AP English 12 Course Information and Documents:

• Course description, College Board standards, and syllabi
• Vocabulary: tone lists 1-10, tone lists 11-20, 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, Poetry.org glossary, poetry types to KNOW, ballad, ballad PPT, common meter, dramatic monologue, elegy PPT, epic PPT, free verse PPT, ode, satire PPT, sonnet, sonnet PPT, villanelle, villanelle PPT, other poetry concepts
• Literary terminology: Bedford/St. Martin's glossary,  Dr. Kip Wheeler's literary vocabulary, character, characterization, point of view, organizational structure  
• Literary analysis: literary analysis basics, evidence triangle, using quotations as evidence
• AP Exam information: exam basics & MC strategy; timed-writing basics; timed-writing tips; Question 3 suggested titles; Ten Commandments of the AP Examination
• Feedback: Boyd's writing marks, rubric for literary analysis, rubric for timed AP essays 

Unit 2 

Quest for Identity: the Individual defined in Society

Essential Questions:

• Is identity innate or created?

• How does an individual transcend society’s expectations?

• How does social class affect a person’s identity?

• How do authors effectively express a character’s internal conflict?

Resources:

• online texts: Emma (character genealogy)
• Pygmalion 
• The Taming of the Shrew 

Week of 9 August

• introduction to Emma (analysis assignment)
• tone vocabulary group 2 

Week of 16 August

• tone vocabulary group 3
• Pygmalion introduction (first impressions visual activity, language & appearances pre-reading, Susan Boyle video clip & makeover article from Huffington Post, myth background, character list, Comedic Ladder)
• reading and discussion of Pygmalion Act 1
• 8/19-20/10 poetry response 1 DUE (poetry packet, poems for printing, instructions) 

Week of 23 August

• reading and discussion of Pygmalion Act 1
• 8/24-25/10  colors personality personal narrative draft 2 DUE & peer review (instructions) 
• tone vocabulary group 4 
• 8/24-25/10 Emma chapters 1-14 DUE (analysis assignment)
• discussion of Emma chapters 1-14
• discussion of returned summer reading free-response essays; revision assigned (rubric for timed AP essays) 
• reading and discussion of Pygmalion Acts 2 & 3     
• 8/26-27/10 vocabulary QUIZ 
• 8/26-27/10 colors personality personal narrative final draft DUE (instructions, rubric) 

Week of 30 August

• tone vocabulary group 5
• reading and discussion of Pygmalion Acts 4 & 5  
• 9/1-2/10 Emma chapters 15-28 DUE (analysis assignment)
• 9/2-3/10 poetry response 2 DUE (poetry packet, instructions)
• introduction to The Taming of the Shrew  (characters; Elizabethan theater conventions; literary terminology; thematic concepts)
• reading and analysis of The Taming of the Shrew induction 

Week of 6 September

• 9/7-8/10 Emma chapters 29-42 DUE (analysis assignment)
• reading and analysis of The Taming of the Shrew Acts 1

Week of 13 September

• tone vocabulary group 6
• reading and analysis of The Taming of the Shrew Acts 2 & 3 
• 9/15-16/10 Emma chapters 43-55 DUE (analysis assignment) 

Week of 20 September

• tone vocabulary group 7
• reading and analysis of The Taming of the Shrew Acts 4 & 5 
• 9/21-22/10 poetry response 3 DUE (poetry packet, poems for printing, instructions)

Units:

• Unit 1 
  Facade: What Lies Beneath the Surface
• Unit 2
  Quest for Identity: the Individual defined in Society

• Unit 3 

  Destiny: the Individual shaped by Heredity and Environment

• Unit 4

  Truth and Lies: the Thin Line Between Civilization and Savagery

• Unit 5
  Family, Sanity, & Sacrifice: Connection and Isolation between the Self and Society