AP ENGLISH LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION
Overview
Develop critical standards for the appreciation of literary works and increase your sensitivity to literature as a shared experience.
Major Topics and Concepts
Disillusionment
- The Power of Literature
- Perspective and Voice
- The American Theater
- The Disillusionment of Character
The Struggle
- Romanticism and the Ancient Mariner
- People and Places
- Storyteller and Structure
- Frankenstein and Rime
- Evaluate Evidence
Journey
- The Nature of Humanity
- Symbols, Motifs, and Themes
- The Research Paper
- Building Your Paper
- Developing Commentary
- Using MLA Format
Love and Hate
- Experience the Heights
- The Pieces and Parts of a Poem
- Establishing a Line of Reasoning
- Ways of Viewing Wuthering Heights
More Than One Way
- Queen, Prince, or Groundling
- To Laugh or Not to Laugh
- To Be or Not to be
- Evaluate and Implement: Poetry
- Love Song or Not
Discovery
- Discovery Through Strategy
- Natural Discoveries
- Crushing Discoveries
- Evaluate and Implement: Literary Argument
The Irony
- The Irony of Survival
- The Irony of Revenge
- The Irony of Appearances
- The Irony of Truth
- The Irony of Madness
- The Irony of the End
- Evaluate and Implement: Prose
Fee Details
R 10,166.66
Grade 12
Annual
Students will need to obtain the following texts from either a library or a bookseller:
Disillusionment:
- Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
- Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Struggle: Students choose one of the following:
- Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
- For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
- Circe by Madeline Miller
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter Thompson
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
- Native Son by Richard Wright
Journey:
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Love and Hate:
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontё
Family:
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
More Than One Way:
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare
- Discovery: Students choose one of the following:
- Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
- Post Office by Charles Bukowski
- The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue
- As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner Still Alice by Lisa Genova
- Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
- Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
- Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
- The Moor’s Account by Laila Lalami
- The Spanish Prisoner by David Mamet
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- Binti: The Trilogy by Nnedi Okorafor
- Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
- Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
- The Hummingbird’s Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea
- Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
- The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
English 1, 2, And 3; This Course Is For Students In 12th Grade.