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Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition I search: Nonfiction and the Personal Essay English IV Survey of World Literature Syllabus for First Trimester: Advanced Placement Literature
Drama from Sophocles, Shakespeare, Miller ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE Puzzling poetry, scintillating short stories, thought-provoking drama, and so much more: Sophocles: the beginnings of tragedy according to Aristotle and Plato Shakespeare: the renegades of the Renaissance Miller: modern man and tragedy
Syllabus for Second Trimester: Advanced Placement Literature RELATIONSHIPS: The world of fiction Weeks one and two: Jane Austen and Kate Chopin Weeks three and four: Joseph Conrad and James Joyce Weeks five and six: Flannery O'Connor and the short story formula Weeks seven and eight: F. Scott Fitzgerald :THE GREAT GATSBY Weeks nine and ten: Research Projects and Peer Evaluations Weeks eleven and twelve: Albert Camus and Ernest Hemingway Final exam: Meeting of the Minds (TBA) PREVIEW OF THIRD TRIMESTER: O'Brien, Faulkner, Paton, Hurston, Morrison, (Continue student presentations). We will do Faulkner first; after Spring Break we will start with Paton, then Hurston, then Morrison then O’Brien. For extra practice you may want to procure a reading comprehension packet to help review before the exam in May. Prepare a poem for class: concentrate on speaker, situation, theme, tone, rhyme scheme, meter, allusions, imagery, and overall effect. |
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