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Adanvanced Placement Literature and Composition

Course Number: #1703

The overall description of this intensive course is defined by the College Board. Advanced Placement Literature and Composition is a college level course that engages students in careful reading and critical analysis of imaginative literature. Through the close reading of selected texts that include short fiction, novels, drama, and poetry, students deepen their understanding of the ways writers use language to provide both meaning and pleasure for their readers. As they read, students consider a work’s structure, style, and themes as well as such smaller-scale elements as the use of figurative language, imagery, symbolism, and tone. Students will complete a fully documented research paper that examines the critical literary elements of a selected novel/drama.

Prerequisites: A commitment to the careful reading and critical analysis of literature. Required summer reading: The Awakening by Kate Chopin and Life of Pi by Yann Martel.

Credit(s): 1

Open to Grade(s): 11 and 12

Texts and Materials: The Bedford Introduction to Literature, Fifth and Sixth Editions; The Things They Carried; The Great Gatsby; Their Eyes Were Watching God; Slaughterhouse Five; The Scarlet Letter; Hamlet; A Streetcar Named Desire