AP English Literature Course Information and Documents: 

• Class Syllabus, AP Contract, AP Standards, Bloom's Taxonomy
• Literary Terms: epigraph, euphemism, verisimilitude, antithesis, parallelism, end stop line, enjambment, irony (Situational, Verbal, Dramatic), conceit, cinquain, pantoum, limerick, chiasmus, heroic couplet, synecdoche & metonymy, aubade, apostrophe, Italian sonnet, English sonnet, Rhythm of a Sonnet, rhetoric, ethos, logos, pathos, periodic & loose sentence, villanelle, deus ex machina, sestina, cacophony, zeugma, anaphora, syllogism, litote, metaphysical poetry, epistolary novel, scansion, tercet, elliptical construction, polysyndeton, asyndeton, in media res, non sequitar, trope, anapest, terza rima, euphony, elegy, pastoral, epigram, ballad, ode, epic, dramatic monologue, satire
• Literary Terminology: Kip Wheeler's Literary Terms
• Periods of Literary History , Archetypes
• Quotations in Literary Analysis, AP Novel / Play Summary Sheet (short version)
• AP Exam Information: What is a THEME STATEMENT?, Theme Statements, Theme Statement Mad Libs, AP Exam Basics,  Tackling the AP Timed Writing, Timed Writing top Ten , Titles from Free Response Questions since 1971, Topics from Free Response Questions, 1970-2011, WHAT AP READERS LONG TO SEE...
• Prose Help: Annotating Prose , Tone Words, Imagery, Effect on the Work
• Poetry Help: 10 Easy Lessons in How to Read Poetry , Helpful Hints on Explicating Poetry, Citing Poetry in-text, Poetry Cheat Sheet, Poets.org Glossary , **How to Explicate a Poem**
• Drama Help:  Citing Drama in text
• MLA Format Help: Detailed Citation Guide, Citing Poetry for Students, DLB & Supplemental References
• Mythology: Bulfinch's Mythology, searchable Bible, mythology online, The Golden Bough 
• AP Credit Policy Information
• AP First Semester Files

Upcoming Assignments: Spring Semester 2012

2/27: Winter Break

2/28: "The Naked and the Nude," Robert Graves & diction and diction AP Novel/Play Summary Sheet

2/29-3/1:  Othello, Act IV DUE, Kennedy and Gioia, pages 1566-84,  Discussion Thread Due

3/2: Media Center-AP Novel/Play Summary Sheet, Word Document Version & Example Excerpt

3/5: "To His Coy Mistress," Andrew Marvell, Perrine, p. 803-805 (questions 1-7), AP Novel/Play Summary Sheet Due

3/6-7: Othello, Act V DUE, Kennedy and Gioia, pages 1584-1600,  Discussion Thread

3/8: Media Center-Poetry

3/9: Poetry notebook turn in #3 DUE , XMCC Round 3

3/12: Review/Discussion Othello

3/13: Exam: Timed Essay Othello

3/14: “War is Kind,” Stephen Crane, Tragedy and the Common Man by Arthur Miller annotation

3/15: Death of a Salesman PPT, Kennedy & Gioia p. 1896-1969,Tragedy and the Common Man by Arthur Miller (PDF version)

3/16: XMCC Round 4

3/19-20: AP Exam annotating and discussing example essays

3/21-22:  Death of a Salesman, Kennedy & Gioia p. 1896-1930

3/23: XMCC, assign-“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” T.S. Eliot, allusion assignment

3/26-27: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” T.S. Eliot  Allusion Assignment DUE

3/28-29:Death of a Salesman, Kennedy & Gioia p. 1930-1969, Act II & Requiem

4/2-3: Media Center Poetry Research Papers

4/4: Death of Salesman Review

4/5: Death of Salesman (MC and SA)

4/6: Death of Salesman (Essay)

4/9: MLA REVIEW AP Novel/Play Summary Sheet

4/10: Media Center -Poetry

4/11:

4/12: Notebook Turn in #4

4/13:  XMCC Round 5

4/16: Media Center- AP Novel/Play Summary Sheet

4/17:

4/18:

4/19: AP Novel/Play Summary Sheet Due

4/20: Discuss Kiosk Project

4/23-27: Spring Break

Completed Assignments: Spring Semester 2012

1/5: Review Fall Final Exam results; direction for the semester, assign play copies

1/6: Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest: Intro notes, Victorian England and Social Class, The Victorian Web

1/9: Spring Poetry Project: Assignment, Notebook Rubric, Explication Fill-In (Word 2007 version, Word 2003 version, RTF version), Example completed explication 1, Example completed explication 2

1/10: AP Poetry Prompt & analysis

1/11-12: Media Center, poetry research

1/13: AP Poetry prompt student examples

1/16: MLK Holiday

1/17-18: The Importance of Being Earnest, Act I DUE, pages 27-55, review AP Poetry Prompt and Essay Scores

1/19:  D. H. Lawrence's "How Beastly the Bourgeois Is" & Group Assignment

1/20: Finish Lawrence poem and (if time) XMCC, round one (poetry)

1/23: Discuss poetry assignment and issues

1/24: The Importance of Being Earnest, Act II DUE, pages 56-90, Discussion Questions

1/25: Poetry notebook turn in #1, wrap up IBE Act II

1/26: The Importance of Being Earnest, Act III DUE, pages 91-End

1/27: Finish discussion & wrap up IBE

1/30: The Importance of Being Earnest Essay

1/31-2/1: William Shakespeare's Othello:  Intro Notes, Online Text, Othello Character Map, Men and Women in Othello, A Brief History of the Moors, Literary Terms, Othello Play Synopsis, The Chain of Being, Some Thoughts on Tragedy

2/2: Media Center, work on poetry notebooks

2/3: Multiple Choice practice

2/6-7: Othello, Act I DUE, Kennedy and Gioia, pages 1501-1523, Act I study questions

2/8: Characterization, Blank verse, and Formal and Informal address in Othello

2/9-10:  Othello, Act II DUE, Kennedy and Gioia, pages 1523-43

2/13-14: Othello, Act III DUE, Kennedy and Gioia, pages 1543-65

2/15: Edwin Arlington Robinson's "How Annandale Went Out" (1910) and Dudley Randall's "To the Mercy Killers" (1973)

2/16: Incentive Day