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Book Reviews

  • 1984, Orwell (1, 2)
  • Bluest Eye, The, Morrison (1, 2)
  • Death of a Salesman, Miller (1, 2)
  • Doll's House, A, Ibsen (1, 2, 3)
  • Ethan Frome, Wharton (1, 2, 3)
  • Great Expectations, Dickens (1, 2)
  • Henry IV, Shakespeare (1)
  • Importance of Being Earnest, The, Wilde (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
  • Invisible Man, Ellison (1, 2)
  • Lady of the Camellias, The, Dumas (1)
  • Last Tycoon, The, Fitzgerald (1)
  • Light in August, Faulkner (1)
  • Madame Bovary, Flaubert (1, 2, 3)
  • Midsummer Night's Dream, A, Shakespeare (1, 2, 3, 4)
  • Of Human Bondage, Maugham (1, 2)
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Kesey (1, 2)
  • Othello, Shakespeare (1, 2)
  • Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A, Joyce (1, 2, 3)
  • Raisin in the Sun, A, Hansberry (1, 2, 3, 4)
  • Screwtape Letter, The, Lewis (1)
  • Shipping News, The, Proulx (1, 2)
  • Stranger, The, Camus (1, 2)
  • Taming of the Shrew, The, Shakespeare (1, 2, 3)
  • Tempest, The, Shakespeare (1, 2)
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston (1, 2)
  • This Side of Paradise, Fitzgerald (1)
  • Turn of the Screw, The, James (1, 2)

General Online Resources...in REVERSE Chronological Order

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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.

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

  1. Gatsby Criticisms & Essays

  2. Ernest Hemingway "A Clean Well-Lighted Place"

  3. Modernism Lesson Plans

  4. Modernism Handouts: Steinbeck, Historical Background, Fitzgerald, Characteristics)

  5. T.S. Eliot "The Love Song of J. Alfred Profrock"

  6. Prufrock Criticisms

  7. Prufrock & Eliot Background

  8. Prufrock Summary

  9. Robert Frost - Birches & Out, Out!

  10. Ezra Pound - The River Merchant's Wife & In a Station of the Metro

  11. e.e. cummings - Spring is like a perhaps hand, My sweet old etcetera & Somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond

  12. William Carlos Williams - Nantucket, The Red Wheelbarrow, To a Poor Old Woman, The Locust Tree in Flower, Between Walls & This is Just to Say

  13. Ambrose Bierce "An Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge"

  14. Paul Laurence Dunbar"Accountability"

  15. Naturalism, Impressionism, Determinism 1900-1915 / Regionalism - Early 20th Century Lesson Plans

  16. Bret Harte "The Outcasts of Poker Flat"

  17. Gatsby Discussion Questions

  18. Gatsby Essay on American Dream

  19. Definition of the American Dream

  20. Kate Chopin The Story of an Hour

  21. Leo Tolstoy "A Prisoner in the Caucasus

  22. Realism Lesson Plans 2005 Day One & Day Two

  23. Realism 2005 PowerPoint Presentation

  24. Bret Harte "The Outcasts of Poker Flat

  25. Summary of Huckleberry Finn

  26. Transcendentalism Handout

  27. Emerson Excerpt from Nature

  28. Transcendentalism Lesson Plans, Day One, Day Two

  29. Transcendentalism PowerPoint Presentation

  30. Thoreau Excerpt from Walden

  31. Dickinson's Work & Lesson Plans

  32. Dickinson Background

  33. Dickinson's letters - Short

  34. Dickinson's Letters - Long

  35. Coleridge Rime of the Ancient Mariner

  36. Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn

  37. Romanticism Lesson Plans I and II

  38. Great Gatsby Background and Information

  39. Final Discussion of Shakespeare Lesson plans

  40. Annotation Handout - How to mark your book

  41. Grammar and Punctuation Exercise

  42. Grammar and Punctuation Exercise Answers

  43. Everything You Always Wanted To Know about Grammar

  44. Lear Resources:
  45. Is Ophelia Pregnant?

  46. Hamlet Film Montage

  47. AP English Lists of Common Errors

  48. Aristotle and the Tragic Hero

  49. Aristotle on Tragedy

  50. Tragedy and the Common Man - Arthur Miller

  51. William Shakespeare and Hamlet  

  52. Background Information on Beloved

  53. Paideia Seminar on Beloved

  54. Beloved Criticisms - One, Two and Three

  55. Beloved Discussion Questions

  56. Basic Ideas in Hamlet (PDF)

  57. King Lear Background, Plot Summary, Major Themes and Discussion Questions

  58. Luke 1-2

  59. Christmas Poetry

  60. Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus

  61. Beloved Information and Discussion Questions

  62. Critical Commentaries and Paideia Seminar for Scarlet Letter

  63. Word Puzzle for the Enlightenment

  64. On the Death of Mr. Robert Levet - Samuel Johnson

  65. 5 Major Common Errors for Essays

  66. Using Quotations in Formal Analysis

  67. The Nature of Proof in the Interpretation of Poetry - Perrine

  68. Poetry Introduction

  69. Scarlet Letter Discussion

  70. A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift

  71. Peer Review Format

  72. Essay Grading Rubric.

  73. Augustan Age Reading

  74. The Restoration Handout, Reading and Lesson Plans

  75. Faulkner Nobel Prize Speech

  76. Background Information on Hawthorne and Scarlet Letter

  77. Paideia Seminar on As I Lay Dying

  78. Hunters in the Snow by Tobias Wolffe and Bernice Bobs Her Hair by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  79. Bernice Bobs Her Hair & Hunters in the Snow Discussion Questions

  80. Roman Fever by Edith Wharton and Araby by James Joyce

  81. "The Life of Man" by Sir Francis Bacon

  82. "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne

  83. The Lottery by Shirley Jackson and A Worn Path by Eudora Welty

  84. Tone Exercise

  85. Tone Words

  86. Lesson plans for Jacobean & Metaphysical period - One & Two

  87. Lesson Plans for Welty "A Worn Path" and Jackson "The Lottery"

  88. Lesson Plans for Poe "Tell-Tale Hear" and Hemingway "Hills Like White Elephants"

  89. Literary Periods Overview (PDF)

  90. First Paragraphs from Several Novels for In-Class Exercise (PDF)

  91. "A&P" / "Where Are You Going" Discussion Work

  92. A&P by John Updike

  93. Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates

  94. Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway

  95. The Tell-Tale Heart

  96. William Faulkner Nobel Prize Speech / Gabriel Garcia Marquez Nobel Prize Speech

  97. As I Lay Dying Background, Author Information and Reading Questions

  98. As I Lay Dying Small Group Work

  99. Faulkner's Maps of Yoknapatawpha County

  100. Marquez Nobel Prize Speech

  101. Lost in the Funhouse Paideia Seminar

  102. General Class Information

  103. Helpful Resources for Analysis and Writing

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