 CLASS
NOTES
FOR
MRS. COY-GONFA'S
12TH GRADE A.P. STUDENTS
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| Senior year at the John
D. O'Bryant School of Mathematics and Science (formerly known as
Boston Technical High), is probably the most stressful academic
year of all. The mixed feelings that are a product of finding oneself at the end of a long journey, facing the uncertainty of the future, while making those decisions that will impact the rest of life can be quite unsettling. Additionally, the Advanced Placement literature curriculum may be, for those who embark on this journey, their most intense academic experience to date. However, the decision to meet the challenges of Advanced Placement is a wise one. The purpose of this course is to deepen analytical reading and writing skills and simulate the depth of a college experience. It will provide enrichment that will help students prepare for what lies ahead. The decision to meet the demands of this course reveals a willingness to accept the challenge inbeded in academic growth. This self investment will continue to benefit the student far beyond college graduation.
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| COURSE REQUIREMENTS:
ADVANCED PLACEMENT ENGLISH 12
Required Reading for Advanced Placement English 12
METAMORPHOSIS
by Franz Kafka,
HAMLET: PRINCE OF DENMARK
by
William Shakespeare,
A DOLL'S HOUSE
by Henrik Ibsen
In addition, students will study literature and literary movements from the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries(poetry, essays, short stories) in a survey of
world literature. Students will perform close analytical reading in order to reveal how the authors' choices in style, diction, word choices, literary devices etc. create meaning and fulfill the author's purpose. Students will write analytical papers which will reveal the depth of understanding they have gained of the process.
In order to successfully complete this course, students are
required to
*write timed essays relevant to the required class and outside readings
Perform indepth analyses of literary works and present information orally
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*keep a literature notebook
and
*develop a ten paged, typed, and documented, (MLA
style) research paper analyzing the works of a major poet.
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| SUMMER READING: GRADE
12 A.P.
During the summer, students are required to read all of
the books listed here. A summer reading writing prompt will be given September 12, 2005 and a summer reading test on the 13th. These texts will be studied in depth during the first and second marking terms and additional in class writing
prompts related to these texts will be assigned. Therefore, because of the significance of this
assignment, it is suggested that students
keep a journal as they read in order to achieve the best
outcome. Required directed reading questions can be downloaded from my page at the O'Bryant School website [www.obryant.us].
FRANKENSTEIN
by Shelley
THE HEART OF DARKNESS
by Conrad
THINGS FALL APART
by Achebe
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
by Dostoevsky
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Follow the hound
to Mrs. Coy-Gonfa's literary analysis essay page.
COLLATERAL READING SCHEDULE:
Students are required to read and respond in writing to a variety
of literature from the Outside Reading List. All essays will be timed and written in class. Please Note, the
essay schedule dates below:
FIRST ESSAY:
(classic dramatic play) due October 20
SECOND ESSAY:
(comedic play) due November 30
THIRD ESSAY:
(Victorian novel, oral) due December 15
FOURTH ESSAY:
(Twentieth Century novel) due January 26
*******OUTSIDE******* READING******* LIST*******
| Invisible Man | Wuthering Heights | Jane Eyre | | Huckleberry Finn | Crime & Punishment | Great Expectations | | Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Raisin in the Sun | The Awakening | | The Great Gatsby | Light in August | Moby Dick | | Billy Budd | Jude the Obscure
| The Scarlet Letter | | Catch 22 | The Color Purple
| Cry the Beloved Country | | Moll Flanders | Native Son
| Othello | | Waiting for Godot | Antigone | Ceremony | | The Glass Menagerie | The Grapes of Wrath | Oedipus Rex | | A Passage to India | Pride & Prejudice | Their Eyes Were Watching God |
RESEARCH PAPER
ASSIGNMENT: A PROMOTION REQUIREMENT
due no later than March 3, 2006 |
PAPER FORMAT
- Title Page
- Outline with page numbers (includes title and thesis)
- Introduction Page
- Six Body Pages
- Conclusion Page
- Works Cited Page
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Students are to choose a poet from the list below and analyze three of his/her poems as to structure, tone, style, diction and poetic devices that the poet uses to create meaning.
LIST POETS
| William Blake | Anne Bradstreet | Gwendolyn Brooks | | Robert Browning | Lord Byron | Samuel T. Coleridge | | Emily Dickinson | John Donne | T.S. Eliot | | Robert Frost | Langston Hughes | John Keats | | Robert Lowell | Edgar Allan Poe | Alexander Pope | | William Shakespeare | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Leslie Marmon Silko | | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Walt Whitman | William Butler Yeats |
| Need extra help? Mrs.
Coy-Gonfa is available afterschool, Monday thru Thursday, from 2:00
to 3:00p.m. |
2005-2006 SCHOOL
CALENDAR
September 8.............First day of school
October
10..............Columbus Day
November 11............Veterans
Day
November 23............Early dismissal
November
24-25........Thanksgiving
December 23-January 2......Winter
vacation
January 3............ All day professional
day
January 16.............Martin Luther King Day
February
20............Presidents' Day
February 21-24.........February
vacation
March
17...............Evacuation Day
April 14...............Good
Friday
April 17...............Patriots' Day
April
18-21............Spring vacation
May 29.................Memorial Day
*June 8
(or day 170)...Last day for seniors
June 19..............Bunker
Hill Day
*June 21 (or day 179)..Early dismissal
*June 22 (or
day 180)..Last day of school, early
dismissal
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