AP English 12 Course Information and Documents:

• Course description, College Board standards, and syllabi
• Vocabulary: tone words and QUIA review games
• Poetry notes: Everything You Need to Know about Poetry, 10 Easy Lessons in How to Read Poetry, theme statements, tonal scale, scansion, rhythm & meter, imagery examples, ballad, common meter, ode, sonnet, villanelle, other poetry concepts
• Literary terminology: Bedford/St. Martin's glossary,  Dr. Kip Wheeler's literary vocabulary
• Literary analysis: literary analysis basics, evidence triangle, using quotations as evidence
• AP Exam information: exam basics & MC strategy; timed-writing basics; timed-writing tips; Ten Commandments of the AP Examination
• Feedback: Boyd's writing marks, rubric for literary analysis, rubric for timed AP essays 

Unit 1  What Lies Beneath the Surface

Summer Reading 2009 (instructions)

Essential Questions:

• What is concealed beneath the façade of perfection in societies and individuals?

• In societies that strictly categorize people, how do individuals define and/or maintain their identities?

• How do authors emphasize duality and contrast within characters and their settings?

• What techniques do authors use to create the impression of reality within fictional works?

Week of 3 August 2009

• tone vocabulary group 1
• small-group rhetorical analysis of Snow Falling on Cedars pages 183-185 (rhetorical triangle notes)
• summer reading assessment (AP Exam free-response topics)
• literary terminology pre-test
• colors personality test
• colors personality personal narrative draft (Boyd's narrative)

Week of 10 August 2009

• small-group discussion of verisimilitude in Snow Falling on Cedars, Life of Pi, The Handmaid's Tale
• tone vocabulary group 2
• writers' workshop: colors personality personal narrative drafts (rubric)
• discussion of returned free-response essays; revision assigned (AP Exam free-response rubric)
• thesis statement writing (AP exam thesis MadLibs)
• discussion of classic novel literature circle texts and assignment (Emma, Mayor of Casterbridge, OR A Tale of Two Cities; assignment instructions; literary analysis notes; tips for integrating quotations)

Week of 17 August 2009

Week of 24 August 2009

• 8/27-28/09 classic novel analysis DUE (Emma, Mayor of Casterbridge, OR A Tale of Two Cities; assignment instructions; literary analysis notes; tips for integrating quotations) 

Week of 31 August 2009

Week of 7 September 2009

• 9/09-10/09 classic novel analysis DUE (Emma, Mayor of Casterbridge, OR A Tale of Two Cities; assignment instructions; literary analysis notes; tips for integrating quotations)

Week of 14 September 2009

• 9/17-18/09 classic novel analysis DUE (Emma, Mayor of Casterbridge, OR A Tale of Two Cities; assignment instructions; literary analysis notes; tips for integrating quotations)