Unit 1: Introduction to AP Literature and Composition
 A Separate Peace
 How to Read Like a Professor
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Diction
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Syntax
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Tone
 Theme
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Literary terms
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Poetry terms
 Close Reading Strategy
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AP Test Format/Strategies (MC and essay)
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AP Literature and Composition Pre-Test/Setting Goals and Record Keeping
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Allusions
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Poetry Response Introduction
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Senior Project Introduction o Choosing a Career o Proposal o Isolating a social issue
Unit 2: People and Cultures in Conflict
Quote: Do dreams offer lessons? Do nightmares have themes, do we awaken and analyze them and live our lives and advise others as a result? Can the foot soldier teach anything important about war, merely for having been there? I think not. He can tell war stories. --Tim O’Brien
Novels:
 A Separate Peace (carried over from Unit 1)
 The Things They Carried
Short Stories:
 “War”—Luigi Pirandello
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“The First Year of My Life”—Muriel Spark
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“Soldier’s Home”—Earnest Hemingway
 “My Daily Dives Into the Dumpster”—Lars Eigher

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“The Black Cat”—Edgar Allan Poe
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“The Man from Mars”—Margaret Atwood
Poetry:
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“If we are marked to die…”—excerpt from Hamlet—Shakespeare
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“Shiloh: A Requiem”—Herman Melville
 “Dulce et Decorum Est”—Wilfred Owen
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“The Terrorist, He Watches”—Wislawa Szymborska
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“Road Less Traveled”—Robert Frost
 “Theme for English B”—Langston Hughes
Visual:
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“Boy Fascist”—NY Times
Unit 3: Love and Relationships
Quote: Ay me! For aught that I could ever read, / could ever hear by tale or history. / The course of true love never did run smooth.” --Shakespeare
Novels:
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Frankenstein
 Macbeth
Short Stories:
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“Everyday Use”—Alice Walker
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“A Rose for Emily”—William Faulkner
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“The Story of an Hour”—Kate Chopin
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“The Yellow Wallpaper”—Charlotte Gilman
Poetry:
 Various Romantic poets
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“The Flea”—John Donne
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“To the Virgins”—Robert Herrick
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“One Art”—Elizabeth Bishop
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“My Mistress’ Eyes”—Shakespeare
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“On the Painting”—L. Ferlinghetti
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“To His Coy Mistress”—Andrew Marvel
 “Coy Mistress”—Annie Finch
Drama:
 “Tone Clusters”—Joyce Carol Oates

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“Trifles”
Visual:
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“The Kiss”
Unit 4: Conformity and Rebellion
Quote: Not all those who wander are lost. --JRR Tolkien
Novels:
 Invisible Man
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Literature Circles
Short Stories:
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“The Lottery”
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“Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street”—Herman Melville
 “Two Kinds”—Amy Tan
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Ray Bradbury
Fiction:
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“The Metamorphosis”—Franz Kafka
Poetry:
 “Song: To The Men of England”—Percy Shelley
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“The Collar”—George Herbert
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“Anyone lived in a”—EE Cummings
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“On Living”—Nazim Hikmet
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“Do not go gentle”—Dylan Thomas
Unit 5: The Individual and Society
Quote: No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true. --Nathaniel Hawthorne
Novels:
 Heart of Darkness—Joseph Conrad
 Othello—Shakespeare
Short Stories:
 “Young Goodman Brown”—Hawthorne

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“Girl”—Jackie Kincaid
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“Miss Brill”—Katherine Mansfield
 “The Rocking-Horse Winner”—DH Lawrence
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“Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been?”
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“Barn Burning”—William Faulkner
Fiction:
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“Graduation”—Maya Angelou
Poetry:
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“I’m Nobody! Who Are You?”—Dickinson
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“Rite of Passage”—
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“Barbie Doll”—Marge Piercy
 “The Quiet Life”—Alexander Pope
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“Homage to my Hips”
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“Song of Myself”—Walt Whitman
We will spend approximately 6 weeks on each unit, concluding with a unit on the senior project and AP Literature and Composition review.
Throughout the duration of the course we will continue working on skills to help with the AP exam and success in college.
All texts stated above might change at any time. Texts might be removed entirely, substituted with another, or others might be added. This depends on the needs of the class and individual students.
The writing for the senior project will be included throughout the units listed above.
However, much of the project will be completed independently.