AP Literature

AP Lit Midterm Exam – Thursday 1/17/19

Midterm Study Guide – AP Lit – Midterm Exam Study Guide

AP Lit Final Exam – TBD

Final Exam Study Guide  –

Weekly Reading Practice:

Directions: Assigned every Monday and due every Friday – 10 points

  1. Take background notes on the author – Pay close attention to writing styles – 2 points
  2. Read & Annotate the piece – 2 points
  3. Complete a TPCASTT/TSPFASTT (POEMS ONLY) – 2 points
  4. Answer the M/C questions and label each question style – 4 points

Darwin – Due Friday, – Darwin – On the Origin of Species

Dostoyevsky – Due Monday,  – Dostoyevsky – Crime and Punishment

Hawthorne – Due Friday,  – Weekly Reading – Scarlet Letter 1

Chopin – Due Friday,  – Weekly Reading – Chopin – The Kiss

Swift – Due Friday 2/1/19,  – Swift Gullivers Travels

Jayadeva – Due Friday 12/14/18,  – Jayadeva – Gita Govinda – Weekly Practice

Gibran – Due Friday 12/7/18,  – Gibran – Defeat – Weekly Practice

Whitman – Due Friday 11/30/18,  – Whitman – O Captain My Captain

Eliot – Due Friday 11/16/18,  – Eliot – Morning at the Window

Dickinson – Due Friday 11/9/18,  – Dickinson – Success is Counted Sweetest

Bradstreet – Due Friday 11/2/18,  – Bradstreet

Yeats – Due Friday 10/26/18 – Yeats – That the Night Come

Wordsworth – Due Friday 10/19/18, – Wordsworth – The World is Too Much With Us

Marvell – Due Friday 10/11/18, – Marvell – To His Coy Mistress

Hopkins – Due Friday 10/5/18,  – Hopkins – Gods Grandeur – Weekly Practice

Herrick – Due Friday 9/28  – Herrick – To the Virgins To Make Much of Time

Hardy – Due Friday 9/21 – Thomas Hardy – Nobody Comes

 

“A Raisin in the Sun”

Act 1 –  a_raisin_in_the_sun_act_pdf

Act 2 – a_raisin_in_the_sun_act_iipdf

Act 3 – a_raisin_in_the_sun_act_iiipdf

“This Is Me” Project: Due Sunday, May 5th

Directions Handout – _This Is Me_ Project Directions & Rubric

Video Example – https://youtu.be/WbnY-aE_5-8

Unit 5 – Literature Circles – Final Project Due Monday, 5/13

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Unit 4 – Short Stories (Student Lessons)

Presentation Calendar – 2019 Calendar of Lesson Presentations

Assigned Stories:

Group 1 – “A Rose For Emily” William Faulkner – A Rose for Emily pdf

Companion Piece – Jilting of Granny Weatherall

Socratic Seminar Handout – Socratic Seminar_ A Rose For Emily

Jeopardy Game – https://jeopardylabs.com/play/a-rose-for-emily-46

Group 2 – “The Things They Carried” Tim O’Brien – The Things They Carried

Companion Piece – https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44329/the-man-he-killed

Handout for TTTC – Things They Carried excerpt

Group 3 – “Young Goodman Browne” Nathaniel Hawthorne – Young Goodman Brown

Companion Piece – king_the_man_in_the_black_suit

Class Discussion PPT & Notes Organizer – Young Goodman Brown (1) Young Goodman Brown Packet (1)

Group 4 – “A Hunger Artist” Franz Kafka – A Hunger Artist

Companion Piece – https://www.shia-maktab.info/index.php/en/library/books/english?format=raw&task=download&fid=280 Directions: Read pages 39-50 only

Class Discussion PPT – A Hunger Artist By Franz Kafka

Class Discussion PPT – “God’s Emissaries” GOD’S EMISSARIES Pages (39-50) Shaykh rizwan arastu

Group 5 – “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” Gabriel Garcia Marquez – A_Very_Old_Man_with_Enormous_Wings

Companion Piece – https://youtu.be/z9GwIeh5FIY

Class Discussion PPT – A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings Notes (1)

Assignment Rubric – AVOMWEW Rubric

Group 6 – “The Chrysanthemums” John Steinbeck – The Chrysanthemums

Companion Piece – https://ebooknoid.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/the_girl_with_the_dragon_tattoo.pdf  Directions: Read pgs 278-291

Class Discussion PPT – The Chrysanthemums

Group 7 – “Sonny’s Blues” James Baldwin  – Sonnys Blues

Group 8 – “The Lottery” Shirley Jackson – The Lottery

Companion Piece – https://www.scholastic.com/thehungergames/media/hungergames-chapter1.pdf  Directions: Read pages 15 to 19 only.

 

“Heart of Darkness”  

PDF of novel – https://www.gutenberg.org/files/219/219-h/219-h.htm

HOD Novella Explained – HOD Reduction Notes

Background Notes Handout – Due TBD HOD Background Notes

Take Home Exam – Due TBD  HOD Take Home Exam

Unit 3 – Poetry

Elements of Poetry notes – Elements of Poetry – AP Lit

Romanticism Poets – Romantic Poetry Notes

Poems Analyzed:

“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” – William Wordsworth

Keats & Shelley – Due TBD – Ode to a Nightingale and Ozymandias

Unit 2: Feminism

“The Awakening” Overview (Reduction Notes) – “The Awakening” Overview

Feminist Web Explore Assignment – Due Friday, 12/14 by 11:59pm – Feminist Author WebExplore Directions

TED Talk – Justin Baldoni – https://www.ted.com/talks/justin_baldoni_why_i_m_done_trying_to_be_man_enough

“The Vindication of the Rights of Women” PDF – Wollstencraft – Vindication

“Vindication” – Reading Assignment – Due 12/12/18  – Wollstonecraft – Vindication – Reading Assignment

“Vindication” Reading Assignment Group Chapters – Wollstencraft – Ch. Assignments

“The Awakening” PDF – The Awakening pdf

“The Awakening” Reading Questions – Awakening – Reading Questions

“The Yellow Wallpaper” PDF – The-Yellow-Wall-Paper

“The Yellow Wallpaper” Reading Guide – The Yellow Wallpaper Reading Guide

Charlotte Perkins Gilman Biography Video – https://youtu.be/uRZCv7gshNo

Unit 1: Shakespeare – Drama

William Shakespeare – Hamlet

 

“Rape of the Lock” Alexander Pope

 

Lyrics Analysis (Poetry Introduction)

Bob Dylan – It’s Alright, Ma (I’m only bleeding) Lyrics (1)

Childish Gambino – “This is America” Childish Gambino

Micro Literary Analysis Directions – “It’s Alright Ma” & “This is America” Micro Analysis Directions

  • Due Monday 9/10 – Written or Typed (Your choice)

 

AP Lit Class Essentials:

Literary Analysis PPT Notes – WritingtheLiteraryAnalysis

TP-CASTT & TSP-FASTT Charts: TPCASTT TSPFASTT

Reduction Directions, Example & Blank Chart – APLIT-ReductionOrganizer

AP Lit – Syllabus – Hadous – AP Lit Syllabus – FHS – Short Version

Summer-Contract-AP Lit

  • Follow the directions as given in the syllabus
  • Email me if you have any questions – hadousm@dearbornschools.org –  I will be responding to emails during the summer.
  • Summer work is worth 400 summative points and is due on the first day of school.

Summer-Expectations Meeting presentation

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