Laurel Eury Naughton
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LENaughton@wsfcs.k12.nc.us 2010-2011 Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition Course Description Students in an AP course in English Literature and Composition engage in the careful, deliberate reading of literary works. Through such study, they will sharpen their awareness of language and their understanding of the writer’s craft. They will also develop critical standards for the independent appreciation of any literary work, and increase their sensitivity to literature as shared experience. To achieve these goals, students study the individual work, its language, characters, action, and theme. They consider its structure, meaning, and value, and its relationship to contemporary experience as well as to the context in which it was written. AP students in English Literature and Composition are involved in the study and practice of writing as well as in the study of literature. They learn to use the modes of discourse and to recognize the assumptions underlying various rhetorical strategies. Through speaking, listening, and reading, but chiefly through the experience of their own writing, they become more aware of the resources of language, such as figurative language, imagery, symbolism, tone, connotation, and syntax. Writing assignments focus on the critical analysis of literature and include essays in exposition and argument. Although much of the writing in the course will be about literature, speaking and writing about different kinds of subjects should further develop their sense of how style, subject, and audience are related. Occasionally, assignments in personal narrative and the writing of stories, poems, or plays may be appropriate. The desired goals are the honest and effective use of language and the organization of ideas in a clear, coherent, and persuasive way. Readings in translation may be included, but because the course stresses close attention to an author’s own language and style, most of the assigned reading will be in texts originally written in English. By the end of the AP course, students will have studied works from both the American and English traditions and from various periods from the sixteenth century on. They read works of recognized literary merit that are likely to be taught in an introductory college literature course, works that are worthy of scrutiny because of their richness of thought and language that challenges the reader. The Exam The AP exam in English Literature and Composition, which is three hours long, consists of two sections: Section I: 60 minutes long; contains 50-60 multiple-choice questions that test your reading of selected passages, both prose and poetry; counts for 45% of total score Section II: 120 minutes long; contains 3 free response questions that measure ability to read and interpret literature and to use other forms of discourse effectively; counts for 55% of total score. Typically, one question will focus on analysis of a poem, one a prose passage, and one a longer work such as a novel or a play. Scores: Scores are reported on a five-point scale as follows: 5=extremely well qualified 4=well qualified 3=qualified 2=possibly qualified 1=no recommendation Scores are reported the first or second week of July. Most schools in North Carolina give credit for a score of a 3 or better on the English exam. However, some schools, such as UNC-Chapel Hill, Davidson, Wake Forest, NCSU, and Duke, will only give credit for a score of 4, or in some cases a 5. That being said, I care about scores, but I care about you more. We’ll be studying literature together in hopes of becoming better thinkers, better problem-solvers, and better people. We’ll be making connections between (1) the text and other texts, (2) the text and ourselves, and (3) the text and the world around us. We’ll center our studies on the historical and social context of the works. Novels and plays to be studied this year: You’ll be responsible for acquiring and reading the following works. The library is always a great (FREE) resource, as well as Edward McKay and other used book stores. I am not providing ISBN numbers because the edition/publication is not important to our study, so feel free to purchase/borrow any edition necessary. Please do not wait until the work is assigned! You may begin acquiring/reading now. These are in order of our study. Quarter 1: William Shakespeare’s Macbeth (I have a class set of these if you’d like to borrow one, but you may NOT write in it!); Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock Quarter 2: William Shakespeare’s Othello; Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (I have a class set of these if you’d like to borrow one, but you may NOT write in it!) Quarter 3: Albert Camus’s The Stranger; William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying Quarter 4: Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest (I have a set of these if you’d like to borrow one, but you may NOT write in it!); TBA If time permits at the end of the year, we’ll also be studying Canterbury Tales, and Beowulf. Please do not purchase these works until further notice. In addition to reading the above full-length works, the class will be reading multitudinous essays, excerpts, and poems. You’ll also be responsible for selecting, reading, and analyzing a parallel novel each quarter. The list of possibilities can be found further along in the syllabus. General Policies:
*Failure to serve any detention will result in OSS; *3 unexcused tardies = 1 absence Hall Passes: You are allowed three emergency passes per semester (NOT per quarter). This includes any bathroom/water/whatever passes. Use them wisely! Grading: I utilize a seven-point scale. A=93-100; B=85-92%; C=77-84% Any score below that is unacceptable. We’ll confer so that you will be able to improve. Make up work must be completed within two days of your return to class. Homework is not accepted late except in the event of an absence. Progress Reports: Progress reports for this class are available via Parent Assist. Grade Distribution Response Notebooks/Tests 50% Out of Class Assignments 25% Class Participation/Daily Work 25% Work is expected on its due date.
