AP Literature and Composition Assignments
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Advanced Placement Literature and Composition emphasizes the development of skills in critical reading of imaginative literature and in analytical writing. Through a close chronological study of British poetry, drama, short stories, and novels, supplemented by additional non-British works, students will practice identifying and interpreting how stylistic patterns contribute to and construct meaning within a text. Students will examine texts within their historical and cultural context, aided by an introduction to various critical theories. As this is a college-level course, students are expected to come to class with the level of preparation required for a seminar course and to continue to develop their academic voice and university-level writing through vocabulary work, a refined understanding of literary terms, and various timed and process papers.
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Portfolio Due 8 am.
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Due: Extra Credit Early Portfolio by 8 am.
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Due: RJ 9: Write 10 Ultimate KPPs that you want to remember during your AP test.
Reading Journal due to TIN8.
- "Dover Beach" - 5 CD-CMs with poetry terms
- HT (1-17) - 10 CD-CMs with prose terms
- "The Darkling Thrush" - TPR
- HT (18-30) - 10 CD-CMs
- "Dulce et Decorum Est" - TPR
- "Dulce et Decorum Est" - Body Paragraph with integrated quotes
- HT - Book brief
- "Those Sunday Mornings" & "My Papa's Waltz" - Essay Starter, with TPR, TS's, CD's
- Ten Final KPPs
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Read "Those Sunday Mornings" and "My Papa's Waltz" and consider how literary techniques are used to convey the complex relationships the speakers have with their fathers. RJ 8: Essay Starter, with TPR, TS, and CDs
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Comprehensive Final
Study Guide in Student Resources Folder.
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Due: finish HT, including "Historical Notes". Reading Journal 7: Book Brief.
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Timed Writing Final
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Read "Dulce et Decorum Est". Reading Journal 5: TPR.
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Due: Modernism Video. Notes. Bring "Hap" and "Leda and the Swan"
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Tuesday: Handmaid's Tale, Ch 18-30. Reading Journal 4: 10 CD-CMs
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Due: Reading Journal 3: Read "The Darkling Thrush" and write a TPR. Your TPR should include how the construction of mood relates to the MOWAW.
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Wednesday: Handmaid's Tale, Ch 1-17. (Annotations Optional) RJ 2: 10 CD-CMs. Prose Basics: CMs must use: point of view, imagery, symbol, mood, irony.
Multiple Choice practice after school
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Due: Read "Lady of Shalott." Quiz.
Optional Extra Credit multiple choice practice after school
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Due: RJ 1: "Dover Beach" 5 CD-CMs. Poetry Basics. CMs must use: euphony/cacophony, imagery, metaphor, irony, speaker
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Due: Victorian Video. Notes.
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Due: Three Timed Writings and KPP Reflection
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Wednesday: Due: "Ode on the Grecian Urn," Reading Journal 9: One Page Question Essay. List (and organize) interpretive questions (unanswered) on the poem.
Reading Journal Due to TIN8.
- Heart of Darkness - 10 CD-CMs
- Heart of Darkness - book brief
- "The Lamb" and "The Tyger" - DISFOPT and TPR (TPR must not match anyone else's)
- Sound and the Fury, part 1 - Paragraph on pov and character
- Sound and the Fury, part 2 - 10 CD-CMs
- Sound and the Fury, part 3 - Essay Starter, with TPR, CDs, and TSs comparing Jason and Quentin Sr.'s view of women
- "Ode to the West Wind" - TPR
- Sound and the Fury, part 4 - Book brief
- "Ode on a Grecian Urn" - Question Essay
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Due: Finish Sound and the Fury. Reading Journal 8: Book Brief. Annotations Due
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Extra Credit Annotations Due
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Due: KPP Reflection
Also Due: Reading Journal 7: TPR on "Ode to the West Wind"
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Due: Sound and the Fury, Part 3. Reading Journal 6: Essay Starter, with TPR, CDs, and topic sentences comparing Jason and Quentin Sr.'s view of women.
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Due: Sound and the Fury, part 2. Reading Journal 5: 10 CD-CMs.
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Due: Heart of Darkness Final Draft to TIN8
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Due: Research Paper Final Draft to TIN 8
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Due: Sound and the Fury, part one. Reading Journal 4: A paragraph analyzing how the use of Benjy's point of view enhances the characterization of another character. You should use ample, integrated textual evidence.
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Due: HoD Peer Editing. On Paper.
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Due: HoD Rough Draft on paper and to TIN8
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Bring Big Book -->
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Due: Romantics Video. Take Notes.
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Due: Reading Journal 2: Heart of Darkness Book Brief
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Heart of Darkness reading due. 25-point quiz. Book annotation check. Reading Journal 1: 10 CD-CMs.
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Bring Big Book
Extra Credit HoD annotations check after school
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Due: KPP Reflection
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Hamlet Presentations due! Have notes in class and turn them in to TIN8
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Due: Reading Journal 6: Hamlet book brief.
