AP Literature
The following learning targets represent the major concepts studied and assessed in this course.
Semester 1
Unit 1: Short Fiction I
- Identify and describe what specific textual details reveal about a character, that character’s perspective, and that character’s motives.
- Identify and describe specific textual details that convey or reveal a setting.
- Identify and describe how plot orders events in a narrative.
- Explain the function of a particular sequence of events in a plot.
- Identify and describe the narrator or speaker of a text.
- Identify and explain the function of point of view in a narrative.
- Develop a paragraph that includes a claim that requires defense with evidence from the text and the evidence itself.
Unit 2: Poetry I
- Identify and describe what specific textual details reveal about a character, that character’s perspective, and that character’s motives.
- Explain the function of structure in a text.
- Explain the function of contrasts within a text.
- Explain the function of specific words and phrases in a text.
- Identify and explain the function of a simile.
- Identify and explain the function of a metaphor.
- Develop a paragraph that includes a claim that requires defense with evidence from the text and the evidence itself.
Unit 3: Longer Fiction or Drama I
- Identify and describe what specific textual details reveal about a character, that character’s perspective, and that character’s motives.
- Explain the function of a character changing or remaining unchanged.
- Identify and describe specific textual details that convey or reveal a setting.
- Explain the function of a significant event or related set of significant events in a plot.
- Explain the function of conflict in a text.
- Develop a paragraph that includes a claim that requires defense with evidence from the text and the evidence itself.
- Develop a thesis statement that conveys a defensible claim about an interpretation of literature and that may establish a line of reasoning.
- Develop commentary that establishes and explains relationships among textual evidence, the line of reasoning, and the thesis.
- Select and use relevant and sufficient evidence to both develop and support a line of reasoning.
- Demonstrate control over the elements of composition to communicate clearly.
Semester 2
Unit 6: Longer Fiction or Drama II
- Identify and describe what specific textual details reveal about a character, that character’s perspective, and that character’s motives.
- Explain the function of contrasting characters.
- Explain how a character’s own choices, actions, and speech reveal complexities in that character, and explain the function of those complexities.
- Identify and describe how plot orders events in a narrative.
- Explain the function of a particular sequence of events in a plot.
- Explain the function of contrasts within a text.
- Identify and describe details, diction, or syntax in a text that reveal a narrator’s or speaker’s perspective.
- Explain how a narrator’s reliability affects a narrative.
- Identify and explain the function of a symbol.
- Develop a thesis statement that conveys a defensible claim about an interpretation of literature and that may establish a line of reasoning.
- Develop commentary that establishes and explains relationships among textual evidence, the line of reasoning, and the thesis.
- Select and use relevant and sufficient evidence to both develop and support a line of reasoning.
- Demonstrate control over the elements of composition to communicate clearly.