English 12 AP Course Outline (Language and Literature Part One)

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)