AP English Literature Projected* Calendar
*Adjusted due to needs of class & changes in calendar year
First Quarter (Approx. 22 Days):
Day 1: Review Rules & Course Outline
Distribution of Wuthering Heights & Reading Schedule
“A Defense of Poetry” / Metaphysics/Metaphorical Language
Complete Information Card
Introductions – ‘What makes me different & Recommendations?’ Differentiate b/w yourself
and others
Receive Wuthering Heights Family Tree
HMWK: Read to Ch. 15 in Wuthering Heights for Day 5
Day2: Distribution of Literary Terms
Multiple Choice Tips/Review/ How College Board grades this section
Take Practice Multiple Choice – “There Was A Boy” vs. “The Most of It”; Wordsworth vs. Frost
Act Out Poems & Score
Record Goals & Discoveries on Practice
Address Wuthering Heights reading difficulties
HMWK: Read to Ch. 15 in Wuthering Heights for Day 5
Day 3: Differentiate b/w Timed Write, 5 Paragraph-Theme, Research Paper, & Journals
Receive Released Timed Write Packets for Notebook
Contrast Point-by-Point vs. Block Method of Compare Contrast Papers
Write Thesis statement for Frost & Wordsworth Question; then review
Differentiate b/w tone & mood; review tips sheet
Identify focus goals for semester for Timed Writes
Review Timed Write Sample Responses
Address Wuthering Heights reading difficulties
HMWK: Read to Ch. 15 in Wuthering Heights for Day 5
Day 4: Review Tips & Discoveries from Timed Write thesis Practice
Take Poetry timed Write using skills from last class (50 minutes)
Begin to Act-Out Poem to promote understanding
Address Wuthering Heights reading difficulties
HMWK: Finish reading through Ch. 15 in Wuthering Heights for next class
Day 5: Take ½ Way Quiz on Wuthering Heights Reading
Score Timed Writes following Training with Anchor Papers
 Read samples & Vote on Scores
 Score Each others with Comments on Back
HMWK: Begin reading second ½ of Wuthering Heights for Day 10
Day 6: Probable Guidance Visitation for College Applications
My Tips for College Essays Distributed & Reviewed
Samples of Successful College Essays Distributed and Reviewed
Address Wuthering Heights reading difficulties
HMWK: Finish Reading second ½ of Wuthering Heights for Day 10
Day 7: Review Literary Device Packet with special emphasis on tone, theme, and syntax
Take Poetry timed Write # 2 (50 minutes)
Act-Out Poem (a more modern/contemporary one)
Address Wuthering Heights reading difficulties
HMWK: Finish Reading second ½ of Wuthering Heights for Day 10
Day 8: Score Timed Writes following Training with Anchor Papers
 Read Samples & Vote on Scores
 Score Each others with Comments on Back
Using Class input & Your Own Training, Select Best Timed Write for Grading, while other timedwrite receives completion points
Address Wuthering Heights reading difficulties
HMWK: Finish Reading second ½ of Wuthering Heights for Day 10
Day 9: Review Video of Sandra Cisneros’ Reading/Discussing “Eleven”
Write Thesis for released Prose Timed Write
Address Wuthering Heights reading difficulties
HMWK: Finish Reading Wuthering Heights – reading check next class
Day 10: Take final reading Check Quiz on Wuthering Heights
Receive Albert Camus’ The Stranger
Begin Seminar Discussion based on Teacher Provided Question (Many are released AP Questions
from College Board)
HMWK: Read The Stranger for Day 18
Day 11: Complete Seminar Discussion for Wuthering Heights
Locate, Share, & Justify Profound Revelation passage (esp. figurative language)
Setting Chart Contrast
Address The Stranger reading difficulties
HMWK: Read The Stanger for Day 18
Day 12: In Groups, Analyze final sentence from Wuthering Heights
 Diction, Imagery, & Syntax as they reveal Tone
 Write Thesis as Sample Prose
Address The Stanger reading difficulties
HMWK: Read The Stranger for Day 18
Day 13: Present Group Work to Class on Prose Analysis
Introduction to Existential/Ice Cream Journal
 “My Advice to You is not to ask Why or Wither, just enjoy your ice cream while it’s
on your plate” – Thorton Wilder vs.
 “The Unexamined Life is not worth living.” – the Cogito
Address The Stranger reading difficulties
HMWK: Read The Stranger & write journal for Day 18
Day 14: Introduction to Poetry Device Game
 50 Definitions Distributed as we work to Identify terms
 Practice Timed ‘I am; Who is’ Game (2 rounds)
Definition vs. Deep Knowledge (sophisticated tone identification)
Address The Stranger reading difficulties
HMWK: Read The Stranger & write journal for Day 18
Day15: Poetry Device Game Drill
Analyze Poetry “To His Coy Mistress”
Analyze Prose - James Joyce “Araby”
Analyze Essay – “The End of the Innocent” on Araby
Address The Stranger reading difficulties
HMWK: Read The Stranger & write journal for Day 18
Day 16: Poetry Device Game Drill
Analyze Prose – Flannery O’Connor – class choice by title
Analyze Poetry “My Last Duchess”
Address The Stranger reading difficulties
HMWK: Read The Stranger & write journal for Day 18
Day 17: Poetry Device Game Drill
Poetry/Prose Test
Address The Stranger reading difficulties
HMWK: Finish reading The Stanger & writing journal for tom.
Day 18: Take Reading Check test for The Stranger
Turn in Ice Cream/Existentialism Journal – share theories for why this assignment was given
Receive Seminar Questions and Begin Response
Receive Their Eyes Were Watching God for first 2nd quarter book
HMWK: Read Their Eyes… for Day 5 of 2nd Quarter
Day 19: Poetry Device Game Drill
Seminar Discussion on The Stranger (inc. questions from past AP exams)
Address Their Eyes… reading difficulties
HMWK: Read Their Eyes… for Day 5 of 2nd Quarter
Day 20: Poetry Device Game
Analyze The Stranger in Groups for syntax, diction, imagery, & tone
Write thesis Statement for Prose format AP questions
Address Their Eyes… reading difficulties
Approximate Date for Senior ID Card Pictures
HMWK: Read Their Eyes… for Day 5 of 2nd Quarter
Day 21: Poetry Review Game
Present The Stranger sentence analysis
Address Their Eyes… reading difficulties
HMWK: Read Their Eyes… for Day 5 of 2nd Quarter
Day 22: Bumper Day for Acts of God/Make-Up Work Etc.
Address Their Eyes… reading difficulties
View Lannam Series Tape
HMWK: Read Their Eyes for Day 5 of 2nd Quarter
Probable Grades for 1st Quarter (Assignments may change based on needs of class, but this will give you
an idea; these were the grades from first quarter last year; Mr. Swanson does an item analysis for all
objective assessments to discard unfair questions so there will probably be some extra credit items on
quizzes)
1) Goals Sheet – Mult. Choice & Thesis
10 points
2) Poetry Timed Write #1
20 points
3) Wuthering Heights Chs. 1-15
48 points~
4) Poetry Timed Write #2
100 points
5) Wuthering Heights 2nd ½
56 points~
6) Wuthering Heights Setting Chart
10 points
7) WH Sentence Analysis
20 points
8) Short Story/Poetry Test
80 points
9) The Stranger Test
90 points~
10) Existentialism Journal
20 points
11) Stranger Thesis/Group Work
20 points
~ Some Extra Credit Questions, After Item Analysis
Second Quarter (Approx. 22 Days):
Day 1: Poetry Device Game Drill
Review Figurative Language / Importance of Implications
Analyze Figurative Language from Their Eyes… in Groups
Address Their Eyes… reading difficulties
HMWK: Read Their Eyes… for Day 5
Day 2: Poetry Device Game Drill
Finish Group Analysis of Figurative Language
Present Group Work to Class Figurative Language
Address Their Eyes… reading difficulties
HMWK: Read Their Eyes… for Day 5
Day 3: Final Poetry Device Game Drill
