Curriculum Map Ap English Literature and Composition 12 B
Curriculum Map Ap English Literature and Composition 12 B
Curriculum Map Ap English Literature and Composition 12 B
Unit
Texts
Skills
Week 1
Jane Austen,
Pride and Prejudice
Write thesis
statements
Embed quotations
Read and decode
AP prompt
Poems:
William Shakespeare, Shall I
Compare thee to a summers
day? p. 524
Write responses to
poems
Introductions,
winter
assignment
Week 2
Poetry Boot
Camp Part V
Figures of
Speech
Week 3
Poetry Boot
Camp Part VI
Sound
Introduction to
Drama Unit
Poems:
William Butler Yeats, Who Goes
with Fergus? p. 561
William Cole, On my boat on
Lake Cayuga p. 565
Gerard Manley Hopkins, Gods
Grandeur p. 568
Aristotles Poetics
IOANA CIUPERCA
Literary Concepts
Grammar
Concepts
Style
Coordinatio
Characterization
n
Subordinati
on
2015-2016
Assessment
Unit Test Pride and
Prejudice
Write analytical essay
on AP prompt
Simile
Metaphor (implied and
extended)
Embedding poetic
Personification
quotations
Apostrophe
Hyperbole
Write body paragraphs
Litote / understatement
Metonymy
Synecdoche
Chiasmus
Transferred epithet
Paradox
Fragments,
run-ons,
comma
splices
Write responses to
poems
Commonly
confused
words
Annotate
Write analytical
essays
Euphony
Cacophony
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Assonance
Consonance
Exact/slant/eye/ rime
Internal / end rime
Masculine /feminine rime
Hamartia
Tragic flaw
Catharsis
Anagnorisis
Peripeteia
hubris
Poems:
Week 4
Poetry Boot
Camp Part VII
Rhythm
Novel Unit:
Hamlet
Week 5
Poetry Boot
Camp Part VIII
Closed Form
Novel Unit:
Hamlet
Annotate text
Paraphrasing
Write introductions
and body
paragraphs
Write responses to
poems
Write a villanelle
Annotate
Week 6
Hamlet Act II
Poems:
Steven Crane, The Heart, p. 615
Poetry Boot
Camp Part IX
Open Form
Novel Unit:
Hamlet
Week 7
Novel Unit:
Hamlet Act IV
Hamlet
Close reading
Annotations
Making inferences
Close reading
Annotations
Making inferences
Scansion
Foot : iambic, trochaic,
anapestic, dactylic
Meter: monometer, dimeter,
trimeter, tetrameter, etc.
Heroic meter
Couplet
Soliloquy
Aside
Dramatic Irony
Shakespearean sonnet
Petrarchan sonnet
Heroic couplet
Antithesis
Tercet
Terza rima
Quatrain
Sestet
octave
Syllabic verse
Acrostic
Villanelle
Sestina
Free verse
Projective verse
Psalms
Prose poetry
Deus ex machina
Revision
The
Subjunctive
Mood
The
Subjunctive
Mood
Timed Writing:
Response to Act I
Hamlet
Quizzes
comprehension
Hamlet
Quizzes comprehension
Hamlet
Responses to poems
Punctuation
Marks: The
Comma
Quizzes comprehension
Hamlet
Unit Test: Poetry
Punctuation
Marks: The
semicolon
Quizzes comprehension
Hamlet
Week 8
Novel Unit:
Hamlet
Hamlet Act V
Week 9
Hamlet
Novel Unit:
Hamlet
Poems:
Julia Alvarez, Dusting
Julia Alvarez, Ironing Their
Clothes
Susan Minot, My Husbands
Back
Linda Pastan, To a Daughter
Leaving Home
Peter Meinke, Untitled
Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis
Poems:
John Ciardi, Suburban
Daisy Fried, Wits End
Howard Nemerov, Walking the
Dog
Gary Soto, Mexicans Begin
Jogging
Poetry by
Theme: Home
and Family
Week 10
Poetry by
Theme:
Humor and
Satire
Novella:
Metamorphosis
Week 11
Poetry by
Theme:
Love and
Relationships
Novella:
Metamorphosis
Annotations
The 3 Levels of
Questioning
Embedding
quotations
Paraphrasing
Write body
paragraphs
Revision
Punctuation
Marks: The
dash and
hyphen
Annotations
The 3 Levels of
Questioning
Paraphrasing
Write analytical
essays
Revision
Thesis
Statements
Annotations
Making inferences
Paraphrasing
Revision
Topic
Sentences
Annotations
Making inferences
Paraphrasing
Write analytical
essays
Revision
Support
body
paragraphs
Quizzes comprehension
Hamlet
Complete What?
How? Why poetry
responses
Timed Writing:
Response to
Metarmophosis
Complete What?
How? Why poetry
responses
Week 12
Novel Unit:
The Kite Runner
Poetry by
Theme:
Work
Week 13
Novel Unit:
The Kite Runner
Poetry by
Theme:
Crossing
Boundaries
Week 14
Novel Unit:
The Kite Runner
Annotations
Making inferences
Paraphrasing
Write opening
statements for
introductions
Revision
Research
Skills
Complete What?
How? Why poetry
responses
Annotations
Making inferences
Paraphrasing
Write explication
essay in response
to AP prompt
Revision
Research
Skills
Timed Writing: AP
Prompt Q1
Annotations
Writing analytical
essay in response
to AP prompt
Revision
Revision
Revision
Revision
Review all
grammar
terms
Week 15
Novel Unit:
The Kite Runner
Complete What?
How? Why poetry
responses
Annotations
Embedding
quotations
Timed Writing: AP
Prompt Q2
Timed Writing: AP
Prompt Q3
Week 16
AP EXAM
Week 17 20
FINAL PROJECT
Research Skills