Syllabus: AP English Literature and Composition

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1 Syllabus: AP English Literature and Composition 1 Instructor: Sergio O. Perez Classroom: 3219 Socorro High School Phone: (915) sperez30@sisd.net Course Description: The purpose of an AP Literature and Composition course is to guide students towards an intricate/close reading and critical analysis of creative and artistic literature. Students aim in this course is to consider the structural composition of a literary artifact, including the definition of an author s claim, the use of syntax, diction, and figurative language. The course described below is in line with the requirements of the AP English Course description. Course Objectives: (Reading) The aim of an Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition course as described by The College Boards leads students to an enrichment in reading by experiencing works across several genres (poetry, drama, prose) and periods, from Classical times to the Postmodern Era. A careful study of these readings will encompass a historical, cultural, and political context. An approach to these close readings includes: - the experience of literature, including the subjective dimension of reading and responding to literary works - the interpretation of literature, including the analysis of literary works through close reading to arrive at an understanding of their multiple meanings. - the evaluation of literature, including an assessment of the quality and artistic achievement of literary works and a consideration of their social and cultural values. (Writing) In terms of writing, students are encouraged to emphasize critical writing in response to their readings; however, students should also explore avenues of creative writing, aiding their understanding of intrinsic writing. In completing the course, students should be able to develop stylistic maturity across: - a wide-ranging vocabulary used with denotative accuracy and connotative resourcefulness; - a variety of sentence structures, including appropriate use of subordinate and coordinate constructions; - a logical organization, enhanced by specific techniques of coherence such as repetition, transitions, and emphasis; - a balance of generalization with specific illustrative detail; and

2 - an effective use of rhetoric, including controlling tone, maintaining a consistent voice, and achieving emphasis through parallelism and antithesis. 2 (AP English Literature and Composition Course Description) Technology: Students will not only interact in class but outside of class across the use of the following resources: - Edmodo ( - Canvas.instructure ( Teacher will provide students with a code so they may enter an online class across these links. Resources: Borges. Labyrinths. Calvino. Cosmicomics. Conrad. Heart of Darkness Orwell. 1984; Animal Farm Additional: Teacher will provide the majority of reading texts via a physical copy or across an online medium. Instructor s Policies: Except under extreme circumstances and adequate prior notice, personally, or by as a last resort, late work will not be accepted (within the policies of our school district) Classroom Etiquette: Attendance: Students are expected to be proactive and participate on online assignments consistently. In the event an absence, and within a humanistic sense of reason, should a long stretch of inactivity be inevitable (injury, hospitalization, etc.), please be sure to contact the instructor as soon as possible, either personally or by . Failure to communicate, within reasonable considerations, may result in either being dropped from the course, or receiving a failing grade. Participation : Students are expected to participate proactively, both in class in across online venues. Keep in mind that rhetoric requires a sense of presence and participation. A lack of participation may certainly affect your average. In the event of an online problem (particularly with regards to assignment submissions), please be sure to contact the instructor as soon as possible. Cheating/Plagiarism : Cheating constitutes intellectual theft, particularly in terms of submitting another individual s work and claiming it as your own. Such an action may result in failure of that assignment with no options to make it up and/or possibly being dropped from an AP Course. Cheating is a serious act, please do not

