Advanced Placement (AP) English Literature and Composition

Shuman 
Grades: 11-12
12:30-3:30 on Wednesdays, with break

 DOE course code: 23.06500
One core credit

Prerequisites: Junior or senior status and at least a C in two previous high-school level English classes, one of which is American Lit.

This class may be paired with Speech/Comp if non-literary-analysis-style writing and speech are desired in addition to what is provided in AP English.

Mrs. Shuman is authorized by the College Board to be an AP Eng Lit instructor for NIPA, Ivy Manor, St. Nicholas, and TNT, and can extend that authorization to other accredited groups as well as those students not in accredited groups.

This college-level course provides an opportunity for students to dig into literature in an analytical way, writing about and discussing not only the content and context of classics but how they literally "work on" the reader himself. Through study of writing techniques, literary terms, and historical/literary backgrounds of literature from various centuries and cultures, students investigate literary analysis and learn to navigate through some of the powerful worldviews of history, from Greek and African to Russian, and from existentialist to feminist to Christian. Discussion, research, mapping, and analytical writing lead to drafts and revisions of essays and explications, and study of past AP exams makes the optional, national May exam more friendly to the student. For those who have not taken British Literature, there is a review of the highlights of each literary time period. For those who have completed British Literature, we study British pieces not previously covered in Mrs. Shuman's classes, as well as review of many classic works.

Texts: Perrine's Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense (ISBN 0155511084) and classic literature such as Oedipus Rex*; Things Fall Apart; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead; Hamlet; Doll's House*; The Plague; Death of a Salesman,* A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. (*included in Perrine text)

Instructor will provide handouts to be collected in student binders.

Cost: $700. AP test fee, text, and some paperbacks not included in price of class, with testing details TBA. Paperbacks may be acquired used or at a special group rate that instructor will arrange.

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Shuman's class. 

Contact Trez Dabbs at 770 396-4455 for information about Dunwoody Classes fees for 2011/2012