CLASSEN SCHOOL OF ADVANCED STUDIES
CLASSEN SCHOOL OF ADVANCED STUDIES
SYLLABUS FOR AP ENGLISH LITERATURE/COMPOSITION, 2010-2011
Congratulations! You have arrived at the final part of the journey you began when you came to Classen. The end is within your reach. Please share this information with your parents. This syllabus outlines the process and procedure for our course of study, detailing the curriculum that will you prepare you to sit the AP Literature/Comp or the AP Language/Comp exam in May 2011 I encourage all of you to go ahead and contact any school you are considering to see how many credit hours they award for what score on which AP exam. Generally speaking, for AP scores of 3 out of 5, you earn one semester of English. At OU, a 3 or 4 on AP Lang or AP Lit = 3 hours college freshman English; a 5, 6 hours or 2 semesters.
HOUSEKEEPING: (A) ATTENDANCE IS MANDATORY. If you have to miss a class for illness, absolute emergency, you MUST come in for tutoring BEFORE you can make up or turn in ANY work. You should schedule your tutoring within five (5) school days of the absence. PLEASE DO NOT SCHEDULE DENTAL OR MEDICAL APPOINTMENTS DURING THIS CLASS. What cannot be made up is class discussion, where a great deal of the learning about a work takes place.
(B) LATE WORK POLICY. Lose points for all late assignments. Exceptions: absence for certified illness—then you have 5 school days to make up all the work. You must come in after school to check with me before you turn in any late work—don’t rely on your classmates to get you the correct information. SPECIFICS: (1) Journals, etc., over major author/work—assigned by chapter of section—no work will be accepted after we have finished a chapter or section.. (2) At the end of EACH grading period, I will accept that quarter’s work for ONE WEEK ONLY at ½ credit. After that week, no work from that quarter will be accepted.
(C) ON-TIME POINTS. On major work essays, all students who turn in work on time will earn 25 points in Composition category. After the due date, these points will not be awarded. This is a reward for those who do work on time, a penalty for those who do not. The quality grade on the work will not be affected.
HOMEWORK: Mostly reading; assigned to practice what we have done in class or to set groundwork for what we will do the following class period. Most of the reading--99%--must be done out of class. Also, the major end-of-unit/work essays will be prepared out of class. We will have pop quizzes, warm-ups, journal topics, etc., at the beginning of most class periods. These can only be made up during tutoring.
GRADING: Every assignment is graded on the point system, with each given a designated number of points possible. Each category is a percentage of your total grade for the quarter. EX: Classwork = 15%; Composition = 30%; Current Events (outside reports, cultural literacy assignments, AP practices) = 15%; Final Essays = 40% (usually weighted). Zeroes will kill you. All essays will be graded using IB descriptors of 20-25 points, and 9-point AP rubrics. The scope and number of assignments vary from quarter to quarter. Final essay grades are weighted. The computer figures out all the percentages and spits out the Grand Average, which is then placed on the District’s grading scale:
A = 90-100 B = 80-89 C = 70-79 D = 60-69 F = 0-59
Eligibility grade and Semester grade = cumulative grade from beginning of term (semester)
ALL ESSAYS, except timed ones written in class, must be TYPED with no errors. Not typed = no grade
Submit ALL ESSAYS in hard and electronic copies. It is the student’s responsibility to take the electronic copy to Ms Allen in the Media Center to run it through TurnItIn, check for referencing. .
ALL OTHER WORK--BLUE or BLACK INK, 1 side of page, do not skip lines, no ink disasters. Observing the right 1” margin is unnecessary. A notebook or folder of all handouts and essays is required for study and review. EX: For each work, you must write a good essay or prepare and deliver an oral presentation. I strongly suggest that, if at all possible, you buy your own copies of the works we read. If you take notes in the book as we discuss, you will have your own study guide/review manual. Check used bookstores.
