This course prepares the upper-level student for the Advanced Placement test in either Literature and Composition or Language and Composition. The course is a continuation of Advanced Placement English 1 and allows for additional rhetorical analysis, study, and discussion.Required materials:
Sound & SenseSupplementary materials:
Mythology (Edith Hamilton)
Bible
Odyssey (Homer)
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Gulliver’s Travels (Jonathon Swift)
The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
Oedipus the King (Sophocles)
Dr. Faustus (Christopher Marlow)
Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (Tom Stoppard)
The Importance of Being Ernest (Oscar Wilde)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
A Doll’s House (Henrik Ibsen)
The Awakening (Kate Chopin)
Sula (Toni Morrison)
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
No Exit (Jean-Paul Sartre)
Various short stories and poemsInvitation to Contact Instructor:
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