Syllabus | AP 12 | LNG 407
Mr. David Owen
An AP English course in Literature and Composition should engage students in the careful reading and critical analysis of imaginative literature. Through the close reading of selected texts, students should deepen their understanding of the ways writers use language to provide both meaning and pleasure for their readers. As they read, students should consider a work’s structure, style, and themes as well as such smaller-scale elements as the use of figurative language, imagery, symbolism, and tone.
--The College Board
Essential Question: How can students become proficient writers and analytical readers, so that they will be prepared for their freshman year of college and a life of writing?
Planning and Conference Times: 3rd period and immediately before and after school
Material we will cover:
Major Texts
Perrine’s Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense, Heinle & Heinle, 8th edition
Literature and the Language Arts: The British Tradition, EMC Paradigm, 2nd edition
Various Novels, Poems, and Plays provided by school and distributed as needed
FIRST SEMESTER
Information Gathering/Research
Senior Project
Literature
World Literature*
Selected Novels, Poems, and Plays
Grammar/Usage/Mechanics
Review as needed
Speaking/Listening
Timed, Evaluated Presentations
Presentation Technology
Vocabulary Skills
Literary Terms
Vocabulary in Context
Writing Skills
Senior Project Requirements
Various Writings
Summer Reading
• Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
• The Stranger – Albert Camus
• Macbeth – William Shakespeare
• Beowulf – Seamus Heaney translation*
This reading is “required,” not “suggested,” and is an extremely important part of the AP Literature and Composition course. We will use these texts as foundational material for much of what we do; we will begin in August with them, and we will return to them throughout the year. During the first few days of school, students will be evaluated on their knowledge of these texts through objective tests and/or essays. The essays will use prompts modeled after those appearing on the AP Literature test.
*Be sure you read the Seamus Heaney translation. If you cannot find it locally, try Amazon.com or some other online source.
If you have Mrs. Griswell for AP Literature, click here:
http://www.ccboe.net/teachers/griswell%5Felaine/
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