AP English Literature Fall/1st Semester 2019 Schedule

Week One
Mon, Aug. 26th to Fri, Aug. 30th
● Introduction to the course: Expectations, syllabus, materials, assignments, summer
reading
○ Warm-Up
○ Summer Reading Review/explication
○ Assignment: Write one-page summaries of both texts
● Warm-Up
● Reading assignment
● Assignments: Prep for in-class essay/diagnostic, In-class diagnostic essay on summer
readings
● Homework: “Foreword to Students,” “Preparing to Succeed on the AP English
Literature and Composition Examination,” “Writing About Literature”
Week Two
Mon, Sep. 2nd toFri, Sep. 6th
● September 2nd: LABOR DAY--No School
● Introduction to the unit and unit theme: tradition
○ Unit expectations: Reading and Journaling
○ Unit works: “Everyday Use” and “A Rose For Emily”
○ Assignment: KWL Chart & Annotating texts: Accident
● Homework: Read “Everyday Use” & Journal entry 1
● Intro to Alice Walker
○ Activities: Explication of the story: narration/POV, character, setting, plot, theme,
Watch the film “Everyday Use”
● Homework: Journal entry 2: Write a short paragraph comparing the story to the
film; Reading questions 1-9
Week Three
Mon, Sep. 9th to Fri, Sep. 13th
● Homework due
● Warm-Up: Critique how the film relates to the story.
○ Discussion of the film as it relates to the story
● Activity: Practice AP Writing Prompt
● Intro to William Faulkner
● Homework: Read “A Rose for Emily” and Journal entry 3
○ Warm-Up: How does the story relate to the theme?
● Activity: Explication of the story: narration/POV, character, setting, plot, theme,
Comparison between the stories (Venn diagram)--group activity
● Homework: Review both stories & Journal entry 4
● Activities: Literary Vocabulary, Group exercise: Analyze one story using the SOS
Sentence Opening Sheet
 ● Homework: Complete Personal Progress Check
Week Four
Mon, Sep. 16 to Fri, Sep. 20th
● Homework due
● Warm-Up: Discuss your progress from the personal progress check. What were your
strengths and weaknesses?
● Activities: Writing Ex 1: Provide students with a claim that they must find evidence from
within the text, Writing Ex 2: Provide students with the evidence and have them develop
the claim
● Homework: Personal Progress Check essay
○ Warm-Up: Describe your writing process.
● Activities: Partner activity: Review of the PPC essay with a partner, Grammar review:
Comma splices, fragments, fused sentences, Journal check
● Homework: Analyze your writing using the SOS Sentence Opening Sheet
○ Warm-Up: SOS Sentence analysis
● Activities: Review of PPC multiple choice activity and PPC essay analysis
● Homework: Read “Roman Fever” and Journal entry 5
● September 20th: HALF-DAY
Week Five
Mon, Sep. 23rd to Fri, Sep. 27th
● Quiz on “Everyday Use” and “A Rose For Emily”
● Homework due
● Introduction to the unit and unit theme: old money/secrets
○ Unit expectations: Reading and Journaling
○ Unit works: “Roman Fever,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” & “The Yellow
Wallpaper”
■ Warm-Up: How does the story connect to the theme?
■ Assignment: Story elements chart
● Activities: KWL Chart, Explicate story focusing on characterization (contrasts),
narration, mood, plot, syntax, Reading questions
● Homework: Fill out Story elements chart for “Roman Fever” & Journal entry 6
● Activities: Practice AP Writing Prompt, Analyze your writing using the SOS Sentence
Opening Sheet
● Homework: Read “The Fall of the House of Usher” & Journal entry 7
Week Six
Mon, Sep. 30th to Fri, Oct. 4th
● Homework due
● Warm-Up: How does the story address the theme?
● Activity: KWL Chart, Explicate story focusing on characterization (contrasts), narration,
mood, plot, syntax
● Homework: Fill out Story elements chart for “The Fall of the House of Usher” &
