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SEMESTER ONE

Weeks One, Two and Three– Getting Started

·        Course Description

·        Mock AP Exam

·        Discussion of Mock AP Exam, including scoring guidelines, sample responses and scoring summary

·        Mock Paideia Seminar

Weeks Four through Twelve – The Righteous and The Woman Scorned

·        Selected Readings from the Text: Silone, Capek, Lagerlöf, Euripides, Ibsen

·        Novel: The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne

·        Alternate Readings: Antigone (Sophocles), The Awakening (Chopin), Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Hardy), Madame Bovary (Flaubert)

·        Long Essay over Scarlet Letter  and Short Essay over Outside Novel Due

·        Work over Prose Terminology

·        Writing Work and Peer Editing

Weeks Thirteen through Seventeen – Writing and Responding

·        Selected Non-Fiction from Points of Departure and poetry from Sleeping on the Wing

·        Mock AP Free Response Questions

·        Novel: As I Lay Dying, Faulkner

·        Alternate Readings: The Stranger (Camus), Death of a Salesman (Miller), Ethan Frome (Wharton)

·        Long Essay over As I Lay Dying  and Short Essay over Outside Novel Due

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XMAS

·        Novel: On the Road, Kerouac

SEMESTER TWO

Weeks Seventeen through Twenty Three – Hamlet

·        Novel: Hamlet, Shakespeare Close Reading

·       Alternate Readings:  On the Road, Kerouac AND One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Kesey), King Lear (Shakespeare), OR Any Other Shakespearean Tragedy

·        Short Essay over Hamlet or Outside Novel Due

·        Work on Peer Editing and Writing / Review XMas Mock AP

The Lonely People and The Alienated

·        Selected Readings from the Text: Chekhov, Bang, Flaubert, Moravia, Kafka, Ionesco, Camus

·        Novel: Beloved, Morrison

·       Alternate Readings: The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald), The Sun Also Rises (Hemingway), All the Kings Men (Warren)

·        Short Essay over Beloved or Outside Novel due Before Easter

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Writing and Responding

·        Selected Poetry from Sleeping on the Wing

·        Mock AP

·        Writing Work and Peer Editing

April 12 To April 22 - SEMANA SANTA

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Preparing for the Test

·        Mock AP Free Response and Multiple Choice Questions

·        Writing Work and Peer Editing

May 5: AP ENGLISH LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION EXAM

Fourth Quarter Variation Unit

·        Writing Work and Peer Editing

·        Film Analysis

·        Novel: Catch 22, Heller OR Heart of Darkness, Conrad

·        Alternate Readings: A Farewell to Arms (Hemingway), The Things They Carried (Sharra), Dr. Faustus (Marlowe OR Goethe), Invisible Man (Ellison), Wuthering Heights (Bronte), The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky)

·        Short Essay over Catch 22 OR Heart of Darkness

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UNITS NOT COVERED 2002-2003

The Opportunists and The Absurd Man

·        Selected Readings from the Text: Ovid, Maupassant, Verga, Arrabal, Rosa, Ionesco

The Prisoners and The Bound Man

·        Selected Readings from the Text: Tolstoy, Sartre, Andrzejewski, Aichinger, Pirandello, Abrahams, Voznesensky, Cicelus

The Vulnerable and The Hypocrites

·       Selected Readings from the Text: Petrescu, Kielland, Piontek, Bandyopadhyay, Aesop, Cassola, Galdós, Moliére

The Group and The Seeker

·        Selected Readings from the Text: Konopnicka, Lagerkvist, Quasimodo, Hildesheimer, Yevtushenko, Agnon, Borges, Ryunosuké

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