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English IV (AP) 140
Reading

TIME FRAME: Throughout Semester
GRADE: 12
CONTACT:

         MAP LEVEL: 4

23.1 LANGUAGE ARTS - READING AND RESPONDING --- 23.1.1.9.1 --- 23.1.1.9.2 --- 23.1.1.9.3 --- 23.1.1.9.4 --- 23.1.1.9.5 --- 23.1.1.9.6
23.1 LANGUAGE ARTS - READING AND RESPONDING --- 23.1.2.9.1 --- 23.1.2.9.2 --- 23.1.2.9.4 --- 23.1.2.9.5 --- 23.1.2.9.6 --- 23.1.2.9.7
23.1 LANGUAGE ARTS - READING AND RESPONDING --- 23.1.3.9.1 --- 23.1.3.9.3 --- 23.1.3.9.4 --- 23.1.4.9.1 --- 23.1.4.9.2
23.2 LANGUAGE ARTS - EXPLORE AND RESPOND TO LITER --- 23.2.1.9.1 --- 23.2.1.9.2 --- 23.2.1.9.3 --- 23.2.1.9.4 --- 23.2.2.9.1 --- 23.2.2.9.2
23.2 LANGUAGE ARTS - EXPLORE AND RESPOND TO LITER --- 23.2.3.9.1 --- 23.2.3.9.2 --- 23.2.3.9.3 --- 23.2.4.9.4 --- 23.2.4.9.5 --- 23.2.4.9.6




What effective devices, techniques, and organizational structures do authors use to communicate their ideas?

What are the unique and shared qualities of the voices, cultures, and historical periods of world literature?

How has the history and culture of the world affected the development and style of its literature?

What themes, archetypes, and ideas transcend time and cultures?






This class consists of a survey approach to British and World Literature spanning thirteen centuries. The latter part of the course focuses on modern texts. The literature is chosen both for its aesthetic value and its cultural significance. The literature offers examination of the human condition, with a focus upon the principle concerns of literary criticism and the great ideas of civilization. Writing completed for the course focuses on in-depth text analysis as well as the application of ideas from the texts to our present day society. Another major emphasis of this course is the preparation of students for the Advanced Placement Exam. Text selections for the course are made with an awareness of what the test will demand.




Students in AP Senior English will:
-- Use a variety of strategies to expand vocabulary (especially in preparation for the AP test),
-- Understand and use the text structure and organization,
-- Use the process of reading, including prereading, questioning, and prediction, to enhance comprehension,
-- Make inferences about the ideas implicit in narrative, expository, persuasive, and poetic texts,
-- Support stated theme with details drawn from text,
-- Support analysis with details drawn from text,
-- Communicate effectively in a variety of modes,
-- Demonstrate an understanding that literature represents, recreates, shapes, and explores human experience through language and imagination (especially in preparation for the AP test),
-- Evaluate the merit of literary text on the basis of individual preference and established standards,
-- Identify, articulate, and write in a supported manner about larger thematic ideas
present in the works read,
-- Gather, select, organize, and analyze information from literary/critical sources to increase reading comprehension,
-- Think critically about the text through application of themes to life today and identification with characters,
-- Recognize various literary devices used in literature, and understand their function in literature (especially in preparation for the AP test),
-- Recognize and articulate the author's purpose and intended audience,
-- Identify the author's perspective and bias and relate them to one's own interpretation,
-- Articulate judgments about a text's meaning and quality written, understanding the relationship between context and content,
-- Explore and respond to traditional and contemporary literature,
-- Identify the unique and shared qualities of the voices, cultures, and historical periods of world literature,
-- Examine the ways that readers and writers are influenced by personal, social, cultural, and historical context,
-- Use literature as a resource to explore ideas, decisions, and social issues.




All students in AP Senior English will:

-- Read British and world literature selections from the delineated scope and sequence,
-- Be instructed in the literary terms, devices, and structures necessary for reading comprehension of various materials and in preparation for the AP test,
-- Be given the opportunity to respond to literature both orally and in written formats,
-- Be instructed in the vocabulary necessary for reading comprehension of various materials, especially in preparation for SATs and AP test,
-- Be guided in the reading skills (as needed) of making predictions, making inferences, drawing conclusions, making connections, recognizing author's purpose, identifying author's bias, and identifying historical and cultural contexts,
-- Be instructed in the unique and shared qualities of the voices, cultures, historical periods of world literature,
-- Be introduced to literary criticism, and instructed in the skills necessary for reading comprehension.




Assessment of student performance will include such activities as in-depth essays, journal responses on teacher- and student-selected topics, objective and essay test questions, class discussions (Socratic seminar, circle discussion, fishbowl, etc.), independent research projects, timed AP preparation prompts, and oral presentations.




Classroom texts will be selected from the following list:

-- 1984, George Orwell
-- Gilgmesh: A New Translation, trans. Stephen Mitchell
-- Beowulf, trans. Seamus Heaney
-- Grendel, John Gardner
-- Selections from Elements of Literature silver edition, including Anglo Saxon
Riddles, excerpts from The Canterbury Tales, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,
Arthurian Legends, Shakespeare's Sonnets, Romantic and Victorian Poetry, and
The Importance of Being Earnest
-- Hamlet, William Shakespeare
-- As You Like It , William Shakespeare
-- Othello, William Shakespeare
-- A Collection of Essays, George Orwell
-- A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
-- Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
-- The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
-- Cry the Beloved Country, Alan Paton
-- Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
-- My Brilliant Career, Miles Franklin
-- The Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
-- J.B.: A Play in Verse, Archibald Macleish
-- Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett
-- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Tom Stoppard
-- The Educated Imagination, Northrop Frye





The scope and sequence list identifies an extensive list of approved reading materials for the framework of the course of study. In keeping with the department philosophy, the role of English teacher is to address the needs of the particular group assigned to him/her. Additionally, instructors may provide the group with a course of study which is an extension of his/her personal identity and philosophy. In essence, each class, and teacher are allowed to develop an individual style and method of dealing with language arts needs while adhering to the basic framework of the curriculum. Continuity in the program is maintained through meetings of teachers assigned to identical courses and formal department meetings.