Syllabus Quiz

Which of the following is a goal of the course?

• To study representative works from various genres and periods (from the sixteenth to the twentieth century) and to know a few works extremely well.

• To carefully read and critically analyze imaginative literature.

• To consider a work’s structure, style, and themes as well as such smaller scale elements as the use of figurative language, imagery, symbolism, and tone.

• To write essays with really big words that make you sound really smart. Read a lot of really big books with big words in them that make the author sound really smart.

• To become aware of, through speaking, listening, reading, and, chiefly, writing, the resources of language: connotation, metaphor, irony, syntax, and tone.

Which of the following books do we read during unit two

• Great Expectations

• The Handmaid's Tale

• Frankenstein

• Heart of Darkness

What is the primary conflict of Unit 4

• Man vs. Self

• Man vs. Society

• Man vs. Man

• Man vs. Fate

During which break will you read "Things Fall Apart"

• Fall break

• Winter break

• Spring break

Which of the following are performance tasks for the course?

• Timed essays based on past AP prompts

• Annotations of literature, drama, poetry, non-fiction, and short story.

• A novel written as a group about your experiences in San Tan Valley

• Imaginative writing including but not limited to: poetry and imitative structures

• Literary analysis papers — expository and persuasive

Which play is used to study the classic tragedy?

• Hamlet

• King Lear

• Macbeth

• Death of a Salesman

What is your winter break assignment?

• Read Hamlet

• Compose a comparative essay

• Read Oedipus Rex

• Compose a literary analysis

Which of the following is an essential question during the Anti-Hero Unit?

• How is a literary hero defined and how does the presence of the archetype help to shape to overall understanding of a piece of literature?

• How do the themes of power, love, and isolation interact and build on one another to ultimately complicate the universal truths argued by the texts?

• How do the themes of loyalty and betrayal interact and build on one another to ultimately complicate the universal truths argued by the texts?

• How is literature a mirror to society and at what point can literature be an effective tool for social change?

Which of the following is NOT an option for your spring break assignment?

• Jane Eyre

• Pride and Prejudice

• Emma

• 1984

What type of assignment is worth the largest portion of your grade?

• Summative

• Formative

• Practice

• Final