Summer Reading

Essential Questions:

• How does environment shape character & identity?
• In societies that strictly categorize people, how do individuals define and/or maintain their identities? 

The Catcher in the Rye: PPT, "Coming Thro' the Rye," Freud, Jung, & Psychoanalysis, Close Reading Questions, "J. D. Salinger" by Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker (You will have an AP style exam over this novel complete with multiple choice, short answer, and a timed essay)

Choice Book Assignment: Assignment Instructions, Rubric, Example Finished Product (This is only an example, so you may find some errors here and there. You may also notice that the assignment requirements from last year are a little tweaked for this year, so follow this year's format)

8/8: Introduction to Class: syllabus, AP Contract, AP Exam Basics, website basics, questions over Summer Reading Choice Book Assignment

8/9: Timed AP English Literature Exam (multiple choice), scoring the AP Exam, distribute books

8/10: What is a theme statement?, writing for the AP English Literature exam, writing & literary analysis

8/11: AP Free Response examples, begin The Catcher in the Rye discussion 

8/12: DUE:   Summer Reading Choice Book Assignment, The Catcher in the Rye discussion

8/15:  Exam: The Catcher in the Rye (timed multiple choice)

8/16: Exam: The Catcher in the Rye (timed essay)

8/17: John Updike's "A & P", Kennedy & Gioia p. 15-20, Effect on the Work

8/18: James Joyce's "Araby", Kennedy & Gioia p. 612-617, study questions

8/19: Xtreme Mutiple Choice Challenge, Practice Round 1

8/22: Ernest Hemingway, "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," Kennedy & Gioia, p. 174-178

8/23: Eudora Welty's“Why I Live at the P.O.,” Kennedy & Gioia p. 77-86

8/24: PPT: Atonement, Point of View, discussion questions, unreliable narrator 

8/25-26: AP Prose Prompt at a glance & practice, student examples

8/29-30: Atonement,  Chapters 1-8 DUE, p. 3-89

8/31: AP Prose prompt continued, student examples

9/1: Atonement,  Chapters 9-14 DUE, p. 90-175, discussion & Analysis DUE, rubric, Example POV Analysis

9/2: finish Atonement discussion, Literary Terms Assignment

9/5: Labor Day

9/6: Atonement,  Book Two DUE, p. 179-250, discussion

9/7: What is Style?, "My Losing Season," "My Losing Season Assignment"

9/8: Reading day for Atonement

9/9: Atonement, Book Three & London, 1999 DUE, p. 253-351, discussion

 9/12: Books Two & Three & London, 1999 Analysis DUE, Bomb excursion, no class

9/13: Discuss Conroy's "My Losing Season," Atonement,  wrap up, rubric, AP Novel/Play Summary Sheet

9/14: Feminist Criticism, Little Red Riding Hood 

9/15: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Yellow Wallpaper," p. 571-584, the doppleganger, assign Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man

9/16: AP Exam Multiple Choice Practice, Annotation

9/19: Finish AP Exam multiple choice practice, Atonement Style Analysis DUE,, rubric, STYLE ANALYSIS PARTIAL EXAMPLE, begin Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man

9/20: Begin PPT: Invisible Man, tone words, Notes on the Picaresque Novel, the "White Man's Burden", Harlem Renaissance, Harlem: Culture Capital (pdf version), The Harlem Renaissance and Communism, Analysis Example

9/21: Joyce Carol Oates, "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" , Kennedy & Gioia, p. 654-667 

9/22-23: Invisible Man, Chapters 1-5 DUE, p. 3-135, discussion, tone words

9/26: In-Class analysis of Chapters 1-5 of Invisible Man, Tone, Setting, Conflict

9/27: Create your own external learning environment

9/28-29: Invisible Man, Chapters 6-12 & Analysis DUE, p.136-260, discussion questions Chapters 9-12

9/30: XMCC, Round 1

10/3: AP Prose prompt, annotation

10/4-6: Invisible Man, Chapters 13-19 & Analysis DUE, p.261-422, discussion,  Tone, Setting, Conflict

10/7: Review MC Exam annotations

10/17-18: Invisible Man, Chapters 20-Epilogue & Analysis DUE, p, 423-571, discussion, tone words, issue Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon

10/19: Invisible Man wrap up,  AP Novel/Play Summary Sheet 

10/21: Marxist criticism and Invisible Man

10/22: 2004 AP Prose prompt timed essay (for a grade)

10/24: Begin Song of Solomon: PPT, Analysis Assignment, Character List, Characterization, Imagery, Literary Terms, EXAMPLE ANALYSIS

10/25: Wrap up Invisible Man, student examples of 2004 Prose Prompt

10/26-27: Song of Solomon analysis DUE, Chapters 1-4, p. 3-112, discussion

10/28: XMCC, Round 1

10/31: Wrap up XMCC, begin discussion of Open Response

11/1: Open response student examples

11/2-3: Song of Solomon analysis DUE, Chapters 5-9, p. 113-216, discussion

11/4: XMCC, Round 2

11/7-8: 2009 AP Prose prompt timed essay (for a grade)

11/9-10-: Song of Solomon analysis DUE, Chapters 10-15, p. 219-337, discussion

11/11: Song of Solomon wrap up, AP Novel/Play Summary Sheet

11/14: Southern Gothic Literature

11/15: Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People," Kennedy & Gioia, p. 416-430 (see study questions, 1-7, p. 430)

11/16: Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find," Kennedy & Gioia, p. 431-442 (see study questions, 1-5, p. 442)

11/17: Flannery O'Connor's "Revelation," Kennedy & Gioia, p. 443-458 (see study questions, 1-8, p. 458)

11/18: Incentive Day

11/28: Heart of Darkness: Analysis Assignment, HD Intro, Imperialism, Colonialism, & Social Darwinism, HD Discussion Questions, Chapter by Chapter SQ, the Ubermensch, the Apollonian & the Dionysian, Dante's Inferno: A Virtual Tour of Hell, The Golden Bough, Painting the Congo

11/29: Finish intro notes, A Syntactical Comparison

11/30: What does the AP Exam poetry section look like? In-class poetry analysis (see Poetry Help above)

12:1: Heart of Darkness discussion and Analysis DUE, p.3-24

12/2: Wrap up discussion of HoD, In-class poetry analysis, Auden's "Musee de Beaux Arts" & William Carlos William's "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus", Brueghel Painting

12/5: Heart of Darkness discussion and Analysis DUE, p.24-45

12/6: Finish Auden's "Musee de Beaux Arts" & William Carlos William's "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus", Brueghel Painting

12/7: Heart of Darkness discussion and Analysis DUE, p.46-64

12/8: Walker Gibson's "Billiards" 

12/9: Heart of Darkness discussion and Analysis DUE, p.64-82

12/12: Heart of Darkness discussion and Analysis DUE, p. 82-102

12/13: XMCC, Round 3

12/14: Heart of Darkness discussion and Analysis DUE, p. 102-117

12/15: Discuss final exam

12/16: Final Exam