AP English Literature
Month
August
Content
Pre course Summer Assignments
Read Crime and Punishment and Adler's
"How to Mark a Book:
Students will participate in a teacher
guided online discussion board.
Skills
Students will:
1. Develop the capability to respond to literature at a
level that is consistent with an undergraduate and
composition course.
2. Sharpen close reading skills.
INTRODUCTION AND SUMMER
WRAP UP
LITERATURE: Text - Perrine's
Literature Structure, Sound and Sense
Essential Literary Terms - Hamilton
VOCABULARY: Level H
1. Unit 1
WRITING: Text: Writing About
Literature - Roberts
Begin Narrative Writing
3. Be afforded an encounter with American, British,
and World Literature written in a variety of modes,
genres, and contexts.
4. Be provided with an understanding how writers use
elements such as style, historical and social backdrops,
diction, syntax, figurative language, imagery,
symbolism, attitude, and tome to convey theme.
1. Identify and analyze new terminology
2. Use vocabulary in conversation and writing.
3. Analyze the meaning of abstract concepts and the
effects of particular word and phrase choice.
Short paper skills
1. Formulate thesis.
2. Evaluate the usefulness of information.
3. Synthesize information to support a thesis.
Research paper skills
1. Developing a research plan using multiple forms of
data.
2. Evaluate the usefulness of information.
3. Synthesize information to support a thesis.
4. Present information in a logical manner.
5. Credit primary and secondary sources in a form
appropriate for publication.
6. Support and defend a thesis statement.
7. Present thesis and its support in a form appropriate
for publication (with good writing style, grammar,
punctuation and spelling).
September
LITERATURE: Text - Perrine's Literature
Structure, Sound and Sense
Essential Literary Terms - Hamilton
Prose Analysis: Short Stories
Can last until Oct.
Wolff -"Hunters in the Snow," Lahiri "Interpreters of Maladies," Walker "Everyday Uses," Chekhov "Gooseberries," Cather - "Paul's Case,"
Hemmingway - "Hills Like White
Elephants," Lawrence - "The RockingHorse Winner," Oates - "Where Are You
Going, Where Have You Been?", Allen -
Students will:
1. Develop the capability to respond to literature at a
level that is consistent with an undergraduate and
composition course.
2. Sharpen close reading skills.
3. Encounter with American, British, and World
Literature written in a variety of modes, genres, and
contexts.
4. Understand how writers use elements such as style,
historical and social backdrops, diction, syntax,
figurative language, imagery, symbolism, attitude, and
1 of 11
Month
Content
"The Kugelmass Episode," O'Connor "Good Country People," Joyce - "Eveline,"
Carver - "Cathedral," Camus - "The
Guest," O. Henry - "A Municipal Report,"
Glaspell - "A Jury of Her Peers." Can
include other stories in Perrine's.
Skills
tome to convey theme.
Independent Reading of Novel/ Play
VOCABULARY: Level H
1. Unit 1
2. Unit 2
WRITING: Text: Writing About
Literature - Roberts
Narrative Writing
Dialectical/Response Journals
In class essays using AP Prompts
1. Identify and analyze new terminology
2. Use vocabulary in conversation and writing.
3. Analyze the meaning of abstract concepts and the
effects of particular word and phrase choice.
Short paper skills
1. Formulate thesis.
2. Evaluate the usefulness of information.
3. Synthesize information to support a thesis.
Research paper skills
1. Developing a research plan using multiple forms of
data.
2. Evaluate the usefulness of information.
3. Synthesize information to support a thesis.
4. Present information in a logical manner.
5. Credit primary and secondary sources in a form
appropriate for publication.
6. Support and defend a thesis statement.
7. Present thesis and its support in a form appropriate
for publication (with good writing style, grammar,
punctuation and spelling).
October
LITERATURE: Text - Perrine's Literature
Structure, Sound and Sense
Essential Literary Terms - Hamilton
Prose Analysis: Short Stories
Can last until Oct.
