AP English Literature
www.morganparkcps.org
11 COLUMBUS DAY
18 Tone
My Jim selections
Socratic Seminar reflection due
25 Invisible Man – issued (own
copy=bonus points)
Langston Hughes poetry
1 Invisible Man
Prologue
8 Tone
Multiple choice practice
IM Ch 6-10
15 IM Ch 15-22
22 In-class essay
MWDS due in
29 The Stranger - Part I
6 A Christmas Carol
2ND & 5th periods
OCTOBER - NOVEMBER – DECEMBER 2010
C. A. Macola
camacola@cps.edu
12 ADVISORY
Huck Finn test – using notes &
MWDS (not text)
19 DIVISION
Tone
HF discussion
26 DIVISION
Tone
Langston Hughes poetry
2 DIVISION
Tone
IM Ch 1
9 ADVISORY
Tone
IM Ch 11-12
16 DIVISION
IM Ch 23-24
23 DIVISION
The Stranger – issued (own
copy=bonus points)
Thanksgiving essay
30 DIVISION
The Stranger – Part II
13 PSAT Schedule
HF discussion
Small group
20
In-class essay
MWDS due in
27 Tone
poetry
14 Vocab Quiz #8
Essay reading and revising
15 Tone
Socratic Seminar - HF
21 Mid-Term Exam
22 Vocab Quiz #9
BBR
HF reduction due
29 PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
3 Vocab Quiz #11
Multiple choice practice
4 PARENT-TEACHER
CONFERENCE
REPORT CARD PICK-UP
11 VETERANS DAY
5 Tone
IM Ch 2-5
17 IM Ch 25-Epilogue
18 Vocab Quiz # 13
19 Invisible Man test
24 HALF-DAY SCHEDULE
Vocab Quiz # 14
BBR
25 THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
26 THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
1 15-Week Exam
2 Vocab Quiz # 15
The Stranger
3 The Stranger – in class essay
7 A Christmas Carol
8 A Christmas Carol
9 Vocab Quiz #16
A Christmas Carol
10 A Christmas Carol
10 Vocab Quiz #12
IM Ch 13-14
IM or The Stranger reduction due
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
28 Vocab Quiz #10
Essay writing/revising
12 STAFF DEVELOPMENT
The Stranger by Albert Camus
What is the author/writer/poet saying? (superficially and then deeply) How is the writer doing this? Why? So what? What research do I need
to do to understand the work? What should I think about?
VOCABULARY: (some will be repeats) – 4 synonyms or definition & 3 synonyms – BONUS used correctly and highlighted/underlined in essays
Week 8 – synecdoche, metonymy, apostrophe, phlegmatic, splenetic, melancholy, sanguine, choleric, redundant, strumpet
Week 9 – sycophant, unctuous, condone, pragmatic, auspicious, perquisite, stoic, hackneyed, jaded, jejune
Week 10 – trite, hamartia, hubris, didactic, itinerant, mawkish, ameliorate, egregious, fastidious, ephemeral
Week 11 – allusion, vacillate, apocryphal, feisty, altruistic, orthodox, innate, cryptic, banal, scrutinize
Week 12 – condescend, philanthropy, aggravate, anxious, stentorian, taciturn, epigram, connotation, chronic, preclude
Week 13 – prodigal, languid, hypocritical, enervate, disparage, cupidity, apathy, augment, reticent, incoherent
Week 14 – heresy, importune, extol, enigma, provincial, repudiate, relegate, dogmatic, adamant, indolent
Week 15 – nihilism, ascetic, elucidate, complacent, nefarious, germane, reprehensible, mitigate, immutable, hedonist
Week 16 – insipid, digress, incongruous, esoteric, ambivalent, atrophy, engender, ironic, profound, congenial
Week 17 – abate, acrimonious, indifferent, ambiguous, revere, discriminate, denounce, candid, discern, disdain
Sula by Toni Morrison will be read over Winter Break, with MWDS and essay