AP English Literature

English

Grade 12

This course is designed for the outstanding and highly motivated student of English in preparation for the AP exam in Literature and Composition; this exam demands engagement with the novel, drama, and poetry. As such, the course examines those three literary modes as practiced in a variety of time periods and places: twenty-first-century America, sixteenth-century England, nineteenth-century Russia. The orienting virtue for the year is hope, and the course reflects on that virtue in such classic texts as Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov and Shakespeare's Hamlet along with more recent works like Weike Wang's Chemistry and Toni Morrison's A Mercy. In terms of composition, students will practice explication of passages of both prose and poetry, and they will enjoy some opportunity for secondary research in writing analytically about a key text. For those students who are interested, this course also provides students with the opportunity to earn up to three college credits through Stony Brook University's ACE program. There is an associated cost of $300 for those students who wish to enroll.

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