AP+Literature+Syllabus

=__Syllabus: AP English Literature and Composition__= Mr. Mark Fornnarino Englewood High School Room 3406 mark_fornnarino@engschools.net (303)263-8998

AP English Literature and Composition offers students the oppostunity to experience an intensive course of study involving various works. During the course, students will actively read, interpret, and analyze texts in an effort to gain a deep understanding of these works. Emphasis is palced on the students gaining the ability to perform in-depth literary analysis.This analysis will focus on how an author's literary choices complement a work's purpose as well as theme(s), while offering an interpretation of of the text and its effectiveness. Frequent opportunities to write both formally and informally about literature, as well as intensive class discussions/activities, will assess the students' comprehension of the materials.
 * Course Description**:

At the completion of AP English Literature and Composition, each student will be able to: Throughout the course, students will be offered instruction and feedback to help them write independently using:
 * Learning Outcomes**:
 * make warranted and reasonable assertions about an author's arguments
 * recognize and use literary terms
 * apply literary terminology to fiction, drama, and poetry
 * annotate a literary text
 * analyze different genres of literature; specifically, long fiction (novels), drama, poetry, and short fiction (short stories)
 * read literary texts closely
 * read and understand literary essays
 * answer timed prompts on literary selections
 * recognize and understand examples of different literary genres
 * read, draft, compose, and format literary essays
 * analyze and answer multiple choice questions related to selections of literature and literary study
 * utilize computer technology to support and enhance the study of literature
 * sentence structures, including the use of subordination and coordination
 * logical organization, enhanced by specific techniques to increase coherence--such as repetition, transitions, and emphasis
 * a balance of generalizations and specific, illustrative details
 * an effective use of rhetoric--including controlling tone, establishing/maintaining voice, and achieving appropriate emphasis through diction/sentence structure

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 * Utilized works:**
 * **Novels** (4): //Catcher in the Rye//, Salinger; //Siddhartha//, Hesse; //Heart of Darkness//, Conrad; //Pride & Prejudice//, Austen; //A Thousand Acres//, Smiley (extra credit)
 * **Plays** (4): //Death of a Salesman//, Miller; //Hamlet//, Shakespeare; //Oedipus Rex//, Sophocles; //A// //Midsummer Night's Dream//, Shakespeare; //King Lear//, Shakespeare (extra credit)
 * **Poetry** (35-45): Poems by (but not limited to): Matthew Arnold, Elizabeth Bishop, William Blake, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Browning, Billy Collins, E.E. Cummings, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, T.S. Eliot, Edward Field, Carolyn Forche, Robert Frost, George Gascoigne, Thomas Hardy, Robert Hayden, Seamus Heaney, A.E. Houseman, Langston Hughes, John Keats, Samuel Johnson, Steve Lawhead, George Meredith, Mary Oliver, Wilfred Owen, Edgar Allan Poe, John Crowe Ransom, William Shakespeare, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Sir Phillip Sidney, Wallace Stevens, May Swenson, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Dylan Thomas, Robert Penn Warren, Richard Wilbur, William Carlos Williams, William Wordsworth, William Butler Yates
 * **Short Stories** (8-12) Short fiction by (but not limited to): Margaret Atwood, Sandra Cisneros, William Faulkner, Nathaniel Hawthorne, D.H. Lawrence, Herman Melville, Flannery O'Connor, Gary Soto, John Updike
 * **Texts**: //The Bedford Introduction to Literature//, //Literarature: Reading, Reacting, Writing - AP Edition// (Kirszner & Mandell), //The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, The Norton Anthology of Poetry, Perrine's Sound & Sense, Poetry// (Meyer), //100 Great Essays//
 * **Online**: varied sites, including AP Central (The College Board)
 * Grading (semester)**
 * **Assignment Category** || **Points Possible** || **Percentage of Grade** ||
 * Tests || 100 || 20% ||
 * Quizzes || 10 || 10% ||
 * Major Essays || 90 || 15% ||
 * Minor Essays || 45 || 35% ||
 * Homework || varied || 10% ||
 * In-class Assignments || varied || 10% ||