AP English Literature/ English Studies 12

Socrates said, “the unexamined life is not worth living” and Solzhenitsyn, that “the line between good and evil [runs not] between nations but through the middle of every human heart.” AP Literature will have students grappling with big ideas as they read renowned authors/playwrights (Dostoevsky, Sophocles, Shakespeare, and T.S. Eliot), Nobel prizewinners (Faulkner, Sartre, and Solzhenitsyn), and celebrated poets (Dante, Heaney, and Li-Young Lee). They will step into the shoes of people who found themselves in difficult circumstances. What did those ones do? What might present-day students do? Which way leads to wisdom and understanding? Students can write the College Board Exam in May at a cost of $153. They earn credit for two courses (AP Lit and English Studies 12) within the one block, thereby satisfying the Language Arts 12 requirement for graduation. In any given year there may be too few requests to run both AP English Language and AP English Literature. Students selecting this course MUST indicate an alternate.