Wolff -"Hunters in the Snow," Lahiri "Interpreters of Maladies," Walker "Everyday Uses," Chekhov "Gooseberries," Cather - "Paul's Case,"
Hemmingway - "Hills Like White
Elephants," Lawrence - "The RockingHorse Winner," Oates - "Where Are You
Going, Where Have You Been?", Allen "The Kugelmass Episode," O'Connor "Good Country People," Joyce - "Eveline,"
Carver - "Cathedral," Camus - "The
Guest," O. Henry - "A Municipal Report,"
Glaspell - "A Jury of Her Peers." Can
include other stories in Perrine's.
Students will:
1. Develop the capability to respond to literature at a
level that is consistent with an undergraduate and
composition course.
2. Sharpen close reading skills.
3. Encounter American, British, and World Literature
written in a variety of modes, genres, and contexts.
4. Understand how writers use elements such as style,
historical and social backdrops, diction, syntax,
figurative language, imagery, symbolism, attitude, and
tome to convey theme.
Independent Reading of Novel/ Play
2 of 11
Month
Content
Novel: Heart of Darkness
VOCABULARY: Level H
1. Unit 3
2. Unit 4
Skills
1. Identify and analyze new terminology
2. Use vocabulary in conversation and writing.
3. Analyze the meaning of abstract concepts and the
effects of particular word and phrase choice.
Short paper skills
WRITING: Text: Writing About
Literature - Roberts
Narrative Writing
Dialectical/Response Journals
In class essays using AP Prompts
1. Formulate thesis.
2. Evaluate the usefulness of information.
3. Synthesize information to support a thesis.
Research paper skills
1. Developing a research plan using multiple forms of
data.
2. Evaluate the usefulness of information.
3. Synthesize information to support a thesis.
4. Present information in a logical manner.
5. Credit primary and secondary sources in a form
appropriate for publication.
6. Support and defend a thesis statement.
7. Present thesis and its support in a form appropriate
for publication (with good writing style, grammar,
punctuation and spelling).
November
LITERATURE: Text - Perrine's Literature
Structure, Sound and Sense
Essential Literary Terms - Hamilton
Poetry Analysis - Owen - "Dulce et
Decourm Est," Shakespeare - "Shall I
compare thee to a summer's day?", Randall
- "Ballad of Birmingham," Houseman "Terrence, this is stupid stuff," Larkin - "A
Study of Reading Habits," Plath - "Mirror,"
Rich - "Storm Warnings," Wordsworth "The world is too much with us," Bishop "One Art," Hayden - "Those Winter
Sundays," Keats - "To Autumn," Mason "Song of the Powers," Wilbur "Mind,"
Donne - "A Valediction Forbidding
Mourning," Heaney - "Digging," Donne "Hymn to God My God, In my Sickness,"
Auden - "the Unknown Citizen," Browning
- "My Last Duchess," Frost - "Out, Out--,"
Shakespeare - from "Macbeth," Yeats "Leda and the Swan," Dickinson - "I never
saw a Moor," ""Faith' is a fine invention, "
Shakespeare "My mistress' eyes," Drayton
- "Since there's no help," Brooks - "We
Real Cool," Hacker - "1973," Blake =
"'Introduction' to Songs of Innocence,"
McKay - "The Tropics in New York,"
Kinnell - "Blackberry Eating," Williams "the Dance," Thomas - "Do Not Go Gentle
into That Good Night," Frost - Acquainted
with the Night," Herrick - "Delight in
Disorder," Blake - "The Poison Tree,"
Kleiser - "The Most Vital Thing in Life,"
Students will:
1. Develop the capability to respond to literature at a
level that is consistent with an undergraduate and
composition course.
2. Sharpen close reading skills.
3. Encounter American, British, and World Literature
written in a variety of modes, genres, and contexts.
4. Understand how writers use elements such as style,
historical and social backdrops, diction, syntax,
figurative language, imagery, symbolism, attitude, and
tome to convey theme.
