Advance Placement English Literature
Syllabus Fall 2010

Assignments are due on the dates listed below. All reading assignments must be completed by the given date.

08/25
The Sun Also Rises, chapters I--X
Literature, 180--190, 3--18
Quiz
Group I: Read An Appointment in Samarra. Write a three hundred word essay on fate.

09/01
The Sun Also Rises, Ch. XI--XVI
Literature, 176--180, 18--31
Group II: Write a three hundred word essay on questions 5 or 6 on page 31 (your choice).

09/08
Finish The Sun Also Rises
Literature, 1345--1359, 73--93
Quiz
Work on Hemingway essay. Essay topic: Select any two characters (other than Jake) from The Sun Also Rises. In a well-written essay of four hundred words, examine the techniques used by Hemingway to create this character.

09/15
The Great Gatsby, I--III
The Sun Also Rises paper due
Literature, 1363--1376, 103--126

09/22
The Great Gatsby, IV--VI
Literature, 145--176
Group I: In a 300 word essay, answer questions 11 or 12 on page 175.
Quiz

09/29
Finish Gatsby.
Lit. 311--320, 349--357
Group II: Select one of the stories. In a 300 word essay, explain the “mood” of the story and how the author created that mood.

10/06
The Great Gatsby in-class test
Literature, 669--673, 397--405
Both groups: In a short essay of around 300 words, answer question 1 on page 405.

10/13
The Sound and the Fury: Benji
Literature, 1385--1391, 406--417. Answer questions 1--6 page 410. Write complete answers using complete sentences.
Strunk and White, Part II

10/20
The Sound and the Fury: Quentin
Literature, 1391--1402, 417--428. Answer question 4 on page 428.
Strunk and White, Part II
Quiz on Chapter 12

10/27
Sound and the Fury: Jason and Dilsey
Read assigned essay from Faulkner book
Literature, 429--443
Strunk and White, Part IV
Final Faulkner discussion in-class

10/27
Faulkner paper due. Topic to be assigned.
Strunk and White, part IV

11/3
Literature, 443--454.
Test on literary terms to 454.

11/10
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Chapters I--III
Literature, 458--464.
Group I: Answer questions on pages 460--461.
Group II: Answer questions on pages 462--463 (Do not answer questions on the Stevens poem).

11/17
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, IV--VI
Literature, 465--478.
Quiz on poems with questions.

11/24
Thanksgiving

12/1
Finish Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.
John Donne poetry assignment due.

12/8
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant: essay on eccentricity due
Wit

12/15
Begin The Power and the Glory
Essay on Donne and Wit due.

01/05
Finish The Power and the Glory
In class discussion of The Power and the Glory