English 12 AP Course Outline (Language and Literature Part One) Essay Form September Literature Literary Essay (Story and Structure) -Writing about Plot (Setting) -“The Destructors” by Graham Greene -“The Japanese Quinze” by John Galsworthy “The Train from Rhodesia” by Nadine Gordimer Writing about Character -“A Little Cloud” and “Araby”by “Araby” by James Joyce -“Tears, Idle Tears” by Elizabeth Bowen “Miss Brill” by Katherine Mansfield “The Verger” by Somerset Maugham Other Readings (Personal, etc) General -Machiavelli, “Qualities of the Prince”, A World of Ideas -Rousseau, “The Origins of Civil Society”, A World of Ideas -Thomas Hobbes, from Leviathan -Seneca, “Slaves”, The Art of the Personal Essay -Richard Steele, “Love-Letters”, The Art of the Personal Essay Narrative Essay -George Gabori, “Coming of Age in Putnok”, Act of Writing -George Orwell, “A Hanging” 75 Readings -Maya Angelou, “Grandmother’s Victory”, 75 Readings -Annie Dillard, “The Stunt Pilot”, 75 Readings Descriptive Essay -Margaret Lawrence, “When the World Began”, Act of Writing October Writing about Theme -“Just Lather, That’s All” by Tellez -“Defender of the Faith” by Philip Roth “A Well-Lighted Place” by Hemingway “The Celestial Omnibus” by E. M. Forster “The Duke’s Children” by Frank O’Connor Writing about Point of View -“The Lost Boy” by Thomas Wolfe -“Paul’s Case” by Willa Cather -“The Catbird Seat” by James Thurber “Across the Bridge” by Graham Greene Writing about Symbolism -“The Lottery” by Kate Jackson -Maya Angelou, “Champion of the World”, Patterns of Exposition -E. B. White, “Once More to the Lake”, Patterns of Exposition -Doris Lessing, “My Father”, 75 Readings General -Plato, “Allegory of the Cave”, A World of Ideas -Sigmund Freud, “Interpretation of Dreams”, A World of Ideas -Carl Jung, “The Personal and the Collective Unconscious”, A World of Ideas -Karen Honey, “The Distrust between the Sexes”, A World of Ideas -Rachel Carson, “Nature Fights Back”, A World of Ideas -Stephen Jay Gould, “Nonmoral Nature”, A World of Ideas -Henry D. Thoreau, “Walking”, The Art of the Personal Essay -Karl Marx, “The Communist Manifesto”, A World of Ideas Compare/Contrast Essay -Mark Twain, “Two Ways of Seeing a River”, Patterns of Exposition -“The Rocking Horse Winner” by D.H. Lawrence “Rapunzel, Rapunzel” by Jean Rhys -Richard Selzer, “My Brother Shaman”, 75 Readings -Suzanne Brett, “Neat People vs Sloppy People”, 75 Readings -Alice Walker, “Am I Blue?”, 75 Readings Cause/Effect Essay -“Fast Food Nation”, Act of Writing -William Kowinski, “Kids in the Mall”, Patterns of Exposition -E. M. Forster, “My Wood”, 75 Readings Classification and Analogy Essays -David Ludlum, “The Climythology of America”, 75 Readings -Susan Allen Toth, “ Cinematypes”, 75 Readings -Desmond Morris, “Territorial Behaviour”, Patterns of Exposition -Tom Wolf, “O Rotten Gotham…” Patterns of Exposition Writing about Irony -“The Guest” by Albert Camus -“The Wall” by Jean Paul Sartre Evaluating Literature: Scale of Value November Anglo-Saxon Period Beowulf The Seafarer Riddles Medieval Period Canterbury Tales Universal Themes and Patterns (Viewpoints) 1. From the Archetypes of Literature 2. The Hero’s Adventure (Prologue and Pardoner’s Tale) Le Morte d’Arthur Various Ballads December The Renaissance Elizabethean Sonnets General -Simone de Beauvoir, “Woman: Myth and Reality”, A World of Ideas Frederich Nietzsche, “Appolllonianism and Dionsianism”, A World of Ideas -Charles Darwin, “Natural Selection”, The Art of the Personal Essay -James Thurber, “The Secret Life of James Thurber”, The Art of the Personal Essay Definition Essay -Susan Sontag, “Beauty”, 75 Readings -Jo Goodwin Parker, “What is Poverty?”, 75 Readings -D. H. Lawrence, “Pornography”, Patterns of Exposition Process Analysis Essay -Richard Marius, “Writing Drafts”, 75 Readings -Judy Stoffman, “The Way of All Flesh”, Act of Writing Parody, Satire, and Humour -Jonathan Swift, “A Modest Proposal”, Patterns of Exposition Jacobean –Metaphysical Poets Revolution – Milton The Restoration Samuel Pepys Dryden Swift Pope Samuel Johnson Thomas Gray and Burns William Blake January Government Exam Romantic Age Wordsworth Coleridge Byron Shelley Keats Victorian Age Tennyson Housman Browning Dickens Wilde The Modern Age Conrad *A Room with a View English 12 AP Course Outline (Literature and Literature Part Two) Readings Previously Studied Reading Emphasized February (Gothic Novel) Frankenstein Dracula Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde Picture of Dorian Gray Great Expectations Frankenstein February (Epic Hero) The Illiad The Odyssey Lord of the Rings The Life of Pi “Beowulf” Milton’s “Paradise Lost” Beowulf March (Comedy) Midsummer Nights Dream Taming of the Shrew Taming of the Shrew Lady Wintermere’s Fan The Importance of Being New Readings Other Readings (Personal, enrichment, etc) Wuthering Height Jane Eyre Heart of Darkness Wuthering Heights “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen Poe “The Mask of the Red Death” by Edgar Allen Poe “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell Samuel Coleridge's “Christabel” Lord Byron's "The Giaour" John Keats's "The Eve of St. Agnes" Percy Shelley’s “Ode to Canticle for Leibowitz the West Wind” Major Barbara “The Archetypes of Literature” by Northrop Frye “The Hero’s Adventure” Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers Lady Wintermere’s Fan Alice In Wonderland “This is Just to Say” by Gulliver’s Travels William Carlos Williams Ernest "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" by Mark Twain “Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams” by Kenneth Koch “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” (Sonnet 18) by William Shakespeare “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?” by Howard Moss Othello All the King’s Men by King Lear Robert Penn Warren Death of a Salesman Billy Budd by Melville “Easter 1916” and “The Second Bradley, A. C. Coming” by W. B. Yeates Shakespearean “The Wasteland” by T. S. Tragedy: Lectures on Eliot Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth Romeo and Juliet Moby Dick Daughter of Time All Quiet on the Western Front The Great Gatsby The Sun Also Rises Catcher in the Rye Crime and Punishment Of Mice and Men The Grapes of Wrath Cry the Beloved Country 1984 March (Tragedy) Oedipus Rex Antigone Macbeth Hamlet Aristotle’s Theory of Tragedy in the Poetics (chapter VI) Oedipus King Lear April (Modern Novel) and (Symbolism) The Kite Runner The Life of Pi Grapes of Wrath One novel The Crucible A Separate Peace The Stone Angel April/May (Review and AP Exam)