Advanced+Placement+English

**AP English 12 AP Literature and Composition 2009-2010**

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"Embrace Ambiguity"  COURSE DESCRIPTION This course focuses on British literature through an accelerated and extended curriculum to accomplish college-level writing assignments and literary analysis in preparation for the AP  Literature and Composition exam. Grammar, usage, and conventions are taught as a component of the course and within the context of authentic writing experiences. Outside class reading and writing assignments (both summer and during course) with follow-up requirements occur. Students and parents are advised that required assignments may involve reading material that is sophisticated and mature in nature. Students must take the AP Literature and Composition exam in May. Exam fee is approximately $85. The purchase of some support material is optional.  REQUIRED MATERIALS • Notebook • Textbook* (purchase price $55) • Ancillary texts • blue or black ink pen  EXPECTATIONS · Maintain good class attendance. · Arrive in class on time. · Complete all assignments. · Bring required materials to class. · Use the calendar provided to keep yourself on task and organized · Exhibit respect for your peers, your teacher(s), and our room · No food or drink in the classroom. You may bring water only to class. · When absent, it is your responsibility to find out about work missed and schedule outside of class time to make up quizzes and tests.  REWRITE/REVISE POLICY Students will be encouraged to strive to improve their writing through a policy that allows rewriting and revision to occur throughout the grading period until students are satisfied with their progress and the grade received. To be accepted for a new grading, rewrites must include all previous drafts and substantive changes and improvement. Conferences with the teacher about the paper will occur as necessary. Students come in to the class with diverse needs, strengths and weaknesses. One student may need to revise a paper one time, while another may need 3 or 4 drafts to achieve success. Instruction is tailored in individual need.  DAILY AND WEEKLY ACTIVITIES Literary Terms Allusions Reading for Class Discussion and Writing AP test strategies and practice opportunities Discussion Journals Warm-ups Independent Novel Reading  ATTENDANCE & TARDINESS POLICY In order to pass the course, students are required to attend class and complete the required work. If a student arrives more than fifteen minutes late to class, h/she is considered absent for the entire period. When a student is absent, it is his/her responsibility to find out about work missed and schedule outside of class time to make up quizzes and tests or any other required assignments  AREAS OF STUDY/MAJOR WORKS STUDIED College Essay Writing Workshop Novels • //<span style="font-family: Verdana,Italic;">Catch-22 // • //<span style="font-family: Verdana,Italic;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Italic;">A Prayer for Owen Meany // • //<span style="font-family: Verdana,Italic;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Italic;">The Poisonwood Bible // • 18 th   or 19   th   century novel/author choice (or student choice with teacher    approval) • Contemporary novel/author choice (or student choice with teacher approval) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Bold;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Bold;"> Drama <span style="font-family: Verdana,Italic;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Italic;"> Oedipus Rex The Tempest/Othello A Doll House Death of a Salesman The Glass Menagerie Wit <span style="font-family: Verdana,Bold;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Bold;"> Selected Short Stories Selected Poetry Author Study <span style="font-family: Verdana,Italic;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Italic;"> Flannery O’Connor