THE PARENT PAGE
Below is a list of parent information that might be useful for parents of AP English students.The AP Exam
Students are required to take the AP Exam. Payment for the exam must be given to Guidance in September.
Class Structure
This class is designed as a 200 level Freshman Literature class. Due dates will be posted well in advance, and students are expected to adhere to such dates. The AP Calendar is provided as well on this site for easy reference.
Reading List
This list is not all inclusive, but covers some of the major works we will be reading. The instructor has final say on what works will be read. For all those who would like to read along, here goes!- Greek Drama
- The Poetics, by Aristotle
- Lysistrata, by Aristophanes
- Antigone, by Sophocles
- Oedipus Rex, by Sophocles
- Medea, by Euripedes
- Elizabethan Drama
- Doctor Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe
- Macbeth, by William Shakespeare
- Othello, by William Shakespeare
- Romantic Poetry- selections from Byron, Keats, Shelley, Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Blake
- 19th Century Novel
- Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
- Return of the Native, by Thomas Hardy
- Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad
- Modern Novel-(we'll read only one): Dubliners, by James Joyce; Seize the Day, by Saul Bellow;The Stranger Albert Camus.
- AP Seminar-Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
- Modern Poetry: selections from Yeats, Eliot, Pound, Stevens, Heaney, Boland, and many more.
- Modern Drama: Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller
- Modern Poetry: selections from Yeats, Eliot, Pound, Stevens, Heaney, Boland, and many more.