AP Literature and Composition 2016-17


 

UNIT of STUDY DATES THEMATIC DUALITY
EXTENDED LITERARY TEXTS
Summer Tasks 05/2/16-07/31/16 Monstrosity and Magnanimity  A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens), Watership Down (Adams), OR The Things They Carried (O'Brien)

UNIT 1

 

assessments list

08/01/16 - 10/06/16 Monstrosity and Magnanimity 

Frankenstein (Shelley)

CHOICE: A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens), Watership Down (Adams), The Things They Carried (O'Brien)

 

UNIT 2

10/11/16 - 1/13/17 Tenacity and Futility 

The Tragedy of Hamlet (Shakespeare)

CHOICE: Wuthering Heights (Bronte),  As I Lay Dying (Faulkner), Things Fall Apart (Achebe)

UNIT 3

01/18/17 - 03/16/17
Freedom and Confinement

No Exit (Sartre) AND Fences (Wilson)   

CHOICE: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (Stevenson), Their Eyes Were Watching God (Hurston), Song of Solomon (Morrison)

UNIT 4

03/20/17 - 05/18/17 

  Veracity and Duplicity

 The Misanthrope (Moliere) AND Heart of Darkness (Conrad) 

 

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