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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