X-Post New AP Lit class Athena's Academy

[SanDiegoMom]

Just a head's up for anyone needing an AP Lit class... Deborah Simon at Athena's Academy is teaching a new AP Lit class next year.  My twins are taking Analyze This with her (8 week workshop) and she is VERY good at leading discussion and inspiring excitement about literature. There is a 30 minute video on the website (log in as guest to access) that goes through the plans for the year, materials, amount of writing, prerequisites, etc.  I asked her for an average time commitment, and she gave me this:

Reading - 30-60 minutes per night

Writing - 3 hours per week

Weekly Assignments - 1 hour per week

Total: 7.5-11 hours of work per week

 

The class itself meets twice a week for 90 minutes each, which does often include timed writing practice.  

 

The drawback, of which the teacher is painfully aware, is that the Athena's website is clunky and it is difficult to navigate.  I knew this going in, so I make sure I am on top of the kids' assignments since they are a little challenging to find on their own.  The actually class meeting platform is Blackboard, and we have never had issues with that, thankfully.  

 

The list of works that they are covering:

Lady in the Van

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

The Selected Canterbury Tales

Agamemnon: A Play by Aeschylus with Reconstructed Stage Directions, Translated from the Greek into English,

Candide

Blood Wedding: A Play, Federico Garcia

The Rape of the Lock, Alexander Pope

Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen

1984 George Orwell

Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry

Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw

Beowulf: A New Verse Translation

The Color Purple, 1st Edition, Alice Walker

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (Favorite Broadway Dramas), Tom Stoppard

Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts, Samuel Beckett

Hamlet, William Shakespeare

Tartuffe, Molière