If your last name begins with A-L, please bring one box of tissue paper/Kleenex; If your last name begins with M-Z, please bring one bottle of hand sanitizer
Have I mentioned that I am very much looking forward to working with you? Well, I am! PLEASE never hesitate to ask me any questions or email me with any concerns that you may have. I am always happy to help in any way possible. This is going to be a fantastic year! Sincerely, Laurel Eury Naughton The following syllabus is intended to be a guide. We will cover the material listed, but dates will be given as the year progresses. Note that the first three weeks of school are fleshed out? There’s already a change! I’ll explain as we go over the assignments. AP Literature & Composition Syllabus 1st Quarter/Hunger & Helplessness: Mischief, Mayhem, & Magic Realism
Covetousness and Vengeance: The Green-Eyed Monster Attacks 2nd Quarter Excerpt from The Life of Samuel Johnson “A Modest Proposal” Compare/contrast Bradstreet’s “The Author to Her Book”
“The Cask of Amontillado” Donne’s “The Broken Heart”
“A&P”
Assorted poetry by Plath Shakespeare’s Sonnet 29 AP-Style Comprehensive Exam
“Richard Cory” “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night” “Death Be Not Proud” “A Good Man is Hard to Find”
Excerpt from Jewett’s “A White Heron” “Young Goodman Brown” “Janet Waking” “Dog’s Death” “Death of a Toad” As I Lay Dying “Thanatopsis” Excerpt from Strachey’s essay on Florence Nightingale “Death of a Ball Turret Gunner” “To an Athlete Dying Young” “The Last Night that She Lived” Assorted poetry by Donne, Frost, Keats, Yeats, and Dickinson AP-Style Comprehensive Exam Pieces Paradoxes and Puzzles: the Duality of Man, Time and Place 4th Quarter Arcadia A Room with a View Excerpts from The Things They Carried “The House of Asterion” “The Whore’s Child” “London” “What It’s Like to be a Black Girl (for those of you who aren’t)” “London, 1802”
Excerpt from Kogawa’s Obason Assorted poetry by Frost and Dickinson TBA: The Importance of Being Earnest, Canterbury Tales, Beowulf Parallel Reading Possibilities (Reminder: Ask me before beginning to read. Your choice may not work for the particular quarter. Everything must be pre-approved!) Anderson, Sherman - Winesburg, Ohio Baldwin, James - Go Tell It on the Mountain Capote, Truman - In Cold Blood Cather, Willa - My Antonia Chopin, Kate - The Awakening Cooper, James F. - The Last of the Mohicans Conroy, Pat - The Prince of Tides Delillo, Don – White Noise Dreiser, Theodore - An American Tragedy ---. Sister Carrie Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man Faulkner, William - Absalom, Absalom ---. The Sound and the Fury * Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby ---. This Side of Paradise Gaines, Ernest – A Lesson Before Dying Goethe, Johann - Faust Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The House of the Seven Gables Heller, Joseph - Catch-22 Hemingway, Ernest - A Farewell to Arms ---. For Whom the Bell Tolls ---. The Old Man and the Sea ---. The Sun Also Rises Hurston, Zora Neale - Their Eyes Were Watching God Irving, John - The World According to Garp Kesey, Ken - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Kingston, Maxine Hong - The Woman Warrior Malamud, Bernard - The Natural Morrison, Toni - Beloved ---. The Bluest Eye ---. Song of Solomon Plath, Sylvia - The Bell Jar Rand, Ayn – Anthem ---. The Fountainhead Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye Sinclair, Upton - The Jungle Steinbeck, John - East of Eden ---. The Grapes of Wrath Styron, William - Sophie's Choice Vonnegut, Kurt - Breakfast of Champions ---. Cat's Cradle ---. Slaughterhouse-Five Walker, Alice - The Color Purple ---. The Temple of My Familiar Warren, Robert P. - All the King's Men West, Nathaniel - The Day of the Locust Wharton, Edith - The Age of Innocence ---. Ethan Frome Wolfe, Thomas - Look Homeward, Angel Wolfe, Tom - The Bonfire of the Vanities ---. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Wright, Richard - Native Son Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart Aeschylus - The Oresteia ---. Prometheus Bound Alighieri, Dante - Inferno (Mandlebaum trans. pref.) ---. Paradiso (Mandlebaum trans. pref.) ---. Purgatorio (Mandlebaum trans. pref.) Allende, Isabel - The House of the Spirits Anonymous - Everyman ---. La Chanson de Roland ---. The Mabinogion ---. Poema de El Cid Aristophanes - Lysistrata Atwood, Margaret – The Handmaid’s Tale Austen, Jane - Emma ---. Persuasion ---. Pride and Prejudice ---. Sense and Sensibility Beckett, Samuel - Waiting for Godot Brontë, Charlotte - Jane Eyre * Bunyan, John - Pilgrim's Progress Cervantes, Miguel de - Don Quixote de la Mancha Cisneros, Sandra – The House on Mango Street Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness ---. The Secret Sharer ---. Lord Jim ---. Nostromo Defoe, Daniel - Moll Flanders Dickens, Charles - Bleak House ---. David Copperfield ---. Hard Times ---. Martin Chuzzlewit ---. Nicholas Nickleby Dinesen, Isak – Out of Africa Dostoevsky, Fyodor -The Brothers Karamazov ---. Crime and Punishment Dumas, Alexandre - The Three Musketeers (unabridged) Eliot, George - Middlemarch ---. Silas Marner Euripides - Alcestis ---. Electra ---. Medea ---. The Trojan Women Fielding, Henry - The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling Flaubert, Gustave - Madame Bovary Forster, E.M. - Howard's End ---. A Passage to India ---. Where Angels Fear to Tread Fowles, John - The French Lieutenant's Woman Fuentes, Carlos - A Change of Skin Terra Nostra García Márquez, Gabriel - Love in the Time of Cholera ---. One Hundred Years of Solitude Gardner, John - Grendel * Goethe, Johann - Faust (part 1) Greene, Graham - The Heart of the Matter ---. The Power and the Glory Hardy, Thomas - Jude the Obscure ---. The Mayor of Casterbridge ---. The Return of the Native ---. Tess of the d'Urbervilles James, Henry – The American Jonson, Ben - Volpone Joyce, James - Dubliners ---. Ulysses Kafka, Franz ---. The Trial Lawrence, D.H. - Sons and Lovers Lessing, Doris - The Golden Notebook ---The Fifth Child ---. The Grass is Singing Malory, Sir Thomas - Le Morte D'Arthur Marlowe, Christopher - Doctor Faustus Milton, John - Paradise Lost ---. Paradise Regained ---. Samson Agonistes More, Sir Thomas - Utopia Moliére - . The Misanthrope ---. Tartuffe Naipul, V.S. – A Bend in the River Pasternak, Boris - Doctor Zhivago Paton, Alan - Cry, the Beloved Country Rabelais, François - Gargantua Rostand, Edmond - Cyrano de Bergerac Rushdie, Salman - Midnight's Children Shakespeare - Henry IV (Part I or II) ---. Henry V ---. King Lear ---. Love's Labour's Lost ---. The Merchant of Venice ---. Richard II ---. Richard III ---. The Taming of the Shrew ---. The Tempest ---. Twelfth Night Shaw, George B. - Man and Superman ---. Saint Joan Singer, Isaac B. - Enemies, A Love Story Solzhenitsyn, Aleksander - Cancer Ward ---. The First Circle ---. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Sophocles - Electra ---. Oedipus Rex Soyinka, Wole - Death and the King's Horseman ---. The Lion and the Jewel Spenser, Edmund - The Faerie Queen Sterne, Lawrence - Tristram Shandy Stoppard, Tom - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Tennyson, Alfred - Idylls of the King Tolstoy, Leo - Anna Karenina ---. The Death of Ivan Ilyich ---. War and Peace Turgenev, Ivan - Fathers and Sons Vargas Llosa, Mario - Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter ---. The War of the End of the World Virgil - The Aeneid (Fitzgerald trans.) Voltaire - Candide Woolf, Virginia - Mrs. Dalloway ---. To the Lighthouse Appendix A - Homework for Day One (Due by 11:59 P.M. on August 25th) Reminder: Email the answers to me with your name in the subject line. My name is I like to be called My email address is My phone number is Next summer, I plan to After I graduate, I plan to I have applied to My major will probably be But it might be My interests outside of school (including sports teams, clubs, church groups, hobbies, etc.) include My part time job is Not including required reading for this class, I like to read (authors/titles/genres)
My greatest challenge this academic year will be Because
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