NCVPS Course Catalog 2024-25

Advanced Placement

assignments will focus on the critical analysis of literature and mastering styles of various discourses, particularly argumentation. The desired goals are the honest and effective use of language and

syntax, tone, structure, purpose, and meaning. A byproduct of the course will be to hopefully instill in each of our scholars a great love for literature.

the organization of ideas in a clear, coherent, and persuasive manner.

Prerequisites English II or English II Honors.

AP English Literature and Composition 1A017X0 The AP English Literature and Composition course focuses on reading, analyzing, and writing about imaginative literature (fiction, poetry, drama) from various periods. Students engage in close reading and critical analysis of imaginative literature to deepen their understanding of the ways writers use language to provide both meaning and pleasure. As they read, students consider a work’s structure, style, and themes, as well as its use of figurative language, imagery, and symbolism. Writing assignments include expository, analytical, and argumentative essays that require students to analyze and interpret literary works. Students will need three longer works of fiction/drama including: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, Frankenstein , by Mary Shelly (found online), and Macbeth by William Shakespeare (found online). Other texts are available and used within the course.

Through understanding writing as a recursive process, students will become increasingly aware of craft and the techniques employed to create meaning, purpose, and context. Students will be engaged in the careful reading of literary works in order to sharpen awareness of language and understanding of the writer's craft. Students will develop critical standards for the independent appreciation of any literary work, and will increase sensitivity to literature as a shared experience. To achieve these goals, students will study the individual work, its language, characters, action, and themes, but also its structure, meaning and value, and its relationship to contemporary experience as well as to the times in which it was written. Students will also study, both independently and collaboratively, the literary genres (primarily prose — both fiction and nonfiction) and the various works of British, American, and World authors that comprise those genres. In the same vein, students will read and explicate these prose pieces from different periods, styles, purposes, and concerns, analyzing for such elements as diction,

Prerequisites English III or AP Language and Composition.