ADVANCED-PLACEMENT ENGLISH 11
SHELTON 2009-2010
1. Objectives:
To provide a more challenging version of the required Junior English Review course for qualified students; to guide the student to his own interpretation and understanding of the essay, the novel, and the short story; to teach the student to communicate this understanding effectively in writing using textual evidence and standard terminology; to prepare the student for the AP Language and Composition and the AP Literature and Composition examinations.
2. Content:
First Quarter
a. Grammar Review
b. Vocabulary Tests (11th-Grade Vocabulary List)
c. College Essay and Revision
d. Literary Terminology (A Handbook to Literature)
e. AP Language essays and multiple-choice exercises
f. Selected readings (handouts, Canterbury Tales, Advanced Composition Skills)
g. One collateral-reading book
Second Quarter
a. Vocabulary Tests
b. Selected readings from handouts and Advanced Composition Skills
c. AP Language essays and multiple-choice exercises
d. Gulliver’s Travels (and critical selections)
e. Short Stories (Short-Story Masterpieces)
f. 1984
e. One collateral-reading book
f. Mock Ap Language examination as Final Examination
Third Quarter
a. Short stories (Short-Story Masterpieces)
b. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
c.
The Catcher in the
d. AP Language and Literature essays and multiple-choice exercises
e. One collateral-reading book
Fourth Quarter
a. Short stories (Short-Story Masterpieces)
b. The Sound and the Fury (and critical selections)
c. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (and critical selections)
d. AP Language and Literature essays and multiple-choice exercises
e. One collateral-reading novel
3. Materials:
Advanced Composition Skills, Fox
A Handbook to Literature, 9th Ed., Harmon & Holman
Short-Story
Masterpieces,
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Kesey
Gulliver’s Travels, Norton Critical Edition, Swift
The Catcher in the
The Sound and the Fury, Norton Critical Edition, Faulkner
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Viking Critical Edition, Joyce
1984, Orwell
Four collateral books
4. Methods:
Throughout the course, student engagement
with text in discussion and with his own writing will be the primary
emphasis. Most writing assignments will
be done before the subject text receives class discussion to require the
student to rely on his own literary and linguistic skills and imagination. Many writing assignments will come from past
AP examinations as will weekly textual-analysis exercises. Compositions will be written both inside and
outside class, most with specific time limits from 30 to 60 minutes. Composition revision will be stressed in the first
half of the course.
Skill in literary analysis and synthesis will be developed through class discussion of style, tone, diction, characterization, satire, structure, atmosphere, symbolism, and figurative and rhetorical devices; writing inside and outside class; AP multiple-choice quizzes; worksheets on composition problems; and lectures. Attention will also be paid to photographs, statistical tables, and so forth as texts and as research sources.
Students will review of MLA documentation style and the use of secondary sources in thesis development.
In addition to the teacher’s marking of essays, students will also evaluate other students’ writing using the AP grading standards for particular topics. Individual conferences with each student will focus primarily on writing improvement.
5. Evaluation:
a. First Quarter
Vocabulary Tests 20%
Grammar Tests 15%
Compositions 45%
Daily work 20%
b. Second Quarter
Vocabulary Tests 15%
Compositions 45%
Multiple-Choice Exercises 30%
Daily work 10%
c. Third Quarter
Compositions 50%
Multiple-Choice Exercises 40%
Daily work 10%
d. Fourth Quarter
Compositions 50%
Multiple-Choice Exercises 40%
Daily work 10%