AP Lit: Second Semester Required Reading, Spring '19

While we will supply you with a number of poems and short stories, you will need to acquire three books on your own for second semester:

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)
by Robert Louis Stevenson

Macbeth
by William Shakespeare

The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood


The links above take you to the B&N website, but you are welcome to find copies wherever you prefer. For Jekyll and Hyde, make sure you have an unabridged version of the original text. For "the Scottish Play," make sure your version aligns with the Folger Library edition. And for The Handmaid's Tale, you do not necessarily need the edition that ties in with the current Hulu series; an older edition will do.


Please have The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde read for when we return from the winter break in January.


Happy Holidays!

AP Lit: Death by Poster - Six Degrees of Joseph Conrad

Death by Poster: Six Degrees of Joseph Conrad

Your Semester 1 Final Exam is as simple – and as complex – as this: working alone or with a single partner, and using any of the following elements, connect every piece of literature we’ve studied this six weeks with at least one other piece of literature. You may illustrate your work however you want, but your ties between pieces of literature must take the form of a legibly handwritten, complete, grammatically correct, comparative analytical statement you would be proud to include in an AP essay. You will have the period before the exam and the exam period itself to work on this in class, and you may work outside of class during scheduled tutoring time or flex. Your poster is due by the end of your scheduled ACP period, no exceptions.

 

Analytical Elements:

• Theme (s)
• Motif(s)
• Characterization
• Syntax and Diction
• Symbolism
• Figurative Language
• Imagery
• Structure
• Nomenclature
• Poetic form
• Genre/sub-genre
• Schools of literary criticism popularly applied
• Periodization

 

Literature List:

• “Lineage” – Ted Hughes
• “Night, Death, Mississippi” – Robert Hayden
• “The Second Coming” – William Butler Yeats
• Heart of Darkness –Joseph Conrad
• “The White Man’s Burden” – Rudyard Kipling
• Death and the King’s Horseman – Wole Soyinka
• “A Rose for Emily” – William Faulkner
• “A Good Man is Hard to Find” – Flannery O’Connor
• “Extracts from Gosschen’s Diary” – Blackwood’s Magazine, 1818
• “Porphyria’s Lover” – Robert Browning
• “Love the Way You Lie” – Eminem
• “My Last Duchess” – Robert Browning
• “The Pied Piper of Hamelin” – Robert Browning
• “It’s All Over Now Baby Blue” – Bob Dylan
• “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” – Joyce Carol Oates
• “Saboteur” – Ha Jin

SAMPLE COMPARATIVE ANALYTICAL STATEMENT

FOR OUR DEATH BY POSTER EXAM:

In Scott Tatum’s novella “Ms. Townsel Was Once a Goddess, In Possession of Exceptional Wisdom and Even Better Taste,” he paints a picture of a crazed, unkempt English teacher, broken by the vagaries of life and who, as a result of her student-induced mental illness, has fallen so far from the graces of society that we find her living below her desk with only her coffee maker affording her comfort and solace. Smith’s picture of the mentally ill Townsel is evocative of Dr. Cedric Barrett’s Booker Prize-winning portrait of a similarly disturbed Patrick McGhee in his stunning poem “AP Teacher Snaps His Twig,” with its disturbing imagery of the ginger-bearded instructor using a prop sword to pummel his flex class into submission. Both works not only share a theme of the psychosis that often affects teachers, they instill in their readers a feeling of melancholy, of dread, of spiritual need for escape from the confines of an academic world that crushes not just students but, in great numbers, their instructors.

Grading Rubric: 100 points

• All works studied this semester included and comparatively analyzed: 30 points
• All required comparative literary statements completed: 30 points
• All required comparative literary statements accurate and effective: 20 points
• Conventions: 15 points
• Appearance (including neatness): 5 points

AP Lang Final Argument Teams

OR

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Reminder: your completed 'Peace on Earth' paper is due in physical form in my hand no later than 4:30 pm, December 13, 2019.

