AP+Literature+&+Composition

Advanced Placement Literature and Composition
> The final score is reported on a 5-point scale: > 5 = extremely well qualified > 4 = well qualified > 3 = qualified > 2 = possibly qualified > 1 = no recommendation >> skilled readers of prose written in a variety of rhetorical contexts, and in becoming >> skilled writers who compose for a variety of purposes. Both their writing and their >> reading should make students aware of the interactions among a writer’s purposes, >> audience expectations, and subjects, as well as the way genre conventions and the >> resources of language contribute to effectiveness in writing. > >> reading and critical analysis of imaginative literature. Through the close reading of >> selected texts, students deepen their understanding of the ways writers use language >> to provide both meaning and pleasure for their readers. As they read, students consider >> a work’s structure, style and themes, as well as such smaller-scale elements as the >> use of figurative language, imagery, symbolism and tone.
 * [|About AP]
 * Exam Date - Thursday, May 9, 2013
 * Each AP Exam score is a weighted combination of the student's scores on the multiple-choice section and the free-response section.
 * [|AP Scholar Awards]
 * Language Course vs. Literature Course: What is the essential difference?:
 * An AP course in English Language and Composition engages students in becoming
 * An AP English Literature and Composition course engages students in the careful

Summer Work 2013
//The Stranger -// Albert Camus //Pygmalion -// George Bernard Shaw || Google Drive Video ||  ||
 * **Reading Selections** || **Useful Links** || **Downloads** ||
 * //The Metamorphosis -// Franz Kafka

1st Semester
Literary Terms: Poetry

Quizlet Quizlet


 * // The Road //**by Cormac McCarthy



Articles about The Road :
 * [|Left Behind by William Kennedy]
 * [|After the Apocalypse by Michael Chabon]
 * [|The Road]
 * [|Hollywood's Favorite Cowboy]

[|Interview with Cormac McCarthy]


 * // The Awakening //**

E text #1 E text#2

Women in the novel Chart: What are Edna's real options?

//A Jury of Her Peers// (online text) //A Rose for Emily// (online text)

Character Trading Cards

Venn Diagram: 3 circles


 * King Lear **

[|Shakespeare Help]

[|King Lear]

[|Is this the promised end?]

[|The four humours]

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