Final Unit in AP English Literature and Composition with Ms. Gilchrist
Drama- Elements of Drama Readings Schedule
Reading Assignment- Due: March 11
 Elements of Drama
The Nature of Drama
Reakistic and Nonrealistic Drama (Do Cornell Notes in class)
Reading Assignment- Due: March 12
 Edward Albee’s The Sandbox (readers’ theater)
Focus- Non-realistic drama
Reading Assignment- Due: March 16 and 17
 Susan Glaspell’s Trifles
Focus- Realistic drama, mystery, symbolism
Reading Assignment- Due: March 18
Luis Valdez’ Los Vendidos
Focus- nonealistic drama, political agendas, symbolism
Reading Assignment- Due: March 19 and 20 (if school in session)
Jose Rivera’s Tape
Reading Assignment-Due: March 23 (if school in session, March 24 if not)
David Ives’ Time Flies
Focus- nonealistic drama, political agendas, symbolism
Reading Assignment- Due: March 25
 “Tragedy and Comedy” (Do Cornell Notes in class)
 Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex Due: March 26
Focus- Shakespearean Drama, Elizabethan Culture, Themes, Good vs. Evil, Stock
Characters, Understanding the role of poetry in Shakespearean Drama
Reading Assignment- Due: March 30 to April 10
 William Shakespeare’s Othello: The Moor of Venice
Reading Assignment- April 20 to 22
 Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest
Focus- Comedy of Manners, Genres, and Zeitgeist
Second Outside Reading (Drama) Major Work Data Sheet, Video of a One-Act,
or fourth long essay due: April 28
****Senior Trip April 7 to 10?****
****Spring Break April 13 to 17****
VI. You made it to the review. April 29, 30, and May 1 and May 4 are review days.
All reviews are student led. Groups will come prepared to lead a review game.
Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!
Focus- Bringing it all together, reviewing literature techniques and terms in all
genres,.
****** AP Exam date for 2015 is Wednesday, May 6******
Outside Reading Novel Choices
See me if you would like to choose another title.
Austen, Jane Pride and Prejudice
Bronte, Emily Wuthering Heights
Dickens, Charles Great Expectations
Eliot, George Silas Marner
Eliot, George The Mill on the Floss
Erdrich, Louise Love Medicine
Faulkner, William As I Lay Dying
Faulkner, William Light in August
Frazier, Charles Cold Mountain
Hardy, Thomas Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Hemingway, Ernest For Whom the Bell Tolls
Hemingway, Ernest The Sun Also Rises
Heller, Joseph Catch 22
James, Henry The Turn of the Screw
Hurston, Zora Neale Their Eyes Were Watching God
Kafka, Franz The Trial
Marquez Gabriel Garcia One Hundred Years of Solitude
Marquez Gabriel Garcia Chronicle- of –a-Death Foretold
Morrison, Toni Sula
O’Brien, Tim In the Lake of the Woods
O’Brien, Tim If I die in a Combat Zone
Parton, Alan Cry, The Beloved Country
Shelley, Mary Frankenstein
Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye
Steinbeck, John The Grapes of Wrath
Steinbeck, John East of Eden