HMWK: Review Poetry Terms for Test on Day 4
Address Their Eyes… reading difficulties
Read Their Eyes… for Day 5
Day 4: Take Literary Terms Matching Test
Address Questions from Reading (Their Eyes…)
HMWK: Finish Their Eyes… for Reading Check next class
Day 5: Take Their Eyes…Reading Check
Collect Seminar Question Notes from Their Eyes
Receive Sula & read by Day 10
Receive & Begin Seminar Discussion Questions for Their Eyes…
HMWK: Read Sula for Day 12
Day 6: Seminar Discussion for Their Eyes …
Address Time-Write Open Questions (Packet) with Books studied thus far
Hand in Seminar Question Notes for Their Eyes…
HMWK: Read Sula for Day 12
Day 7: Address Sula reading difficulties
Review Tips for Mult. Choice Questions & Goal Sheet
Analyze Mult Choice – Shakespeare’s Richard III
Analyze Mult Choice – Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway
HMWK: Read Sula for Day 12
Day 8: Take Practice Multiple Choice #1
Review 1 College Board released, Poetry/Prose Passage Together
Address Sula reading difficulties
HMWK: Read Sula for Day 12
Day 9: Review Practice Multiple Choice in Groups
Act Out Poem/ Teachers reviews most difficult section
Present Item Analysis Poster Sheets
Address Sula reading difficulties
HMWK: Read Sula for Day 12
Day 10: Take Practice Multiple Choice #2
Review 1 College Board released, Poetry/Prose Passage Together
Address Sula reading difficulties
HMWK: Read Sula for Day 12
Day 11: Review Practice Multiple Choice in Groups
Act Out Poem/ Teacher reviews most difficult section
Present Item Analysis Poster Sheets
Address Sula reading difficulties
HMWK: finish reading Sula for tom
Day 12: Take Reading check on Sula
Receive & Begin Discussion of Seminar Questions for Sula
Address AP Released Questions
Receive Pride & Prejudice and The Loved One to begin for 2nd Semester
HMWK: P & P Chas 1-33 for Day 6 -- 3rd Quarter; Chs 34- end for Day 12 – 3rd Quarter
Read The Loved One for Day 19 – 3rd Quarter
Day 13: Prose Analysis from Sula
Seminar discussion on Sula
AP Format Group Work
Pending Time Analysis ‘It’s a Woman’s World’ Poem by Eavan Borland
HMWK : Reading P &P
Day 14: Presentations of Sula Group Work
Pending Time Analysis of Poetry/Prose by Rich, Wilber, Walker, & Clifton
Review Released Timed-Write Questions by these Writers
HMWK: Reading P & P
Day 15: Introduction to Poetry Analysis Assignment
Drawing for First Choice of 38 poem possibilities
HMWK: Poetry Presentations
Day 16: Approximate Time for Holiday Poetry Explication (Christmas, Chanukah, & Kwanza)
Choral Reading of Ogden Nash Poem
Explicate Poems by Nabakov & Moraes w/ Same theme
Holiday Vocabulary through Song (Politically Correct Christmas Song Vocabulary)
HMWK: Finish Poetry Presentations to Present to Class
Day 17: Poetry Presentations
Analysis Samples – Robert Frost, Emily Dickenson, Lucille Clifton, & Marge Percy
Reading with Proper Cadence (Important pauses)
Day 18: Poetry Presentations
Analysis Samples – William Butler Yeats, Edgar Allen Poe, Dylan Thomas & P.B. Shelley
Rhyme Scheme Reflection Tone
Day 19: Poetry Presentations
Analysis Samples – William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, Sylvia Plath, Matthew Arnold,
Langston Hughes
Most Important Poetic Devices (Figurative Language/Imagery vs. Sound Devices)
Day 20: Poetry Presentations
Analysis Samples – Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Wordsworth, John Keates
Tone vs. Mood
HMWK: Begin Exam Review
Day 21: Poetry Presentations