Journal entry 8
 ● Activity: Short Film for “The Fall of the House of Usher”
○ Warm-Up: How does the film relate to the story?
○ Activity: Discussion of film versus story
● Homework: “Suggestions for Writing” question 2, Read “The Yellow Wallpaper” &
Journal entry 9
● October 3rd: PROGRESS REPORTS
Week Seven
Mon, Oct. 7th to Fri, Oct. 11th
● Homework due
● Warm-Up: How does the story address the theme?
● Activities: Review of “Suggestions” question 2, KWL Chart, Explicate story focusing on
characterization (contrasts), narration, mood, plot, syntax, Reading Questions
● Homework: Fill out Story elements chart for “The Yellow Wallpaper” & Journal
entry 10
● Activities: Journal check, Practice AP Writing Prompt, story elements chart review and
discussion
● Homework: Analyze your writing using the SOS Sentence Opening Sheet, PPC
Multiple-Choice
Week Eight
Mon, Oct. 14th to Fri, Oct. 18th
● Homework due
● Activities: Practice AP Writing Prompt; Practice AP Multiple-Choice Questions
● Homework: Read “The Flowers,” Journal entry 11, PPC Free-response
● Mini-project: Select either heritage or old money and connect to another text you’ve
read for school
○ Activity: Present mini-project
● Mini-project due
● October 17th: HALF-DAY
● October 18th: FALL BREAK--NO SCHOOL
Week Nine
Mon, Oct. 21st to Fri, Oct. 25th
● Homework due
● Introduction to the unit and unit theme: Allusion (Biblical references)
○ Unit expectations: Reading and Journaling
○ Unit works: “The Flowers,” “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” & “Where Are You
Going, Where Have You Been?”
■ Warm-Up: How does the story connect to the theme?
■ Assignment: Biblical references handout
○ Activities: Discussion of Biblical references in American fiction, KWL Chart,
Explicate story focusing on symbolism, characterization, plot, imagery,
personification, simile, Reading questions, KWL Chart, Annotations
 ● Homework: Add story details to Biblical references handout & Journal entry 12;
Read “Flannery O’Connor,” “A Good Man is Hard to Find” & Journal entry 13
● Warm-up: How does learning about the author help you better understand their
work/writings?
● Activities: KWL Chart, Explicate story focusing on symbolism, characterization, plot,
imagery, personification, simile, Reading questions
● Homework: Complete Reading Questions
Week Ten
Mon, Oct. 28th to Fri, Nov. 1st
● Homework due
● Activities: Finish discussion of “A Good Man is Hard to Find” and its reading questions.
“Critical Perspectives on O’Connor”
● Homework: Add story details to Biblical references handout & Journal entry 14;
Read “Joyce Carol Oates,” “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”
○ Warm-up: How does learning about the author help you better understand their
work/writings?
● Activities: KWL Chart, Explicate story focusing on symbolism, characterization, plot,
imagery, personification, simile, Reading questions, Smooth Talk
● Homework: Complete Reading Questions
Week Eleven
Mon, Nov. 4th to Fri, Nov. 8th
● Homework due
● Activities: Finish discussion of “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” and its
reading questions. “Critical Perspectives on Oates”
● Homework: Add story details to Biblical references handout & Journal entry 15
● Activities: Review of Biblical references handout, comparisons between symbols
● Mini-Project: Biblical references in Pop Culture
○ Activity: Presentation of mini-project
● Mini-project due
Week Twelve
Mon, Nov. 11th to Fri, Nov. 15th
● November 11th: Veteran’s Day--NO SCHOOL
● Homework due
● Quiz on Walker, O’Connor, and Oates
● Activities: Practice AP Writing Prompts, “Suggestions for Writing”
● Homework: PPC Free-response
