Critics and Builders - American Literature AP

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Below you will find links to the course profile, course outline and unit schedules that include printable (pdf) versions of as many assignments as possible. Feel free to contact me with any questions, corrections or suggestions


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Semester 2

Unit 5: What is our herstory?  How do you construct gender and what are the consequences? (1/26-3/3)

Major assignments:

    • Writing a feminist critique

 

Semester 1

Unit 1: What defines America?  How does America define you? (8/27-9/25)

Major assignments:

    • Writing a cultural analysis
    • Bean Trees wiki assignment  

Unit 2: What is more important: community or individuals?  order or freedom? (9/28-11/4)

Major assignments:

    • Writing an "America" poem
    • Writing a literary analysis

Scarlet Letter links:

    • Scarlet Letter e-text (click on "Notes" in each chapter)
    • Scarlet Letter vocab
    • Scarlet Letter names/allusions

Unit 3: How does America come of age?  How are you coming of age?  Are you a Romantic?  Are you a Rugged Individualist? (11/13-12/10)

Major assignments:

    • Utopia project
    • Seventh Son study guide
    • Seventh Son essay


Unit 4: How is race constructed in American culture?  How do you construct race?
 (12/10-1/21)

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