3 take it lightly; students are responsible for submitting their own work in order to avoid any of the above mentioned consequences. 3 Be conscious that your assignments may be scanned through an online revision system aimed at verifying the credibility of your work. Common Courtesy/Respect others: Basically, students are expected to treat this class (physically and virtually) and their fellow classmates with respect. Be conscious of the manner in which you utilize language and participate with others, regardless if it is the instructor or a fellow student. Be polite, courteous, and respectful of others. Any sign of impoliteness or discourtesy constitutes immediate consequential action. Make up policy and late policy: Papers will be due on the due date, but can always be turned in early, if desired. No late work will be accepted no exceptions other than a personal, dire medical emergency which includes the proper verification. Please make sure you give yourself enough time for any possible printing problems or technical problems. If you have an emergency and cannot get to class on that day, be sure to /contact me in as timely a manner as possible. Assignments: Reflective Responses: On a daily basis, particularly at the beginning of class, students are responsible for responding to an instructor given quotation, phrase or general statement that implies an argumentative intention. Discussion Boards: Centered on the students use of discussions across an online medium, students will engage in discussions taking place in online/out of class discussions. Analytical Essays: Emphasizing an interpretive process, students are responsible for composing a number of analytical essays throughout the semester. These essays require the identification of the author s claim/thesis and supporting it with rhetorical proof from the author s writing. Presentations: Students will be responsible for individual and collaborative presentations addressing a rhetorical theme as well as providing an overview on their research papers. Presentations may occur, both in class and across online spaces. Research Paper: Students will compose a research based draft based on a key thematic concept found in literature and may be of philosophical, scientific, cultural or political conceptions amongst others. Peer Reviews: Students will edit and revise their classmates writing artifacts on a consistent basis throughout the semester. Formatting: In line with the humanities, the following course will require students to format all of their papers in MLA style/form. Instructor will provide these formatting and length based requirements prior to each

4 composition (approximately 500 to 700 words). 4 Grades: Grades are based on a standard scale determined as follows: A: B: C: D: F: Below 59 Tentative Calendar/Assignments (* Calendar is subject to change) Semester One: I. Anglo-Saxon Roots through the Middle Ages Week One: - Introductions - Overview of Literary Strategies Week Two: - Literary Distinction: Structure and Meaning - Literary Theory: Myth by Roland Barthes Week Three: - Literary Strategies: Syntax, Diction, Figurative Language - Literary Theory: Deconstruction - Assign: Bede and Caedmon s Hymn - Assign: The Dream of Rood Week Four: August 21 August 26 - Review of Bede [ca ] and Caedmon s Hymn - Review of The Dream of Rood - Assign: Beowulf Week Five: August 28 September 2 - Review of Beowulf - Assign: Wanderer - Assign: The Wife s Lament - Assign: Poetry (Chosen by Instructor)

5 5 Week Six: September 4 September 9 - Review of the Wanderer - Review of The Wife s Lament - Review of Additional Poetry - Assign: Geoffrey Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales - Assign: The Wife of Bath s Prologue and Tale Middle English Literature in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries Week Seven: September 11 September 16 - Review of Geoffrey Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales [ca ] - Review of The Wife of Bath s Prologue and Tale - Assign: Sir Thomas Malory s Morte D Arthur - Assign: Everyman [after 1485] - Literary Analysis on Chaucer and Selected Readings (Canterbury Tales) Week Eight: September 18 September 23 - Review of Geoffrey Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales [ca ] (Continued) - Review of The Wife of Bath s Prologue and Tale - Assign: Sir Thomas Malory s Morte D Arthur - Assign: Everyman [after 1485] - Literary Analysis on Chaucer and Selected Readings (Canterbury Tales) Week Nine: September 25 September 30 Sir Thomas Malory [ca ] - Review From Morte D Arthur [The Conspiracy against Lancelot and Guinevere] [War Breaks Out between Arthur and Lancelot] [The Death of Arthur] [The Deaths of Lancelot and Guinevere - Review of Everyman [after 1485] - Assign The English Bible - Assign From Tyndale s Translation - Assign From The Geneva Bible - Assign The Obedience of Man (Tyndale) - Assign The Forgiveness of Sins (Tyndale) The Sixteenth - Early Seventeenth Century Week Ten: October 17 October 21 Introduction Review the following:

