AP English Syllabus

SIX WEEKS 1
(M) - Introduction/Syllabus
(T) - Poetry Responses/Poetry analysis techniques
(W) - Levels of questions/Word Choice, Word Order, Tone
(Th) - Images; Literary Terms assignment (M1)
(F) - Poetry Analysis quiz; Figures of Speech

(M) - Symbol, Allegory, and Irony
(T) - Sounds/Rhythms; Multiple Choice #1
(W) - Poetic Forms
(Th) - Elements together; looking at poems
(F) - Poetry Elements Review Groups

(M) - Wuthering Heights Introduction, assignment Chap 1-7
(T) - Multiple Choice #2;
(W) - Writer's Workshop; Literary Terms assignment due
(Th) - In Class Essay #1; Poetry Group Presentations
(F) - Poetry Elements and Literary terms Test (M2)

(M) - HOLIDAY
(T) - Poem Out-of-class Essay Assigned (Study of Dickinson/Frost/Hughes); WH Quiz 1; Assign, Chap 8-15
(W) - Multiple Choice #3, Donne 1
(Th) - Donne 2
(F) - Donne 3

(M) - Donne Review; In-class Donne Essay
(T) - WH Quiz 2; Discussion; Assign Chap. 16-25
(W) - Romantic Poetry; Multiple Choice #4
(Th) - Romantic Poetry
(F) - Romantic Poetry; Writer's Workshop

(M) - Draft Due; Revising
(T) - WH Quiz 3; Discussion; Assign Chap. 26-33
(W) - Multiple Choice #5; Workday
(Th) - Poetry Essay (M3) due
(F) - Donne/Romantic Poetry Test??

(M) - WH Quiz 4; Discussion; Othello

ASSIGNMENTS:
Poetry Responses (5)
Multiple Choice (5)
Essays (Essay on single author; In-Class Donne; College Essay)
Literary Skills Test
Quiz (4 WH Reading; levels of questions;
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SIX WEEKS TWO Othello
(T) - Othello, Act I; MWDS Wuthering Heights
(W) - Othello, Act I; Multiple Choice #1
(Th) - In Class Essay (Wuthering Heights); Othello Act II
(F) - Othello, Act II

(M) - Othello, Act III
(T) - Othello, Act III; Writer's Workshop on returned W. Heights essays
(W) - Multiple Choice #2; Othello, Act IV
(Th) - Othello, Act IV
(F) - Shakespeare Seminar

(M) - Othello, Act V; Assign Heart of Darkness
(T) - Othello, Act V
(W) - Othello Test; Othello Discussion
(Th) - Multiple Choice #3; Movie
(F) - Movie

(M) - Othello MWDS due; Short Stories: Plot;
(T) - SS: Character; Setting
(W) - Multiple Choice #4; SS: Symbolism
(Th) - In Class essay Othello; SS: POV
(F) - SS: Theme

Heart of Darkness
(M) - Writer's Workshop; SS: Style, Tone, and Irony
(T) - HofD Quiz; Discussion; New Assignment
(W) - Multiple Choice #5; Literary Criticism 1
(Th) - Literary Criticism 2; Groups
(F) - HofD Quiz; Socratic Seminar

(M) - Group Work time;
(T) - Heart of Darkness
(W) - Multiple Choice #6; Heart of Darkness
(Th) - Literary Discussion
(F) - LitCrit Test

(M) - Heart of Darkness; Multiple Choice #1

Assesment
Poetry Responses (5)
Multiple Choice
Essays
Test
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SIX WEEKS THREE
(T) - Heart of Darkness In Class Essay; Apoc. Now Assignment
(W) - Apocalypse Now
(Th) - Apocalypse Now
(F) - Discussion; Essay Worktime

(M) - Half day - Multiple Choice #2
(T) - HOLIDAY
(W) - Essay Draft Due; Writer's Workshop; Brave New World Assignment
(Th) - Joyce ShSt
(F) - Joyce ShSt

(M) - Brave New World
(T) - Senior Inverviews
(W) - Multiple Choice #3; Pick Independent Work
(Th) - In Class Essay
(F) - Senior Interviews; Independent Work reading schedule due

