AP English Language 2015-2016

The AP English Language and Composition course is designed to enable students to become skilled readers and writers in diverse genres and modes of composition. As stated in the Advanced Placement Course Description, the purpose of the Language and Composition course is “to enable students to read complex texts with understanding and to write papers of sufficient richness and complexity to communicate effectively with mature readers” (The College Board, May 2007, May 2008, p.6).

Friday, November 15, 2013

Essential Question: In what ways is African-American literature segmented from modernist writing in the early 20th century?

Visual Arts Slideshow: PowerPoint

Introduction to Harlem Renaissance and Zora Neale Hurston in Modernism

Video on Harlem Renaissance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9idqeiACqn4

Explore origins of the New Negro Movement

http://www.biography.com/tv/classroom/harlem-renaissance
jazz movement integration of music but not literature: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/historyofjazz.htm
connection to Zora Neale Hurston: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/255397/Harlem-Renaissance/272828/Fiction

Biography of Zora Neale Hurston:

Biographical Information http://zoranealehurston.com/about/

Pick up “Their Eyes Were Watching God” from the Library

Introduction to AAVE

http://www.pbs.org/speak/seatosea/americanvarieties/AAVE/

AA Women Writers http://www.pbs.org/speak/seatosea/powerprose/hurston/

Code Switching: Ruby Dee Reading TEWWG http://zoranealehurston.com/audio/their-eyes-were-watching-god#audio

Homework: Read Chapters 1-4

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