• 1,250 words (word count noted at the end of the text of the paper; does not include the works cited page)
• MLA Format
• Works Cited page
• Typed, double spaced
• 12 font Times New Roman
• 1" margins

First Period Debate Teams (Blue 1)

• Team Cristina: Cristina, Kyndall, Mirra, Cleo, Peyton, Kathryn, Olivia, Fiona, Soleil
• Team Madison: Madison, Walker, Melanie, Holden, Angie, Selah, Cassidy, Ashley, Angelo
• Team Sophia: Sophia, May, Isabella, Sydney, Greer, Harry, Zoe, James, Amaya
• Team Larsen: Larsen, Kirsten, Bobby, Rayne, Madeline, Katelyn, Joaquin, Aaliyah

Second Period Debate Teams (Blue 2)

• Team Amy: Amy, Charity, Lily, Leslie, Betty, Nick, Adriann, Madi
• Team Brandalin: Brandalin, Clarissa, Valerie, Jhoanna, Spencer, Tiya, Remi, Avery
• Team Thalia: Thalia, Heaven Leigh, Hannah, Honesty, Maya, Isaac, Linda, Christian
• Team Marcus: Marcus, Jeffrey, Irina, Dylan, Mason, Sam, Ellen, Lion, Mica

Sixth Period Debate Teams (Silver 2)

• Team Georgia: Georgia S., Dillon, Grace, Michael, Georgia R., Meredith, Mila, Hannah
• Team Logan: Logan, Wyatt, Yesenia, Clay, Elle, Jack, Avery, Noah
• Team Paola: Paola, Chloe, Hallie, Taylor, Joshua, Victoria, Kendall, Jordan
• Team Mary Morgan: Mary Morgan, Ryan, Khadijah, Tony, Sam, Sebastian, Charlie, Jacob

I will announce your team's position, Affirmative/Possible or Negative/Impossible, on Monday, December 10, and Tuesday, December 11. You will have those two class days that week to organize your side's case, and you will present your team's case on midterm exam day.

AP Lit: HoD and DatKH In-Class Final

When:

• Blue = Wednesday, October 24
• Silver = Thursday, October 25

What kind:

• Three essay questions. You will prep all three, come in with your copies of the novella and the play on test day, and you will pull a number at random to determine the essay you have to write.

The questions are as follows:

1. A recurring theme in literature is the classic war between a passion and a responsibility. For instance, a personal cause, a love, a desire for revenge, a determination to redress a wrong, or some other emotion or drive may conflict with moral duty. In Death and the King's Horseman, a character confronts the demands of a private passion that conflicts with his or her responsibilities. In a well written essay, show clearly the nature of the conflict, its effect upon the character, and its significance to the work.
2. In a novel by William Styron, a father tells his son that life "is a search for justice." Choose a character from Heart of Darkness who responds in some significant way to justice or injustice. Then write a well-developed essay in which you analyze the character's understanding of justice, the degree to which the characters search is successful, and the significance of this search for the work as a whole.
3. In great literature, no scene of violence exists for its own sake. Choose an event from either Death and the King's Horseman or Heart of Darkness that confronts the audience or reader with a scene or scenes of violence. In a well-organized essay, explain how the scene or scenes contribute to the meaning of the complete work. Do not merely summarize the plot.

In preparation for the exam, you may bring a detailed outline that fits on one side of one standard, eight and a half inch by eleven inch (8.5"x11") piece of paper for each question. This may be three one-sided sheets, or two outlines may be printed front and back on one sheet You should prepare all elements of a well-written response including a general thesis and relevant examples. You should also identify your evidence with in-text citations (author's last name, page number). You will have one full class period to respond to your selected prompt.

AP Lang: Ford/Kavenaugh Essay

Prompt:  Is it possible, in spite of their conflicting testimony, that both Dr. Ford and Judge Kavanaugh are telling the truth?


Paper Parameters:

• 300-750 words
• Double-spaced
• Times New Roman or Ariel font
• MLA format (1" margins all around, in-text citations)
• Works Cited page (must cite, at a minimum, Ford's and Kavanaugh's prepared written statements)

DUE DATE: Monday/Tuesday, October 15/16, by 4:30pm


Note: Yes, Tuesday is ACT day, which means that you will have to drop by before or after school to turn in your paper unless you turn it in early on Monday.

AP Lit: Heart of Darkness Final Graphic Project

The summative project for the Heart of Darkness unit is a graphic project.

The student will select one quote from the novella which encapsulates one of the themes. Then the student will find an image (from the Internet or a book, et cetera) that he or she feels illustrates the quote from the novella; center the image and caption it with the selected quote from the novella. On the back of the page, the student will properly cite the source of the image as well as the quote from the novella (MLA format).

Students will present their graphic projects to the class on Monday/Tuesday, October 15/16, 2018.

An example is below:

“[The Jungle] whispered things to him, things about himself that he didn't know until he was out there alone. That whisper echoed loudly inside him because he was hollow.” (Conrad, 68)