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

Sylvia Plath, Metaphors p. 528

N. Scott Momaday, Simile p.
528
Robert Burns, Oh, my love is like
a red, red rose, p. 537

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 body paragraphs

to analyze figures of
speech.

Write responses to
poems

Commonly
confused
words

Timed WritingAnalytical Essay

-Response to Poetry

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

Gwendolyn Brooks, We Real Cool,

p. 579
A.E. Housman, When I was one-andtwenty, p. 586
Walt Whitman, Beat! Beat! Drums!
p. 587
Hamlet Act I
Poems:
William Shakespeare, Let me not
to the marriage of true minds
admit impediments, p. 598
Edna St. Vincent Millay, What
lips my lips have kissed, and
where, and why p. 600

Annotate text
Paraphrasing
Write introductions
and body
paragraphs

Write responses to
poems
Write a villanelle
Annotate

Dylan Thomas, Do not go gentle

into that good night, p. 606
Elizabeth Bishop, Sestina, p.
607

Week 6

Hamlet Act II
Poems:
Steven Crane, The Heart, p. 615

Poetry Boot
Camp Part IX
Open Form

George Herbert, Easter Wings, p. 620

Novel Unit:

Carole Satyamurti, I Shall Paint My Nails

Red, p. 623

Hamlet

Hamlet Act III

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

Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis

Poems:
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, How
do I love thee? Let me count the
ways
Edna St. Vincent Millay,
Recuerdo
John Donne, A Valediction:
Forbidding Mourning
John Keats, La Belle Dame Sans
Merci

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

Timed Writing: Hamlet

Response to AP
prompt
Complete What?
How? Why poetry
responses

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

Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner Ch. 1-5

Poems:
Jan Beatty, My Father Teaches
Me to Dream
Robert Hayden, Those Winter
Sundays
Michael Chitwood, Men Throwing
Bricks

Annotations
Making inferences
Paraphrasing
Write opening
statements for
introductions

Revision

Research
Skills

Complete What?
How? Why poetry
responses

Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner Ch. 612

Poems:
Pat Mora, Legal Alien
Janice Mirikitami, Recipe

Annotations
Making inferences
Paraphrasing
Write explication
essay in response
to AP prompt

Revision

Research
Skills

Timed Writing: AP
Prompt Q1

Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner Ch. 1319

Annotations
Writing analytical
essay in response
to AP prompt

Revision

Revision

Revision

Revision

Review all skills

Review all
grammar
terms

Week 15
Novel Unit:
The Kite Runner

Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner Ch. 2023

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