Ms Hulsey’s tutoring schedule: Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays = 2:30-3:30, later by appointment
Office Hours: 1st period A and B Days
IMPORTANT DATES:
Tues., Aug. 31, Open House Mon., Jan 3, Record Day 1st week in May, IB and AP Testing Begins
Sept. 20, Progress Report Week Tues, Jan 4, 3rd Quarter Begins Tues, May 24, End 2nd Semester
Fri., Sept. 24, Parent Conference Mon., Jan 17, MLK Day Wed., May 25, Record Day
Fri., Oct. 15, End 1st Quarter Mon, Jan 31, Progress Report Week May 26, 27, 31, Snow Days
Oct. 21- 27, FALL BREAK Fri., Feb. 4, Parent Conference
Nov. 15, Progress Report Week Mon., Feb 21, Professional Dev.
Nov. 24-28, THANKSGIVING BREAK Wed., Feb 23, 8th Grade Writing Test
Fri, Dec. 17, End of 1st Semester Fri., Mar 11, End 3rd Quarter
Dec. 20-Jan. 4, WINTER BREAK March 14-20, SPRING BREAK
April 11-29, State EOI , CRT Testing
AP Exams begin the first week in May and continue for 2 weeks
THE AP ENGLISH LITERATURE CURRICULUM AND READING SCHEDULE, 2010-2011
General Texts: X. J. Kennedy’s Literature, Perrine’s Literature: Structure, Sound and Sense, 8tb Ed.; plus individual titles.
1ST QUARTER = THE SEARCH FOR IDENTITY
2ND QUARTER = THE EPIPHANY
3RD QUARTER = THE SEARCH FOR TRUTH
4TH QUARTER = RITES AND RITUALS OF OUR LIVES
DATES WORKS ASSESSMENT
Aug.20-27 Who Am I? What I Know Who Am I?
Identity Exercise Identity Exercise
Important Pages in Kennedy anthology
Discuss Summer Readings
Watch film The Secret Life of Bees (summer reading)
Aug 30-Sept 1 Willa Cather, “Paul’s Case” Point of View Assgn
Film, Paul’s Case
Sept. 3-29 Zlata Filipovic, Zlata’s Diary, Stolen Voices
Freedom Writers Diary with Erin Gruwell Interview Project, Presentation
Elie Wiesel, Night
Films--Freedom Writers Diary, Interviews with Zlata Filipovic and
Melanie Challenger
Oprah and Elie Wiesel visit Auschwitz
Music—Mozart’s Requiem from Sarajevo
Sept 10 Special 9-11 Unit
Oct 1 - Oct 29 Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner Journals
Selections from Mortenson and Relin’s Three Cups of Tea Practice Style Analysis Essay
Filmed Interviews with Hosseini about The Kite Runner, AP Open-Ended Question, timed essay
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Filmed Interviews with Mortenson
The Lost Boys
FALL BREAK – Read poems and essays about poetry
Nov 1-12 Poetry, #1
A—Robert Hayden, “Those Winter Sundays” Prose Response
Hayden, “The Whipping,” Theodore Roethke, “My Papa’s Waltz”
Adrienne Rich, “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” Comparison Essay
W.S. Merwin , “Your Absence” Sewing the Metaphor
B-William Stafford, “Traveling Through the Dark,” Rod McKuen, “Thoughts on Questions, Annotations
Capital Punishment,” Richard Wilbur, “The Death of a Toad” AP Poetry Analysis Essay
Nov 15-17 Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance” 25 Aphorisms
American Writers Series, Emerson Commentary on 2 aphorisms
Nov 22-Dec 10 Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man AP Style Analysis Essays
Essays by and about Ellison Journals, Commentary
Films--American Masters, King of the Bingo Game, Jazz, Harlem Lit. Festival Layering Assignment
Music—Dvorak, Louie Armstrong, Charlie Parker, the Blues Scale
Poetry—Paul Laurence Dunbar, “We Wear the Mask”
Dudley Randall, “Booker T. and W.E.B.”
