2017 Spring Syllabus for AP English Literature

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January:
Winter Break Assignment:
Crime and Punishment:
Essays
Due: Essays #1 - 4 due January 13th
Essay #1 "No Place to Turn"
Essay #2  "The Motif of Yellow"
Essay #3  "The Beating of the Mare"
Essay #4   "The Soldier and the Student"

Due: Essays #5 - 8 due January 20th
Essay #5 "Delirium"
Essay #6 "Katerina"
Essay #7 "The Cross"
Essay #8  "Epilogue"
Essay "The Suicide of Svidrigaylov"

Cavalier Poets Packet: - due on January 9th
Sir Walter Raleigh
Christopher Marlowe
Ben Jonson
Thomas Herrick

Essay:
Metaphor and Tone
Group Work: "Snakes" Packet
Prompt: Prompt: 
Write a well organized essay analyzing the writers' use of metaphors to describe one of the most fascinating, worshipped, and reviled creatures, man's most time honored enemy - the snake - and how the metaphors used reveal the writers' reveal tone. 
Minimum 500 words

 Essay: 
Handmaid's Tale Packet
Multiple Choice Questions
Prompt: Analyze how Atwood uses figurative language to convey tone. 

 Perrine's:  
Chapter 1, "Reading the Story" - Read and Outline 
"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" - Ernest Hemingway; questions
Chapter 2, "Plot and Structure"- Read and Outline
"Interpreter of Maladies" - Jhumpa Lahiri; questions


January/February:
Background and Biographies
The Romantic Poets
John Keats - "Bright Star", "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"
Percy Bysshe Shelley - "Ode to the West Wind", "To Wordsworth",
Lord Byron - "When We Two Parted"

Novels
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Short analytic essays from the novel

February:
Essays: 
Analyzing Shelley's use of characterization, setting, and theme, give specific examples from the novel, Frankenstein, which demonstrate aspects of the Romantic and Gothic genre.

Analyze the significance of the subtitle of Frankenstein and the symbolism of the Prometheus myth as it pertains to Victor and his creation of the monster.

Compare and contrast the story of Frankenstein with the biblical story of the Garden of Eden and the tree of knowledge. Compare and contrast Victor's role to that of Adam. Discuss Victor's role in relationship to his creation, the monster, to God's relationship to his creation,  Man.

Perrine's:
Chapter 3, "Characterization" - Read and outline
"Miss Brill" - Katherine Mansfield; questions
"Hunters in the Snow" - Tobias Wolff; questions

Timed Essays:
Elizabeth Gaskell Mary Barton
Compare and Contrast:
John Keats - "Bright Star" and Robert Frost - "Choose Something Like a Star"
William Blake - "The Chimney Sweep"

March:
Metamorphoses - Kafka
The Sun Also Rises - Hemingway
"Another Country" - Hemingway
World War l Poets
Perrine's: Theme

April:
Existentialism
The Stranger
Essays
Perrine's: Point of View and Symbol, Allegory, and Fantasy
Perrine's: Evaluating Literature (Chapter 8)

May:
Essays
Perrine's: Three Authors



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