Analysis Samples – W.H. Auden, Donald Hall, Seamus Heaney, Claude McKay, Wilfred Owen,
John Milton
The Theme’s the Point
HMWK: Exam Review
Day 22: Exam Review – Giant Data Sheets
Multiple Choice and Time Write Tip Review
Describe Syntax, Imagery, Diction, & Tone of Randomly Selected Sentences
Literary Term Review Game Drill
HMWK: Exams
Probable Grades for 2nd Quarter (Assignments may change based on needs of class, but this will give you
an idea; these were the grades for first quarter last year; Mr. Swanson does an item analysis for all
objective assessments to discard unfair questions – so there will probably be some extra credit items on
quizzes)
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Their Eyes… Fig Lang Group Work
Literary Devices Test
Their Eyes… Reading Check
Their Eyes… Seminar Notes
AP Mult. Choice #1
Sula Test
AP Mult. Choice #2
Group Review Projects
Sula Thesis/Group Work
Poetry Analysis Presentation
Seminar Discussion
Data Sheet Exam Review
10 points
100 points
100 points
10 points
20 points
100 points
100 points
10 points
20 points
50 points
10 points
20 points
Third Quarter (Approx. 22 Days):
Day 1: Review Exam
Time Write – Best Approaches/Samples Shared
Multiple Choice – Review & Act Out most difficult section
HMWK: Read 1st half of Pride & Prejudice (Chapters 1-33) for Day 6
Day 2: Receive Hamlet
Notes on Shakespeare and Hamlet Packet
Parts Assigned
Explicate Hamlet Act I, sc. I, ii, iii
Act I Worksheet (Character Traits)
HMWK: Read 1st half of P & P for Day 6
Day 3: Explicate Hamlet Act I, sc. iv, v, Act II sc. I, ii
Review Inversion & Ellipsis from packet
Act II Worksheet (Inferences)
HMWK: Read 1st half of P & P for Day 6
Day 4: Explicate Hamlet Act III, sc. I, ii, iii, iv
Review Epigram & Puns from packet
Act III Workseet (Cause/Effect)
HMWK: Read 1st ½ of P & P for Day 6
Day 5: Explicate Hamlet Act IV
Review Paradox, Stichomythia, & the language of Flowers
Act IV Worksheet (Predictions)
HMWK: Read 1st ½ of P & P for tom
Day 6: Reading Check Quiz on Pride & Prejudice (Chapters 1-33)
Review Malapropisms
Explicate Hamlet Act V
HMWK: Finish Reading Pride & Prejudice for Day12
Day 7: Finish Explication of Hamlet
Seminar discussion Questions from Packet
Begin to video clips
Theme Group Work
HMWK: Finish P & P for Day 12
Day 8: Review for Hamlet Test
Share Profound Revelations
End w/ video clips
HMWK: Finish P & P for Day 12
Day 9: Take Hamlet Unit Test
Receive Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett
HMWK: Finish P & P for Day 12
Day 10: Act Out Part I from Waiting for Godot
Notes of Godot & Beckett
HMWK: Finish P & P for Day 12
Day 11: Act Out Part II from Waiting for Godot
Notes on Godot (Character & Symbol)
Beginning Seminar/Profound Revelations
HMWK: Finish Pride & Prejudice for tom
Day 12: Reading Check Quiz on final ½ of Pride & Prejudice
Notes on Godot (Allusion & Theme)
Receive The Loved One – Evelyn Waugh – to read by Day 19
Review for Waiting for Godot Test
HMWK: Read The Loved One for Day 19
Day 13: Take Waiting for Godot Unit Test
Seminar Questions Discussion/Groups for Pride & Prejudice
Report out Data Sheet (Plot, Character, Theme, Point of View, etc.)
HMWK: Read TLO for Day 19
Day 14: Finish Group Presentations on P & P
Differentiate b/w Types of Irony (Dramatic, Verbal, Situational) in P & P
HMWK: Read TLO for Day 19
Day 15: Notes of Comedy & Satire (Levels of Humor)
Letter Analysis Group Work in P & P
Review Diction, Syntax, Figurative Language, Tone, etc.
