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 3 

Destiny: the Individual Shaped by Heredity and Environment

Essential Questions:

• Is a person's identity limited by birth and experiences of the past?
• Does the world around a person determine identity?
• How does the past determine an individual’s future?
• What force has a greater effect on the creation of identity: nature or nurture?
• How do authors convey the impact of external conflict on internal conflict?

Resources:

• Wuthering Heights (character chart, online text) 

Week of 11 October   

•  independent work on assessment for The Taming of the Shrew (instructions)
• tone vocabulary group 8  
• 10/13-14/10 fall break bonus assignment DUE (instructions & rubric, AP Exam open prompts, sample analysis with commentary)
• introduction to Wuthering Heights (character chart, reading & diction log assignment)
• workshop on AP prompt deciphering: from statement to question  

 Week of 18 October

• workshop on AP prompt deciphering: from statement to question 
• 10/19-20/10 essays for Unit 1 DUE: two in-class, one take-home (instructions & prompts) 
• independent reading of Wuthering Heights (reading & diction log assignment)
• tone vocabulary group 9
• media center independent work on assessment for The Taming of the Shrew (instructions) 
• 10/21-22/10 assessment for The Taming of the Shrew DUE (instructions) 

Week of 25 October

• 10/25-26/10 RCPS mock writing test (25-minute SAT prompt) 
• 10/25-26/10 Wuthering Heights chapters 1-10 reading & diction log DUE (reading & diction log assignment)
• 10/27-28/10 Wuthering Heights chapters 1-10 passage analysis in-class timed response 
• AP Exam multiple-choice poetry practice ("Sound and Sense") 
• sonnet lesson (poetry types to KNOW, sonnet, sonnet PPT) 
• independent reading of Wuthering Heights (reading & diction log assignment)
• ballad lesson (poetry types to KNOW, ballad, ballad PPT, Gilligan's Island theme song (MP3), Steps for Detecting a Poem's Meaning, "When I Was One-and-Twenty," "Incident," "Richard Cory") 

Week of 1 November 

• ballad lesson (poetry types to KNOW, ballad, ballad PPT, Gilligan's Island theme song (MP3), Steps for Detecting a Poem's Meaning, "When I Was One-and-Twenty," "Incident," "Richard Cory")  
• tone vocabulary group 10 
• 11/3-4/10 Wuthering Heights chapters 11-20 reading & diction log DUE (reading & diction log assignment)
• 11/3-4/10 Wuthering Heights chapters 11-20 passage analysis in-class timed response
• vocabulary 1-10 review game: Taboo (instructions)
• reading of Wuthering Heights and work on reading & diction log (reading & diction log assignment)   

Week of 8 November

• reading of Wuthering Heights and work on reading & diction log (reading & diction log assignment)  
• 11/9-10/10 vocabulary 1-10 QUIZ (tone vocabulary)
• 11/11-12/10 poetry response 4 DUE (2010B AP Exam Poetry Prompt: "To Sir John Lade, on His Coming of Age" and "When I Was One-and-Twenty," instructions)

Week of 15 November

•  reading of Wuthering Heights and work on reading & diction log (reading & diction log assignment) 
• 11/17-18/10 Wuthering Heights chapters 21-34 reading & diction log DUE (reading & diction log assignment)
• 11/17-18/10 Wuthering Heights chapters 21-34 passage analysis in-class timed response
• analysis of college application personal narrative samples (instructions)
• pre-writing of college application narrative 
• introduction to Song of Solomon (quotations for discussion and analysis assignment instructions)

Week of 29 November 

• 11/29-30/10 college application narrative writers' workshop and peer review
• 11/29-30/10 Song of Solomon chapters 1-6 DUE (quotations for discussion) 
• 12/01-02/10 college application personal narrative DUE
• 12/03 & 06/10 Song of Solomon chapters 7-11 DUE (quotations for discussion)  

Week of 6 December

• 12/9-10/10 Song of Solomon chapters 12-15 DUE (quotations for discussion) 

Week of 13 December 

• 12/13-14/10 Song of Solomon analysis assignment DUE (analysis assignment instructions)
• 12/15/10 FINAL EXAM (4th period)
• 12/16/10 FINAL EXAM (5th period) 

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