○ Activity: Analyze your writing using the SOS Sentence Opening Sheet
● Homework: PPC Multiple-choice
Week Thirteen
Mon, Nov. 18th to Fri, Nov. 22nd
● Homework due
 ● Introduction to the unit and unit theme: The Mundane in nature
○ Unit expectations: Reading and Journaling
○ Unit works: “The Road Not Taken,” “The Red Wheelbarrow,” “Horses”
(handout), & “The Sick Rose”
■ Warm-Up: How does the poem connect to the theme?
■ Assignment: Structure mapping
● Activities: “What is Poetry?,” Explicating “The Road Not Taken” focusing on setting
(nature), structure, figurative language: imagery, reading questions, AP Practice Writing
Prompt, Journal check
● Homework: Read “The Red Wheelbarrow” & Journal entry 16
● Activities: Explicating poem focusing on setting (nature), structure, figurative language:
imagery, reading questions, “This is Just to Say”
● Homework: Read “Horses” & answer Reading Questions
● November 21st: PROGRESS REPORTS
Week Fourteen
Mon, Nov. 25th to Fri, Nov. 29th
● Homework due
● Activities: Explicating poem focusing on setting (nature), structure, figurative language:
imagery, reading questions
○ Warm-Up: How does the poem connect to the theme?
● Homework: Read “The Sick Rose” & Reading Questions
● Activities: Explicating poem focusing on setting (nature), structure, figurative language:
imagery, reading questions
○ Warm-Up: How does the poem connect to the theme?
● Homework: Journal entry 17
● November 26th: HALF-DAY
● November 27th to 29th: Thanksgiving Break--NO SCHOOL
Week Fifteen
Mon, Dec. 2nd to Fri, Dec. 6th
● Quiz on Frost, Williams, Neruda, and Blake
● Activities: Practice AP Writing Prompt, Structure Mapping
● Homework: PPC Free-Response
○ Activities: Journal check, SOS Sentence Opening Sheet; Grammar exercises,
Vocabulary exercises
● Homework: PPC Multiple-choice
Week Sixteen
Mon, Dec. 9th to Fri, Dec. 13th
● Homework due
● Introduction to the unit and unit theme: African American Perspective
○ Unit expectations: Reading and Journaling
○ Unit works: “Harlem,” “We Wear The Mask,” “Sympathy,” “Still I Rise,”"Ego
 Trippin"
■ Warm-Up: How does the poem connect to the theme?
■ Assignment: Theme Web
● Activities: The Harlem Renaissance, “I, Too”
● Homework: Read “Harlem” & Reading Questions, Journal entry 18
● Activities: Explicating “Harlem” focusing on structure, simile, metaphor, personification,
allusion, A Raisin in the Sun, Intro to Dunbar
○ Warm-Up: How does the poem connect to the theme?
● Homework: Read “We Wear The Mask” and “Sympathy” & Reading questions
● Activities: Explicating poems, focusing on structure, simile, metaphor, personification,
allusion
○ Warm-Up: How do the poems connect to the theme?
● Homework: Journal 19
Week Seventeen
Mon, Dec. 16th to Fri, Dec. 20th
● Activities: Dunbar Practice Writing Prompt, Structure Exercise (Sympathy), “Still I
Rise”, Explicating poems, focusing on structure, simile, metaphor, personification,
allusion
○ Warm-Up: How do the poems connect to the theme?
● Homework: Read: “Ego Trippin,” Journal 20
● Activities: Explicating poems, focusing on structure, simile, metaphor, personification,
allusion
○ Warm-Up: How do the poems connect to the theme?
● Homework: Journal 21
● Activity: SOS Sentence Opening Sheet
● December 20th: HALF-DAY
Weeks Eighteen & Nineteen
Mon, Dec. 23rd to Fri, Jan. 3rd
● Winter Break--NO SCHOOL
Week Twenty
Mon, Jan. 6th to Fri, Jan. 10th
● Quiz on Hughes, Dunbar, Angelou, and Giovanni
● Activities: Theme web, Multimedia exploration of African American poets, Journal
check
● Homework: PPC Free-Response
● Activities: Midterm Study Guide
● Homework: PPC Multiple-choice
● Activities: Midterm Exam Review
● Homework: Study for Midterm
Week Twenty-One
Mon, Jan. 13th to Fri, Jan. 17th
● Homework due
● MIDTERM EXAMS

