AP English Literature and Composition
Aledo High School - Fall 2009 Syllabus Instructor: Judy Hill, MA in English jhill@aledo.k12.tx.us jwhill53@peoplepc.com Website: http://TeacherWeb.com/TX/AledoHS/JudyHill/ (Please bookmark this site on your computer.)
Overview:
The College Board’s course description for English Literature and Composition delineates the following as essential components in the AP course: Students will read widely and reflect on their reading through extensive discussion, writing, and rewriting. Students will engage in the careful reading and critical analysis of literature and should consider a work’s structure, style, and themes as well as small-scale elements such as the use of figurative language, imagery, symbolism, and tone. Students will reflect on the social and historical values a literary work embodies. Students will experience a literary work, interpret the literary work, and evaluate the literary work. Students will write expository, analytical, and argumentative essays and will develop and organize ideas in clear, coherent, and persuasive language. --Uses a wide-ranging vocabulary --Uses a variety of sentence structures --Uses a logical organization with repetition, transitions, and emphasis --Uses a balance of generalization with specific details --Uses rhetoric effectively, including controlling tone, maintaining a consistent voice, and achieving emphasis through parallelism and antithesis Major Grades: 50% --AP analytical essays (typed with MLA format) -- Projects/Presentations (count as 2 test grades) --Other as assigned Daily Grades: 50% --Reading quizzes over novels/plays (count as 2 grades) --Poetry: writing and analysis --Group work/discussion over AP m-c questions --Other as assigned
Grading/Assessment:
AISD Policy:
--Academic Dishonesty – “Whenever a student is found guilty of academic dishonesty, the teacher shall collect the student’s paper, mark a zero for the work, give an unsatisfactory citizenship grade, and notify the parent and office immediately as to the action taken.” This includes plagiarism. Cite your sources! --Make-Up Work – “For each day of a class missed, the student will be given one day back in that class before the assignment is due.” If you miss a Monday class and you return on Wednesday, then the make-up work is due Friday. Late work penalties: 15 points deducted (days 1-5) and 30 points (days 6-10). After the 10th day, no late work will be accepted. --CELL PHONES – As you enter the room, place your cell phone in the hanging bag. --I expect each of you to perform well in this course. I will do my best to prepare you for the AP exam; however, the 3, 4, or 5 on the exam is the icing on the AP cake. What is more important is that you enjoy writing, reading and that you feel prepared for college – and for life. I put in many long hours to be the best teacher I can be for you; I expect you to be the best student you can for me. --Two-inch binder & dividers (8 in a package) Label dividers as follows: (1) Syllabus/Vocabulary (6) AP Essays (2) SAT Prep/College Information (7) Novels, Plays and (3) Literary Terms/Tone Words Poetry (4) Allusions/Archetypes (8) MLA/Grammar (5) AP M-C GUM packet --Highlighters (2 colors) FIRST SIX WEEKS --Syllabus, course introduction, AP overview --Explain my website using SmartBoard --SAT and ACT testing dates and fees (chart) --Turn in summer reading assignment (first day class meets). --Vocabulary: 1-20 --Handouts on Literary Terms, Allusions, and Archetypes --Annotate terms for two novels (continued all year on works) --Make Strategy Cards. --Read Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis by 9/14(A) & 9/15(B). --Reading quiz on 1984 and BNW – 8/27(B) & 8/28(A)
Expectations:
Materials:
8/24– 8/28:
8/31 – 9/4:
--Vocabulary: 21-40 --College essay assignment (“voice” examples & quick memory bag – online sites for essay examples) --Due 9/10(A) & 9/11(B) --Discuss 1984 and BNW --song lyrics analyzed as poetry: diction, imagery, tone --“The Unknown Citizen” and “Departmental” – analyze in groups – share with class --1-9 range finders for poetry (Q1 - Discuss and highlight.) Use strategy card for poetry to analyze an 8 & 9. As a class, use one of the poems above and compose a “timed” writing (actual AP prompt that fits both poems). Volunteer(s) will use the SmartBoard computer and type the class’s collective input, and copies will be made for all. --LABOR DAY HOLIDAY 9/7 --Vocabulary: 41-60 --College essays are due 9/10(A) & 9/11(B) -Peer edit and proof. --Continue discussion on 1984 and BNW --Huxley interview 15 minutes (YouTube clips) --1-9 range finders for essays (Q3) --Analyze Q3 from May 2009 exam --As a class, use either 1984 or BNW and compose a “timed” writing using the actual 2009 prompt (symbol). --Vocabulary: 61-80 --AP multiple-choice from Applied Practice (Groups use small white boards.) --1-9 range finders for passage (Q2) --Use one passage from 1984 and BNW and divide the students into groups. Analyze and annotate the passage. One volunteer will come to SmartBoard computer and type the class’s collective input (copy for all). --Discuss The Metamorphosis (9/14-A) and (9/15-B) --Annotate literary terms. --Illustration/textual evidence – Each student uses ½ poster board for “illustrated/textual” reading quiz. --Vocabulary: 81-100 --Finish The Metamorphosis. --Anglo-Saxon history and YouTube clip of Old English --Beowulf (hero archetype, the descent into the abyss, Joseph Campbell) --Annotate literary terms.
