Second- and more importantly- the course is designed to instill within your child a love for the genius and beauty created by literary artists, thereby creating a lifelong desire to continue reading and appreciating literature as a form of art.
My expectations for the A.P. students are high. Your child should have homework in this class on a daily basis. We will be reading a dozen novels and hundreds of short stories, plays, essays and poems over the course of the school year. A.P. students needs to keep up on their reading and therefore should be actively reading and analyzing literature every day. The use of various textual and electronic literature guides such as Cliff Notes, Spark Notes, Gradesaver.com and Wikipedia.com are unacceptable. Please encourage your child to develope his/her own ideas and avoid cheating. All papers and essays that are written outside of class will be turned in through a web service called turnitin.com. The web service checks the student's papers against all other papers and web sites in its database and produces a report showing the amount of material that is similar. I will be checking papers to make sure that your child understands the difference between a properly cited paper and one that drifts into the realm of plagiarism.
Mr. Macy
A.P. Literature: Major Works
Mythology by Edith Hamilton
Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
Beowulf
Grendel by john Gardner
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespear
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Tess of the d'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Doll's House by Henrik Idsen
Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
| Mr. Macy's Schedule | |||
| A1 | Prep | B2 | AP Senior Lit |
| A3 | AP Junior Lang | B4 | AP Senior Lit |
| A5 | AP Junior Lang | B6 | AP Senior Lit |