AP Literature and Composition,
Wiseman 2007-8
First Five Weeks
Week 1,
August 22-24
Introduction
to class; Syllabus for Quarter 1; Expectations
“Why We Tell
Stories” (Liesel Mueller)
Hand out
text: Oedipus Rex and Antigone
(DUE:
Sept. 17)
Hand out
College Essay/ Story Assignment and Planning Sheet (DUE:
Sept. 7; Final Story due 9/24)
Discussion of 1984—language;
paradox; the Dystopian Novel (Symes)
1984
Objective Test
Read
“The Use of Force” for Monday
Questions (factual, interpretive, evaluative)
Week2,
August 27-31
Parent Letter (DUE:
Aug. 27)
“The Use of
Force” due with Questions (DUE: Aug. 27)
Discussion of
Wuthering Heights—the Victorian and
anti-Victorian novel; character conflict
Introduce
Major Works Data Sheets
Wuthering Heights
Objective Test
Discussion of Owen Meany—vocation,
Watahantowet
Prayer for Owen Meany
Objective Test
Themes—Say What? How to “find” one and write it
Discussion of Choice Novel
In-Class Essay #1:
Summer Reading Prompt (claim, data, explanation)
Introduction to Literature—In the
Beginning… “Explorations and Formulas” (23-30) & “A Sorrowful Woman” (Godwin)
pp. 38-42
Major Works Data Sheet (abridged
example of Wuthering Heights) for
choice summer reading novel—Mrs. Dalloway, The Hours, Yellow Raft on Blue
Water, Love Medicine, Poisonwood Bible, Jane Eyre
DUE: Sept.
17
Library Card
(DUE: August 30)
Week 3,
September 4-7; NO SCHOOL September 4 Labor Day
Vocabulary
Exercises #1 (DUE: Sept. 5)
Introduction to Tragedy and MWDS for Oedipus Rex and Antigone
Introduction to Poetry Reponses
(Period 3 DUE Tuesday [9/12]; Period
7 DUE Thursday [9/14])
“Story
of an Hour” (Kate Chopin) pp.15-19
“Mrs. Brill” (Katherine
Mansfield), pp. 252-255 (character/plot)
“Summer” (David Updike) pp.
291-296 & “A&P” (John Updike) pp. 553-557
College
Essay/ Story Assignment and Planning
Sheet (DUE: Sept. 7)
Vocabulary
Test #1 (Sept. 7)
Week 4,
September 10-14 Camp Kern Week
Work on MWDS
for Summer Reading and Oedipus and
Antigone
Work on Story
Assignment
Poetry
Response #1 (Period 3 DUE Tuesday
[9/11]; Period 7 DUE Thursday [9/13])—This
can and should be handed in BEFORE the due date if you will be a CK.
Week 5,
September 17-21
Vocabulary
Exercises #2 (DUE: Sept. 17)
Major Works
Data Sheets for Summer Reading (DUE:
Sept 17)
Oedipus Rex
and
Antigone (DUE:
Sept 18)
Antigone
and
Oedipus Presentations with MWDS (DUE:
Sept 19)
In-class
Essay #2
“Barn
Burning” (William Faulkner) pp. 400-412
Poetry
Response #2 (Period 3 DUE TUESDAY
[9/18]; Period 7 DUE Thursday [9/20])
Vocabulary
Test #2
Upcoming Events:
FINAL College
Essay/ Story Assignment and Planning Sheet (Final Story due 9/24)
“Battle
Royal” (from Invisible Man, Ralph
Ellison) pp. 226-237
Poetry Response #3 (DUE
Tuesday [9/25] or
Thursday [9/27])
“The
Rocking Horse Winner” (D.H. Lawrence) handout
“Evangeline”
(James Joyce) pp. 432-435
“Roselily” (Alice Walker)
pp.207-210
“A Good Man Is Hard to Find”
(Flannery O’Connor) pp. 351-361
“Revelation” (Flannery O’Connor)
pp. 376-391
Heart of Darkness
(Joseph Conrad)