AP FRENCH 5 SYLLABUS

2006-2007

Sister Mary Elayne, SND

Advanced Placement French includes

· study of the techniques of literary analysis as well as a basic vocabulary of critical terms

· familiarity with an advanced range of French idioms

· listening to 5-7 minute recorded passages or conversations in French

Reading of the following works is to lead to analyzing the works in discussion followed by essay writing. Particular attention should be given to character and theme, structure and style, and how these elements are related to overall interpretation.

Novels: Camara Laye, L’enfant noir; Maupassant, Pierre et Jean; Voltaire, Candide

Plays: Giraudoux, La Guerre de Troie n’aura pas lieu; Molière, L’école des femmes

Poetry: Appollinaire: “Le pont Mirabeau,” “Les colchiques,” “Mai,” “Automne”

Baudelaire: “Correspondances,” “Hymne à la beauté,” “L’invitation au voyage,”

“Chant d’automne,” “Spleen” (“Quand le ciel…”),

“Recueillement” (from Les Fleurs du mal)

Du Bellay: “France, mere des arts, des armes, et des lois,”

“Heureux qui comme Ulysse a fait un beau voyage,”

“Si notre vie est moins qu’une journée,”

“Ces cheveux d’or sont les liens, Madame”

Hebert: “Baigneuse,” “Une fois seulement,” “Nos mains au jardin,”

“Les grandes fontaines,” “Le piano”

Labé: Sonnets: “On voit mourir toute chose animé,”

“Je vis, je meurs: je me brule et me noye,” “Oh si j’estois en ce beau sein ravie,” “Las! Que me sert, que si parfaitement”

La Fontaine: “Les animaux maladies de la peste,” “Le chêne et le Roseau,”

“La mort et le bûcheron,” “Le loup et l’agneau”