I. Reading

            “The course includes an intensive study of representative works such as those by authors cited in the AP English Course Description.” Each student reads at least eight works that he selects from the list of works that have been listed in the Open-ended questions of the AP Exam.. The list is cumulative from 1970 to the present.

All students are required to read, in addition to self-selected major works and assigned short fiction:

A Separate Peace, John Knowles

Hamlet, William Shakespeare

Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton

A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen

Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller

Siddhartha, Herman Hesse

Lord of the Flies, William Golding

Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad

The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde

 

Students view recorded productions of

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Tom Stoppard

A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen

The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde

 

Students read and analyze poetry of Shakespeare, Donne, Keats, Wordsworth, Dickinson, Frost, Brooks, and Braithwaite. In addition, students select other poetry from the textbooks to explicate and present orally to the class.