6 - The English Bible: Selections - From Tyndale s Translation - From The Geneva Bible 6 - William Tyndale: The Obedience of a Christian Man - The Forgiveness of Sins - Scriptural Interpretation - Assign: Selections from The Faerie Queene (Spencer) Week Eleven: October 24 October 28 Edmund Spencer (1552? 1599) Review the following: - The Faerie Queene o From The Faerie Queene (Specific Cantos will be assigned) - Assign: The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (Marlowe) Week Twelve: October 31 November 4 Christopher Marlowe ( ) Review the following: - Doctor Faustus - The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus - Assign: King Lear (Shakespeare) - Literary Analysis Week Thirteen: November 7 November 11 Review the following: Shakespeare - King Lear Week Fourteen: November 14 November 18 Review the following: Shakespeare - King Lear (Continued) - Assign: The Early Seventeenth Century and The Metaphysical Poets Week Fifteen: November 21 November 25 - Holiday Break Week Sixteen: November 28 December 2 The Early Seventeenth Century

7 - Introduction 7 Review the following: The Metaphysical Poets John Donne - The Flea - Love s Alchemy - The Bait - The Apparition - Satire 3/Satire 3 George Herbert - The Altar - Redemption - Affliction - The Pilgrimage Andrew Marvell - To His Coy Mistress - The Definition of Love - Assign: Reading Selections by John Milton Week Seventeen: December 5 December 9 John Milton Review the following: - To the Lord General Cromwell, May From Areopagitica - Paradise Lost (Excerpts) Week Eighteen: December 12 December 16 John Milton (Continued) Review the following: - To the Lord General Cromwell, May From Areopagitica - Paradise Lost (Excerpts) - Final Exam Semester Two: The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century Week One: January 2 January 6

8 - Introduction - From An Essay of Dramatic Poesy ( - From The Author s Apology for Heroic Poetry and Heroic License - From A Discourse Concerning the Original and Progress of Satire - From The Preface to Fables Ancient and Modern - John Locke ( ) - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Week Two: January 9 January 13 Jonathan Swift - A Modest Proposal - Alexander Pope - An Essay on Criticism - An Essay on Man Week Three: January 16 January 20 John Locke - Two Treatises of Government - Chapter IV. Of Slavery - Chapter IX. Of the Ends of Political Society and Government David Hume - Of the Liberty of the Press - Due: Critical Analysis addressing the themes found in the writings of Dryden, Locke and Swift Week Four: January 23 January 27 The Romantic Period ( ) Olaudah Equiano - The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano Samuel Taylor Coleridge - From On the Slave Trade (The Watchman) Week Five: January 30 February 3 William Blake ( ) - All Religions Are One - There Is No Natural Religion (a) - There Is No Natural Religion (b) From Songs of Innocence 8

9 - The Lamb - The Chimney Sweeper - The Divine Image 9 From Songs of Experience - The Chimney Sweeper - The Fly - The Tyger - The Human Abstract - A Divine Image - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell From Revolution Controversy and the Spirit of the Age Week Six: February 6 February 10 Edmund Burke - From Reflections on the Revolutions in France Mary Wollstonecraft ( ) - From a Vindication of the Rights of Woman - Chap. 2: The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed William Wordsworth ( ) - The Tables Turned - The Thorn - Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey - The Solitary Reaper - London, The world is too much with us - Steamboats, Viaducts, and Railways - Due: Critical Analysis on the readings during the Romantic Period Week Seven: February 13 February 17 Sir Walter Scott ( ) - The Lay of the Last Minstrel: Introduction - Proud Malaise - Redgauntlet: Wandering Willie s Tale Samuel Taylor Coleridge ( ) - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Kubla Khan - Christabel - Epitaph - To William Wordsworth

10 10 - The Language of Milton as much the language of real life, yea, incomparably more so than that of the cottager - Lectures on Shakespeare: Fancy and Imagination in Shakespeare s Poetry/Mechanic vs. Organic Form Week Eight: February 20 February 24 Jane Austen - Love and Friendship: A Novel in a Series of Letters - Plan of a Novel, According to Hints from Various Quarters William Hazlitt ( Coriolanus - My First Acquaintance with Poets Thomas De Quincey ( ) Confessions of an English Opium-Eater Robert Browning ( ) - Porphyria s Lover - My Last Duchess - The Lost Leader Emily Brontë ( ) - I m happiest when most away - The Night-Wind - Remembrance - No coward soul is mine John Ruskin ( ) - Modern Painters - The Stones of Venice George Eliot - Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft Matthew Arnold ( ) - The Buried Life - Lines Written in Kensington Gardens - The Scholar Gypsy - Dover Beach - Literature and Science Thomas Henry Huxley ( ) - Science and Culture [The Values of Education in the Sciences]

