AP Literature and Composition (Grade 12)
From Sophocles to Shakespeare, Realism to Surrealism, Utopias to Dystopias, this intensive, college level reading and writing course will examine a worldwide range of written works in several genres. Because AP Literature teaches us to experience, understand, and evaluate a literary work, each work lends itself to an approach to writing about literature. Seminar style classes and workshops will encourage the development of individualized critical interpretation through the utilization of diverse modes of discourse and elements of rhetoric. Students will furthermore have a plethora of opportunities to practice timed-writing skills in preparation for the AP Literature exam. Ultimately, students will not only read with an acute critical eye, but will write, debate, perform, research, and create essential connections between story, self, society and the world at large.
Course texts include:
- Sin and Syntax by Constance Hale
- The Elements of Style by Lee Strunk Jr. and E.B. White
- Everything’s an Argument published by Bedford/St. Martin’s Press
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
- Sound and Sense by Laurence Perrine
- The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
- Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- Poetics by Aristotle
- Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- 1984 by George Orwell
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
- Additional handouts and readings throughout the course
Download the full syllabus here:
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