AP Literature
August 22: Review Chapters 1-7 0f The Maltese Falcon.
Prepare study questions 1-14.
August 23: Review Chapters 8-13.
Prepare study questions 15-29.
August 24: Review Chapters 14-20.
Prepare study questions 30-36.
Reading test on the entire novel.
August 27: Study questions check
August 28: Maltese Falcon: Review/Movie
August 29: Maltese Falcon: Review/Movie
August 30: Maltese Falcon: Test
Focus on key concepts such as
symbolism (e.g., fog, names).
Hammett's use of stereotypes,
the story of Fltcraft, study questions,
etc.
August 31: Farewell to Arms: Review chapters 1-5
Introduction to the novel
September 4: Review types of sentences for
pyramid paragraph.
Farewell to Arms: review remaining
chapters of Book I.
September 5: Finish study questions for Book I
in your notebook.
September 6: Finish study questions for Book II
in your notebook. Omit numbers
29,33,34,36,44,45.
September 7: Farewell to Arms: Test on Books 1 & 2
September 10: Answer study questions for Book III
in notebook.
September 11: Answer study questions for Book IV
in your notebook
Code of the Hemingway Hero
September 12: Answer study questions for Book V
in your notebook.
September 13: Book V
September 14: Test on Books III-V: facts and notes
September 17: Reminder: St. Mary's registration due
Bring The Stranger to class
September 18: Types of sentences reviewed
Pyramid paragraph assigned
Review first three chapters of The Stranger
September 19: Review Chapters 4-6 of The Stranger
Trace Camus' use of the color red.
September 20: The Stranger continued
Quiz on Book I
September 21: Pyramid paragraph due
September 25: The Stranger: worksheet on Book II, 2-3
September 26: The Stranger: Book II continued
September 27: AP Objective Test
September 28: The Stranger: Book II continued
October 1: The Stranger review
October 2: The Stranger review
October 3: AP Objective Test results
October 4: The Stranger Test
October 9: O'Connor: "Everything That Rises Must Converge"
Pay special attention to the significance of colors
and names.
October 10: Finish color and name worksheet on
O'Connor's story
October 11: Hemingway: "Hills Like White Elephants"
Focus on how the setting reflects the story's
meaning
October 12; Jackson: "The Lottery"
Focus on how the author uses setting in an
ironic way.
October 15: Personal / college essay assigned
First outline
October 16: Type up preliminary outline:
1. Person or event that inluenced you
positively.
2. Two or three ways.
3. Hook for opening paragraph
October 18: Outlines returned
"Paul's Case" essay question
October 22: "Paul's Case" continued
October 23: "Paul's Case" concluded
If you were absent 10-18, turn in paragraph
on Paul's father.
October 24: Bring typed final draft of essay to class for
editing.
October 25: Submit final typed copy of essay.
October 26: Read "Bliss" by Katherine Mansfield
Answer study guide.
October 29: Read Act I of Long Day's Journey into Night
First impressions of the characters
October 30: Read Act II, scene 1
October 31: Read Act II, scene i
November 1: Read Act III
November 2: Google Time: in a sentence or two, who are
the authors in the two bookcases mentioned
on the first page of stage directions (Act I)?
November 5: Read Act IV and underline authors alluded to
as you come to them.
November 6: Answer study questions for Act IV in your notebook.
November 7: Quiz on Acts I-IV. Also review authors alluded to
and the three unities.
November 8: The play's dedication and its key words: pity,
understanding, and forgiveness.
The characters grudges against themselves
and each other.
Edmund as the main character.
November 12: Act IV: key scenes in Act IV
November 13: Act IV concluded and O'Neill autobiography
November 14: LDJN: Test
Some areas to review:
1. study questions
2. character traits and grudges
3. allusions
4. six elements of drama (Aristotle)
5. three unities
6. Edmund's epiphany at sea
7. symbolism of fog, foghorn, ship's bells
8. heredity and environment vs. free will
9. the play as autobiography
10. the play's dedication: pity, undedtanding, and
forgiveness.
11. dramatic terms such as exposition, fourth wall,
tableau, etc.
November 15: Bring your copy of Ibsen's A Doll's House to class.
November 16: Finish reading Act I and keep track of Nora's lying.
November 19-20: Discussion and viewing of Act II
November 26: Devices of the well-made play Ibsen uses:
1. letters to advance the plot
2. well-timed entrances and exits
3. melodramatic villain
4. deus-ex-machina solution
5. buried secret
November 27: Act III debate between Nora and Helmer
November 28: Act III ending (sentimentally optimistic
vs. senimentally pessimistic)
November 29: Test on A Doll's House
Review terms such as tableau, incremental
vs, lump exposition, succes de scandale,
scene obligatoire (scene-a-faire), dramatic
irony, deus ex machina, three unities
November 30: Bring The Plays by Chekhov to class.
First impressions of Uncle Vanya: Act I
December 3: Uncle Vanya: Act I
December 4: Uncle Vanya: Answer study questions for Act II
December 5: Uncle Vanya: Answer study questions for Act III
December 6: Uncle Vanya: Act III
December 7: Uncle Vanya: Act IV
December 10: Uncle Vanya concluded
December 11: In preparation for the test, type up two
quotes for each character that could be used
on the quotes part of the test.
December12: Test on Uncle Vanya
December 13: How to write and grade AP essay question
December 14: AP in-class essay. Review A Doll's House
and Uncle Vanya.
The essay will be based on one of the following prompts.
1973 An effective literary work does not merely stop or cease; it concludes. A satisfactory ending is not, however, always conclusive in every sense; significant closure may require the reader to abide with or adjust to ambiguity or uncertainty. In an essay, discuss the ending of a play. Explain precisely how and why the ending appropriately or inappropriately concludes the work. Do not merely summarize the plot.
2004. Critic Roland Barthes has said, “Literature is the question minus the answer.” Choose a play, and, considering Barthes’ observation, write an essay in which you analyze a central question the work raises and the extent to which it offers answers. Explain how the author’s treatment of this question affects your understanding of the work as a whole. Avoid mere plot summary.
2005. In Kate Chopin’s The Awakening (1899), protagonist Edna Pontellier is said to possess “That outward existence which conforms, the inward life that questions.” In a play that you have studied, identify a character who outwardly conforms while questioning inwardly. Then write an essay in which you analyze how this tension between outward conformity and inward questioning contributes to the meaning of the work. Avoid mere plot summary.
December 17: Read Act I of Waiting for Godot
December 18: Check the four evangelists on who has what
about the two criminals crucified next to Jesus.
First impressions of Godot
December 19: Read Act II of Waiting for Godot. Pay particular
attention to the differences between Acts I and II.
December 20: Quiz on facts of the play.
January 7: Waiting for Godot Review
January 8: In the Norton Anthology of Fiction read Part One of
"The Metamorphosis" by Kafka, pp.785-795.
--pay special attention to his use of threes.
January 9: Exam Review I: Terms
January 10: "The Metamorphosis" Part II
Exam Review I: Terms
AP Essays returned for polishing
January 11: "The Metamorphosis" Part III
January 14: Waiting for Godot quiz
Submit typed and polished version of AP Essay.
Remember to also have correction sheet and
hand-written essaay.
January 22: Kafka: "A Hunger Artist"
January 23: Kafka: parallels between "A Hunger Artist"
and "The Metamorphosis"
January 24: Bring poetry text to class
Shakespeare Sonnet 55: scansion
January 25: Copy out in your notebook and scan
the first eight lines of "Mr. Flood's Party,"
on page 169 of your poetry book.
January 28: Copy out in your notebook and scan
the next eight lines of "Mr. Flood's Party."
Distribute forms for AP Test
Analyze "Sonnet 55"
January 29: Scan "Sonnet 12" (handout)
January 30: Scansion Test and be able to apply the
literary terms we have had so far.
January 31: Machiavellian Messages--handout
February 1: Housman: "To an Athlete Dying Young"
2-19 Tues. In class: Discuss Hardy’s “Darkling Thrush.”
Homework: Define poetic terms. One page of notes in journal on
Frost’s “Design,” p.221
2-20 Wed. In class: Practice AP Multiple choice on poetry.
2-21 Thurs. In class: Contrast Hardy and Frost poems.
Homework: One page of notes on Hopkin’s “God’s Grandeur,” p.76.
2-22 Fri. In class: Discuss Hopkins and practice analysis of body paragraphs.
Homework: One page of notes on Eberhardt’s “Groundhog,” p. 740.
2-25 Mon. In class: Discuss Eberhardt.
Homework: One page of notes on Wordsworth’s “Intimations of Immortality.”
2-26 Tues. In class: Discuss Wordsworth.
Homework: Prepare for an in-class essay on poetry
2-27 Wed. In class: In class essay on poetry.
March 7: Read and annotate Chapters 1-4 of Madame Bovary; answer the discussion questions for this chapter in your journal in one written page.
March 10: Read and annotate Chapters 5-9 of Madame Bovary; answer the discussion questions for this chapter in your journal in one written page.
March 11: Read and annotate Part II, Chapters 1-5 of Madame Bovary; answer the discussion questions for this chapter in your journal in one written page.
March 12: Read and annotate Chapters 6-10 of Madame Bovary; answer the discussion questions for this chapter in your journal in one written page.
March 13: Read and annotate Chapters 11-15 of Madame Bovary; answer the discussion questions for this chapter in your journal in one written page.
March 14: Read and annotate Part III, Chapters 1-4 of Madame Bovary; answer the discussion questions for this chapter in your journal in one written page.
March 15: Read and annotate Chapters 5-7 of Madame Bovary; answer the discussion questions for this chapter in your journal in one written page.
March 17: Read and annotate Chapters 8-End of Madame Bovary; answer the discussion questions for this chapter in your journal in one written page.
March 18: Journal check 1
March 19: Key passages in Madame Bovary.
Writing Assignment due the Wednesday after spring break: Explain the author's message on Madame Bovary. 3 pages double space. Use at least 3 quotes from three different articles located in "Modern Critical Reviews" pp. 395-468. Include quotes from the novel itself as well.
Please make sure that you focus on a significant theme in the novel and that you make a substantial claim about your theme. Rememeber: A thesis that is so bland that it cannot be contradicted is probably a weak thesis. Remember to also include counterargument, that is, an alternative interpretation to your own.
March 31: Elements of the introduction and conclusion for Bovary essay.
April 1: Bovary essays in criticism reports.
April 2: Bovary essays in criticism reports. Period 8 Bovary essays due.
April 3: Bovary wrap up. Period 6 Bovary essays due.
April 4: Bovary final test. Period 3 essays due.
April 7: AP General questions. Samples and practice outlines.
April 8: Preparing notes for AP General questions.
April 9: Preparing notes for AP General questions.
April 10: Practice AP General question in class.
April 11: AP multiple choice practice.
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