AP Literature
COURSE OUTLINE
2009-2010
Meredith Atkinson
Email: atkinson@norwellschools.org
Voicemail: 781-659-8808
Website: norwellschools.org (click on Atkinson)
The mission statement of Norwell High School is to provide an engaging, supportive environment where students strive for excellence, practice respect and contribute to society.
Integrity • Learning•Respect•Responsibility
Course: AP English Literature, grade 12
Student work will focus on the following NHS student expectations for learning:
• Use a variety of strategies for attaining knowledge
• Gain access to and evaluate a variety of sources of information
• Use technology as a learning tool
• Read, interpret, and evaluate ideas through multiple media sources including the fine arts
• Take responsibility for their decisions and behavior
Course expectations:
• Students will be expected to read closely a variety of genres of literature, discuss these in class, write timed and untimed analytical essays, take the AP examination, and complete a year long enrichment project to be presented after the AP exam.
Course skills/ concepts:
• “Understand the ways writers use language to provide both meaning and pleasure.”
• “Understand a work’s structure, style, and themes as well as such smaller-scale elements as the use of figurative language, imagery, symbolism, and tone.” (The College Board)
Major units:
• First Semester: Analysis of Sound of Waves, The Tortilla Curtain, The Return of the Native; college essays; vocabulary review; AP practice tests; enrichment project; timed and untimed analyses.
• Second Semester: Analysis of Oedipus Rex and a variety of short stories; AP practice tests, enrichment project; timed and untimed analyses.
• Third Semester: Analysis of short stories; Hamlet; analysis of poetry; AP practice tests; enrichment project; timed and untimed analyses.
• Fourth Semester: Analysis of poetry; timed and untimed analyses; AP Exam; enrichment project oral presentations.
Text and requirements/ materials:
• Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing
• The Tortilla Curtain
• Sound of Waves
• The Return of the Native
• Others may be added
Homework policy/ major projects:
• Quizzes will be given on all reading assignments
• Students will write college essays and analytical papers
• Students will complete a year long enrichment project that combines literature, art, and music
• Students will take the AP exam
Grading system:
• Grades will be based on the content and form of analyses, AP practice tests, vocabulary quizzes, pop quizzes on the literature, attendance, and class participation. Fourth semester grade will be based on the enrichment project presentation. It is assumed that all homework will be done. Grades are based on a 100 point scale and weighted according to the value of the assignment. Late papers and projects are penalized ten points a day.
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