AP English Literature and Composition

Description

The 12th grade AP^® English Literature and Composition course focuses on reading, analyzing, and writing about imaginative literature (fiction, poetry, drama) from various periods. Students learn how to understand and evaluate works of fiction, poetry, and drama from various periods and cultures through the reading of literary works and writing of essays to explain and support their analysis of passages they’ve read. This course prepares students for the AP English Literature and Composition exam.Notes: (1) Increased cost for course. (2) Requires purchase of a full year. (3) Course is for 12th grade students.

Prerequisites: English I, II, and III (recommended)

Customer-Provided Required Physical Materials: (All works have rhetorical merit for the AP English student.)Segment One: Death of a Salesman by Arthur MillerInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa LahiriHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (Note: This text is available online; keep in mind, however, hard copies of the book will be easier to read and annotate.)Wuthering Heights by Emily Bront? (Note: This text is available online; keep in mind, however, hard copies of the book will be easier to read and annotate.)Students choose one of the following:Fahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyInvisible Man by Ralph EllisonLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia MarquezWater for Elephants by Sara GruenFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera1984 by George OrwellSing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn WardNote: The following text deals with mature subject matter or contains adult language or situations. If this is a concern for you or your family, please choose a different text from the list.Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Enchanted by Rene DenfeldThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniCirce by Madeline MillerFear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter ThompsonThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerNative Son by Richard WrightSegment Two:The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckHamlet by William Shakespeare (Note: This text is available online; keep in mind, however, hard copies of the book will be easier to read and annotate.)Students choose one of the following:Alias Grace by Margaret AtwoodSense and Sensibility by Jane AustenThe Stolen Child by Keith DonohueAs I Lay Dying by William FaulknerStill Alice by Lisa GenovaPortrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoycePoisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverThe Moor’s Account by Laila LalamiThe Spanish Prisoner by David MametBinti: The Trilogy by Nnedi Okorafor (Note: This is a trilogy of novellas, so all three books would be the equivalent of one of the other choices.)Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee by Dee BrownThe Boys in the Boat by Daniel James BrownNote: The following text deals with mature subject matter or contains adult language or situations. If this is a concern for you or your family, please choose a different text from the list.Post Office by Charles BukowskiJude the Obscure by Thomas HardyThe Road by Cormac McCarthyLolita by Vladimir NabokovFight Club by Chuck PalahniukConfederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleThe Hummingbird’s Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea

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