Author: Skip Nicholson

AdvancedPlacementEnglish

The AP English Literature and Composition Course: Preliminary Planning

COURSE ARRANGEMENT

Generic • Chronological • Thematic • other?

TEXTBOOK(S)

Literature anthology? Yes No

Who pays for the books?

CLASSES

How many sections?

How many teachers?

How many students per section ?

What are the requirements/prerequisites?

How are the students selected and by whom?

LITERATURE

Novels:
(start with five)

SUMMER ?

AMERICAN

AMERICAN

?

BRITISH

BRITISH

Plays:
(start with five)

SUMMER ?

RENAISSANCE

20th-21st CENTURY

Poetry:

Separate unit? Yes No

16-17th CENTURY

19th CENTURY

20-21st CENTURY

Organization & strategies:

18th CENTURY

COMPOSITION

Required writing experiences

2: Structure, style, and themes

3: Social/Historical values

4: Literary elements

5: Writing to understand

6: Writing to explain

7: Writing to evaluate

Required writing instruction

8: Vocabulary

9: Sentence variety, subordination

10: Organization

11: Balance

12: Rhetoric

RESOURCES / CHALLENGES….