AP+World+Lit

This year we explore writers from around the world as we learn to enjoy them and to say something interesting about them in writing. =Men and Women in Literature= As a focus this year we will consider the relationships between women and men as depicted by various writers.

We'll start with Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, reading the first two parts over summer vacation as a portion of our summer reading, and supplementing it with other shorter books, plays, stories, and poems.

Later we'll undertake //The Fountainhead//by Ayn Rand, and //A Free Life// by Ha Jin. Although these books deal with ideas, they are mainly concerned with people. We'll undertake questions about how literature addresses the human condition, touching on love, faith, conflict, and society.

Short fiction includes Carver, O'Connor, Kafka, Borges, and Joyce.



and - //The Lady' not For Burning// by Christopher Fry (copies in ICS office as of Aug 15)

=This Year's Plan=

Quarter 1 -

 * The Novel: Tolstoy's //Anna Karenina (19th C. Russian novel)// followed by
 * Short Story Boot Camp, culminating in works by O'Brien, Borges, Kafka and Hawthorne;

Quarter 2 -

 * //The Fountainhead//by Ayn Rand (20th C. American novel)[[image:http://web.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap3/hawthorne.gif width="140" height="216" align="right" caption="Hawthorne 1840 by Charles Osgood"]]
 * The Romance: Hawthorne's //The Scarlet Letter// (19th C. Am.) and a Young Adult novel with related themes.
 * //Atticus// by Ron Hansen (a 20th C. American parable) linked with short stories by Carver, O'Connor

Quarter 3 -

 * The Drama: Students Choose between a Shakespeare comedy or tragedy (English Renaissance) (//Merchant of Venice, Midsummer Night's Dream, Othello, King Lear//);
 * One of the following: //Doubt, A Doll's House, Equus, Amadeus//, or a Moliere or Wilde comedy;
 * The Lyric Poem: a selection of poems originally written in English, or in translation (with a focus on Slavik poets and their relation to mystic poets);

Quarter 4 -

 * [|//A Free Life// by Ha Jin] (21st C. Chinese-American novel) and
 * One of the following: //The Stranger// by Camus (20th C. French novel) //Cry, The Beloved Country// by Alan Paton (20th C. South African novel), //Things Fall Apart//(20th C. African novel)[[image:http://imgs.sfgate.com/c/pictures/2009/12/10/rv-hajin_0500945084.jpg width="207" height="210" caption="Ha Jin explores Chinese immigrants' experiences. Credit: Jerry Bauer"]]

=Writing= Good writing often results from effective inquiry. Questions we ask about books can lead to some very interesting writing; and demands we make of ourselves as learners, readers, and writers can make for achievements in our learning. Go to Student Learning Goals page for a personal survey to help teacher and student participate in setting individual learning goals. Go to Discussion page to contribute your thought-provoking questions about the books we are reading.