General Online Resources...in REVERSE Chronological Order

1. AP Test Taking Tips and Information

   • How to Prepare for AP English Examinations - from AP Central

   • Test Taking Tips from another AP Class

   • Another Page of Literary Terms

   • Literary Resources on the Net

   • Study Habits & Test Anxiety: University of Buffalo Counseling Center

   • This is how we ALL hope the AP test really looks like... - Check it out!!!

2. Shakespeare

• MIT Shakespeare Homepage
  The Complete Works from the Tech. The works are laid out nicely in table format with a conveniently linked search engine.

• Folger Shakespeare Library

• Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre

• Life and Times of William Shakespeare

• The Canon. A chronological listing of the poems and plays. This is an area that will be developing to include materials on dating the works

• SparkNotes for Hamlet

• William Shakespeare and the Internet

2. The Top 100 Novels with Reviews

3. Robert Frost's Poems and Here

4. All of Emily Dickinson's Poetry - with search feature

5. Online Symbolism Dictionary

6. William Faulkner On The Web

7. Emily Dickinson Poems On-line

8. The Academy Of American Poets - Home

9. Literary Resources On The Net

10. A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices

11. Dictionary of Symbolism

12. Crosswalk.com - Great Bible Site

13. Aristotle's Tragic Hero

14. Bullfinch Mythology

15. A History of the Trojan War

16. A General Guide to Greek Mythology

17. Poetry 180 - List of All Poems

18. Outstanding Books for the College Bound Student - Annotated from American Library Association
    Links for each of the major genres are at the bottom of the page

19. The best place for both of us to go is AP Central, the main site for the AP exams published by ETS (the Educational Testing Service).  I use it A LOT; why shouldn't you?  Here you can find resources, old tests and much more to get you started.  You will have to register to get the most out of the site, however, but there are no strings attached.

20. Colegio Bolivar Style Book

Handouts

Here are copies of all my handouts in Word format, unless otherwise indicated.  They are in REVERSE chronological order.  (If you want copies of old AP Exams to practice, along with the Scoring Guidelines, Scoring Summary AND Sample Responses, click here.)

*Much of the following is thanks to my anonymous friends at the AP Listserv.  I should have been better in documenting my sources.

Summer Work and Reading for 2003-2004 AP Class (Word Format or HTML Format)

1. Cummings Background and Group Work

2. Cummings Art

3. Beloved Discussion Questions

4. Eliot Background and Style

5. Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - Criticisms

6. Beloved Information and Discussion Questions

7. Introduction to Toni Morrison

8. Beloved Criticism 1

9. Beloved Criticism 2

10. Beloved Criticism 3

11. Advanced Placement Exams - Information and Signup from Ms. Clark

12. Group Evaluation Information and Rubrics

13. Lesson Plans Form

14. On the Road Discussion

15. William Shakespeare and Hamlet

16. Basic Ideas in Hamlet (PDF)

17. Mnemonic Reminders

18. On the Road by Jack Kerouac: Book Reviews for Discussion

19. On the Road by Jack Kerouac: Background Information, Biography and Discussion Questions

20. Letter: "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus"

21. Christmas Poetry

22. Letter Samples: "Nike Workers to Tiger Woods", "Mightier than the Sword" and "You've Got Mail, But How About Romance?"

23. Robert Frost - Biography, Poems and Analysis

24. As I Lay Dying Paideia Seminar

25. Emily Dickinson Biography

26. Emily Dickinson's Letters - Chapter One of Open Me Carefully

27. Dickinson Work

28. Basic Poetic Devices

29. Crossing Brooklyn Ferry - Whitman

30. Background and Basic Analysis of Whitman

31. If you are feeling frustrated, click here - print it out, put it on the wall and throw things at it.

32. Faulkner's Maps of Yoknapatawpha County

33. As I Lay Dying Small Group Work

34. Everything You Always Wanted To Know about Grammar

35. As I Lay Dying Background and Discussion Information

36. Literary Terms and Types

37. AP Essays Do's and Dont's

38. Personal Superlatives for College Essays

39. Tone Words

40. Scarlet Letter Paideia Seminar

41. Graduate Qualities, TLP's and CES

42. Hedda Gabler

43. The Scarlet Letter Essay

44. Medea Paideia Seminar

45. Aristotle's Tragic Hero

46. The Last Judgement

47. Bound Man Paideia Seminar

48. Literary Terms

49. Biblical and Mythological Allusions Scoring Summary

50. Description and Example of the Cornell Method of Note-Taking

51. Open Response Essay Question Topics from 1970 to 2001

52. AP Generic Rubric

53. Mythological and Biblical Allusions Workshop

54. AP Reading List

55. Class Introduction and Overview