12 A.P. English Literature
and Composition
September
December
Beowulf – Unknown
Continue Greek Drama unit:
The Canterbury Tales – Chaucer
(selected readings)
Fathers and Sons – Turgenev
Antigone - Sophocles
Medea - Euripedes
Agamemnon - Aeschylus
October
Research paper due
Perrine Poetry
Madame Bovary – Flaubert
Begin research paper
January
The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
November
Don Quixote – Cervantes
(excerpts and time allowing)
The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn - Twain
“The Metamorphosis” - Kafka
Begin Greek Drama unit:
Oedipus Rex
Oedipus at Colonus – Sophocles
February
May
The Kite Runner – Hosseini
Candide - Voltaire
“Bartleby, The Scrivener” – Melville
Frankenstein - Shelley
“At the ‘Cadian Ball” and
A.P. Exam
“The Storm” – Chopin
Daisy Miller – James
“Chickamagua” – Bierce
June
“The Death of Ivan Ilyich” – Tolstoy
Satire Projects
“Editha” – Howells
Final Exam
“An Episode of War” – Crane
March
Notes From Underground – Dostoevsky
A Doll’s House
Hedda Gabler - Ibsen
The Cherry Orchard – Chekov
April
Death of a Salesman – Miller
Crime and Punishment – Dostoevsky