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- Pride and Prejudice - Essay Starter for first page
- Pride and Prejudice - Book brief
- Hamlet - TPR about Fortinbras Speech
- Hamlet - 3 CD-CMs and TPR about Hamlet's view of death
- Hamlet - TPR about resolution
- Hamlet - Book brief
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Due: Reading Journal 5: Write a TPR for Hamlet for the following AP prompt: An effective literary work does not merely stop or cease; it concludes. In the view of some critics, a work that does nor provide the pleasure of significant “closure” has terminated with an artistic fault. A satisfactory ending is not, however, always conclusive in every sense; significant closure may require the reader to abide with or adjust to ambiguity or uncertainty. Write an essay that discusses the ending of a novel or play of acknowledged literary merit. Explain precisely how and why the ending appropriately or inappropriately concludes the work. Do not merely summarize the work.
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Due: Bring and annotate a source using your theory to analyze Hamlet
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Reading Journal 4: Complete 3 CD-CMs that illustrate Hamlet's fluctuating view of death. Then, write a TPR in which you embrace complexity and identify Hamlet's complex relationship with death.
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Reading Journal 3: Peruse Hamlet's speech about Fortinbras (Act 4, scene 4). Write a TPR analyzing how the speech connects to larger themes within the text.
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Finish through Act II, scene 2. Quiz.
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Bring in a theory article. You should have read through it and included annotations.
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Read through Act II, scene 1. Quiz.
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KPP Reflection
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Finish through Act I, scene 3. Quiz.
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Due: Act I, Scene I. Quiz.
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Watch Literary Theory Video and take notes.
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Due: Reading Journal 2: Pride and Prejudice book brief
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Due: Comparative Essay Final Draft to TIN8. Make sure you meet the dead verb, power verb, semicolon, etc. stipulations.
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Comparative Essay Rough Draft due.
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Finish Pride and Prejudice. Exam. Bring Scantron.
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Bring Final Study Guide to class. (It's in your Google Classroom Student Resources Folder.)
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Final Essay - Bring Essay Scantron
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Due: Reading Journal 8: 1-2 page imitation of Addison. Choose a character type (stock character, social group, profession, etc.) and dissect a(n appropriate) part of their body. Imitating Addison's combination of a scientific style and figurative language, use your dissection to satirize the character type.
Reading Journal Due to TIN 8.
- Marlowe and Raleigh - Comparative Essay Starter with Topic Sentences
- Ben Jonson's Poems - 5 CD-CMs with terms
- Macbeth - Paragraph analysis of moral culpability
- Macbeth - 5 CD-CMs
- Macbeth - Book Brief
- "Holy Sonnet 10" - 5 CD-CMs with terms (apostrophe, sonnet, metaphor, paradox, and climax)
- "When I consider how my light is spent" - TPR
- Addison imitation
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Due: Read "When I consider how my light is spent" (493). Reading Journal 7: Write a TPR considering how Milton's structure, diction, and figurative language convey his speaker's message. Note the tone and style of this poem without using those two words. Also note the speaker’s persona (should be relevant to your understanding of the poem’s implicit message), and explain what this poem reveals about that speaker. Any sort of strategy worth mentioning? Keep your intro to two sentences. Map out first along the DISFOPT continuum. Save on Drive. You don't have to print it out.
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Due: Read "The Beau's Head" and "The Coquette's Heart" from Supplemental Poetry folder. Quiz. Print them out to bring to class.
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Due: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century video. Notes, Questions.
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Terms Test. Bring Scantron.
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KPP Reflection Due.
Bring big book.
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Due: Reading Journal 5: Macbeth book brief
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Research Paper Final Draft due to TIN8
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Due: Finish Act IV. Quiz.
Due: Reading Journal 4: 5 CD-CMs from what we've read so far of Macbeth emphasizing imagery or metaphors. Choose quotations that we haven't spent a lot of time on.
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Extra Credit Research Paper due to TIN8.
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Tuesday: Peer Editing due in class. (Print it out if you commented on google drive.)
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Due: Reading Journal 3: Paragraph analysis - who is morally culpable for Duncan's death?
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Due: Research Paper Rough Draft. Upload to TIN8 AND bring a paper copy to class. You may also wish to have it available on Google Drive.
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Term Test. Bring Scantron. Study Guide Available on Google Classroom.
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Due: KPP Reflection
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Due: Research Paper Outline due to TIN 8. Must include primary and secondary sources, as well as MLA-standard Works Cited page.
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Due: Reading Journal 2: Read "Song: To Celia" and "On My First Son" (275-276). Complete 5 CD-CMs (total), but your CMs must include the following terms: metaphor, tone, apostrophe, allusion, imagery.
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Thursday: Due: Reading Journal 1: Read the poems from Marlowe and Raleigh. Complete an essay starter (TPR, Topic Sentences, and Concrete Details) analyzing the way the poets’ use of tone conveys one message common to both literary works.
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Template for comparative essay: In Christopher Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love,” the speaker’s tone conveys __________ while in Sir Walter Raleigh’s “The Nymph’s Reply,” the speaker’s tone __________; however, in both Renaissance poems, the tone __________, thus suggesting………………
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Due: Research Paper step: Academic Title, Thesis, and Extensive Analysis (DISFOPT) due to TIN8.
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Due: Watch Renaissance Video, take notes.
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Due: Read "The Pardoner's Tale." Quiz.
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Due: Reading Journal 8: Modern Pilgrim. Also Due: KPP Reflection
***Reading Journal Due to TIN 8***
Assignment Description
In the prologue to The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer describes a group of pilgrims. The descriptions of most of his characters subtly suggest the ways in which each pilgrim (humorously or disturbingly) falls short of the role that a person in his/her position should play. In doing so, Chaucer presents a critique of members of the medieval society and his society as a whole.
For this assignment, you will describe your own modern pilgrim in Chaucer's style. Just like Chaucer, you will subtly hint at your character's flaws, foibles, and inconsistencies, drawing attention to the weaknesses of this character type, the failings of this group in society, or the artificiality of this group's reputation.
Assignment Guidelines
- Description should be written in verse
- It may rhyme but does not have to
- Should be a minimum of 25 lines
- Should identify a character type (by career or title), not an individual
- May describe the character's appearance, dress, actions, attitude, expressions, and/or words
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- Passage to India - 3 B-->I Quotes, 3 I-->B Quotes
- "Modern Fiction" - Structured paragraph relating to Lighthouse
- Sample Essays - Score and Justify
- Beowulf - 5 CD-CMs
- Beowulf - Essay Starter (Christian and Pagan), include topic sentences and CDs
- Write a TPR and essay starter (with topic sentences and cited concrete details) responding to the following prompt: How does Beowulf represent a union of traditional Anglo-Saxon and Christian ideals? Ultimately, how does the presence of such disparate values effect the text? You may wish you consider fate/wyrd vs. providence, wergild vs. mercy, or fame vs. salvation.
- "The Seafarer" - TPR - Complex attitude toward sea
- Le Morte D'Arthur - TPR - Religious motifs
- Modern Pilgrim
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Due: Canterbury Tales "Prologue" Presentations. Make sure you have two typed outlines (one for me and one for you).
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RJ 7: Read Le Morte D'Arthur and complete a TPR discussing Mallory's use of religious motifs.
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Due: Watch Medieval Video, take notes.
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Due: Reading Journal 5: TPR. Describe the way that the speaker’s use of language reflects and conveys his complex attitude toward the sea in “The Seafarer.” (60-65) Include one power verb and no dead verbs. Outline first using DISFOPT. (Very informal - you don't need to turn in the outline.) Your discussion of stylistic devices (resources of language) should make clear the way that those devices fit into a larger strategy or overarching organizational pattern or underlying tension inherent in the literary work and how it presents that work’s ideas.
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Due: Read Beowulf (23-48). Reading Journal 3: 5 CD-CMs.
Due: KPP Reflection. Consider the KPPs you received on your summer reading test. How did you try to improve in those areas on this essay? How successful were you? What are other concerns regarding your essays?
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Due: Reading Journal 3: Read Sample Essays (Available on Google Classroom). In 3-5 sentences for each essay, present the score and explain why they earned it.
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Watch Anglo-Saxon Video and take notes.
Print out "Hazel Tells Laverne" from Supplemental Poetry (in Google Classroom) and bring to class.
Bring big book.
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Due: The Awakening book brief to TIN8
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Bring The Awakening
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Due: Reading Journal 2: Consider this passage from "Modern Fiction" by Woolf:
"Look within and life, it seems, is very far from being 'like this'. Examine for a moment an ordinary mind on an ordinary day. The mind receives a myriad impressions — trivial, fantastic, evanescent, or engraved with the sharpness of steel. From all sides they come, an incessant shower of innumerable atoms; and as they fall, as they shape themselves into the life of Monday or Tuesday, the accent falls differently from of old; the moment of importance came not here but there; so that, if a writer were a free man and not a slave, if he could write what he chose, not what he must, if he could base his work upon his own feeling and not upon convention, there would be no plot, no comedy, no tragedy, no love interest or catastrophe in the accepted style, and perhaps not a single button sewn on as the Bond Street tailors would have it. Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end. Is it not the task of the novelist to convey this varying, this unknown and uncircumscribed spirit, whatever aberration or complexity it may display, with as little mixture of the alien and external as possible? We are not pleading merely for courage and sincerity; we are suggesting that the proper stuff of fiction is a little other than custom would have us believe it."
Choose one idea about modern fiction from this excerpt and write a well-structured paragraph analyzing the way To the Lighthouse adheres to Woolf's writing philosophy.
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Due: To the Lighthouse book brief to TIN8
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Due: A Passage to India book brief to turnitin.com by 8 am.
Bring To the Lighthouse
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Due: RJ 1: Collect 3 Passage quotes showing how the British viewed Indians and 3 Passage Quotes showing how Indians viewed the British.
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Due: Syllabus Contract, Binder check
Bring A Passage to India
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Summer Reading Essay Exam
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College Projects Due!