JIM THORPE AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT
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SUBJECT AREA: English
GRADE LEVELS: 11 and 12
COURSE LENGTH: One School Year
5 Periods Per Week
COURSE TITLE: Advanced Placement English: Language and Composition
COURSE DESCRIPTION/OVERVIEW:
This course is designed to prepare students for college level reading, writing, and
analysis. The course is designed around the following units of studies: Poetry, Drama,
Fiction (Novel and Short Story), and Expository Prose. Students will receive in-depth
instruction in: literary analysis, literary terminology, and approaches to writing in various
formats. The course will also include tips on taking the AP English Examinations, as well
as practice testing on the AP English Examinations. Students will be required to read
specific works of literary merit and to demonstrate an understanding of these works
through class discussion, book notes, quizzes, and analytical essays. The course is
designed to help students become skilled and inferential readers of poetry and prose
written in a variety of periods, disciplines, and rhetorical contexts, and to become skilled
writers who can compose for a variety of purposes. This course parallels a first-year
college composition course. Students are expected to take the AP English Test in May in
lieu of a final examination.
RESOURCES/INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS/TEXT:
Novels:
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Drama:
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Short Stories:
“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson
Poetry:
“Autumn Song” By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
JIM THORPE AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT
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“Spring and Fall: To a Young Child” by Gerard Manley Hopkins
“Pied Beauty” by Gerard Manley Hopkins
“Hope” by Gerard Manley Hopkins
“Hope is a Thing With Feathers” by Emily Dickenson
“Autumn Refrain” by Wallace Stevens
“The Unknown Citizen” by W.H. Auden
“Incident” by Countee Cullen
“I, Too” by Langston Hughes
“I Will to the King” by Wilfred Owens
“Love’s Diet” by John Donne
Holy Sonnets 10 and 14 by John Donne
“Fair is My Love” by Samuel Daniel
“Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat” by Thomas Gray
Sonnets by Shakespeare: 91, 146, 73, 18, 60, 55, 30, 71, 29
“A Description of the Morning” by Jonathan Swift
“The Birds” by Emily Dickenson
“Epistle to Miss Blount” by John Donne
Essays:
“The Dark of the Moon” by Eric Severeid
“Of Superstition” by Francis Bacon
Excerpt from “Life of Savage” by Samuel Johnson
Excerpt from “Of Seeming Wise” by Samuel Johnson
CURRICULUM/COURSE WRITING COMMITTEE:
Bob Daily, Bill Davis, Susan Becker, Christine Rosenberger, Amanda George, Tom
Condly, Seth Miller, Kristin O’Donnell, Sherri Gerber, Rob Kovac, Trudy Miller, Nancy
Smith
DATE COMPLETED: 6/22/06
DATE APPROVED BY JTASD BOARD OF EDUCATION: