AP English Literature

Current Selections:

Moral Dilemmas in American Literature
Often our decisions reveal our values and our experiences. With this lens, students will examine a variety of topics in American literature, illustrated by characters with diverse backgrounds, voices, and perspectives. These readings, which include different genres, have been selected to help students come to an understanding of how these topics may be impacting their own lives. While developing close critical reading and writing skills, students will discover more about the (literary) history of the United States as well as the moral dilemmas that have influenced America and the students’ own identities.

Historical Fiction
This course will investigate fiction that explores events, people, and ideas throughout American History, with a particular focus on America’s multicultural and multiracial historical and literary traditions. The course’s topics will loosely align with Peddie US History courses throughout the fall and winter, and we will read fiction for not only its human and literary resonance, but also its historical arguments and allegories.

The Secrets of Nature
This course will explore literature of the natural world and the impact nature (and our relationship with it) has on our well-being.  We will read essays, short stories, poetry, and two novels. In addition, we will engage in mindfulness practices within and with the help of nature.