AP Literature and Composition 2012-2013
Syllabus Week One
Tuesday
8-21
Introduction to course/last year’s advice/rules of
improvisation (Bossypants)
Due: summer assignment
handout ism of fiction/types of novels (Monday)
Novel summary sheet—due next week for Peace like a
River
Read chapter one Peace like a River—handout Origin
of Man—allusions/changes level of understanding
pairs—select two chapters per pair to teach
Homework: begin to reread Peace like a River—for
Enhanced understanding of plot development (e.g.
foreshadowing), character development , motifs, etc.
Literary Term: bildungsroman
Thursday
8-23
Peace like a River—discussion /annotations
set up turnitin.com accounts
Chapter reviews
Value of a piece of literature—discussion
How to deconstruct a prompt (notes)
Homework: continue to reread Peace like a River
Read material on open prompts
Monday
8-27
essay prompt/review open prompt (handout/rubric)
collaborative essay (groups)
Literary terms review (novel types/isms of fiction)
Homework: novel summary sheet & test over
Peace like a River
Wednesday
8-29
Due: summary sheet
TEST Peace like a River
What is Rhetoric? Notes
Four-step process for Writing from Reading
Waiting for the Idiot to Go Away
Friday
8-31
Due: novel summary sheet
In-class essay (collaboration)
AP Literature & Composition 2012
Wednesday
9-5
What is Rhetoric? Notes
Four-step process for Writing from Reading
Making New Texts from Old: Intertextuality
Trying it out Waiting for the Idiot to Go Away
“The Jockey”—read/four-step process
Collaboration
Homework: Chapters 1-5 How to Read Literature…
Friday
9-7
Due: How to Read Literature…
Notes—Rhetoric
Review first five chapters—lessons learned
Continue reading How to Read…
Through Interlude (page 86) for next Thursday
“The Jockey”—four-step process
Tuesday
9-11
Finish with notes—Rhetoric
Practice Test—review of terms/applications
Finish with “The Jockey”—annotations/thesis
Four-step process/review quotation sandwich
Background for Oedipus Rex (material on web page)
Homework: How to Read…(through page 86)
Thursday
9-13
How to Read…--review
Practice Prompt
Begin Oedipus Rex—
Chapter 11-18 How to Read
Next Monday
Monday
9-17
How to Read…REVIEW
Essay Prompt
Continue with Oedipus Rex
The Three Unities—review
Notes—schemes/tropes
Homework: Chapters 19-24 How to Read-next Tuesday
Wednesday
9-19
Oedipus Rex—ALL PERIOD
notes—Greek Theater/Oedipus as an archetype
Homework: finish How to Read for Monday, October 1
Friday
9-21
QUIZ—background—Greek Theater/Tragedy
continue reading Oedipus Rex—good king?
Narrative purpose of the Chorus in first stasimon?
Tuesday
9-25
Due:
Essay Prompt—What Constitutes
Quotes Sandwich—review
Essay prompt (timed essay)
Continue reading Oedipus Rex
Homework: continue reading How to Read…
Chapters 19-24—Monday, October 1
Thursday
9-27
Due:
Continue with Oedipus Rex
Review uses of irony
Evaluate essays
Oedipus as Hero on a quest
Oedipus as Sacrificial Scapegoat (friendly debate)
Identify all references to Oedipus Rex in How to Read
(use the INDEX!!!)
Homework: How to Read… (through Chapter 24)
Finish the book for next Friday
AP Literature & Composition
Monday
10-01
the Professor says…Oedipus Rex
Oedipus Rex—close reading AP style
Homework: finish How to Read
for Friday
Wednesday
10-03
Finish Oedipus Rex
Review Play
Archetype/three unities/theme of fate vs free will/
Importance of blindness
Type essays (The Crossing)
(print two copies)
Homework: Aristotle’s Definition of Tragedy ????
Friday
10-05
Oedipus Rex Review Test
Homework: finish How to Read Literature…
For next Thursday
Read for Tuesday –“My Oedipus Complex” (1081)
Elements of Literature
Tuesday
10-09
Due: “My Oedipus Complex” (1081)
in-class essay
Quest literature—Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Read in class
Homework: finish How to Read Literature…
AP Lit & Comp
Thursday
10-11
Due: google docs accounts (set up sharing)
Literary Terms Assignment
Pairs (random selection)
Assigned terms—power point (shared document)
Pages must have complete definition/example(s)/visual
Due: October 23, 2012
The Crossing Essay
How to Read Literature…
Review references to Oedipus Rex
Elements of Literature read “Araby”
Relate to Foster’s comments
Homework: finish How to Read Literature…
Google docs
Monday
10-15
Due: How to Read Literature
Timed Essay Oedipus Rex
Discussion/notes How to Read Literature…
Literary Terms Assignment google docs—assign
Homework: read “Araby” Elements of Literature
Work on literary terms assignment
Wednesday
10-17
Due: “Araby”
review story
Review How to Read…--relate to story
Quest Literature : Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Homework: read The Wife of Bath’s Tale (138)
Review Shaping Interpretations & Extending the Text
(149)
Google docs—due next week
Friday
10-19
Due: The Wife of Bath’s Tale
In-class Assignment
College Writing—Observing—(handout)
AP Lit & Comp
Tuesday
10-23
Thursday
10-25
Satire from Candide (536)
finding common ground
Harvie Krumpet—modern-day (comparison)
Homework: handout (chapter six Reading and Writing
from Literature)
Background on Hamlet –notes
“Once Upon a Time” (1154)
Parody—relate the story to chapter eight
Short Story Assignment (handout)
Groups--assign
Homework: Background—Hamlet
Read—annotate short story
Monday
10-29
Due: Short Story/annotations
Discuss story with partner
Hamlet—Notes
Begin Act I
Wednesday
10-31
Hamlet
finish background Notes (if have not)
Finish Act I—read/view/analyze
Homework: Short Story Project
Friday
11-02
Hamlet Act II
Read/view/analyze Act II
Practice AP TEST
Homework: Short Story Project
AP Literature & Composition
Tuesday
11-06
Due: Short Story Project
Presentations of short stories
Elements to keep in mind: be able to answer classmates’
Questions/explain theme(s)/uses of literary devices/
How did you read the story like a professor?
Go over what you and your partner believe to be the most
Critical points of the story
Continue with Act I
Homework: Short Story Analysis (typed/MLA form)
Monday
11-12
Due: Short Story Analysis turnitin.com
Review Act I
Short Story Test--Friday
Annotation Exercise
Act II
Homework: review Act I
Quiz—Act I & background
Wednesday
11-14
QUIZ—Hamlet, Act I; Background
**Reminder turnitin.com
ACT II
Homework: Short Story TEST (four stories)
Friday
11-16
Finish Act II—review
Socratic Seminar
Handout—Everyday Use: Rhetoric at Work…
Chapter One
Homework: Short Story Test
Tuesday
11-20
Due: Short Stories
Short Story TEST
Continue with Hamlet—Act II—finish
Begin Act III
Homework: Chapter One Everyday Use
Finish Act III
AP Literature & Comp.
Tuesday
11-27
Due: Act II—review (the theme of disguise)
Rhetoric: Chapter One
Begin Act III
Soliloquy study (soliloquy II)
Begin Act III
Homework: review Acts I & II
Socratic Seminar
Handout: “It’s a Woman’s World”
??? 2-5
Thursday
11-29
Due: “It’s a Woman’s World”
Socratic Seminar
Act III—watch/analyze
Homework: review Act III
Chapter Two Rhetoric (next Wednesday)
Tuesday
12-4
Review Act III
Act IV—begin
Soliloquy Analysis
Homework: Chapter Two Rhetoric
Soliloquys—annotate
Thursday
12-6
Due: Soliloquys
Literature Workshop
Act IV—review
Act V—begin
Homework: read Act V
Rhetoric chapter—Wednesday