Advanced Placement English 1 Practical Approaches to Literary Analysis

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Description:

Both Advanced Placement English units present a varied, intellectually stimulating program geared toward developing students’ powers of analysis and synthesis to the highest possible level. Advanced Placement English, Volume 1, provides college-level instruction in preparation for the Advanced Placement exams. Students go beyond understanding and application exercises as they critically analyze short stories, poetry, nonfiction, dramas, and novels. Once students acquire analytic skills, they move beyond analysis to the exciting area of synthesis. In each genre, students cross-relate significant literary works that focus on human aspirations to greatness, the ageless yearning to love and be loved, social responsibility, and the relationship between reality and illusion. This unit is independent of other textbooks. Selected poems, stories, and excerpts from a variety of sources are featured on reproducible handouts.

Use Center for Learning novel/drama units to develop your complete advanced placement program.

• The Awakening
• Equus
• The Kite Runner
• The Piano Lesson

See our Novel/Drama section for additional titles.

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Activities:

Activities challenge students’ logic, creativity, insight, and technical skills. Students work individually and in groups to define terminology, find examples of literary elements, relate literary works to the time period in which they were written, consider how the author’s style contributes to point of view, and examine literary treatments of universal themes. Critical essays and timed writings help gauge students’ growth in analysis and writing skills.