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 5 

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

Essential Questions:

• Why is conflict an inevitable part of familial and societal relationships?

• In a world of fragmentation and absurdity, can individuals ever truly connect with one another?
• What are the boundaries of love and sacrifice, and where does one draw the line between them?
• What are the factors that move individuals, communities, and nations to great sacrifice, and what are the consequences?
• Can the sacrifice of an individual lead to the salvation of a diseased whole? 
• How does society define and regulate sanity and normality in the individual?

 Resources:

• online text: Hamlet, As I Lay Dying

Week of 21 March 2011

• introduction to Hamlet (character chart, literary terms, reading questions by act, discussion questions, significance of flowers)
• viewing and discussion of Hamlet (character chart, literary terms, reading questions by act, discussion questions, significance of flowers; assessment options: ABC book project OR motif project)
• tone vocabulary group 17 
• 03/24-25/11 poetry response 2 DUE (instructions, poetry packet) 
• 03/26/11 AP ENG LIT PRACTICE EXAM (9:00-12:00)

Week of 28 March 2011

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