3 of 11
Month
Content
Skills
Eliot - "The Love song of J. Alfred
Prufrock," Hughes - "The Weary Blues,:"
Roethke - "My Papa's Waltz," Yeats "Sailing to Byzantium." MacLeish - "Ars
Poetica," Collins - "Introduction to Poetry,"
Whitman - "Had I the Choice," Ferlinghetti
- "Constantly Risking Absurdity," Pope "Sound and Sense," Francis - "Pitcher,"
Marvell - "To His Coy Mistress," Herrick "To Virgins, to Make Much of Time,"
Housman - "Loveliest of Trees," Frost "Nothing Gold Can Stay," Clifton, "good
times," Dickinson - "Light exists in
Spring," Kay - "Pathedy of Manners,"
Piercy - "Barbie Doll," Ritchie - "Sorting
Laundry," Angelou - "Woman Work,"
Cofer - "Quinceanera," Song - "The
Youngest Daughter,"
Will last into the 3rd quarter.
Can include other poems in Perrine's.
Independent Reading of Novel/ Play
VOCABULARY: Level H
1. Unit 5
2. Unit 6
WRITING: Text: Writing About
Literature - Roberts
Narrative Writing
Dialectical/Response Journals
In class essays using AP Prompts
Paper on Independent Reading
1. Identify and analyze new terminology
2. Use vocabulary in conversation and writing.
3. Analyze the meaning of abstract concepts and the
effects of particular word and phrase choice.
Short paper skills
1. Formulate thesis.
2. Evaluate the usefulness of information.
3. Synthesize information to support a thesis.
Research paper skills
1. Developing a research plan using multiple forms of
data.
2. Evaluate the usefulness of information.
3. Synthesize information to support a thesis.
4. Present information in a logical manner.
5. Credit primary and secondary sources in a form
appropriate for publication.
6. Support and defend a thesis statement.
7. Present thesis and its support in a form appropriate
for publication (with good writing style, grammar,
punctuation and spelling).
December
LITERATURE: Text - Perrine's Literature
Structure, Sound and Sense
Essential Literary Terms - Hamilton
Poetry Analysis - Owen - "Dulce et
Decourm Est," Shakespeare - "Shall I
compare thee to a summer's day?", Randall
- "Ballad of Birmingham," Houseman "Terrence, this is stupid stuff," Larkin - "A
Students will:
1. Develop the capability to respond to literature at a
level that is consistent with an undergraduate and
composition course.
2. Sharpen close reading skills.
3. Encounter American, British, and World Literature
written in a variety of modes, genres, and contexts.
4 of 11
Month
Content
Study of Reading Habits," Plath - "Mirror,"
Rich - "Storm Warnings," Wordsworth "The world is too much with us," Bishop "One Art," Hayden - "Those Winter
Sundays," Keats - "To Autumn," Mason "Song of the Powers," Wilbur "Mind,"
Donne - "A Valediction Forbidding
Mourning," Heaney - "Digging," Donne "Hymn to God My God, In my Sickness,"
Auden - "the Unknown Citizen," Browning
- "My Last Duchess," Frost - "Out, Out--,"
Shakespeare - from "Macbeth," Yeats "Leda and the Swan," Dickinson - "I never
saw a Moor," ""Faith' is a fine invention, "
Shakespeare "My mistress' eyes," Drayton
- "Since there's no help," Brooks - "We
Real Cool," Hacker - "1973," Blake =
"'Introduction' to Songs of Innocence,"
McKay - "The Tropics in New York,"
Kinnell - "Blackberry Eating," Williams "the Dance," Thomas - "Do Not Go Gentle
into That Good Night," Frost - Acquainted
with the Night," Herrick - "Delight in
Disorder," Blake - "The Poison Tree,"
Kleiser - "The Most Vital Thing in Life,"
Eliot - "The Love song of J. Alfred
Prufrock," Hughes - "The Weary Blues,:"
Roethke - "My Papa's Waltz," Yeats "Sailing to Byzantium." MacLeish - "Ars
Poetica," Collins - "Introduction to Poetry,"
Whitman - "Had I the Choice," Ferlinghetti
- "Constantly Risking Absurdity," Pope "Sound and Sense," Francis - "Pitcher,"
Marvell - "To His Coy Mistress," Herrick "To Virgins, to Make Much of Time,"
Housman - "Loveliest of Trees," Frost "Nothing Gold Can Stay," Clifton, "good
times," Dickinson - "Light exists in
Spring," Kay - "Pathedy of Manners,"
Piercy - "Barbie Doll," Ritchie - "Sorting
Laundry," Angelou - "Woman Work,"
Cofer - "Quinceanera," Song - "The
Youngest Daughter,"
Will last into the 3rd quarter.
