Fiction+Boot+Camp

AP ENGLISH LITERATURE ELEMENTS OF FICTION BOOT CAMP MRS. IZZO

We will begin class with an intense, five-week period in which we review the major elements of fiction, read 15-20 short stories, and write five papers. Those papers will begin as Mad 50s, which you will take home and type up for peer review and revision prior to my assessment. In addition to the papers, you will be taking pre-and post-assessments measuring your absorption of terms and language growth. Only the post-assessments will count for a grade, and you will be required to re-take any assessment on which you score less than an 80. Your original grade will not be replaced, but the new grade will be averaged into your score. __PLOT, STRUCTURE, CHARACTERIZATION__ Week of 9/8: Pre-Assessment Read Fiction Overview (pp. 51-63) O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried,” pp. 77-89

Week of 9/14: Williams’ “Taking Care,” pp. 95-102 [|Mahler's "Kindertotenlieder"] Plot and Structure Overview, pp. 109-114 Writing about Plot, pp. 161-168 Kinkaid’s “What I Have Been Doing Lately,” pp. 148-149 Characterization, pp. 174-176 Writing About Characters, pp. 234-238 Cather’s “Paul’s Case,” pp. 177-190 Tan’s “Two Kinds,” pp. 226-233 Mad 50 and Post Assessment

Week of 9/21: Point of View: p. 244-249 Bierce: [|“An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge”] p. 257-263 Jackson: “The Lottery”: p. 268-273 Writing About Point of View: 278-284 Setting: p. 285-290 Greenberg: “And Sarah Laughed”: p. 323-331 Writing About Setting: 335-339 Mad 50 and Post Assessment: Plot, Point of View, or Setting
 * [|Silence as a Literary Device in Occurrence"]

Week of 9/28 Style: p. 340-347 O’Connor: “First Confession”: p. 360-365 Updike: “A&P” p. 369-373 Writing About Style: p. 375-379 [|More About Style; Style Exercises] Tone: p. 380-386 Chopin: “Story of an Hour” p. 393-395 How to Become a Writer p. 274 Flannery O'Connor: "[|A Good Man Is Hard to Find]" Writing About Tone: p. 419-424

Mad 50: Style or Tone

Week of October 5 Symbolism and Allegory: p. 425-431 Aesop: “The Fox and the Grapes”: p. 431 “The Myth of Atalanta” p. 432-433 Hawthorne: “Young Goodman Brown” p. 436-445 - [|YGB unpublished questions] St. Luke: “The Parable of the Prodigal Son” p. 445-447 Writing About Symbolism or Allegory: p. 456-462 Mad 50 Essay 4: Symbolism or Tone thesis