AP+Literature+and+Composition+Syllabus

COURSE SYLLABUS Advanced Placement Literature and Composition 2011 - 2012

Instructor: Carrie Koch Office/Hours: 2nd period, activity period E-Mail: @wvsd.k12.pa.us  **Course Description and Objectives:** This course focuses on the analysis of literature and the writing process and is designed to comply with the requirements as listed in the AP Literature and Composition course description. The course aims at developing the ability to engage actively with the material through discussion, peer critique, and writing.

At the Completion of the course the student will be able to:
 * Develop the ability to interpret a work of literature.
 * Demonstrate and sharpen skills in conventional grammatical usage, punctuation, and sentence structure
 * Recognize and use the following types of literary evidence: direct quotes, paraphrase, opinions, and summarized actions/events.
 * Use organizational and transitional skills in writing.
 * Participate meaningfully in a discussion of literature.
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Develop skills in close reading by perceiving patterns of language – motifs, symbol, image, metaphor including the contributions of tone and sound devices to both prose and poetry.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Write and revise compositions in response to interpretive exercises to explicate given literary selections.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Write and revise critical essays that explicate poetry and given literary selections.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Write and revise critical analyses that explain the sociopolitical factors that contribute to a work of literature.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Examine in discussion and in critical essay, the logic, language, syntax, structure, and tone of short non-fiction prose passages as those elements combine to produce an effect on the reader.

<span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**Textbook(s):** <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Sebranek, Patrick, Kemper, Dave, and Meyer, Verne. //Writers Inc//. Houghton Mifflin Company, Wilmington, Ma. 2001. Crane, Milton ed. //50 Great Short Stories//. Bantam, N. Y. 1976 Supplemental resource books and novels: <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Strausser, Jeffrey. //Painless Writing//. Barron’s Educational Series, Inc. Canada, 2001 <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Strausser, Jeffrey. //Painless Poetry//. Barron’s Educational Series, Inc. Canada, 2001 Shakespeare, William. //Hamlet// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Shakespeare, William. //Twelfth Night// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Stoppard, Tom. //Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Miller, Arthur. //The Crucible// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Austen, Jane. //Pride and Prejudice// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Salinger, J.D. //The Catcher in the Rye// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Steinbeck, John//. The Grapes of Wrath// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">O’Neill, Eugene. //The Emperor Jones//

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Various handouts on poetry, figurative language, writing practices, grading rubrics, etc.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Keys for success in the course:** Read the text before you come to class. This will eliminate the need to take detailed notes and will enable you to recognize information in the lecture that is not covered in the book. You are responsible for all information; this includes lecture, text, videos, and all handouts given in class.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Essays, tests, and journals are all equal in weight. Each has a 100 point value. The book analysis however has a 300 point value. The Summer Assignment will be worth 200 points. There will be a writing assignment following each piece of literature and following most poems. You will be given ample time to complete most writing assignments therefore absences, (you must turn in your assignment the day you return) and field trips do not excuse you from turning in your assignments on time. There is a 5 point deduction for each day a paper is late.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">You will be given a list of vocabulary words that we will work with throughout the year. You are responsible for learning the definition and application of the words on the list. There will be two vocabulary tests on these words; one containing definitions, and one containing both definitions and examples of the usage of the words.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hand in assignments on time. Keep working on your journals; remember that everything we read and write about must have an entry in your journal. Organize your journal, DO NOT present it as a jumble of papers. Prepare your book analysis in advance of the due date – do not wait until the last minute. Be wary of the information you may find on the internet, use the library instead.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Familiarize yourself with the differences in the usage of the following words: **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Then <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Than <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Could have – not could of *If I find mistakes made with <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Their these words in an essay or <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There analysis, I will deduct 5 points <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">They’re for each mistake. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Too <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Affect <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Effect <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Your <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">You’re <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A = 93 to 100 points <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">B = 83 to 92 points <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">C = 73 to 82 points <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">D = 70 to 72 points <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">F = 69 points and below
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Grading and Assessment: **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mark these dates in your agenda! <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">All books must be pre-approved before you begin your analysis. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Remember to ORGANIZE your journal
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Assignments and due dates: **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Put books with books, poems with poems
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If you include class handouts and essays, separate them from the book/poem entries

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Book Analysis:** 10/24, 1/13, 3/17, 5/5 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Journals:** 10/28, 1/9, 3/13, 5/1