Spring/2nd Semester 2020 Schedule Template

Note: Schedule subject to change due for various reasons, such as inclement weather make-up days (marked by an
asterisk*).

Week One
Mon, Jan. 20th to Fri, Jan. 24th
● Monday, Jan. 20th: MLK Jr. Day--NO SCHOOL
● Homework due
● Introduction to the unit and unit theme: Irony
○ Unit expectations: Reading and Journaling
○ Unit works: “We Real Cool,” “My Papa’s Waltz,” “My Last Duchess,” “Out, out-
-,”
■ Warm-Up: How does the poem connect to the theme?
■ Assignment: Allusion Chart
● Activities: Recognizing allusions in literature, mini research project on allusions,
Morrissette’s “Ironic”
● Homework: Read: “We Real Cool,” Reading Questions, Journal 22
● Activities: Explicate poem, focusing on Structure, contrasts, symbol, metaphor, allusion,
audio recording, musical activity
● Homework: Journal 23, Read “My Papa’s Waltz”
Week Two
Mon, Jan. 27th to Fri, Jan. 31st
● Activities: Explicate poem, focusing on Structure, contrasts, symbol, metaphor, allusion,
audio recording
○ Warm-Up: How does the poem connect to the theme?
● Homework: Reading Questions, Journal 23
● Activities: Vocal activity, argumentation activity
● Homework: Read: “My Last Duchess,” Reading Questions
● Activities: Explicate poem, focusing on Structure, contrasts, symbol, metaphor, allusion
● Homework: “Suggestion for Writing” (“My Last Duchess”), Journal 24
Week Three
Mon, Feb. 3rd to Fri, Feb. 7th
● Activities: Practice AP Writing Prompt, SOS Sentence Opening Sheet, Read Aloud,
Drawing activity
● Homework: Read: “Out, out--,” Journal 25
● Activities: Explicate poem, focusing on Structure, contrasts, symbol, metaphor, allusion,
Reading questions, Macbeth, short video
 ● Homework: Reading question, Journal 26
Week Four
Mon, Feb. 10th to Fri, Feb. 14th
● Activities: Poems on tone: “Since there’s no help,” Reading questions, Review Question
3, vocal activity
● Homework: PPC Free-Response
● Activities: Practice AP Writing Prompt, Practice AP MC questions, Journal check, mini-
research project & presentation
● Homework: PPC Multiple-choice, start reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s
Stone
● Fri, Feb. 14th: HALF-DAY
Week Five
Mon, Feb. 17th to Fri, Feb. 21st
● Monday, Feb. 17th: President’s Day-- NO SCHOOL
● Homework due
● Quiz on Brooks, Roethke, Browning, Frost
● Introduction to the unit and unit theme: Gender Studies (Class, Age, Culture)
○ Unit expectations: Reading and Journaling
○ Unit works: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, The Outsiders, Dracula,
Hamlet
■ Warm-Up: Describe boyhood versus manhood in The Lord of the Flies.
How does class and age play a role?
■ Assignment: Gender Mapping
● Activities: Intersectionality in gender
● Homework: Finish reading HP, Journal 27
● Activities
● Homework: Start reading The Outsiders, Journal 28
Week Six
Mon, Feb. 24th to Fri, Feb. 28th
● Activities
● Homework: Finish reading The Outsiders
● Activities:
● Homework: PPC Free-Response
● Homework: PPC Multiple-choice
● Homework: Start reading Dracula
Week Seven
Mon, Mar. 2nd to Fri, Mar. 6th
● Quiz on HP and Outsiders
● Activities:
 ○ Warm-Up: Describe what it means to be a man in The Portrait of Dorian Grey.
How does changing social mores play a role in defining manhood?
● Homework: Continue reading Dracula
● Activities:

Week Eight
Mon, Mar. 9th to Fri, Mar. 13th
● Thur, Mar. 12th: PROGRESS REPORTS
●
Week Nine
Mon, Mar. 16th to Fri, Mar. 20th
● Fri, March 20th*-- NO SCHOOL
● Homework: PPC Free-Response
● Homework: PPC Multiple-choice
● Homework: Begin reading Hamlet
Week Ten
Mon, Mar. 23rd to Fri, Mar. 27th
● Quiz on Dracula
● Activities:
○ Warm-Up: What traits are traditionally deemed appropriate for women but not for
men? What are some situations where the opposite is true?
● Homework: Continue reading Hamlet
Week Eleven
Mon, Mar. 30th to Fri, Apr. 3rd
● Homework: PPC Free-Response
● Homework: PPC Multiple-choice

Week Twelve
Mon, Apr. 6 to Fri, Apr. 10th
● Spring Break--NO SCHOOL

Week Thirteen
Mon, Apr. 13th to Fri, Apr. 17th
● Mon, April 13th*: Spring Break--NO SCHOOL
● Homework due
● Quiz on Hamlet
● Activities: Mini research project & presentation, AP TEST PREP!!!
 ● Homework: Gather all previous AP work

Week Fourteen
Mon, Apr. 20th to Fri, Apr. 23rd
● Activity: AP TEST PREP!!!
Week Fifteen
Mon, Apr. 27th to Fri, May 1st
● Activity: AP TEST PREP!!!
Week Sixteen
Mon, May 4th to Fri, May 8th

● Mon, May 4th:

● Wednesday, May 6th: AP LIT EXAM!!!
Week Seventeen
Mon, May 11th to Fri, May 15th
● Intro to culminating activity

Weeks Eighteen
Mon, May 18th to Thur, May 21st
● Culminating Activity
Week Eighteen to Week Twenty
Fri, May 22nd to Fri, June 5th
● Mon, May 25th: Memorial Day-- NO SCHOOL
● HALF DAYS-- EOC’s & Final Exams
● Fri, Jun 5th: LAST DAY OF SCHOOL!!!!

Week Twenty-One
Mon, June 8th to Tues, June 9th
● Inclement weather make-up days