Can include other poems in Perrine's.
Skills
4. Understand how writers use elements such as style,
historical and social backdrops, diction, syntax,
figurative language, imagery, symbolism, attitude, and
tome to convey theme.
Independent Reading of Novel/ Play
VOCABULARY: Level H
1. Unit 7
WRITING: Text: Writing About
Literature - Roberts
Narrative Writing
Dialectical/Response Journals
In class essays using AP Prompts
1. Identify and analyze new terminology
2. Use vocabulary in conversation and writing.
3. Analyze the meaning of abstract concepts and the
effects of particular word and phrase choice.
Short paper skills
1. Formulate thesis.
2. Evaluate the usefulness of information.
3. Synthesize information to support a thesis.
5 of 11
Month
Content
Skills
Research paper skills
1. Developing a research plan using multiple forms of
data.
2. Evaluate the usefulness of information.
3. Synthesize information to support a thesis.
4. Present information in a logical manner.
5. Credit primary and secondary sources in a form
appropriate for publication.
6. Support and defend a thesis statement.
7. Present thesis and its support in a form appropriate
for publication (with good writing style, grammar,
punctuation and spelling).
January
LITERATURE: Text - Perrine's Literature
Structure, Sound and Sense
Essential Literary Terms - Hamilton
Poetry Analysis - Owen - "Dulce et
Decourm Est," Shakespeare - "Shall I
compare thee to a summer's day?", Randall
- "Ballad of Birmingham," Houseman "Terrence, this is stupid stuff," Larkin - "A
Study of Reading Habits," Plath - "Mirror,"
Rich - "Storm Warnings," Wordsworth "The world is too much with us," Bishop "One Art," Hayden - "Those Winter
Sundays," Keats - "To Autumn," Mason "Song of the Powers," Wilbur "Mind,"
Donne - "A Valediction Forbidding
Mourning," Heaney - "Digging," Donne "Hymn to God My God, In my Sickness,"
Auden - "the Unknown Citizen," Browning
- "My Last Duchess," Frost - "Out, Out--,"
Shakespeare - from "Macbeth," Yeats "Leda and the Swan," Dickinson - "I never
saw a Moor," ""Faith' is a fine invention, "
Shakespeare "My mistress' eyes," Drayton
- "Since there's no help," Brooks - "We
Real Cool," Hacker - "1973," Blake =
"'Introduction' to Songs of Innocence,"
McKay - "The Tropics in New York,"
Kinnell - "Blackberry Eating," Williams "the Dance," Thomas - "Do Not Go Gentle
into That Good Night," Frost - Acquainted
with the NIght," Herrick - "Delight in
Disorder," Blake - "The Poison Tree,"
Kleiser - "The Most Vital Thing in Life,"
Eliot - "The Love song of J. Alfred
Prufrock," Hughes - "The Weary Blues,:"
Roethke - "My Papa's Waltz," Yeats "Sailing to Byzantium." MacLeish - "Ars
Poetica," Collins - "Introduction to Poetry,"
Whitman - "Had I the Choice," Ferlinghetti
- "Constantly Risking Absurdity," Pope "Sound and Sense," Francis - "Pitcher,"
Marvell - "To His Coy Mistress," Herrick "To Virgins, to Make Much of Time,"
Housman - "Loveliest of Trees," Frost -
Students will:
1. Develop the capability to respond to literature at a
level that is consistent with an undergraduate and
composition course.
