AP English Literature

Lillian Sims Pisgah High 2014-2015

Full texts:
Fall semester:
in class text (1): Macbeth
independent reading (1): The Awakening
Spring semester:
in class texts (3): The Merchant of Venice, The Importance of Being Earnest, Heart of Darkness
independent reading (1): The Scarlet Pimpernel

Daily class structure:
News reading & quiz (take roll)---10 min.
Kickoff (students volunteer topic)---10 min.
o Review a literary piece, introduce a song, or review related vocab (use notebooks)
Main lesson---60 min.
o Mid-lesson timeout (if time allows; conduct a second mini-review) -5 min.
Wrap-up/Homework assignment10 min.

Other requirements:
Multiple choice review will take place outside of class in 6 sessions (3 each fall/spring).
There will be one test per unit, for a total of six tests throughout the year (3 each fall/spring).
Your research paper from Capstone, as well as your final Capstone presentation, will count in AP.
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Unit 1: The Origins of Our Stories: Greek, Roman, and English Myth Aug. 15-Oct. 3
Context, part I: 7 weeks
Guiding questions (20-21)
Background reading (23-27, 38)
Oedipus story
Worldwide mythology
Anglo-Saxon and Medieval eras
Aristotles worldview
Primary readings, part I:
The Iliad*, description of Helen (online) & Achilles vs. Hector (81-87)
Oedipus the King (online)
o Jocasta poem
Beowulf in 7 sections (40-70)
o Context Prezi with poetic interpretation
Context, part II:
Background readings on medieval world, chivalry (30-33, 36) (movies)
Story of Arthur (248-260*)
Primary readings, part II: The Growth of Society
Ballads
o Barbara Allan (218-219)
o Robin Hood (220-223)
The Canterbury Tales*(1.5weeks)
o Prologue (144-166)
o Pardoners Tale (170-180)
o Wife of Baths Tale (184-196)

Unit 2: The Renaissance Oct. 8-Nov.21
Context, part I: History and Short Poetry (7.5 weeks)
Guiding questions (292-3)
Background reading (295-311)
Elizabethan worldview; great chain of being
King James Bible translation
Paradise Lost (502)
Sonnet style; common poetry topics
Primary readings, part I:
(2 weeks)

Light? poets:
o Marlowes Passionate Shepherd (314)
o Raleighs Nymphs Reply (316)
o Herricks To the Virgins (534)
o Marvells To His Coy Mistress (532-3)
Dark? poets:
o Jonsons On My First Son (526)
o Donnes Valediction (518-9), Sonnet #10 (521), & Meditation 17 (522)
o Petrarchs #292 (337)
Shakespeares sonnets
o Shakespeares #18, #130, #29, #116 (326-330) & others, online
o Practice for Q1 (poetry essay)
Context, part II: Drama and Prose
Background on Macbeth (340-346)
Soliloquies and monologues: Hamlet*
Primary readings, part II:
(5 weeks)

Macbeth (349-431)
o Act 1 (351-66; 15 p.)
o Act 2 (368-380, 12 p.)
o Act 3 (382-398, 17 p.)
o Act 4 (400-416, 16 p.)
o Act 5 (418-431, 13 p.)
Cavendishs Orations (472-475)
Elizabeths speech (448)
From Mores Utopia (446)
From Machiavellis The Prince (454-8)

Unit 3: Enlightenment (1660-1798) Dec. 1-Exams
Out of class required novel: The Awakening (2 weeks)
Context:
Guiding questions (560-1)
Background reading (563-5)
Primary readings:
Dealing with Women
(1 week+)
:
o Review readings of The Awakening
o Selections from Pepys Domestic Affairs (586-7)
o Addison on marriage (604)
o Wollstonecraft (720-726)
o Behns On Loving Two Equally (702)
Pleas for the Everyman
(1 week)
:
o Swifts A Modest Proposal (622-31)
o From Swifts Gullivers Travels (636-646, 647-653)
o Grays Elegy (692-697)
Unit 4: The Romantics Jan. 1-16
Context: (2 weeks)
Guiding questions (752-3)
Background reading (755-767)
Frankenstein
Primary readings:
Poems on loving nature/people:
o Blakes The Tyger (774)
o Byrons When We Two Parted (852-3)
o E.B. Brownings Sonnet 43 (954)
o Burns To a Mouse/To A Louse (784-788)
o P.B. Shelleys To a Skylark (870)
o Coleridges Rime of the Ancient Mariner (814-834)
Poems on history/power/fear of the future:
o Wordsworths Bridge/ The World Is.. (806-7)
o P.B. Shelleys Ozymandias/England 1819 (862, 871)
o Keats Ode to a Grecian Urn (884-5)

Unit 5: The Victorian Age Jan. 20-Mar. 27
Context: (9 weeks)
Guiding questions (912-3)
Background reading (915-925)
History clips
Primary readings:
Wildes The Importance of Being Earnest
(2 weeks)

o Chekhovs The Darling (1016-1026)
o E. Bronte Remembrance (956-7)
Shakespeares The Merchant of Venice
(5 weeks)

Mortality poems
(2 weeks)
:
o Tennysons: Ulysses/In Memoriam/Crossing the Bar (936-941)
o Arnolds Dover Beach
o Housmans To an Athlete/When I Was One-and-Twenty (1062, 1064)
o Hardys Digging (1072-3)

Unit 6: Modern Writing Mar. 30-May 1
Out of class required novel: The Scarlet Pimpernel
(1 week)
(5 weeks)
Context:
Background reading (1101-1112)
Eliots The Naming of Cats (1123)
Primary war readings
(3 weeks)
:
Conrads Heart of Darkness
Huxleys Words and Behavior (1266-1276)
Steinbecks Why Soldiers Wont Talk
Orwells Shooting an Elephant (1252-1259)
Bowens The Demon Lover (1230-1236)
War poems by Sassoon, Brooke, & Yeats (1244-7)
Owens Dulce Et Decorum Est (online)
Primary final readings
(1 week)
:
Audens The Unknown Citizen (1178-9)
o Eliots ending to The Hollow Men (1122)
o Yeats Sailing to Byzantium (1192)
o Smiths Not Waving but Drowning (1314)
Yeats When You are Old (1196)
Heaneys Digging

*Week of May 4-8: Final AP Exam review
AP Exam May 8!