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Class Handouts...in REVERSE Chronological Order

For copies of last year's handouts, 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.

  1. Even More Lear Questions

  2. The ending of King Lear

  3. Straight Talk in King Lear

  4. Is Ophelia Pregnant?

  5. Earthen Cosmology and Humanism in King Lear

  6. Shakespearean and Elizabethan Lesson Plan

  7. More Lear Essay Questions

  8. Lear Essay Questions

  9. Lear Contrast in Character

  10. Lear Character Appraisals

  11. Lear Animal Imagery

  12. King Lear Reading Questions

  13. King Lear Critical Commentaries

  14. King Lear Background & Summary

  15. King Lear - Good vs Evil & Analyzing a Tragic Hero

  16. William Shakespeare and Hamlet

  17. Hamlet-Tragedy and the Mind of the Infant

  18. Hamlet-The Embassy of Death

  19. Hamlet-The Central Question of the Play

  20. Hamlet-The Background of Hamlet

  21. Hamlet Film Montage

  22. Even More Lear Questions

  23. Basic Ideas in Hamlet

  24. Aristotle and Tragedy

  25. Aristotle Tragic Hero

  26. Tragedy Presentation

  27. Tragedy and the Common Man

  28. Tragic Structure

  29. Tragic Hero

  30. Fall of the House of Usher

  31. A Good Man is Hard to Find

  32. The Kugelmass Episode

  33. The Kugelmass Episode and Roman Fever  Lesson Plans

  34. Chapters Seven & Eight and The Drunkard

  35. Drunkard & World Jokes

  36. The Marquez Nobel Prize Speech

  37. The Handsomest Drowned Man In The World

  38. Where are you going, where have you been?

  39. Where Are you Going Discussion

  40. Williams - Assortment

  41. Various Biographies Frost, Pound, cummings, Williams

  42. Bright Star

  43. Emily Dickinson

  44. Emily Dickinson Letters

  45. Emily Dickinson Letters Short

  46. Dickinson's Work

  47. Poetry Review One

  48. Poetry Introduction

  49. Poetry Introduction

  50. The Scarlet Letter

  51. Scarlet Letter Paideia Seminar

  52. Scarlet Letter Discussion

  53. Essay Introduction

  54. Formal Essay with Annotations

  55. Sample Essay - Blake

  56. Sample Essay - Scarlet Letter

  57. Using Quotations in Your Writing

  58. Writing a Novel Research Essay

  59. Writing an Essay

  60. The Formal Essay

  61. Invisible Man Disucssion

  62. Invisible Man Criticisms

  63. Emily Dickinson Letters

  64. Emily Dickinson Letters Short Version

  65. Emily Dickinson

  66. William Carlos Williams

  67. Hills Like White Elephants - Hemingway

  68. Hills Like White Elephants and Jilting of Granny Weatherall Discussion

  69. The Jilting of Granny Weatherall Critisism

  70. The Jilting of Granny Weatherall Worksheet

  71. Point of View in the Lottery

  72. The Lottery and Hunters in the Snow

  73. The Lottery Critisism 2

  74. The Lottery Critisism

  75. The Lottery

  76. A Worn Path - Welty

  77. The Lesson Worksheet

  78. Miss Brill & How Far She Went Discussion

  79. Everyday Use Characterization

  80. Everyday Use Work Sheet

  81. How I Met My Husband Criticism

  82. The Destructors Work Sheet

  83. The Destructors Critisism

  84. Hunters in the Snow - Wolfe

  85. Hunters in the Snow Criticism

  86. Hunters in the Snow Critisism

  87. Invisible Man Mid-Point Discussion

  88. Peer Review Format

  89. Invisible Man Background and Themes

  90. "Lost in the Funhouse" Criticism for Class

  91. "Lost in the Funhouse" Paideia Seminar

  92. "Lost in the Funhouse" Critical Package - PDF

  93. Lost in the Funhouse

  94. Summer Reading Package

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Book Reviews

  • 1984, Orwell (1, 2, 3)
  • Adventures of Don Quixote, The Cervantes (1)
  • All the Pretty Horses, Mccarthy (1)
  • Antigone, Sophocles (1)
  • As You Like It, Shakesepare (1)
  • Black Boy, Wright (1)
  • Bluest Eye, The, Morrison (1, 2, 3, 4)
  • Catch 22, Heller (1, 2)
  • Crucible, The, Miller (1, 2)
  • Cry, the Beloved Country, Paton (1)
  • Diary of Ann Frank, Frank (1)
  • Divine Comedy, A, Dante (1)
  • Doll's House, A, Ibsen (1, 2, 3)
  • Enemy of the People, An, Ibsen (1)
  • Equus, Shaffer (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
  • Fall, The, Camus (1)
  • Fathers and Sons, Turgenev (1,2)
  • Girl with a Pearl Earing, Chevalier (1)
  • Great Expectations, Dickens (1, 2)
  • Great Gatsby, The, Fitzgerald (1)
  • Henry IV, Shakespeare (1)
  • High Treason, Livingstone, Groden (1)
  • Huckleberry Finn, Twain (1, 2, 3)
  • Invisible Man, Ellison (1, 2)
  • Lady of the Camellias, The, Dumas (1)
  • Last Tycoon, The, Fitzgerald (1)
  • Lesson Before Dying, A, Gaines (1, 2)
  • Light in August, Faulkner (1, 2, 3)
  • Lolita, Nabakov (1, 2)
  • Madame Bovary, Flaubert (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
  • Media, Euripides (1)
  • Merchant of Venice, The, Shakespeare (1)
  • Merry Go Round, Maugham (1)
  • Moby Dick, Melville (1)
  • Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare (1, 2)
  • My Antonia, Cather (1)
  • Nathan's Run, Gilstrap (1)
  • No Exit, Sartre (1, 2, 3)
  • Of Human Bondage, Maugham (1, 2)
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Kesey (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
  • Opinions of a Clown, Boll (1)
  • Othello, Shakespeare (1, 2)
  • Persuasion, Austin (1)
  • Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A, Joyce (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
  • Pride and Prejudice, Austin (1, 2)
  • Respectful Prostitute, The, Sartre (1)
  • Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare (1)
  • Screwtape Letter, The, Lewis (1)
  • Shipping News, The, Proulx (1, 2)
  • Streetcar Named Desire, A, Williams (1, 2)
  • Tale of Two Cities, A, Dickens (1)
  • Taming of the Shrew, The, Shakespeare (1, 2, 3)
  • Tempest, The, Shakespeare (1, 2, 3)
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston (1, 2, 3, 4)
  • Things Fall Apart, Achebe (1, 2)
  • This Side of Paradise, Fitzgerald (1)
  • To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee (1, 2)
  • Trial, The, Kafka (1)
  • Turn of the Screw, The, James (1, 2, 3, 4)
  • Twelfth Night, Shakespeare (1, 2)
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin, Stowe (1)
  • Waiting for Godot, Beckett (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
  • Widow for One Year, Irving (1)
  • Wild Duck, The, Ibsen (1)

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Past AP Exams

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