11 - Agnosticism and Christianity [Agnosticism Defined] 11 Week Nine: February 27 March 3 Gothic Ann Radcliffe - From The Romance of the Forest Georg Gordon, Lord Byron ( ) - She Walks in Beauty - Darkness - So, we ll go no more a roving Letters: - To Percy Bysshe Shelley (Apr. 26, 1821) Percy Bysshe Shelley ( ) - Mutability - To Wordsworth - Mont Blanc - Ozymandias - On Love - Prometheus Unbound - To Night When the Lamp is Shattered John Keats - When I have fears that I may cease to be - To Homer - To Autumn - The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - The Last Man: Introduction - The Mortal Immortal Pre-Raphaelitism William Michael Rossetti - The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Manifesto Charles Dickens - From Old Lamps for New Ones

12 12 - Due: Critical Analysis on Readings up to this point Week Ten: March 6 March 10 The Victorian Age ( ) Thomas Carlyle ( ) - Sartor Resartus: The Everlasting No/Centre of Indifference/The Everlasting Yea - Past and Present: Democracy/Captains of Industry John Stuart Mill ( ) - What is Poetry - On Liberty: Of Individuality as One of the Elements of Well Being - The Subjection of Women - Autobiography Elizabeth Barrett Browning ( ) - The Cry of Children - The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim s Point - Mother and Poet Alfred Lord Tennyson - Mariana - The Lady of Shalott - Ulysses - Tithonus - The Epic (Morte d Arthur) Victorian Issues Evolution Charles Darwin - The Origin of Species - The Descent of Man Industrialism: Progress or Decline? - Thomas Babington Macaulay: A Review of Southey s Colloquies [Evidence of Progress] - The Children Employment Commission [Child Mine-Worker in Yorkshire] - Friedrich Engels: From the Great Towns - Charles Dickens: Hard Times [Coketown] - Anonymous: Poverty Knock

13 Week Eleven: March 13 March Spring Break Week Twelve: March 20 March 24 - Spring Break Week Thirteen: March 27 March 31 The Woman Question : The Victorian Debate About Gender - Anonymous: The Great Social Evil - Florence Nightingale: Cassandra [Nothing to Do] Empire and National Identity - Thomas Babington Macaulay: Minute on Indian Education - Matthew Arnold: From On the Study of Celtic Literature - John Jacob Thomas: Froudacity - John Jacob Thomas: From Social Revolution - Alfred Lord Tennyson: Opening of the Indian and Colonial Exhibition by the Queen [The Indian and Colonial Exhibition] - T.N. Mukharji: A Visit to Europe [The Indian and Colonial Exhibition] - Joseph Chamberlain: From The True Conception of Empire - J.A. Hobson: Imperialism A Study [The Political Significance of Imperialism] Week Fourteen: April 3 to April 7 Late Victorians Robert Louis Stevenson ( ) - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Oscar Wilde ( ) - The Harlot s House - The Critic as Artist [Criticism Itself as Art] - The Importance of Being Earnest Bernard Shaw ( Mrs. Warren s Profession Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ( ) - The Speckled Band Mary Elizabeth Coleridge ( )

14 - The Other Side of a Mirror - The Witch 14 Rudyard Kipling ( ) - The Man Who Would be King - The Widow at Windsor - The White Man s Burden Week Fifteen: April 10 April 14 The Twentieth Century and After Thomas Hardy ( ) - On the Western Circuit - The Darklin Thrush - The Ruined Maid - Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave? - Under the Waterfall - The Walk - The Voice - In Time of The Breaking of Nations Joseph Conrad ( ) - Heart of Darkness - Critical Analysis on readings up to this point Week Sixteen: April 17 April 21 Voices from World War I Edward Thomas ( ) - The Owl - Rain - The Cherry Trees Robert Graves ( ) - Goodbye to All That [The Attack on High Wood] - Recalling War Modernist Manifestos F.S. Flint and Ezra Pound: - Imagisme; A Few Don ts by an Imagiste

15 An Imagist Cluster 15 - T.E. Hulme: Autumn - Ezra Pound: In a Station of the Metro Mina Loy - Feminist Manifesto Week Seventeen: April 24 April 28 William Butler Yeats ( ) - The Stolen Child - The Rose of the World - The Sorrow of Love - When You Are Old - No Second Troy - The Fascination of What s Difficult - A Coat - September Easter, The Wild Swans at Coole - The Second Coming - A Prayer for My Daughter - Among School Children - A Dialogue of Self and Soul - Byzantium - Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop - Lapis Lazuli - Man and the Echo - The Circus Animals Desertion Virginia Woolf ( ) - The Mark on the Wall - Modern Fiction - Mrs. Dalloway - A Room of One s Own James Joyce ( ) - Araby - The Dead - Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Ulysses - From Penelope D. H. Lawrence ( )

16 - The Horse Dealer s Daughter - Love on the Farm - Piano - Bavarian Gentians - Snake - How Beastly the Bourgeois Is 16 T. S. Eliot ( ) - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - Sweeney among the Nightingales - The Waste Land - The Hollow Men - The Metaphysical Poets Katherine Mansfield - The Garden Party Week Eighteen: May 1 May 5 George Orwell ( ) - Shooting an Elephant - Politics and the English Language Samuel Beckett ( ) - Waiting for Godot W. H. Auden ( ) - Petition - On This Island - Lullaby - Spain - Musée des Beaux Arts - In Memory of W.B. Yeats - The Unknown Citizen - September 1, The Shield of Achilles Dylan Thomas - The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower - The Hunchback in the Park - Poem in October - Fern Hill - Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night - Critical Analysis on Readings up to this point

17 Week Nineteen: May 8 May Voices From World War II Virginia Woolf ( ) - Three Guineas Keith Douglas ( ) - Vergissmeinnicht - Aristocrats Nation, Race, and Language Louise Bennett (b. 1919) - Jamaica Language - Colonization in Reverse - Jamaica Oman Wole Soyinka (b. 1934) - Telephone Conversations Ngugi Wa Thiong o (b. 1938) - Decolonising the Mind - From The Language of African Literature Nourbese Philip (b.1947) - Discourse on the Logic of Language Salman Rushdie (b. 1947) - The British Indian Writer and a Dream-England - English Is an Indian Literary Language - The Prophet - The Prophet s Hair Week Twenty: May 15 May 19 Grace Nichols (b. 1950) - Epilogue - The Fat Black Woman Goes Shopping - Wherever I Hang Doris Lessing (b.1919)

18 - To Room Nineteen 18 Philip Larkin ( ) - Church Going - MCMXIV - Ambulances - High Windows - Sad Steps - Homage to a Government - The Explosion - This Be the Verse Thom Gunn ( ) - Black Jackets - My Sad Captains - From the Wave - Still Life - The Missing Derek Walcott (b.1930) - A Far Cry from Africa - The Schooner Flight - The Season of Phantasmal Peace Ted Hughes ( ) - Wind - Relic - Pike - Out - Theology - Crow s Last Stand - Due: Research Paper and presentations Week Twenty-One: May 22 May 26 Harold Pinter ( ) - The Dumb Waiter Chinua Achebe - Civil Peace Alice Munro (b. 1931) - Walker Brothers Cowboy Geoffrey Hill (b. 1932) - In Memory of Jane Fraser

19 Seamus Heaney (b. 1939) 19 - Digging - Punishment - Casualty - The Sharping Stone - Anything Can Happen Margaret Atwood (b.1939) - Death by Landscape - Miss July Grows Older Zadie Smith (b.1975) - The Waiter s Wife - Due: Research Paper and presentations (Continued)