(M) - Senior Interviews
(T) - Brave New World
(W) - Half day, Multiple Choice

(M) - Independent Work Day
(T) - Brave New World - In Class Essay
(W) - Multiple Choice #4
(Th) - Socratic Seminar: Utopias (with film clips)
(F) - Brave New World MWDS due

(M) - Semester Review Groups
(T) - In class Essay
(W) Multiple Choice #5
(Th) - Writer's Workshop
(F) - Semester Review Presentation

(M) AP Practice Test #1
(T)
(W)
(Th) - Half day

Assessment
Poetry Responses (5)
Multiple Choice (5)
Essays
Tests
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SIX WEEKS FOUR
(M) - MWDS on Winter book; Gatsby introduction
(T) - In Class Essay; Hemingway ShortStory
(W) - Multiple Choice #1
(Th) - Gatsby Reading Quiz; Discussion
(F) - Hemingway Short Story

(M) - Hurston Short Story
(T) - Gatsby
(W) - Multiple Choice #2
(Th) - In Class Essay (Poetry)
(F) - Booker T. and DuBois

(M) - HOLIDAY Martin Luther King Day
(T) - Writer's Workshop; In Class Essay
(W) - Multiple Choice #3
(Th) - Great Gatsby Test
(F) - Gatsby Seminar:

(M) - MWDS Gatsby due; Invisible Man assigned
(T) - In Class Essay, Gatsby
(W) - Multiple Choice #4
Invisible Man
(Th) - Invisible Man
(F) - Invisible Man

(M) - Writer's Workshop
(T) - In Class Essay
(W) - Multiple Choice #5
(Th) - Invisible Man
(F) - Modern Poetry

(M) - Modern Poetry
(T) - In Class Essay
(W) - Multiple Choice #6
(Th) - Invisible Man
(F) - Invisible Man Seminar #1

(M) - Poetry Presentations
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SIX WEEKS FIVE
(T) - Invisible Man
(W) - Multiple Choice #1
(Th) - Half day; In-Class Essay
(F) - Opt Work day

(M) - Invisible Man Test
(T) - Invisible Man
(W) - Invisible Man MWDS due; Multiple Choice #2
(Th) - Invisible Man In class essay
(F) - Invisible Man Seminar #2; Raisin in the Sun Assignment

(M) - Raisin in the Sun
(T) - Raisin in the Sun; In-Class Essay
(W) - Multiple Choice #3
(Th) - Raisin in the Sun
(F) - Raisin in the Sun Test; Fences Assigned

(M) - Fences; War Novel Assigned (The Things They Carried; Slaughter House;??)
(T) - In Class Essay; Fences
(W) - Multiple Choice #4; Fences; Raisin in the Sun MWDS due
(Th) - Fences; Writer's Workshop
(F) - Fences Test; Seminar

(M) - Reading; War Interview Assignment
(T) - In Class Essay
(W) - Fences MWDS due
(Th) - Half day; Multiple Choice #5

(M) - In Class Essay
(T) - War Novel Project
(W) - Multiple Choice #6
(Th) - War Novel Project
(F) - Presentations of War Novel Project

(M) - In Class Essay
(T) - Multiple Choice #7
(W) - War Novel Test
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SIX WEEKS SIX
(Th) - In Class Essay
(F) - War Seminar; War MWDS due; Beloved Assigned

(M) - Faulkner Short Story
(T) - Faulkner SS
Beloved
(W) - Beloved
(Th) - Half day - In Class Essay
(F) - Half day - Multiple Choice #1

SPRING BREAK
(M) - Beloved & Faulkner
(T) - Faulkner In-Class Essay
(W) - Multiple Choice #2; Beloved
(Th) - Beloved
(F) - In Class Essay; Beloved

(M) - Test, Beloved
(T) - AP Practice Test (Multiple Choice & 1 essay)
(W) - AP Practice Test (2 Essays)
(Th) - Beloved
(F) - Beloved Project Due; Seminar

(M) - Beloved Essay
(T) - AP Review
(W) - AP Review
(Th) - AP EXAM !!!!
(F) - Decompression

(M) - Zoo Story; Dinner Party work
(T) - Zoo Story; Dinner Party work
(W) - Waiting for Godot
(Th) - Waiting For Godot; Dinner Party work
(F) - Dinner Party Presentations

(M) - Exams
(T) - Exams
(W) - Half day/LAST DAY