AP LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION READING LIST

Short Stories: “The A & P” John Updike

“A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” Ernest Hemingway

“ The Rocking-Horse Winner” D.H. Lawrence

“A Rose for Emily” William Faulkner

“The Prodigal Son” Luke 15:11-32

“No One’s a Mystery” Elizabeth Talent

“A Good Man Is Hard to Find” Flannery O’Connor

“The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” Katherine Anne Porter

“Harrison Bergeron” Kurt Vonnegut

“The Storm” Kate Chopin

Poetry: Various Poetry – British and American

1600-Present

Drama: Macbeth

Othello

Death of a Salesman

Novels: A Prayer for Owen Meany

Ethan Frome

Song of Solomon

Brave New World

First Semester: Literary analyses of prose – Short stories, A Prayer for

Owen Meany, and Ethan Frome

Reading criticisms of short stories and novels

Essay writing – Critical analyses of prose selections

Second Semester: Literary analyses of poetry

Reading criticisms on poetry

Essay writing – critical analyses of poetry

Literary analyses of drama

Reading criticisms on drama

Essay writing - critical analyses of drama

Literary analyses of novels

Reading criticisms on novels.

Essay writing –critical analyses of novels

READING LIST 12^TH GRADE / BRITISH LITERATURE

Kim Dionne

Narrative Poetry

• Beowulf
• Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales – “The Prologue”

“The Nun’s Priest’s Tale”

“The Wife of Bath’s Tale” (optional)

Legends

• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• Morte d’Arthur

Drama- Choose one of the following:

• Macbeth
• Othello

Novels

• Animal Farm GeorgeOrwell
• Brave New World Aldous Huxley

Choose one or more of the following novels for class or independent reading:

• A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens
• Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
• Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
• Emma Jane Austen
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone J.K. Rowling
• Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
• Sons and Lovers D.H. Lawrence

Short Fiction

Choose several from the following:

Jonathon Swift Doris Lessing

Charles Dickens Joseph Conrad

Leo Tolstoy Virginia Woolf

Charlotte Bronte D.H. Lawrence

Elizabeth Bowen Graham Greene

Allan Silltoe Jorge Luis Borges

William Trevor Ted Hughes

Anita Desai

Nonfiction

Choose several from the following:

Jane Austen

Mary Wollstonecraft

Emma Thompson

Samuel Johnson

Samuel Pepys

Anna Quindlen

Poetry

Choose several from the following:

Shakespeare John Donne

Andrew Marvell Robert Herrick

Robert Burns William Blake

William Wordsworth Samuel Taylor Cooleridge

Percy Bysshe Shelley George Gordon, Lord Byron

John Keats Alfred Lord Tennyson

Robert Browning Thomas Hardy

Emily Bronte A.E. Housman

Christina Rossetti Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Robert Browning William Butler Yeats

D.H. Lawrence T.S. Eliot

Robert Graves Dylan Thomas

Philip Larkin

12 B SYLLABUS K. DIONNE

FIRST NINE WEEKS

Ø Standard and Nonstandard English and related writing and literature

Ø Analysis of short stories

Ø Related poetry

Ø Essays

SECOND NINE WEEKS

Ø Archetypes in mythology with a review of Greek mythology and an introduction to Norse mythology.

Ø Joseph Campell’s outline of the Hero’s Journey

Ø Related stories and movies

Ø Beowulf

Ø Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Ø Related poetry

Ø Essays

THIRD NINE WEEKS

Ø Shakespearean drama \ Othello

Ø Research writing

Ø Modern drama \ various plays from Action magazines

Ø Related poetry

FOURTH NINE WEEKS

Ø Novels- Animal Farm and The Secret Life of Bees

Ø Related poetry

Ø Essays