First Calendar/Syllabus
Fall Semester, 2012
Instructors: Britt, Collins, Kling
AP English Literature and Composition
Instructors: Britt, Collins, Kling
August 2012
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
1
Get copy of
Heart of
Darkness
By J. Conrad
By Sept. 10
Summer Reading
Due MONDAY,
August 13th
5 Welcome
Get copy of
Heart of
Darkness by J.
Conrad by
Sept. 10.
6
Intro to AP
Syllabus
College Appllication
Essay
Due
SEPT 21
7
AP test overview
AP test overview
PRE-TEST
Finish Pre-test
MULTIPLE CHOICE Textbooks
HW: finish sum rdg
12
Monday HW
Create 5 ques per
chapter for EOS.
Use index cards.
ques on one side
& answer on other
side.
13
play Championship
round (accumulated
pts. From 1 +2)
HW: prepare 25
Jeopardy cards
20 Theater
Teacher will look Identify Style of
at 1st drafts while Childhood Book
Changing Style Quiz
you are doing
Apply Style to new
assignment in
HW: choose college
lab next week.
app essay topic
.
26 Close Rdng
HW: work on essay or
DIY multi choice
3
2
Get copy of
Heart of
Darkness
By J. Conrad
By Sept. 10
LABOR DAY
HW: Get HofD
Work on essay
booreview
Game 2:
Infernal Commercials
30 min prep
18 min. perform
Flip cams
W: study for test
HW: Work on
scavenger hunt or
college app essay
INFERNO
5
INFERNO
Test 25 ques
AP Test Review
Essays
Unpacking the Question
Re-write prompts as
interrogative sentence..
HW: finish sum rdg
3
All students will write a
personal essay that
could be used for
college application or
scholarship.
Saturday
COLLEGE
4
If topic unknown or
essay not required,,
students will choose
from sample list or
follow the Laws of Life
guidelines.
10 DUE MON
11
Jeopardy Preview
SUMMER READING
1. Choice book Mon and
EOS PPT
Why summer reading? Professor poster
HW: Summer reading
16 EOS TEST
2. in correct order
3. in ink or typed
4. doublespace if typed
17
18
Check college websites
for college application
HW: KIDDIE LIT >>> essay topics.
Bring a favorite childhood Bring a favorite
book or list of memories childhood book and/or 3
reasons why it was
of that book.
favorite
Jeopardy
EOS book TEST
+5=Grand Prize
+4=1st runner up
+3=2nd runner up
+2=3rd runner up
+1=4th runner up
23 Essays
Hurston essay
Sample college essays
24 DUE
Weasels + close rdng
More sample col app
essays.
College app essay
directions
Hw: begin essay
HW: read Weasels –
What does this essay
reveal about author?
29 LAB A201
Dante’s Inferno
Scavenger hunt
Internet assignment
Friday
COLLEGE
9
22 Essays
Walker and Baldwin
essays in class. List 10
adjectives to describe
each style.
HW: read Hurston
essay online
28 LAB A201
Harvard Close Rdng
Handout
Exchange DIY multi
choice
HW: work on
scavenger hunt or
college app essay
INFERNO
4
College or scholarship
applications.
15 Championship
Preliminary Jeopardy
in small groups –
winners play
Championship round
Thursday
21 Essays
Meet with
counselors for college
information
27
DIY multi choice
In class
Due Tues 8/28
HW: finish sum rdg
14 EOS book
review
Small group exhibits Game 1: Preliminary
review
Jeopardy in small
of Choice Book
groups – winners to
work.
19 STYLE
Dante project:
65% hunt
25% quiz
10% comm.
EOS review
2
Look for online info about
essay topic used by colleges
for application. These essays
can be re-cycled to fit several
8
HW: cure
procrastination
SumRdgDUE
Thursday
COLLEGE
30
Dante’s Inferno Tour
Monsters and Mayhem
Weather
College sites
Representational art vs.
Nonrep art
Impressionism PPT
31
Dante’s Inferno Tour
Archetypes
Scholars
HW: work on scavenger hunt
or college app essay
ART
LAB A201
6
25
TUES
Mandatory 1st draft
of college
application essay
due on Wed for
teacher review.
Due TUES
1
Inferno internet
assignment
(scavenger hunt)
HW: work on scavenger
hunt or college app essay
H of D
Intro to Conrad
7
Literary Impressionism
Color chart
HW: p. 1-5 of HofD and choose Begin art.
HW: p. 11-30 HofD
Hw: work on essay + one paragraph/page for your
Annotate close reading
own impressionist art
Get HofD
8
Finish art.
Due MON.
Work on college app
essay. DUE Sept. 21
First Calendar/Syllabus
Fall Semester, 2012
AP English Literature and Composition
Instructors: Britt, Collins, Kling
Instructors: Britt, Collins, Kling