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    AP Literature Syllabus
    Google Classroom Code
    Some Generalizations About Literature
    Literary Analysis Terms
    Symbolism of Colors, Birds, and Flowers
    Tonal Scale
    Tone Words Vocabulary
    First Semester Calendar
    Summer Reading and Journal Assignment
    Curriculum Night: 26 August 2024 - PowerPoint
    AP Literature Extended Rubrics
    Poetry Responses: Poems for Analysis - Set 2
    AP Literature: Second Semester Calendar
    Second Semester Vocabulary Lists: AP Literature
    Second Semester Calendar Update 2 (10 March)
    August 5 - August 11
    AP Agreement Contract
    Poetry Analysis: Three Poems for Questioning
    August 12 - August 18
    Tone Words Quiz #1 (List 1)
    Poetry Analysis: "Love Song: I and Thou"
    Poetry Analysis: "When in Rome" with Analysis Questions
    Poetry Analysis: Donne's "The Bait" and the Conceit
    Poetry Analysis: Donne's "The Broken Heart"
    Poetry Analysis: Spencer and Nims Poems and Comparison/Contrast Chart
    August 19 - August 25
    Poetry Analysis: Sonnet Forms and Shakespeare's Sonnet 116
    Poetry Analysis: The English Romantic Poets
    Poetry Analysis: The English Romantic Poets
    Poetry Analysis: Analysis Questions for Shakespeare's Sonnet 116
    Poetry Analysis: Olds's "On the Subway"
    August 26 - September 1
    Tone Words Quiz #2 (Lists 1 and 2)
    Poetry Analysis: Larkin's "Poetry of Departures"
    Poetry Analysis: Sample Essay - Larkin's "Poetry of Departures"
    Poetry Analysis: Poetry Analysis Rubric
    Poetry Analysis: Senior's "Plants"
    Poetry Analysis: Pre-Writing - Essay
    Poetry Analysis: Essay
    Poetry Analysis: Poetry Notebook and Weekly Response Explanation
    Poetry Analysis: Poems - Set 1
    Poetry Analysis: AP Daily Poetry Analysis Screen Shots
    September 2 - September 8
    Short Stories and Characterization: Words to Describe Character Traits
    Short Stories and Characterization: Character Functions
    Short Stories and Characterization: Greene's "The Destructors"
    Short Stories and Characterization: Chopin's "The Story of an Hour"
    Short Stories and Characterization: Mansfield's "Miss Brill"
    Short Stories and Characterization: Aspects of Characterization in "Miss Brill"
    Short Stories and Characterization: "Miss Brill" - Analysis Questions
    Poetry Response #1
    September 9 - September 15
    Short Stories and Characterization: "Miss Brill" - Analysis Questions
    Short Stories and Characterization: Aspects of Characterization Analysis Chart for "Miss Brill"
    Short Stories and Characterization: Joyce's "Araby"
    Stories and Characterization: Analysis Questions for Joyce's "Araby"
    Short Stories and Characterization: Joyce's "Eveline"
    Short Stories and Characterization: Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" with Analysis Questions
    Short Stories and Characterization: Analysis Questions for Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily"
    Short Stories and Characterization: Welty's "A Worn Path" and Analysis Questions
    Short Stories and Characterization: Analysis Questions for Welty's "A Worn Path"
    September 16 - September 22
    Tone Words Quiz #3 (Lists 1-3)
    Short Stories and Characterization: Existentialism
    Short Stories and Characterization: Existential Novels
    Short Stories and Characterization: Camus's "The Guest"
    Short Stories and Characterization: Analysis Questions for Camus's "The Guest"
    Short Stories and Characterization: Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown"
    Short Stories and Characterization: Analysis Questions for Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown"
    Character Analysis: Explanation
    Character Analysis: Words to Describe Character
    Character Analysis: Analysis Chart
    Character Analysis: AP Daily Videos Characterization - Screenshots
    Poetry Response #2
    September 23 - September 29
    Character Analysis: Outline/Plan of Development
    Character Analysis: Sample Essay
    Character Analysis: Developing a Paragraph
    Character Analysis: Rough Draft
    Character Analysis: Peer Reading
    September 30 - October 6
    Character Analysis: Revision - Diction
    Character Analysis: Revision - Syntax
    Character Analysis: Editing Checklist
    Character Analysis: Revision - Reference Sheets
    Prose Analysis: Passage from Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables
    Poetry Response #3
    Prose Analysis: Petry's The Street