2. Sharpen close reading skills.
3. Encounter American, British, and World Literature
written in a variety of modes, genres, and contexts.
4. Understand how writers use elements such as style,
historical and social backdrops, diction, syntax,
figurative language, imagery, symbolism, attitude, and
tome to convey theme.
6 of 11
Month
Content
Skills
"Nothing Gold Can Stay," Clifton, "good
times," Dickinson - "Light exists in
Spring," Kay - "Pathedy of Manners,"
Piercy - "Barbie Doll," Ritchie - "Sorting
Laundry," Angelou - "Woman Work,"
Cofer - "Quinceanera," Song - "The
Youngest Daughter,"
Will last into the 3rd quarter.
Can include other poems in Perrine's.
Independent Reading of Novel/ Play
VOCABULARY: Level H
1. Unit 8
1. Identify and analyze new terminology
2. Use vocabulary in conversation and writing.
3. Analyze the meaning of abstract concepts and the
effects of particular word and phrase choice.
WRITING: Text: Writing About
Literature - Roberts
Narrative Writing
Dialectical/Response Journals
In class essays using AP Prompts
Short paper skills
1. Formulate thesis.
2. Evaluate the usefulness of information.
3. Synthesize information to support a thesis.
Research paper skills
1. Developing a research plan using multiple forms of
data.
2. Evaluate the usefulness of information.
3. Synthesize information to support a thesis.
4. Present information in a logical manner.
5. Credit primary and secondary sources in a form
appropriate for publication.
6. Support and defend a thesis statement.
7. Present thesis and its support in a form appropriate
for publication (with good writing style, grammar,
punctuation and spelling).
February
LITERATURE: Text - Perrine's Literature
Structure, Sound and Sense
Essential Literary Terms - Hamilton
Poetry Analysis - Owen - "Dulce et
Decourm Est," Shakespeare - "Shall I
compare thee to a summer's day?", Randall
- "Ballad of Birmingham," Houseman "Terrence, this is stupid stuff," Larkin - "A
Study of Reading Habits," Plath - "Mirror,"
Rich - "Storm Warnings," Wordsworth "The world is too much with us," Bishop "One Art," Hayden - "Those Winter
Sundays," Keats - "To Autumn," Mason "Song of the Powers," Wilbur "Mind,"
Donne - "A Valediction Forbidding
Mourning," Heaney - "Digging," Donne "Hymn to God My God, In my Sickness,"
Auden - "the Unknown Citizen," Browning
- "My Last Duchess," Frost - "Out, Out--,"
Students will:
1. Develop the capability to respond to literature at a
level that is consistent with an undergraduate and
composition course.
2. Sharpen close reading skills.
3. Encounter American, British, and World Literature
written in a variety of modes, genres, and contexts.
4. Understand how writers use elements such as style,
historical and social backdrops, diction, syntax,
figurative language, imagery, symbolism, attitude, and
tome to convey theme.
