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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. Gatsby Criticisms

  2. Gatsby Discussion Questions

  3. Definition of the American Dream we will be using in class.- you do not need to print them. 

  4. Great Gatsby Background Information

  5. Shakespeare Discussion Worksheet.

  6. King Lear Animal Imagery

  7. King Lear Character Study

  8. King Lear Reading Questions

  9. Tragic Structure

  10. Tragic Hero

  11. The Nobel Prize Speech - Marquez

  12. The Handsomest Drowned Man In The World.

  13. Christmas Stuff

  14. Invisible Man Discussion

  15. Invisible Man Criticism

  16. Beloved Background & Discussion Questions & One Criticism

  17. Poe's Theory of Poetry and Compositon

  18. Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock + Critical Analysis

  19. Peer Review Format

  20. Ox-Cart Man Poem

  21. Parent's Day Agenda

  22. The Formal Essay - An Overview

  23. Formal Essay Sample with Guided Notations

  24. Formal Essay Rubric

  25. somewhere i have never traveled & We Manage Most When we Manage Small

  26. How do we figure out what the theme of a literary work is

  27. Granny Weatherall and The Virgins

  28. The Jilting of Granny Weatherall Critique

  29. Group Work over The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

  30. A Reading of Shirley Jackson Lottery

  31. An Old Testament Analogue for The Lottery (PDF)

  32. The Lottery Criticism

  33. The Lottery Criticism 2

  34. Point of View Worksheet for the Lottery

  35. A&P + Worn Path Discussion

  36. The Lesson Critical Commentary

  37. Everyday Use Worksheet

  38. An Overview of Everyday Use

  39. Plot

  40. Critical Analysis of The Destructors

  41. Critical Analysis of The How I Met My Husband

  42. Discussion of characterization in Everyday Use

  43. Critical Commentary of Everyday Use.

  44. How I Met My Husband Critical Commentary

  45. Hunters in the Snow

  46. Difference Betwen Quality and Not Quality

  47. Invisible Man Background and Themes

  48. "Lost in the Funhouse" Criticism for Class

  49. "Lost in the Funhouse" Paideia Seminar

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

  51. 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

Please see Mr. Rompf OR access past AP Literature or AP Comp at www.apcentral.collegboard.com.

 


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Last Updated Sunday January 25, 2009
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