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; marginbottom: 0pt; marginleft: 0in; marginright: 0in; margintop: 0in;">**Syllabus Calendar:** This is subject to change. We may move faster or slower than the dates provided here. Do not hold me to the dates listed herein as they do not reflect snow days, field trips, or other activities that may delay the coverage of the material.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; marginbottom: 0pt; marginleft: 0in; marginright: 0in; margintop: 0in;">First Quarter **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; marginbottom: 0pt; marginleft: 0in; marginright: 0in; margintop: 0in;">Discussion of Summer Assignments – Novels <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; marginbottom: 0pt; marginleft: 0in; marginright: 0in; margintop: 0in;">Review of the elements of the novel <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; marginbottom: 0pt; marginleft: 0in; marginright: 0in; margintop: 0in;">Plot, setting, character, point of view <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; marginbottom: 0pt; marginleft: 0in; marginright: 0in; margintop: 0in;">Sociopolitical factors contributing to the work <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; marginbottom: 0pt; marginleft: 0in; marginright: 0in; margintop: 0in;">Themes of the work: includes but is not limited to: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Analysis <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Symbolization/allusion <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Essay <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dos: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Don’ts: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Criteria for evaluating essays <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Essay on summer work <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Peer critique and individualized instruction <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Re-write and conference with instructor <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Book Analysis: an overview <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Poetry <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Review of Figurative language and Poetic devices including: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Major poetic forms <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Meaning
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; marginbottom: 0pt; marginleft: 0in; marginright: 0in; margintop: 0in;">Changes in social or political attitudes
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; marginbottom: 0pt; marginleft: 0in; marginright: 0in; margintop: 0in;">Spirit of the Law vs. the Letter of the Law
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; marginbottom: 0pt; marginleft: 0in; marginright: 0in; margintop: 0in;">Human frailty
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Societal decomposition
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Structure
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Introduction and thesis statements
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Body and Evidence
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Conclusion
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Internal and external transitions
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Variation in sentence type, word order
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Length and opening devices
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Parallel structure
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Figurative language
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Personal pronouns
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The weak expletive there
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Passive voice
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Contractions
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Imagery
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Diction
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Metaphor
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tone
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Speaker

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Literature: <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> Miller: The Crucible <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> Short Stories: <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> Hawthorne: Young Goodman Grown, The Minister’s Black Veil <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> Faulkner: A Rose for Emily <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> Jackson, Shirley: The Lottery <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> Woolf, Virginia: A Haunted House <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> Conrad, Joseph: The Tale Discussion Finding the significance of the work Conflict in literature Themes The evils of society Prejudice Social/Political Change Counterfeiting

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Assignments
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Essay – Critical analysis and responses
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Book Analysis
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Discussion of themes, elements, sociopolitical factors
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Discussion Board responses

Literature <span style="color: black; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> Shakespeare: Hamlet, Twelfth Night <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> Passages by Jefferson, Douglass, Stevenson, Thoreau, Shaw among others <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> Poetry by Dickinson, Whitman, Browning, Tennyson, Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, Keats <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> Selected Sonnets and poetry by Shakespeare,Marvell, Dryden, Donne, Pope, and Coleridge <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Themes <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> Existence <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> Madness <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> Eavesdropping <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> Counterfeiting: Appearance vs. Reality <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> Religious influences on literature <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Assignments:
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Second Quarter **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Essays – based upon notes, text, and interpretation of the literature
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Quote test: Twelfth Night, Hamlet
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Response essays
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Book Analysis
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Discussion Board responses

Literature Austen: Pride and Prejudice Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath Poetry: Arnold, Houseman, Yeats, Eliot, Hughes, Frost, Auden Short Stories: Mansfield, Katherine: The Garden Party Parker, Dorothy: The Standard of Living O’Hara, John: Graven Image Thurber, James: The Catbird Seat Themes Society and Class The American Dream The Hero’s Journey Transition into Adulthood Disillusion/teen angst <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Assignments:
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Third Quarter **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Essays – character analysis and used exam questions
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Response essays
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Book Analysis/Multimedia Presentation
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Discussion Board response

Literature Heller: Catch -22 O’Neill: The Emperor Jones Wolf, Thomas. Only the Dead Know Brooklyn
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Fourth Quarter **

Themes Humor and distortion and how the message is heard Thematic Essays: topics vary Examples: How one scene may reflect the entire play How the supernatural world reflects the natural world Role of secondary characters in revealing the meaning Role of symbolism; how does this element further the intention of the writer Additional literary selections as time permits Test Prep packet Book Analysis Journal Sample Exams and review AP test

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">*After the AP test we will continue to work with literature. You will be presented with a list of additional works from which to choose. We will also be watching movies we didn’t have time for during the year.

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**NOTE: The instructor reserves the right to change this syllabus at any time.**


 * Journals are due at the end of each marking period (dates above)**

Follow this format: Reading Journal – entries will be no longer than one page. Title, author (date born/date died/where lived) Publication date of work (original, not current edition) Setting: place/time, theme or main idea (in one sentence) A brief plot synopsis Characters (write brief descriptions; identify protagonist and antagonist) Theme(s) Major symbol/systems or allusions Distinguishing characteristics of the work Meaning of the work Your personal response to the content and style of the work.

Poem Analysis/Reading Journal Title, author (date born/date died/where lived) Setting: place/time, theme or main idea (in one sentence) Major symbol/systems or allusions Meaning of the poem Your personal response to the meaning and to the content and style of the work

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The emphasis of your paper is to be on your own analysis of the work, rather than a survey of critics’ opinions. The paper will be as long as necessary to complete the assignment, (minimum 3 pages) and will include all of these sections:
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Book Analysis **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A brief discussion of the sociopolitical factors that influenced the author, and the impact of his or her work; references consulted must be documented.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">An analysis of the theme of the work, supported by evidence from the plot.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A discussion of another element of the work (character, characterization, setting, point of view, style, or other distinguishing element) as it contributes to the theme. (Another way of thinking of this section is, “How does the author use this second element to express the theme?”)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">*These two sections should be the major part of the paper. They should not include citations from other critics and must be your own ideas, in your own words.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A conclusion that explains why the work should be included in a list of works of high literary merit.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A Works Cited Page (MLA style).
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A Cover Sheet
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The cover sheet will contain:
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Your name
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Date due
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The name of the work and its author
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Your thesis statement