7 of 11
Month
Content
Skills
Shakespeare - from "Macbeth," Yeats "Leda and the Swan," Dickinson - "I never
saw a Moor," ""Faith' is a fine invention, "
Shakespeare "My mistress' eyes," Drayton
- "Since there's no help," Brooks - "We
Real Cool," Hacker - "1973," Blake =
"'Introduction' to Songs of Innocence,"
McKay - "The Tropics in New York,"
Kinnell - "Blackberry Eating," Williams "the Dance," Thomas - "Do Not Go Gentle
into That Good Night," Frost - Acquainted
with the Night," Herrick - "Delight in
Disorder," Blake - "The Poison Tree,"
Kleiser - "The Most Vital Thing in Life,"
Eliot - "The Love song of J. Alfred
Prufrock," Hughes - "The Weary Blues,:"
Roethke - "My Papa's Waltz," Yeats "Sailing to Byzantium." MacLeish - "Ars
Poetica," Collins - "Introduction to Poetry,"
Whitman - "Had I the Choice," Ferlinghetti
- "Constantly Risking Absurdity," Pope "Sound and Sense," Francis - "Pitcher,"
Marvell - "To His Coy Mistress," Herrick "To Virgins, to Make Much of Time,"
Housman - "Loveliest of Trees," Frost "Nothing Gold Can Stay," Clifton, "good
times," Dickinson - "Light exists in
Spring," Kay - "Pathedy of Manners,"
Piercy - "Barbie Doll," Ritchie - "Sorting
Laundry," Angelou - "Woman Work,"
Cofer - "Quinceanera," Song - "The
Youngest Daughter,"
Will last into the 3rd quarter.
Can include other poems in Perrine's.
Independent Reading of Novel/ Play
Novel: As I Lay Dying
VOCABULARY: Level H
1. Unit 9
2. Unit 10
1. Identify and analyze new terminology
2. Use vocabulary in conversation and writing.
3. Analyze the meaning of abstract concepts and the
effects of particular word and phrase choice.
Short paper skills
WRITING: Text: Writing About
Literature - Roberts
Narrative Writing
Dialectical/Response Journals
In class essays using AP Prompts
1. Formulate thesis.
2. Evaluate the usefulness of information.
3. Synthesize information to support a thesis.
Research paper skills
1. Developing a research plan using multiple forms of
data.
2. Evaluate the usefulness of information.
3. Synthesize information to support a thesis.
4. Present information in a logical manner.
5. Credit primary and secondary sources in a form
appropriate for publication.
8 of 11
Month
Content
Skills
6. Support and defend a thesis statement.
7. Present thesis and its support in a form appropriate
for publication (with good writing style, grammar,
punctuation and spelling).
March
LITERATURE: Text - Perrine's Literature
Structure, Sound and Sense
Essential Literary Terms - Hamilton
Students will:
1. Develop the capability to respond to literature at a
level that is consistent with an undergraduate and
composition course.
Drama Analysis:
2. Sharpen close reading skills.
Oedipus Rex - Sophocles
Rosenkrantz and Gildenstern Are Dead
Death of a Salesman - Miller
Waiting for Godot - Beckett
Independent Reading of Novel/ Play
3. Encounter American, British, and World Literature
written in a variety of modes, genres, and contexts.
4. Study the conventions of drama, i.e. setting,
dialogue, suspense, exposition, plot, subplot,
protagonist, rising action, crisis or climax falling
action, denouement, foil, dramatic irony, theme, and
other vocabulary pertinent to the study of dramatic
analysis.
5. Study the historical background of drama, theatrical
conventions of modern drama, nature of drama,
realistic and nonrealistic drama, tragedy and comedy,
and theatre of the absurd.
VOCABULARY: Level H
1. Unit 11
1. Identify and analyze new terminology
2. Use vocabulary in conversation and writing.
3. Analyze the meaning of abstract concepts and the
effects of particular word and phrase choice.
WRITING: Text: Writing About
Literature - Roberts
Narrative Writing
Dialectical/Response Journals
In class essays using AP Prompts
Short paper skills
Independent Reading Analysis Paper
Research paper skills
1. Formulate thesis.
2. Evaluate the usefulness of information.
3. Synthesize information to support a thesis.
1. Developing a research plan using multiple forms of
data.
2. Evaluate the usefulness of information.
3. Synthesize information to support a thesis.
4. Present information in a logical manner.
5. Credit primary and secondary sources in a form
appropriate for publication.
6. Support and defend a thesis statement.
7. Present thesis and its support in a form appropriate
for publication (with good writing style, grammar,
punctuation and spelling).