9/7-9/11:
9/14 – 9/18:
9/21 – 9/25:
--Read Beowulf in class. --Video clips (varied interpretations) --AP writing & m-c 9/28 – 10/2: --Vocabulary: 101-120 --Finish Beowulf. --Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales (focus on setting, characterization, and frame narrative) (audio Middle English) --Annotate literary terms. --Grendel excerpt – Close Reading (imagery & viewpoint) --Read “The Pardoner’s Tale” in class (irony, satire, didactic). --AP writing & m-c SECOND SIX WEEKS 10/5 – 10/9: --Vocabulary: 121-140 --Italian Renaissance (handout) leading to English Renaissance --Bloody Tower of London DVD --Macbeth – formal typed essay (AP prompt) – due 11/5(B) and 11/6 (A) --Start Macbeth (in class reading and out of class assignments) --Annotate literary terms. --AP writing & m-c --10/12 HOLIDAY --Vocabulary: 141-160 --Continue Macbeth --Video clips --Applied Practice – AP m-c on Macbeth --AP writing & m-c --Vocabulary: 161-180 --Continue Macbeth --Buy Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead – due after we finish reading Hamlet (Give handouts on R&GAD.) Reading quiz over R&G are Dead the week of 12/7. --AP writing & m-c --Vocabulary: 181-200 --Finish Macbeth --Applied Practice m-c AP practice for Macbeth --Timed writing on Macbeth --AP writing & m-c --Vocabulary: 201-220 --Macbeth essays due 11/5(B) and 11/6(A)
10/12 – 10/16:
10/19 – 10/23:
10/26 – 10/30:
11/2 – 11/6:
--Macbeth final test – multiple-choice 11/5(B) and 11/6(A) --Start Hamlet (Groups teach – 5 acts, 5 groups.) --Groups will meet and start planning their acts. --Act I group will start the “teaching” on 11/16. --Applied Practice m-c AP practice for Hamlet 11/9 – 11/13: --Vocabulary: 221-240 --Groups meet to work on Hamlet. --Applied Practice m-c AP practice for Hamlet --AP writing & m-c THIRD SIX WEEKS 11/16 – 11/20: --Vocabulary: 241-260 --Groups start teaching Hamlet. --AP writing & m-c --THANKSGIVING, 25th – 27th --Vocabulary: 261-280 --Continue Hamlet. --Vocabulary: 281-305 --Continue Hamlet. --Draw names for literary gift exchange. --AP writing & m-c
11/23 – 11/27:
11/30 – 12/4:
12/7 - 12/11: --Reading quiz on R&G Are Dead --Annotate literary terms. --Start discussion R&G Are Dead --Existentialism --Relevance to The Metamorphosis --AP timed writing on R&G Are Dead --Continue R&GAD. --Watch R&GAD movie clips. --AP writing & m-c 12/14 – 12/18:
--Literary gift exchange --Semester finals
NOTE: Third Six Weeks does not end until 1/15/10.
WINTER BREAK 12/21/09 – 1/5/10 (Teachers return 1/4; students return 1/5.) Novels & Plays (Summer 2009 & Fall 2009): 1984 – George Orwell Brave New World – Aldous Huxley The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka Hamlet - Shakespeare Macbeth - Shakespeare Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead – Tom Stoppard Novels (Spring 2010): Frankenstein – Mary Shelley Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison