Advanced Placement English 2 In-depth Analysis of Literary Forms

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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 2, provides college-level instruction in preparation for the Advanced Placement exams. Students concentrate on in-depth analysis and synthesis while examining a variety of literary forms that include short stories, poems, nonfiction, dramas, novels, and mixed media applications. Works studied include Ernest Hemingway’s “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” W. B. Yeats’s “Sailing to Byzantium,” Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” and Citizen Kane. 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.

• Hamlet
• Invisible Man
• The Poisonwood Bible
• Song of Solomon

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 consider the issues of taste and quality, complete close readings of selected passages, evaluate tone and structure in poetry, relate the conventions and concerns of drama to real life, and explore visual language and techniques used in film. Critical essays and timed writings help gauge students’ growth in analysis and writing skills.