AP Literature and Composition (Period 5)
- Instructor
- Ms. Barbara Lyon
- Department
- English Language Arts
- Location
- 201
- Terms
- School Year 2010-2011
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Course Description
ADVANCED PLACEMENT ENGLISH LITERATURE Summer 2011
Instructor: Barbara Lyon
Course Description: This accelerated, literature-based course introduces students to college-level scholarship involving careful reading and critical analysis of literature. Focus includes the study of genre and historical/societal context, literary theory, rhetorical analysis, and sentence style and correctness. Writing skills are developed with attention to form, style, and structure as well as content. Students will produce essays that explain, evaluate and interpret major works studied and will monitor their growth as writers.
While efforts are directed largely to the development of skills and knowledge required to pass the Advanced Placement English Literature Exam, primary emphasis is on the advanced level of course work and will require significant reading outside of class. In order to prepare students for this level of intellectual rigor, they are required to read and annotate closely the following works prior to the first day of class:
How to Read Literature like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster
Atonement by Ian McEwan; read and annotate "Briony's Stand Against Oblivion. . . ."
The Importance of Being Earnest* by Oscar Wilde
On the first day of class and during the first full week in September, students will be asked to demonstrate familiarity with the summer reading texts by writing an AP style critical analysis essay on a text of the instructor's choosing and/or taking objective tests on the works. I recommend purchasing your own copies of the works in order to annotate and highlight in the books assigned. Copies are available ($13-14 each) at Barnes and Noble on Beach/Edinger. However, you may also check out books from local libraries. (Post-it notes also work well for annotating.)
If you have any questions, please see me in room 201 or e-mail me during the summer at [email protected] or [email protected].
*This title may be checked out over the summer from the bookstore.
Instructor: Barbara Lyon
Course Description: This accelerated, literature-based course introduces students to college-level scholarship involving careful reading and critical analysis of literature. Focus includes the study of genre and historical/societal context, literary theory, rhetorical analysis, and sentence style and correctness. Writing skills are developed with attention to form, style, and structure as well as content. Students will produce essays that explain, evaluate and interpret major works studied and will monitor their growth as writers.
While efforts are directed largely to the development of skills and knowledge required to pass the Advanced Placement English Literature Exam, primary emphasis is on the advanced level of course work and will require significant reading outside of class. In order to prepare students for this level of intellectual rigor, they are required to read and annotate closely the following works prior to the first day of class:
How to Read Literature like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster
Atonement by Ian McEwan; read and annotate "Briony's Stand Against Oblivion. . . ."
The Importance of Being Earnest* by Oscar Wilde
On the first day of class and during the first full week in September, students will be asked to demonstrate familiarity with the summer reading texts by writing an AP style critical analysis essay on a text of the instructor's choosing and/or taking objective tests on the works. I recommend purchasing your own copies of the works in order to annotate and highlight in the books assigned. Copies are available ($13-14 each) at Barnes and Noble on Beach/Edinger. However, you may also check out books from local libraries. (Post-it notes also work well for annotating.)
If you have any questions, please see me in room 201 or e-mail me during the summer at [email protected] or [email protected].
*This title may be checked out over the summer from the bookstore.