    October 7 - October 13
    Character Analysis: Final Draft
    Prose Analysis: Thesis Statement for Passage from Petrie's The Street
    Tone Words Quiz #4 (Lists 1-4)
    Prose Analysis: Stratchey's Nightingale Passage
    Prose Analysis: Eliot's "Old Leisure"
    October 21 - October 27
    Prose Analysis: Passage from James's "The Pupil"
    Prose Analysis: Embedding Evidence and Reference Sheets
    Prose Analysis: Revising Dead Sentences and Embedding Quotation
    Prose Analysis: Passage from Hawthorne's Blithedale Romance and Student Samples
    Multiple Choice Practice #1
    Prose Analysis: Hawthorne Zenobia Passage from Blithedale Romance
    Prose Passage: Hawthorne Zenobia Passage - Student Samples and Commentary
    Prose Analysis: James's "The Pupil" Analysis and Preparation
    Prose Analysis: AP Daily Videos - Prose Fiction Analysis Screenshots
    Prose Analysis: MC Practice - Donne Passage
    Prose Passage Analysis: Pre-Writing - Essay
    Prose Passage Analysis: Essay
    Tone Words Quiz #5 (Lists 1-5)
    Poetry Response #4
    October 28 - November 3
    Poetry - Language, Style, and Structure: Poems for Analysis
    Multiple Choice Practice #2
    November 4 - November 10
    Poetry - Language, Style, and Structure: Bradstreet's "An Author to Her Book" - Analysis and Essay Preparation
    Task Grades
    Poetry - Language, Style, and Structure: Virtual Day Video 11-5-24
    Poetry - Language, Style, and Structure: Mann's "Driving Sideways" - Metaphor Analysis
    Poetry Tone Analysis Essay: Writing About Tone in Poetry
    Poetry Tone Analysis Essay: Acronyms for Analyzing Poetry
    Poetry Tone Analysis Essay: Bradstreet's "Upon the Burning of Our House," Outline, and Sample Essay
    Poetry Tone Analysis Essay: Poems for Analysis
    Poetry Tone Analysis Essay: Poem Annotations
    Poetry Response #5
    November 11 - November 17
    Poetry Tone Analysis: Outline
    Poetry Tone Analysis Essay: Rough Draft
    Task Day
    Poetry Tone Analysis Essay: Peer Reading
    Poetry Tone Analysis: Editing and Proofreading
    November 18 - November 24
    Poetry Tone Analysis Essay: Final Draft
    Multiple Choice Practice #3: Unit 3
    Film Study: Farce
    Film Study: Some Like It Hot (1959) - Context
    Film Study: Some Like It Hot - Guiding Questions
    Poetry Response #6
    December 2 - December 8
    Film Study: Some Like It Hot - Characterization and Farce
    Independent Novel: STEM Mini-Project Choices and Explanations
    Independent Novel: Reduction - Explanation
    Independent Novel: Reduction
    Independent Novel: Literary Argument - Pre-Writing
    Independent Novel: Literary Argument Essay
    Multiple Choice Practice 4: AP Classroom Unit 4
    Tone Words Quiz #6: Final - All Lists, All Words
    December 9 - December 15
    Independent Novel: STEM Mini-Project
    December 16 - December 22
    Final Exam
    January 6 - January 12
    Prose Comparison/Contrast Essay: Modeling Prompt and Analysis
    Prose Comparison/Contrast Essay: Student Sample
    Prose Comparison/Contrast: Sample Organizing and Outline
    Prose Comparison/Contrast Essay: Conclusions
    Prose Comparison/Contrast Essay: Absolute Phrases and Balanced Sentences
    Prose Comparison/Contrast: Peer Review
    Prose Comparison/Contrast Essay: Rough Draft
    January 13 - January 19
    Prose Comparison/Contrast Essay: Final Draft
    The Turn of the Screw: Pre-Reading and Contextual Activities
    Turn of the Screw: Pre-Reading and Contextual Activities
    Turn of the Screw: Henry James
    S2 Vocabulary Quiz #1 (List 1)
    Multiple Choice Practice #5
    Turn of the Screw: Journal Response #1
    Turn of the Screw: Chapters I-III -Analysis Tasks
    Turn of the Screw: Journal Response #2 - Chapters I-III
    January 20 - January 26
    Turn of the Screw: Journal Response #3 - Chapters IV-XI
    Turn of the Screw: Journal Response #4 - Chapters XII-XVI
    Turn of the Screw: Journal Response #5 - Chapters XXVII-XXI
    Task Day: 23 January 2025
    Turn of the Screw: Journal Response #6 - Chapters XXII-XXIV
    January 27 - February 2
    Turn of the Screw: Mini-Socratic Seminars - Explanation
    Turn of the Screw: Mini-Socratic Seminars
    Turn of the Screw: Film Analysis Guide - Cinema Terms
    S2 Vocabulary Quiz #2 (Lists 1 and 2)
    Multiple Choice Practice #6
    February 3 - February 9
    Turn of the Screw: The Innocents (1961) Viewing Guide
    Turn of the Screw: The Innocents (1961) - Film Credits
    Turn of the Screw: The Innocents (1961) - Comparing Literature and Film Prompts
