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 4 

Truth and Lies: the Thin Line Between Civilization and Savagery

Essential Questions:

• Why is civilization important, and what factors support or destroy its fabric?
• In the face of the savage reality of human behavior, why do people continue to pursue the concept of civilization?
• What are the positive and negative aspects of chaos and order?
• Do absolute or universal truths exist?  How does perspective shape or alter truth?
• How does the individual face his or her own savagery and hypocrisy?
• What is the truth of the darkness at the heart of civilization and the civilized human being?

 Resources:

• online texts: Heart of Darkness, The Misanthrope
• notes: introduction notes, reading guide, map of Congo River, Chiaroscuro, Literary Impressionism, Freudian psyche, the Ubermensch, Imperialism & Colonialism,

Week of 3 January 2010 

• fall 2009 final exam review
• introduction to literary impressionism (PowerPoint for concept definition task)
• introduction to Heart of Darkness (introduction notes, reading guide, map of Congo River, Chiaroscuro, Freudian psyche, the Ubermensch, Imperialism & Colonialism, analysis and vocabulary assignment)
• tone vocabulary group 11
• 01/6-7/10 AP Exam review of major literary work BONUS project DUE (instructions, open questions 1959-2008)
• Heart of Darkness pre-reading writing prompt (instructions)
• writing and reading portfolio
• writing spring semester resolutions (instructions)

Week of 10 January 2010 

• introduction to Poetry Out Loud assignment (POL website, instructions)
• poetry lecture (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) 
• 01/13-14/10 group poetry analysis task (poetry types to KNOW, poetry packet, assignment)
• Heart of Darkness reading and discussion
• work on Poetry Out Loud assignment (POL website, 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