April
LITERATURE: Text - Perrine's Literature
Structure, Sound and Sense
Essential Literary Terms - Hamilton
Students will:
1. Develop the capability to respond to literature at a
level that is consistent with an undergraduate and
composition course.
AP Preparation for Exam - Review
9 of 11
Month
Content
Texts
Released AP English Literature and
Composition Exams
Professionally created AP practice exams
Cliff's AP English Literature and
Composition 2nd Ed. Carson, Allen.
Skills
2. Sharpen close reading skills.
3. Encounter American, British, and World Literature
written in a variety of modes, genres, and contexts.
4. Study the conventions of drama, i.e. setting,
dialogue, suspense, exposition, plot, subplot,
protagonist, rising action, crisis or climax falling
action, denouement, foil, dramatic irony, theme, and
other vocabulary pertinent to the study of dramatic
analysis.
5. Study the historical background of drama, theatrical
conventions of modern drama, nature of drama,
realistic and nonrealistic drama, tragedy and comedy,
and theatre of the absurd.
VOCABULARY: Level H
1. Unit 12 - 13
WRITING: Text: Writing About
Literature - Roberts
Narrative Writing
Dialectical/Response Journals
In class essays using AP Prompts
1. Identify and analyze new terminology
2. Use vocabulary in conversation and writing.
3. Analyze the meaning of abstract concepts and the
effects of particular word and phrase choice.
Short paper skills
1. Formulate thesis.
2. Evaluate the usefulness of information.
3. Synthesize information to support a thesis.
Research paper skills
1. Developing a research plan using multiple forms of
data.
2. Evaluate the usefulness of information.
3. Synthesize information to support a thesis.
4. Present information in a logical manner.
5. Credit primary and secondary sources in a form
appropriate for publication.
6. Support and defend a thesis statement.
7. Present thesis and its support in a form appropriate
for publication (with good writing style, grammar,
punctuation and spelling).
May
LITERATURE: Text - Perrine's Literature
Structure, Sound and Sense
Essential Literary Terms - Hamilton
AP Preparation for Exam - Review
Texts
Released AP English Literature and
Composition Exams
Professionally created AP practice exams
Cliff's AP English Literature and
Composition 2nd Ed. Carson, Allen.
After Exam: Senior Final Project
Suggested novels: Nervous Conditions Dangarembga, The Kite Runner - Hosseini,
Alias Grace, Handmaid's Tale,
Students will:
Form Literature Circles and choose a book for their
final project.
Meet as a group, discuss the book, and plan their
project.
Give a 50-minute presentation to include a brief
summary of the book, background on the author that
may have influenced the book, an explication of the
main character(s), the political or social background of
the book, and a critical analysis of the work as a
whole.
Research and turn in a bibliography.
10 of 11
Month
Content
Skills
Penelopiad, Surfacing - Atwood, Things
Fall Apart - Achebe, Native Speaker Chang-Rae Lee, Monkey Bridge - Lan Cao,
In the Lake of the Woods - O'Brien, Tracks
- Erdich, The Shipping News - Proulx,
Snow Falling on Cedars - Guterson, Cold
Mountain - Frazier, and The Devil in the
White City, Larson.
VOCABULARY: Level H
1. Unit 14-15
WRITING: Text: Writing About
Literature - Roberts
Narrative Writing
Dialectical/Response Journals
In class essays using AP Prompts
1. Identify and analyze new terminology
2. Use vocabulary in conversation and writing.
3. Analyze the meaning of abstract concepts and the
effects of particular word and phrase choice.
Short paper skills
1. Formulate thesis.
2. Evaluate the usefulness of information.
3. Synthesize information to support a thesis.
Research paper skills
1. Developing a research plan using multiple forms of
data.
2. Evaluate the usefulness of information.
3. Synthesize information to support a thesis.
4. Present information in a logical manner.
5. Credit primary and secondary sources in a form
appropriate for publication.
6. Support and defend a thesis statement.
7. Present thesis and its support in a form appropriate
for publication (with good writing style, grammar,
punctuation and spelling).
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