AP English Literature and Composition

The AP® English Literature and Composition course focuses on reading, analyzing, and writing about imaginative literature (fiction, poetry, drama) from various periods. Students learn how to understand and evaluate works of fiction, poetry, and drama from various periods and cultures through the reading of literary works and writing of essays to explain and support their analysis of passages they've read. This course prepares students for the AP English Literature and Composition exam.Notes: (1) Increased cost for course. (2) Requires purchase of a full year.Prerequisites: English I, II, and III (recommended)Customer-Provided Required Physical Materials: (All works have rhetorical merit for the AP English student; bold text deals with mature subject matter or contains adult language or situations. If this is a concern for you or your family, please choose a different text from the list.)Segment One: Death of a Salesman by Arthur MillerInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa LahiriHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (Note: This text is available online; keep in mind, however, hard copies of the book will be easier to read and annotate.)Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontё (Note: This text is available online; keep in mind, however, hard copies of the book will be easier to read and annotate.)Students choose one of the following:Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Enchanted by Rene DenfeldInvisible Man by Ralph EllisonLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia MarquezWater for Elephants by Sara GruenFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaCirce by Madeline Miller1984 by George OrwellFear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter ThompsonThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerSing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn WardNative Son by Richard WrightSegment Two:The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckHamlet by William Shakespeare (Note: This text is available online; keep in mind, however, hard copies of the book will be easier to read and annotate.)Students choose one of the following:Alias Grace by Margaret AtwoodSense and Sensibility by Jane AustenPost Office by Charles BukowskiThe Stolen Child by Keith DonohueAs I Lay Dying by William FaulknerStill Alice by Lisa GenovaJude the Obscure by Thomas HardyPortrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James JoycePoisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverThe Moor's Account by Laila LalamiThe Spanish Prisoner by David MametThe Road by Cormac McCarthyLolita by Vladimir NabokovBinti: The Trilogy by Nnedi Okorafor (Note: This is a trilogy of novellas, so all three books would be the equivalent of one of the other choices.)Fight Club by Chuck PalahniukConfederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleThe Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto UrreaBury My Heart At Wounded Knee by Dee BrownThe Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown