AP Literature and Composition Assignments
- Instructor
- Teacher Jennifer Lowery
- Term
- 2025-2026 School Year
- Department
- Advanced Placement
- Description
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Welcome to your Senior English class! This class is designed like a Sophomore-level college class. You will be guided to perfect your literary analysis skills in poetry, drama, and short fiction, prepped for the AP Exam, and will be VERY college-ready for any analysis and writing that comes your way in the future. All of the interesting, fun, symbolic, and thematic discussion awaits!
Upcoming Assignments
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Allusions
Last ones
Past Assignments
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Allusions Presentations
TBD - who will be here.
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Novels
In Class Essay.
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Novels
Socratic Circle - Connections and Criticism
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Novels
Finish Invisible Man.
Wrap up. Prep SC. Prep for essay.
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Novels
Dorian Gray
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Novels
Invisible Man
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Novels
All the King's Men
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Novels
1984
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Novel Presentations
The Road
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Novels
Prep and practice.
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Novels
Prep and practice.
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Seamus Heaney
Digging - finish
Blackberry Picking.
Blackberry Picking.
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Novels
Dorian Gray
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Book due. Last book meet
And meet Seamus Heaney - Irish Poet Extraordinaire
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Novels
Mini meet with groups
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R&G are D
SC over R&G and H. Modernism, Absurdism, etc...
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R&G are D
Finish movie - Fill out notes page for SC
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Allusions
Allusion Presentations
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Book Meeting 2
Come prepared with materials to discuss your book
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Allusions
Allusion Presentations
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Hamlet
ICE
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Theater of the Absurd Intro
R&G are D
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Hamlet
Quotes test
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Book Meeting 1
Come ready with your materials to meet with your group
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Allusions
Allusion Presentations
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Hamlet
Socratic Circle - Act V and end. All the things. See post in GC with ideas
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Hamlet
Act V
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Quote Analysis in Class
Handout posted in GC. Assignment in GC.
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Act IV
Begins.
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Hamlet
Finish Viewing Act III. Discuss - High Tragedy or bloody revenge? Theory 1, 2, or 3 check in.
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Hamlet
To be or not to be - quiz, discuss, watch.
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Act III - COntinue
OSQ. Handouts - TBoNTB prep.
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Hamlet Act II
Begin Act II. Come Prepped with annotations.
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Paper Menagerie
Socratic Circle - Prep for Novel Study
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Hamlet
Soliloquy Quiz Act I. Finish reading Paper Menagerie and annotate.
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Hamlet
Finish viewing Act I - Discuss Ghost Scene Interpretations
Study Soliloquy Act I Scene 2
Read "Paper Menagerie" Annotate
Study Soliloquy Act I Scene 2
Read "Paper Menagerie" Annotate
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Hamlet
Finish Commentary discussion
View Act I
View Act I
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Welcome Back!
Business Items - Allusions
Adding Commentary in Writing - mini lesson
Adding Commentary in Writing - mini lesson
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Podcast Listening all week
Listen to Peer Podcasts - Q&A at the end.
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Hamlet
Comprehensive test - Will count as a double quiz.
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Hamlet
Finish the play by today. You should know the plot- pretty well! Characters - major and minor. Major symbols, issues, themes, and the resolution of the conflict.
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Hamlet
Start lecture regarding interpretations of the play.
Start Act I questions
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Allusions 2 -
Last two!
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Hamlet
Have Act I read by today
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Hamlet
More background for Hamlet
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Hamlet
Start background for Hamlet
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Allusions-3
Allusion Presentations
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Shelley Sonnet
Percy, not Mary
Check out Hamlet
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Senior Sonnet Due
Assignment and Rubric will be given in class - this is a quiz
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Sonnet Quiz AP Classroom
Quiz - AP Classroom
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Three Different Styles of Sonnet
OLD
Modern
Modern
Modern
Modern
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Sonnets Continued
Shakespearean Sonnets
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Allusions 2 -
And more sonnet work.
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Sonnets - Intro
Three Eras of Sonnets
Notes - Format
Structure lesson -
Notes - Format
Structure lesson -
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Frankenstein
Socratic Circle
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Poem and Short Story
"The Birthmark" and "Author to her Book"
For this Socratic circle, we will compare themes, ideas, compare and contrast these works with the novel as well as discuss the ending.
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Frankenstein
End of the novel check - what do you know? What did you not catch?
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ICE
In class essay - Prose analysis
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Scotland Passage
MC quiz -
Close read for ICE.
Look at past prompts
Close read for ICE.
Look at past prompts
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MC with passage from book
Prep for ICE - close reading and analysis for homework
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Test
First half of Frankenstein - MC Test
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Paradise Lost Book 10
The Epilogue
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Allusions Presentations
3
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Frankenstein
Paradise Lost
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Frankenstein
Paradise Lost
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Frankenstein
Stations - Chapters 6-10
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Frankenstein
Chapter 5 close read
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Allusion - 1 -
Xavier presents Jephthah's daughter
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Frankenstein
Quiz 1 - Letters and Chaps 1-5.
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Allusions-3
Austen, Thessoli, and Joseph
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Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Read, Listen, View
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Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Read, Listen, View
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Frankenstein
Finish Background notes -
Byronic Hero
Intro Ancient Mariner
Byronic Hero
Intro Ancient Mariner
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Allusions Presentations
3 - Cadence, Macy, Faye
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Frankenstein
Finish Prometheus Character discussion
Start Notes
Start Notes
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Frankenstein
Finish intro and Start Prometheus Myth
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Frankenstein
Intro video and Begin Background pres
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Poetry
Darkling Thrush - Poetry Analysis
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Allusions-3
Allusions Presentations
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Poetry -
Thomas Hardy and Mary Oliver
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Oedipus Rex
Test - Quotes Test
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Oedipus Rex
Socratic Circle - Documents posted in Google Classroom to help you discuss!
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Oedipus Rex
"Jocasta" - Poem
Other study items for deeper understanding
Other study items for deeper understanding
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Allusions Presentations
2
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Oedipus Rex
Notes
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Oedipus Rex
Notes
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BEGIN OEDIPUS REX - Bring Perrine book!
Oedipus Rex - introduction
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Allusions - assign
Allusion presentations on Fridays. (3 per Friday) Start prepping.
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TONE scramble
Class activity on identifying tone
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Paper Due/ Soc Circle
Your paper is due at midnight. Submit to GC or turn it in on paper.
Socratic Circle - today! :)
Socratic Circle - today! :)
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CMC Debate
Lenses Debate
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CMC Test
MC and Short Answer test for CMC
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Body Paras
Write- Edit - Peer Edit
Conclusion
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Body Paras
Write- Edit - Peer Edit
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Opening Paras
Discuss samples
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Close Read - Read, Infer, Theme, Apply
Jane Eyre Chap 1 passage (body para instruction)
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CMC Paper Intro
Literary Analysis - Introduce paper
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CMC - quiz
Quiz - this one counts. :) Chapters 43-60
FINISH THIS WEEK! By Monday.
FINISH THIS WEEK! By Monday.
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Close Read - CMC
Level Questions and Passage analysis -
Should be through Chapter 60 by Monday!
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Close Read - CMC
Level Questions and Passage analysis
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Archetypes Test
Test 1!
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Critical Theory
Packet - Lenses through which you can view literature
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Critical Theory
Packet - Lenses through which you can view literature
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Poetry Intro
Two poems in class. Intro email is due today too!
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Archetypes Charts
Continued. Discuss.
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Archetype Charts
Bring these, even if not complete. You will compare ideas today.
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CMC
Practice Quiz in pairs - how much are you retaining as you read?
READ if there is time.
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Art Analysis Due and Finish Intro to CMC
Upload Art analysis to Google Classroom, or print it and give it to me.
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CMC Intro
Count of Monte Cristo introduction
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Art Analysis
Finish Preliminary Discussion for 4th piece.
Writing assignment. Due Monday.
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Get books!
Mrs. Lord will be here for me today and will take you to get your textbooks from the media center.
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Discuss Art Analysis
Today we will see where you all see things similarly and differently.
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Welcome back! Art Analysis
Your college literature education begins today. No boring first day of school stuff. Today you analyze visual art to learn how to analyze literary art.