Course Overview:
AP Literature and
Composition is a course in the critical analysis of, and response to,
(primarily British) literature and poetry. It is designed
to prepare students for the AP Literature and Composition Exam,
to foster an appreciation for reading and writing, and to
introduce students to the academic expectations of college.
It should be noted
that this is a rigorous class, demanding exceptional self-discipline,
diligence, and the ability and willingness to take intellectual risks.
Students should consider carefully whether their academic, athletic,
personal, and employment schedules will allow the time necessary to
successfully complete this course. Students
who take Advanced Placement courses will be expected to take the
designated Advanced Placement examination.
Students in AP
Literature should expect to read, re-read, and respond to approximately
40-50 pages of often complex and difficult material between class
meetings. Additionally, in-class essays will be assigned approximately twice
per month. While writing skills are taught and refined, competent
dexterity in written expression is assumed. Regular oral participation
is mandatory and will be included in the determination of grades.
AP
Literature Reading List:
- Selections from Dubliners
– James Joyce
- A Portrait of
the Artist as a Young Man –
James Joyce
- Sound and Sense
– An Introduction to Poetry, 8th Edition
– Laurence Perrine
- Hamlet: Prince
of Denmark –
William Shakespeare
- The Tragedy of
Macbeth –
William Shakespeare
- Frankenstein:
Or, the Modern Prometheus
– Mary Shelley
- Heart of
Darkness
– Joseph Conrad
- Nineteen
Eighty-Four
– George Orwell
- The
Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer
-
Selections from The Norton Anthology of English Literature and England in Literature
Course Overview:
Video & Film is a year-long elective course in the study and practice of film-making.
Semester one will expose students to film history, theory, criticism,
and the basics of film-making, including photography, mise-en-scene,
movement, editing, sound, acting, and story. Semester two will
involve more hands-on work with video cameras and editing software.
Students will work in groups to complete shooting scripts, storyboards,
and video projects of varying genres.
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