AP Comp/Lit Units

Course Syllabus

Summer Assignment:

From the McDougal and Littell World Literature textbook

Selections from The Epic of Gilgamesh: Pages 32-46

Selections from The Hebrew Bible: Pages 63-73

Selections from The Iliad: Pages 178-222

Selections from The Aeneid: Pages 356-379

Selections from The Metamorphoses: Pages 398-402

Selections from The Song of Roland: Pages 696-706

Selections from The Inferno: Pages 732-756

Fall Semester:

Satirical Realism – Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Supplements: Selected poems of Jonathan Swift 

Naturalism – Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Supplements: Selected poems of Emily Bronte and Thomas Hardy 

Renaissance Drama – Henry IV Part One by William Shakespeare and selected soliloquies from other plays. 

Absurdism – The Stranger by Albert Camus
Supplements: Various critical essays

Spring Semester:

Spring Research Paper: (During the course of the spring semester, students will write a research paper on a specific poet. More information regarding topics and process will be forth coming.)

Existentialism – Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Supplements: excerpts from selected writings of Jean-Paul Sartre, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Søren Kierkegaard.

Poetry - Selected poems of John Donne, William Blake, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Charlotte Smith, Lord Byron, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, WH Auden, Amy Lowell, and Derek Walcott 

Modernism and Postmodernism – Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison 

Shakespearean Comedy – Much ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare