Mr. Thiesmeyer’s AP Literature and Composition

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AP Literature and Composition Readings

1^st 9 Week’s Novel – The Catcher in the Rye – J. D. Salinger

Unit I – Introduction to Literary Analysis – Short Fiction

Tone – “Rocket Summer” by Ray Bradbury

Plot – “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin

Character & characterization – “The Cat in the Rain” by Ernest Hemingway & “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant

Theme – “The Storm”

Unit II – Modern Drama

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

The Sunset Limited by Cormac McCarthy

Unit III – Poetry 1850 – present

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“The Hollow Men” by T. S. Elliot

Other poems TBA

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2^nd 9 Week’s Novel – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey*

Unit IV – Classical Drama

Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Unit V – Poetry 1500 – 1850

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Unit VI – TBA

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