Syllabus for 2023-24 school year

2022-23 Summer Packet

Senior AP: Literature and Composition

DUE: AUGUST 4

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King

Challenge #3 in ESCAPE THE ROOM

The Jazz Age

Read "The Jazz Age"

Describe the Jazz Age

Changing Role of Women

Read "Flappers"

In what ways did the role of women change during the 1920s?  Describe the lifestyle of a woman in this time period.

Prohibition and Crime

Read "Prohibition" and "Gangs and Violence"

What were the effects of Prohibition?  Who was Al Capone, and what did he do?

Economy and Consumerism

Read "A Great Time to be Rich," "A Good Time to be Middle Class," and "Rural America: Left Behind by Modernity"

Summarize the differences in lifestyles for the rich, middle class, and farmers.

Station 2: Disillusionment and the Lost Generation

Look up the definition of disillusionment and read "The Lost Generation"

Why were people so disillusioned after the war?  What was the Lost Generation?  What are some of the common themes in the works of Lost Generation writers?

Station 1: Modernism

Read the "What is American Literary Modernism?". "Modernism--Many Meanings," and "Make it New! Make it Strange!"

What was modernist literature like?  What kind of societal change was happening?