T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
WINTER BREAK -- The Kafka Project: Kafka, “A Hunger Artist,” Steinbeck, “The Harness,” Moss, “The Death of the Hunger Artist”
With questions
Jan.5-21 Kafka, The Metamorphosis Dailies, Short essay topics
Films—show German students’ presentations AP Open-Ended Question, timed essay
Kafka biography, scenes from Snow in August (Golem)
Jan 24-26 Poetry #2
John Donne, “Death Be Not Proud,” and “Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God,” Questions , Annotations
Film, Wit, Emma Thompson
Donne, “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning,” Auden, “The Unknown Citizen” AP Multiple Choice
Tennyson, “The Eagle”
Jan. 31-Feb 16 Poetry #3
Frost, “After Apple-Picking,” “Bereft” and “Home Burial,” AP Poetry Analysis Essay
“Fire and Ice” and “Nothing Gold Can Stay”
“In White” and “Design,” “Out, Out--,” “The Road Not Taken”
Dickinson, Selected Poems, Keats, Selected Poems
Films, Voices and Visions, Frost and Dickinson
Feb 23 – Mar 11 Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold Journals, Walls & Barriers
“A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” AP Open-Ended Essay
Spanish students’ skits on “La viuda de Monteil,” GGM
Films—bio and Nobel interview with GGM, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, Isabel Allende filmed interview
BookTV, author of new biography, Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life by Gerald Martin
Music—Ravel’s Bolero
SPRING BREAK – Read contemporary American Indian selections
Mar 21 – Ap 13 Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony AP Style Analysis Essay
Films—Bio/Interview with Silko Trans poems into prose
The Rabbit-Proof Fence, Smoke Signals, scenes from Map of the Human Heart Final - Sestina
April 15 - May 1 Review for AP Exam
Multiple Choice Selections, including poetry
Close Reading of Prose Passages
Style Analysis of Prose Passage
Style Analysis of Poetry
Open-Ended Questions
May Exams:
AP Lang/Comp =
5 reading selections, 50-60 questions;
3 Essays (40 minutes each)
1 analytic essay/prose (identify and defend or refute writer’s argument)
1 synthesis essay
1 argumentative essay (agree, disagree, or qualify = agree with part, not all)
AP Lit/Comp – 3 prose reading selections, including 1-2 poems, 40-60 questions;
3 essays (40 minutes each)
1 style analysis of prose passage,
1 style analysis of poem,
1 open-ended question (idea or quote, you explore the topic using a major work studied in jr/sr years)
SUPPLEMENTAL READINGS: Select ONE work each semester, read it, and present an overview to class
1st Semester James Baldwin—Go Tell It on the Mountain or Another Country
James McBride – The Color of Water
Zora Neale Hurston – Their Eyes Were Watching God, Dust Tracks on the Road
Alice Walker – In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens (Essays about Zora Neale Hurston, Writing The Color Purple)
Toni Morrison – The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Beloved
Stieg Larsson – The Girl … Trilogy
Lorraine Hansberry – A Raisin in the Sun
Diane Ackerman – A Natural History of the Senses (selections)
Kate Chop[in – The Awakening
Frank McCourt – Angela’s Ashes or ‘Tis or Teacher Man
Terry Tempest Williams – Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place, or Leap
Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin – Three Cups of Tea, Stones Into Schools
Khaled Hosseini – A Thousand Splendid Suns
Steven Galloway -- The Cellist of Sarajevo
Orhan Pamuk -- Snow
Azar Nafiisi – Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Azar Nafisi – Things I’ve Been Silent About: Memories
Sue Monk Kidd – The Mermaid Chair, The Dance of the Dissident Daughter,
d 2nd Semester Jeanette Walls – The Glass Castle, Half-Broke Horses
Sara Gruen – Water for Elephants
Charlotte Perkins Gilman – The Yellow Wallpaper
Nadine Gordimer – The Pickup, Burger’s Daughter, July’s People
Robert M. Pirsig – Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
Gabriel Garcia Marquez – One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera
Sherman Alexie -- The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian,
Flight, Ten Little Indians, Reservation Blues
N. Scott Momaday – ANYTHING
Leslie Marmon Silko – Almanac of the Dead
Wilma Mankiller – Every Day is a Good Day
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