Blake, Whitman, Style Notes
 12 Nov.: Notes for Auden, Sexton, Style Notes
 13 Nov.: Notes for Owen, Roethke, Dickinson, Style Notes
 17 Nov.: Notes for Yeats, Coleridge
 24 Nov.: Notes Milton, Shakespeare, Thomas
 25 Nov.: Notes for Keats
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26 Nov.: Notes for Blake, Bradstreet
1 Dec.: Notes for Herrick, Campion, Sidney
2 Dec.: Hughs, Cullen, Dunbar, Toomer
3Dec.: Notes for Herrick, Manelle, Donne
4 Dec.: Notes for Dickenson, Rich, Plath, Clifton
8 Dec.: Notes for Walcott, Ouologeum, Soyinka, Ting
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Unit 3 Goals and Vocabulary
26 Jan.: Notes for “Crime and Punishment” Part 1
27 Jan.: Notes for “Crime and Punishment” Part 2 Ch. 1-3
28 Jan.: Notes for “Crime and Punishment” Part 2, Ch. 3-6
29 Jan.: Notes for “Crime and Punishment” Part 2, Ch. 6-7
2 Feb.: Notes for “Crime and Punishment” Part 3, Ch. 1-6, Part 4, Ch. 1-3
3 Feb.: Notes for “Crime and Punishment” Part 4, Ch. 4-6
4 Feb.: Notes for “Crime and Punishment” Part 5, Ch. 1-3
5 Feb.: Notes for “Crime and Punishment” Part 5, Ch. 4-5
9 Feb.: Notes for “Crime and Punishment” Part 5, Ch. 6-7
10 Feb.: Notes for “Crime and Punishment” Part 5, Ch. 8-Epilouge
12 Feb.: Notes for “James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”
17 Feb.: Notes for “James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”
18 Feb.: Notes for “James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” Ch. 1
19 Feb.: “James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” Ch. 2
23 Feb.: “James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” Ch. 3
24 Feb.: “James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” Ch. 4
25 Feb.: “James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” Ch. 5
3 March: Notes for Ralph Ellison, “Invisible Man”, Ch. 1
4 March: Notes for Ralph Ellison, “Invisible Man”, Ch. 2
5 March: Notes for Ralph Ellison, “Invisible Man” Ch. 3-4
9 March: Notes for Ralph Ellison, “Invisible Man”, Ch. 5-10
10 March: Notes for Ralph Ellison, “Invisible Man”, Ch. 11-13
11 March: Notes for Ralph Ellison, “Invisible Man”, Ch. 13-16
12 March: Notes for Ralph Ellison, “Invisible Man”, Ch. 17-18
AP English Literature and Composition Portfolio
 20 Oct.: Final draft of first-term AP essay
 20 Oct.: Final draft of take-home essay on a work of short fiction
 28 Oct.: Response to AP Exam 2005 Q1
 10 Nov.: First draft of essay based on assigned work by Moore, Heaney, Hopkins,
Eliot, Pound, Williams, Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Donne, Arnold. Get responses to
draft from two peers.
 20 Nov.: Response to AP Exam 2002 Q2