AP Literature
- Seminar-style environment, great discussions
- High-interest plays and novels
- Sharpened writing skills and boosted GPAs
Advanced Placement (AP) English Literature and Composition
Grades: 10-12, 9 with permission
DOE course code: 23.06500
One core credit
One weekly class with two 90-min periods
Prerequisites: At least a B in two previous high-school-level English classes and motivation to do college-level work.
This seminar-style course provides an opportunity for students to dig into fiction in an analytical way, writing about and discussing the content and context of classic works. Through study of writing techniques, literary terms, and backgrounds of literature from various centuries and cultures, students investigate literary strategies and learn to navigate through some of the powerful worldviews of history, from Greek to African to European, and from existentialist to feminist to Christian. Students engage in discussion, research, and writing. Study of past AP exams makes the optional, national May exam more friendly to the student.
Despite this serious description, students actually enjoy the give and take in the discussions and the chance to dig deeply into interesting material. Much of the class is interactive and hands-on. Optional summer reading can add extra credit, starting in summer.
Texts: Perrine's Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense (ISBN 0155511084) and classic literature such as Othello*; Doll's House*; Cry, the Beloved Country; The Plague; One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich; Things Fall Apart; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead; Death of a Salesman*. (*included in Perrine text, which is cheap to purchase used online or from previous Multicultural Lit students)
Want to visit a class? Please drop into any of Margaret's classes at any time.
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May national AP test fee and books not included in price of class.
