ADVANCED PLACEMENT COURSES AT EIE
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HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH LITERATURE
This unit familiarizes students with major American writers and works of those writers
from colonialism to the Civil War. It provides a variety of learning and teaching
activities, links American literature and American history, and presents an
opportunity for students to explore American values. The lessons and handouts in
this text focus on the growth of American literature from the Colonial period through
the Civil War era.
In Part 1, three introductory lessons link the students’ sense of their own time and
place to a wider American experience. Part 2 focuses on colonial and revolutionary
writers. It includes Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, and Phyllis Wheatley. Part
3 examines an emerging national literature from folklore to the frontier hero. In Part
4, students meet great writers of the mid-nineteenth century: Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph
Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Herman Melville. Part 5 deals with
writings of the Civil War era
This unit familiarizes students with major American writers and works of those writers
from the Civil War to the present. It provides a variety of learning and teaching
activities, links American literature and American history, and offers an opportunity
for students to explore American values. The four sections in this curriculum unit
present a generally chronological approach to this expanding literary story,
emphasizing major writers and literary styles.
Part 1 includes postwar protest, Mark Twain, local colorists and regionalists, and
new styles of writing, such as early surrealism. Part 2 features great writers of the
1920s: Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, and T.
S. Eliot. Part 3 centers on the next generation, among them John Steinbeck, Eudora
Welty, E. E. Cummings, and Arthur Miller. In Part 4, students consider diverse
authors from James Baldwin, John Updike, and Garrison Keillor to Hispanic-
American and Jewish-American writers.
BRITISH LITERATURE
Organized chronologically, Volume 1 focuses on authors and works from Anglo-
Saxon epic poetry to Chaucer’s lively tales to the glorious Elizabethan period to the
orderly, satiric wit of the eighteenth century. Lessons emphasize the links among
literature, culture, and history. Part 1 presents the Anglo-Saxon era, with an
emphasis on Beowulf. In Part 2, students focus on the Medieval period, including
Arthurian legends and the Canterbury Tales. Part 3 deals with the great flowering of
Elizabethan poetry and drama. Part 4 introduces the Cavaliers and Metaphysicals of
the seventeenth century. In Part 5, students meet eminent writers of the eighteenth
century, among them Swift, Pope, and Johnson. An extended list of recommended
resources includes films and online materials
Organized chronologically, Volume 2 focuses on authors and works from passionate
Romanticism to smug Victorianism to a doubting, wary, Orwellian modern world.
Lessons emphasize the links among literature, culture, and history. Part 1
introduces major figures of the Romantic Era, such as poets Wordsworth and Keats
and novelists Austen and Shelley. Part 2 examines the Victorian Age of Empire,
when writers like Dickens, Kipling, and Hardy lauded and questioned England’s
growing industrialization and world influence. In Part 3, the events and ideas that
accompanied the turn of the century are viewed through the writers of the Modern
Era, such as Yeats, Woolf, and Eliot. Finally, Part 4 focuses on how British writers
responded to the social changes that followed the end of World War II. An extended
list of recommended resources includes films and online materials.
This unit concentrates on British poems that reflect the universal themes of nature,
love, and death/dying. The four lessons that focus on nature consider it from a
variety of perspectives, particularly emphasizing images, figures of speech, and
symbols. The four lessons on love explore many moods, including determination,
humor, playfulness, devotion, irony, and awe. The four lessons on dying examine
death as an inevitable part of life, possibilities of an afterlife, and attitudes toward
one's own death and the deaths of others.
Fiction
Poetry
Drama