HMWK: Read TLO for Day 19
Day 16: Give Class Presentations/Thesis Statement for Pride & Prejudice
Review Best Approach on AP Exam for Comedy Questions
Review Best Approach for Timed Writes
Grade Conferences
HMWK: Read TLO for Day 19
Day 17: Take Open Question Timed Write #4
Note: Hamlet & Godot will work; this will be on the 4th Quarter
HMWK: Read TLO for Day 19
Day 18: Training on Anchor Papers for Timed Write
Score Each Others Timed Writes
Art Attack
Guest Speaker on AP Test
HMWK: Finish Reading The Loved One for next class
Day 19: Take Reading check Test on The Loved One
Begin Seminar Questions in Groups
Introduction to Final Dialectical Journal Assignment
HMWK: Dialectical Journals Due before AP Test
Day 20: Present Seminar Questions for The Loved One
Define Character, Plot, Setting, & Theme in TLO
HMWK: Dialectical Journals Due before AP Test
Day 21: Take Timed Write #5
Note: This will be on a prose passage; this will be on the 4th Quarter
HMWK: Dialectical Journals Due before AP Test
Day 22: Training on Anchors for Timed Write
Score Each Others Timed Write
HMWK: Dialectical Journals due before AP Test
Projected Grades for 3rd Quarter
1) Hamlet Worksheet (Char. Traits)
2) Hamlet Worksheet (Predictions)
3) Hamlet Theme
4) Acting Out Hamlet/Godot
5) Pride & Prejudice Quiz #1
6) Hamlet Unit Test
7) Pride & Prejudice Quiz #2
8) Waiting for Godot Unit Test
9) P & P Group Seminar Ques.
10) P & P Letter Analysis
11) P & P Irony Worksheets
12) The Loved One Reading Check
13) The Loved One Seminar Questions
10 points
10 points
10 points
10 points
56 points
112 points
46 points
90 points
20 points
20 points
15 points
90 points
10 points
Fourth Quarter (Could Be as Few as 8):
Day 1: Poetry/Prose Tips Reviewed
Take College Board Released Multiple Choice #4
HMWK: Dialectical Journals by day 8
Day 2: Review Multiple Choice Practice #4
Group Charts Completed
HMWK: Dialectical Journals by Day 8
Day 3: Review Most Difficult Section of Released Mult. Choice as Whole Class
Play Literary Device Review Game
HMWK: Dialectical Journals by Day 8
Day 4: Take Multiple Choice Practice #5
Poetry/Prose Tips
Highest Score Recorded
HMWK: Dialectical Journals before by Day 8
Day 5: Review Most Difficult Sections as Whole Class
Guidance & Senior Surveys
Giant item Analysis Group Sheet
Play Literary Device Review Game
HMWK: Dialectical Journals by Day 8
Day 6: Present Group Sheets to Class
Prom Promise Assembly
Play Literary Device Review Game
HMWK: Dialectical Journals by Day 8
Day 7 Giant Data Sheets
Final Literary Device Test
Review themes, Plots, characters, & Devices for all Novels/Plays
Review Tips
Review Released Tests packets
HMWK: Final Dialectical Journals must be handed in next class whether you are here or not
Day 8: Turn in all remaining Dialectical Journals & Return for AP Test
Final Review of most important things – prove a tone; prove a theme
HMWK: Good Night’s Sleep & Breakfast – no need to cram, just look over old Timed-Writes, Flip
through some novels/plays we read, & have confidence
MAY:
Weeks 1 & 2: AP Testing -- don’t have to attend classes on day of AP tests; I will show Pride & Prejudice
for those who attend
Week 3: H.S.A. Testing – 3 hour delayed opening with only 2 classes a day (approx 1 per week)
Week 4: Senior Exams (only for those who don’t take AP Exams) & Graduation Practices
Projected Grades 4th Quarter:
1) Dialectical Journals #1
2) Dialectical Journals #2
3) Dialectical Journals #3
4) Dialectical Journals #4
5) Dialectical Journals #5
6) Dialectical Journals #6
7) Timed Write #4 (Open)
8) Timed Write #5 (Prose)
9) Timed Write #6 (Poetry)
10) Mult. Choice #4
11) Mult. Choice #5
12) Final Literary Device Test
20 points
20 points
20 points
20 points
20 points
20 points
20 points (must be honest effort)
100 points (higher score counts)
20 points
20 points (must be honest effort)
100 points (higher score counts)
100 points (time permitting)