Mr. Guimaraes AP English Prep: Sophomore Year Fall and Spring of 2007 AP English Working Syllabus This course is designed for students who show an aptitude in English literature during their freshman year and who would like to take an AP English course in their fourth term. Part of the course s focus is to introduce you to the necessary reading, writing, and analytical skills necessary to succeed in a college level course. The course will take place in two parts: During this academic year, you will be introduced to literature that serves as the background of Western Literature. Texts discussed will range from selections out of the Bible to works written up until the Enlightenment. During your junior year, you will take the AP English Prep: Junior Year. The texts during that year will range from the neo-classical period to those works written during the pre and post war periods known as Modern. During the course of the year, we will focus on performing research as it is currently done at the university level. Online databases, library reserves, and the current Electronic reserve (E-Reserve) will all be explained and will take up a major part of the Spring semester s time. Pending administrational approval, we will also make trips to the NYPL Research Library at 42 nd Street and 5 th Avenue in order to work on the process of using outside research facilities. Summer Reading Herman Hesse s Siddhartha Required Class Text The Norton Introduction to Literature, Eighth Edition, by Jerome Beatty (Editor) ISBN: 0393976874 John Milton s Paradise Lost Geoffrey Chaucer s The Canterbury Tales Beowulf Grading Response Papers: 50% Due Each Friday (1-2 pages in length) In-class assignments including quizzes and exams: 50% Library Research and the Reserve Every student must have a NYPL card. Students must be familiar with the LEO online database. Every student must keep two (2) binders. One binder will be used as a portfolio and will remain in the classroom at all times. The second will be used on a daily basis for notes/class work/handouts, etc. Using the Hayes Library Reserve 1. You must have a Hayes ID to use the reserve in the library.
2. Go to the front desk and request the title by giving the author s last name followed by the book title. 3. The book may not leave the library and must be returned within the hour. E-Reserve 1. Some items will only be available to you via the internet. These items will appear as PDA files on the English AP Prep Site. See the E-Reserve Tab in my page at that Hayes website. 2. These items must be retrieved and brought to class on the assigned days. They should be marked up like any other literary text discussed. Projected List of Major Texts to be Read The Ancient World Selections from THE HEBREW BIBLE (Hebrew, ca. 1000 300 B.C.E.) SAPPHO OF LESBOS (born ca. 630 B.C.E.) 496 Lyrics (Greek) 497 [Deathless Aphrodite of the Spangled Mind] 497 [Some Men Say an Army of Horse] 497 [He Seems to Me Equal to Gods] 498 [Eros Shook My Mind] 499 [You Came and I Was Crazy for You] 499 [I Simply Want to Be Dead] 499 [Often Turning Her Thoughts Here] 500 [As the Sweetapple Reddens on a High Branch] 501 [Like the Hyacinth in the Mountains] 501 [Moon Has Set] 501 (Translated by Anne Carson) AESCHYLUS (524? 456 B.C.E.) 502 The Oresteia (Greek) 506 Agamemnon 506 The Libation Bearers 551 The Eumenides 579 (Translated by Robert Fagles) OVID (43 B.C.E. 17 C.E.) 1023 Metamorphoses (Latin) 1027 From Book I 1027 [Proem] 1027 [The Creation] 1027 [Apollo and Daphne] 1029 [Jove and Io] 1033 From Book II 1038 [Jove and Europa] 1038 From Book V 1039
[Ceres and Proserpina] 1039 From Book IX 1049 [Iphis and Isis] 1049 From Book X 1053 [Pygmalion] 1053 [Venus and Adonis] 1059 (Translated by Charles Martin) THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE: THE NEW TESTAMENT (Greek, ca. first century C.E.) 1082 Luke 2. [The Birth and Youth of Jesus] 1084 Matthew 5 7. [The Teaching of Jesus; The Sermon on the Mount] 1085 Luke 15. [The Teaching of Jesus; Parables] 1089 From Matthew 13. [Why Jesus Teaches in Parables] 1090 From Matthew 26. [The Betrayal of Jesus] 1092 Matthew 27. [The Trial and Crucifixion of Jesus] 1094 Matthew 28. [The Resurrection] 1096 (Translated by Richard Lattimore) The Middle Ages Selections from GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO (1313 1375) 1598 The Decameron (Italian) 1600 [The Prologue] 1600 First Day 1602 [The First Story of the First Day] 1615 [The Ninth Story of the Fourth Day] 1624 [The Eighth Story of the Fifth Day] 1627 [The Sixth Story of the Ninth Day] 1631 [The Tenth Story of the Tenth Day] 1634 (Translated by G. H. McWilliam) GEOFFREY CHAUCER (1340? 1400) 1696 The Canterbury Tales (Middle English) 1701 from THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS (Arabic, 14th century) 1769 Prologue [The Story of King Shahrayar and Sharazad, His Vizier s Daughter] 1772 [The Tale of the Ox and the Donkey] 1779 [The Tale of the Merchant and His Wife] 1780 [The Story of the Merchant and the Demon] 1783 [The First Old Man s Tale] 1786 [The Second Old Man s Tale] 1789 (Translated by Husain Haddawy) [The Third Old Man s Tale] 1792
(Translated by Jerome W. Clinton) [The Story of the Fisherman and the Demon] 1793 [The Tale of King Yunan and the Sage Duban] 1798 [The Tale of the Husband and the Parrot] 1802 [The Tale of the King s Son and the She-Ghoul] 1803 [The Tale of the Enchanted King] 1813 (Translated by Husain Haddawy) The Renaissance INTRODUCTION 1883 Selections from FRANCIS PETRARCH (1304 1374) 1894 Sonnets (Italian) 1903 1 [O you who hear within these scattered verses] 1903 3 [It was the day the sun s ray had turned pale] 1903 61 [Blest be the day, and blest the month and year] 1904 (Translated by Joseph Auslander) 62 [Father in heaven, after each lost day] 1904 (Translated by Bernard Bergonzi) 78 [When Simon first received that high idea] 1905 90 [She used to let her golden hair fly free] 1905 (Translated by Morris Bishop) 126 [Clear, fresh, sweet waters] 1906 (Translated by Robert M. Durling) 189 [My ship full of forgetful cargo sails] 1907 190 [A doe of purest white upon green grass] 1907 333 [Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone] 1908 (Translated by Morris Bishop) LYRIC POETRY: AFTER PETRARCH 1908 EDMUND SPENSER 1916 From Amoretti 1916 34 [Like as a ship that through the Ocean wide] 1916 37 [What guile is this, that those her golden tresses] 1916 SIR PHILIP SIDNEY 1917 From Astrophil and Stella 1917 1 [Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show] 1917 31 [With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb st the skies!] 1917 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Sonnet 130 [My mistress eyes are
nothing like the sun] 1918 LYRIC POETRY: CARPE DIEM POEMS 2041 CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love 2046 SIR WALTER RALEGH, The Nymphs Reply to the Shepherd 2047 EDMUND SPENSER 2048 From Amoretti 2048 54 [Of this world s Theatre in which we stay] 2048 67 [Like as a huntsman after weary chase] 2048 JOHN DONNE 2049 Elegy 19: To His Mistress, Going to Bed 2049 The Flea 2050 BEN JONSON 2051 [Come my Celia, let us prove] 2051 [Drink to me, only, with thine eyes] 2052 Inviting a Friend to Supper 2052 TRAVEL AND DISCOVERY 2500 CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH (1580 1631) 2533 The Story of Pocahontas 2534 Selections from JOHN DONNE (1572 1631) 2536 The Good-Morrow 2538 The Sun Rising 2538 The Canonization 2539 The Ecstasy 2540 The Relic 2542 Holy Sonnet 14 2543 Sections from JOHN MILTON (1608 1674) Paradise Lost Some of the other major works that we will also be reading are Oedipus Rex, Antigone, and Beowulf. There will also be other poems and short stories that do not appear here which we will be reading.