AP English Literature
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2ND & 5th periods
3 Sula – essay, MWDS, reduction
4 DIVISION Team writing
(bonus), other recovery work –due
Discussion of novel
Reading of essays
10 Essay writing
JANUARY – FEBRUARY - MARCH 2011
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Tentative Schedule
5 Multiple choice practice
C. A. Macola
6 Vocab Quiz #17
7 Multiple choice practice
Multiple choice practice
11 ADVISORY Essay writing
12 Multiple choice practice
13 Vocab Quiz #18
14 Essay writing
Multiple choice practice
17 M.L.KING, JR. DAY
24 In-class Essay Exam 2 prose
31 Hamlet – Act I
7 Act II Quiz
18 DIVISION
Vocab Test (#19)
25 DIVISION
Issue Hamlet (bonus for own
copy)—identification of characters,
themes, motifs.
1 DIVISION Hamlet – Act I
8 ADVISORY Hamlet – Act III
19 Semester Exams
20 Semester Exams
26 In-class Essay Exam 3 major work
27 Vocab Quiz #20
2 Act I Quiz
3 Vocab Quiz #21
Hamlet – Act II
9 Hamlet – Act III
Hamlet – Act II
Hamlet – Act III
14 Act III Quiz
15 DIVISION Hamlet – Act IV
16 Act IV Quiz
17 Vocab Quiz # 23
Hamlet – Act V
22 DIVISION Act V Quiz
Hamlet – Act V
23 Socratic Seminar
Discussion
2 Five-Week Assessment
AP Multiple Choice
3 Vocab Quiz # 25
Discussion
28 Essay & MWDS due on
Hamlet
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are
Dead
4 Hamlet – Act II
11 STAFF DEVELOPMENT
Hamlet – Act III
Hamlet – Act IV
21 PRESIDENTS’ DAY
10 Vocab Quiz # 22
21 In-class Essay Exam 1 poetry
28 PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
1 DIVISION
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are
Dead
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
18 Hamlet – Act V
24 Vocab Quiz # 24
25 Issue Rosencrantz and
Socratic Seminar reflection due
Guildenstern Are Dead – bonus for
own copy Identify motifs and
themes
4 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
Are Dead
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are
Dead
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
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? Most of the reading will be done in class—some will be done for homework as we progress through the plays.
VOCABULARY: (some will be repeats) – 4 synonyms or definition & 3 synonyms – BONUS used correctly and highlighted/underlined in essays
Week 17 – abate, acrimonious, indifferent, ambiguous, revere, discriminate, denounce, candid, discern, disdain
Week 18 – [POSITIVE ATTITUDE] amused, boisterous, cheery, compassionate, confident, effusive, elated, exuberant, exultant, festive
Week 19 – ,genial, jocular, mirthful, nostalgic, passionate, playful, proud, sanguine, tickled, whimsical
Week 20 – wistful, witty, [NEGATIVE ATTITUDE] accusing, admonitory, anxious, apprehensive, arrogant, ashamed, bantering, bitter
Week 21 – chagrined, condemnatory, condescending, contemptuous, cynical, derisive, despairing, disconcerted, disdainful, exacerbated
Week 22 – exasperated, facetious, flippant, foreboding, incendiary, incensed, indignant, inflammatory, insolent, irate
Week 23 – irreverent, irritated, livid, manipulative, melancholic, mournful, offensive, ominous, outraged, patronizing
Week 24 – pompous, pretentious, resentful, resigned, sardonic, satiric, scathing, scornful, sober, solemn
Week 25 – somber, staid, taunting, teasing, threatening, urgent, vexed, wrathful [NEUTRAL ATTITUDE] abrupt, authoritative
Week 26 – candid, ceremonial, clinical, cultured, detached, didactic, learned, placid, reflective, reminiscent, restrained, scholarly (12 words this week)
One reduction on either Hamlet or Rosencrantz and Guildenstern will be due Week 26. A test and an essay will be given for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern; MWDS is required.
Reading of Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller and then Fences by August Wilson will complete our major works for the AP exam—tests, essay, MWDS, reduction on one.