AP Literature and Composition 2013-14
Semester II
Monday
1-13
Due:
Discussion—The Kite Runner/ A Thousand Splendid Suns
Finish book by end of next week
History by John Greene (watch)
Review exam
The power of ???—exercise
Practice prompt
Homework: READ
Novel Summary sheet Fences
Wednesday
1-15
Due: summary sheet Fences
Courtly Love
“The Wife of Bath” (138)
Synthesis of information (googledocs)
Add historical/political/cultural information
From novels to googledoc shared file
Riddles (61)
Homework: finish novel (next Friday)
Riddle (in likeness of Anglo-Saxon) of one element
From novel relates to political OR historical OR
Cultural element of Afghanistan
Next week: continue with courtly love
Practice test (Wednesday)
Sir Gawain
Ballads
Novel (Hosseini)
Tuesday
1-21-14
Due: summary sheet for Fences
Anglo-Saxon riddles
Create one describing (include a kenning) a character
from one of the novels read this year
Continue with courtly love: Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight
Book discussion
Homework: finish novel/continue research
Thursday
1-23-14
Due: novel The Kite Runner OR A Thousand Splendid Suns
book chat
TEST ESSAY (open prompt)
AP questions
Synthesis of information (googledocs)
Suggested essay topics
APA documentation
Homework: (shared research)
Riddle
Two or three topic proposals
Friday
1-31
Due: novel
NOVEL TEST
Homework: Anglo-Saxon Riddle
Research for synthesis essay
Proposal
Tuesday
2-04
Due: Anglo-Saxon Riddle/Proposal
discuss proposals
Solve the riddles
Grading open prompts (handouts)
Grade essays—grade own (group work)
Sonnets—Renaissance Love Poetry
Hamlet—introduce
Homework: Annotated Bibliography—one source
For synthesis essay
Read Act I, scene i—Hamlet
Thursday
2-06
Due: Annotated Bibliography
review opening scene of Hamlet
Go over novel test
Continue with Act I of Hamlet
Homework: novel summary sheet for last novel
Review Act I of Hamlet—come to class prepared to
Discuss the first act
2nd annotated bibliography (of second source)
Due end of next week
Next Week—continue with Hamlet
Finish research for essay by February 19
AP Literature & Composition SYLLABUS
2-19
Wednesday
Due: Hamlet Act II
Review/finish Act II
Begin to watch Act III
Homework: three articles on your topic by next Thursday
Read Annotated Bibliography (power point on web page)
Annotated bibliography due with each of three articles
Review research notes (from Mrs. Bertsch’s presentation)
2-21
Friday
Hamlet—review first two acts
Finish Act III
Socratic Seminar over first three acts
TEST I
Homework: power point (web page)/research/annotate
bibliographies
Tuesday
2-25
Due:
continue with Hamlet
Sonnets/soliloquies/asides
Homework: annotated bibliographies
Thursday
2-27
Due: annotated bibliographies
Continue with Hamlet
AP Literature & Composition
Monday
3-17
Finish with Socratic Seminar
review
Wednesday
3-19
Hamlet –college lecture
Close Reading—soliloquy
Review
Practice test (online)
Homework: Hamlet TEST
Friday
3-21
Due:
TEST—Hamlet
Homework: read/annotate “The Love Song of J.Alfred
Prufrock”
APA Synthesis essay—introduction/first section
Due next Thursday (3-27)
Tuesday
3-25
Due: “The Love Long of J. Alfred Prufrock”
Analysis of poem
AP ??? on Hamlet
Homework: first section of essay
Thursday
3-27
Due: Essay (part I)
Introduction to Heart of Darkness
Lecture/notes
Schedule for Heart of Darkness
Wednesday (April 9) Chapter I
Thursday (April 17) Chapter II
Thursday (April 24) Chapter III
AP Literature & Composition
Monday
4-7
Due:
background—Heart of Darkness
Imperialism—John Green
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alJaltUmrGo
practice prompt—Henry VIII
Homework: chapter one—Heart of Darkness
Wed.
4-9
Due: Heart of Darkness
review chapter one
Finish background review
Homework: cheat sheet—tips for AP exam
Friday
4-11
Due: tips for exam
Practice Exam ???
Using tips
Revised reading schedule
AP PRACTICE TEST April 22
Tuesday
4-15
Review Heart of Darkness
finish with Dante’s The Inferno
Symbolic retribution
Begin review—allusion/symbolism (web page)
Homework: Heart of Darkness Chapter Two
Thursday
4-17
Due: Chapter Two Heart of Darkness
REVIEW
Continue with symbolism/allusion review
“My Last Duchess”—practice annotation/analysis
Narrative poetry
Homework: read handouts on allusion/symbolism/
Irony & Tone (web page)
Part Three Heart of Darkness—due next Thursday
Tuesday—Practice Exam