AP English Literature

Avon Lake City Schools

Curriculum Framework

Advanced Placement Literature & Composition

Course Overview:

This course will provide students with the practice of in-depth reading and critical analysis of literature. This course is also an intensive writing course focusing on poetry, drama and fiction. Students will read a variety of genres and time periods concentrating on literary classics and works of literary merit. Students will gain a greater understanding of the importance of authors and their time period and also learn to appreciate the literary craftsmanship of the authors studied. Students will improve their skills in reading and analyzing written texts and improve their written and oral communication skills. AP students will participate with maturity and insight in discussion of a literary piece, period, or genre and will be required to complete numerous writing prompts.

Textbook (Title and Publishing Company):

Novel titles depend upon the teacher

Below is a list of possible titles

Textbook: An Introduction to Reading and Writing, Ninth Edition, Roberts, Edgar and Henry E. Jacobs (provided) and Essential Literary Terms, Hamilton, Sharon (provided)

The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead (fall)

A dystopian book: several choices TBD (spring)

Your choice(s) of literary fiction (once each semester)

Hamlet, William Shakespeare

The Doll House, Henrik Ibsen

A Doll’s House, Part 2, Lucas Hnath

Beloved, Toni Morrison

Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen

Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut

1984, George Orwell

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Edward Albee

Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller

Summer reading choices: The Passenger, No Country for Old Men, The Road, or All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy; The Kite Runner or A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini; Sing, Unburied Sing by Jesmyn Ward; Hamnet or The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell; Kindred or Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka, or Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver.