AP® English Literature and Composition with The Lukeion Project
We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.
― Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Stoppard
Recommended ages: 17 and older or for those working (reading and writing) at senior high school level
College Board-approved AP® course prepares students for AP® English Lit. exam offered May (students must make local arrangements). We engage in careful reading & critical analysis of imaginative literature. Explore how writers use language to provide meaning & pleasure for their readers. Students learn to consider a work’s structure, style and themes, as well as the use of figurative language, imagery, symbolism and tone.
This is a writing intensive course for students working at the junior or senior high school level.
Expect summer readings.
College Board-approved AP® course prepares students for AP® English Lit. exam offered May (students must make local arrangements). We engage in careful reading & critical analysis of imaginative literature. Explore how writers use language to provide meaning & pleasure for their readers. Students learn to consider a work’s structure, style and themes, as well as the use of figurative language, imagery, symbolism and tone.
This is a writing intensive course for students working at the junior or senior high school level.
Expect summer readings.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility.
― Algernon from The Importance of Being Earnest, Wilde
Course Details
(2 semesters)
The Lukeion AP® English Literature and Composition course is the very model of a modern college literature class which is why, if one successfully passes the AP® English Lit. & Comp exam, one earns college credit. Expect to read representative works from British and American literature (such as Frankenstein and Raisin in the Sun). We start in the Renaissance and finish with Post-Modern works, focusing on those works of well recognized literary merit. Expect to read critically and deliberately, focusing on the complexity and richness of meaning in these works. We’ll also consider the social and historical values of a work so that we can understand it in context.
In this course, students will master the critical analysis of literature and will develop expository and argumentative essays. Creative-writing assignments including response papers and poetry will push students to see how excellent literature is written. Students will advance their ability to clearly explain and interpret these important literary works. Expect to see an emphasis on themes, structure, style, and the use of rhetorical elements such as figurative language, symbolism, and tone. Students will regularly practice the types of questions and essays given on the AP® Literature and Composition exam. Students must make local arrangements to take the exam.
Writing will be extensive, as one must expect from a college-level class.
This is a two semester class. Sign up for AP® English Lit. Alpha & Beta to complete the course.
(Please await texts purchases until you receive further instructions from your instructor)
The first semester will include:
The second semester will include:
2 Semester course (register for AP® Eng. Lit 1 & 2). First semester is the prerequisite for second semester. This is a two semester course.
Course time: Tue 1 PM
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"I'm just writing to thank you for a wonderful year. E. positively loved your class, and I credit you with his new passion for Robert Frost (of whom he speaks incessantly! Lol) and for his intention to spend the summer immersed in the pages of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf. Although he's always been an avid reader, he's a different kind of reader as a result of having taken your class. Yesterday he told me, "When I was a kid, I was such a jerk. I'd read something I didn't understand and then accused the writer of being either fraudulent or pretentious. But that was my own insecurity. I'm lately learning to enjoy things I don't understand and to revel in the realization that I may never get to the mountaintop from which the greats write, but I can have a really good time on the climb." Music to this mom's ear. I can't thank you enough for giving E. this new joy or for the conversations it's inspired between the two of us. We've been late for more than one event this year because we've been unable to pull ourselves away from a breathtaking literary discussion. SO fun!
He felt great about the AP exam remarking, "Lukieon is really tough, but in the end, it's so worth it. They prepare you so well you can actually enjoy taking the exam." - Lukeion AP Lit. Mom
In this course, students will master the critical analysis of literature and will develop expository and argumentative essays. Creative-writing assignments including response papers and poetry will push students to see how excellent literature is written. Students will advance their ability to clearly explain and interpret these important literary works. Expect to see an emphasis on themes, structure, style, and the use of rhetorical elements such as figurative language, symbolism, and tone. Students will regularly practice the types of questions and essays given on the AP® Literature and Composition exam. Students must make local arrangements to take the exam.
Writing will be extensive, as one must expect from a college-level class.
This is a two semester class. Sign up for AP® English Lit. Alpha & Beta to complete the course.
(Please await texts purchases until you receive further instructions from your instructor)
The first semester will include:
- Jane Eyre, Bronte
- The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Shakespeare
- Wuthering Heights, Bronte
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Stoppard
- The Importance of Being Earnest, Wilde
- A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry
The second semester will include:
- Mrs. Dalloway, Woolf
- Ceremony, Silko
- Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston
- Short stories by Flannery O’Connor
- Poetry by these authors among others:
- Shakespeare
- Whitman
- Frost
- Bradstreet
- Pope
- Coleridge
- Hughes
- Brooks
- Dylan Thomas
- Philip Larkin
- Stevie Smith
- others assigned as needed
2 Semester course (register for AP® Eng. Lit 1 & 2). First semester is the prerequisite for second semester. This is a two semester course.
Course time: Tue 1 PM
Required Texts*As an Amazon Associate we earn a small amount from qualifying purchases.
"I'm just writing to thank you for a wonderful year. E. positively loved your class, and I credit you with his new passion for Robert Frost (of whom he speaks incessantly! Lol) and for his intention to spend the summer immersed in the pages of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf. Although he's always been an avid reader, he's a different kind of reader as a result of having taken your class. Yesterday he told me, "When I was a kid, I was such a jerk. I'd read something I didn't understand and then accused the writer of being either fraudulent or pretentious. But that was my own insecurity. I'm lately learning to enjoy things I don't understand and to revel in the realization that I may never get to the mountaintop from which the greats write, but I can have a really good time on the climb." Music to this mom's ear. I can't thank you enough for giving E. this new joy or for the conversations it's inspired between the two of us. We've been late for more than one event this year because we've been unable to pull ourselves away from a breathtaking literary discussion. SO fun!
He felt great about the AP exam remarking, "Lukieon is really tough, but in the end, it's so worth it. They prepare you so well you can actually enjoy taking the exam." - Lukeion AP Lit. Mom