Outline And Novels

Course Outline and Readings: AP Literature and Composition, 2007-08 Literary Periods (A = American; B = British):

I. Unit 1—writing about literature

•Summer reading review and discussions •Course guidelines and expectations (regular practices)

•Sample writing, evaluating writing, and general composition skills review

II. Unit 2: (B) Early English Language/Early Brit. Lit. (ca. 450-1066 & 1066-ca. 1500) •History/culture

•Beowulf (excerpt)

•Canterbury Tales (excerpt)

III. Unit 3: (B) Renaissance England (1500-1660) and Drama •History/culture •Renaissance Poets •Elizabethan theater oWilliam Shakespeare, Hamlet

IV. Unit 4: Early American Lit. and British Enlightenment (A) Colonial, Revolutionary, and Early National (1607-1828) •History/culture •Religious texts and literature •Colonial Poetry (B) (Neoclassical) Enlightenment (1660-1785) •History/culture •Satire: A. Pope and J. Dryden •J. Milton overview

V. Unit 5 Romanticism (B) Romantic (1785-1830) •History/culture •British Romantic Poetry •American and French Revolutions

•Frankenstein review (A) Romantic, American Renaissance (1828-1865) •History/culture •Big Four Romantic American Poets—Bryant, Longfellow, Holmes, and Whittier •Whitman and Dickinson •Gothicism oN. Hawthorne oH. Melville oE. A. Poe

•Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter

VI. Unit 6 British Victorian Era and American Realism/Naturalism (B) Victorian (1832-1900) •History/Culture •Poets and Movements •Novelists—overview and excerpts (A) Realism and Naturalism (1865-1900 & 1890-1914) •History and culture •Poetry •Short Stories •Overview of novels [(B) Edwardian (1900-1914)—may be mentioned though not covered in class]

VII. Unit 7: Modernism British Modernism ca. 1900-1939 •History/culture •War Poets •Other Poetry—T.S. Eliot •Short Story Writers •Overview of novelists American Modernism 1914-1945 •History and culture •Three Giants: Hemingway, Steinbeck, and Faulkner •Short stories •Poetry

•F. S. Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

VIII. Unit 8 (B & A) Postmodernism and Contemporary •History and culture •Poetry : •Short stories

•Modern American Theater: Margaret Edson, Wit: A Play

IX. Unit 9 AP Exam Preparatory Unit •To be announced

X. Unit 10 Junior Year Research Paper •To be announced

Readings List Plays: Hamlet (available in IMC = $4-$5); Wit (IMC = $7.50-$11)—purchase both Novels: Frankenstein, Mary Shelley (summer reading) The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne—purchase, IMC = $4-$5 The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald—purchase, IMC - $11 A Prayer for Owen Meaney, John Irving, Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe, All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy, or Other...