    Turn of the Screw: Elements of Cinema Links
    Turn of the Screw: How to Write a Killer Book and Film Comparison
    Turn of the Screw: Sample Novel/Film Comparisons
    In-Class Prose Analysis: Pre-Writing
    In-Class Prose Analysis: Essay
    Turn of the Screw: Novel and Film Comparison/Contrast - Rough Draft
    February 10 - February 16
    Turn of the Screw: Comparison/Contrast - Novel and Film Final Draft
    Sula: Dialectic Journal - Explanation
    Sula: Toni Morrison
    Sula: Dialectic Journal - pp. 1-16
    Sula: Dialectic Journal - pp. 17-29
    Sula: Dialectic Journal - pp. 30-48
    Sula: Characterization - Conflicts and Influences
    Sula: Dialectic Journal - pp. 49-85
    Sula: Characterization - Conflicts and Influences
    S2 Vocabulary Quiz #3 (Lists 1-3)
    February 17 - February 23
    Sula: Dialectic Journal - pp. 89-111
    Sula: Dialectic Journal - pp. 112-137
    Sula: Dialectic Journal - pp. 138-149
    Sula: Dialectic Journal - pp. 150-162
    Sula: Character as Process
    In-Class Poetry Analysis: Pre-Writing
    In-Class Poetry Analysis: Essay
    February 24 - March 2
    Sula: Dialectical Journal - pp. 162-174
    Sula: Socratic Seminar Topics
    Sula: Essay on Imagery/Symbolism - Explanation and Samples
    Task Day
    Multiple Choice Practice #7
    Sula: Socratic Seminar - Day One
    Sula: Socratic Seminar - Day Two
    March 3 - March 8
    Sula: Imagery Essay - Final Draft
    S2 Vocabulary Quiz #4 (Lists 1-4)
    Hamlet: Origins and History
    Hamlet: Introductory Material and Summaries
    Hamlet: Guiding Questions for Hamlet (1996)
    Hamlet: Characters Map
    Hamlet: Characterization - Hamlet Assigns Character
    Hamlet: Characterization of Ophelia - Defined by Others
    March 10 - March 16
    Hamlet: Reading Check Quiz - Act I.ii-v
    Hamlet: Analysis of Act I.i
    Hamlet: Analysis Act I.ii-v
    Hamlet: Reading Check Quiz - Act II
    Hamlet: Analysis of Act II
    Hamlet: Analysis of Act III.i-ii
    S2 Vocabulary Quiz #5: (Lists 1-5)
    March 17 - March 23
    Analysis of Act III.iii-iv
    Hamlet: Analysis of Act III.iii-iv
    Hamlet: Analysis of Act IV.i-iv
    Hamlet: Analysis of Act IV.v-vii
    Hamlet: Analysis of Act IV
    Task Day
    Hamlet: Act V
    March 24 - March 30
    In-Class Prose Analysis: Pre-Writing
    In-Class Prose Analysis: Essay
    Hamlet: Analysis of Act V
    S2 Vocabulary Quiz #6 (Lists 1-6)
    Post-Modern Drama: Edward Albee's The Zoo Story
    Hamlet: Essay on a Problem
    Post-Modern Drama: The Zoo Story - Edward Albee and Theater of the Absurd
    Post-Modern Drama: The Zoo Story - Psychology of an Era - the 1950s
    Post-Modern Drama: The Zoo Story - Journal Response 1
    Post-Modern Drama: The Zoo Story - Analysis of Theme
    Post-Modern Drama: The Zoo Story - Significant Elements
    Post-Modern Drama: The Zoo Story - Journal Response 2
    Post-Modern Drama: The Zoo Story - Journal Response 3
    Post-Modern Drama: The Zoo Story - Analysis of Theme
    March 31 - April 6
    Hamlet: Problem Essay - Final Draft
    Post-Modern Drama: Jean-Paul Sartre - Life, Works, and Philosophy
    Post-Modern Drama: Sartre's No Exit - Journal Response
    Post-Modern Drama: No Exit - Character Maps
    Post-Modern Drama: No Exit - Mini-Socratic Seminar
    Post-Modern Drama: No Exit - Journal Response 2
    Post-Modern Drama: No Exit - Reflections
    April 14 - April 20
    Post-Modern Drama: Independent Play - Analysis Questions
    In-Class Poetry Analysis: Pre-Writing
    In-Class Poetry Analysis: Essay
    Post-Modern Drama: Independent Play - Analysis Questions
    Independent Play: Literary Argument Essay - Pre-Writing
    Independent Play: Literary Argument - Essay
    Review: Four Major Works Document and Sample
    Review: Journal Response - Walcott's XIV
    Review: Journal Response - Gardner's Jason and Medea
    Multiple Choice Practice 8: AP Classroom - Unit 8
    April 21 - April 27
    Review: More Than One Way of Looking at a Toad
    Review: Four Major Works
    Final Exam
    April 28 - May 4
    Review: Journal Response - Hardy's "Convergence of the Twain"
    Review: Analysis of Passage from Austen's Emma
    Review: Journal Response - Passage from Conrad's Typhoon
    Review: Journal Response to Passage from McCarthy's The Crossing
    Review: Journal Response - Auden's "Law Like Love"
    Review: Literary Argument Questions 1970-2024
    Review: Journal Response - Soliloquy from Shakespeare's Henry V
    Multiple Choice Practice 9
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