This is an AP approved course syllabus for the Literature and Composition course. This syllabus successfully meets the standards needed for course approval and can serve as a rough guide for your course. The larger texts used include: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Hamlet by William Shakespeare and includes an independent reading project as well. For short stories and poems I've selected recommended AP texts including authors and poets such as a Joyce Carol Oat