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Book Reviews

  • 1984, Orwell (1, 2)
  • As You Like It, Shakesepare (1)
  • Bluest Eye, The, Morrison (1, 2)
  • Candide, Voltaire (1, 2, 3, 4)
  • Catch 22, Heller (1, 2)
  • Death of a Salesman, Miller (1, 2)
  • Diary of Ann Frank, Frank (1)
  • Divine Comedy, A, Dante (1)
  • Doll's House, A, Ibsen (1, 2, 3)
  • Great Expectations, Dickens (1, 2)
  • Henry IV, Shakespeare (1)
  • High Treason, Livingstone, Groden (1)
  • Huckleberry Finn, Twain (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)
  • Merchant of Venice, The, Shakespeare (1)
  • Midsummer Night's Dream, A, Shakespeare (1, 2, 3, 4)
  • Nathan's Run, Gilstrap (1)
  • No Exit, Sartre (1)
  • Of Human Bondage, Maugham (1, 2)
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Kesey (1, 2)
  • Othello, Shakespeare (1, 2)
  • Plague, The, Camus (1, 2, 3)
  • Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A, Joyce (1, 2, 3)
  • Raisin in the Sun, A, Hansberry (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
  • Screwtape Letter, The, Lewis (1)
  • Shipping News, The, Proulx (1, 2)
  • Stranger, The, Camus (1, 2, 3, 4)
  • 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)
  • This Side of Paradise, Fitzgerald (1)
  • To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee (1)
  • Turn of the Screw, The, James (1, 2)
  • Waiting for Godot, Beckett (1, 2, 3, 4)
  • Widow for One Year, Irving (1)

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 2005-2006 AP Class (Word Format)

  1. AP Exam 2006 Question Leaders Comments

  2. Gatsby Discussion Questions

  3. Gatsby Criticisms & Essays

  4. Definition of the American Dream

  5. Gatsby Discussion Questions

  6. T.S. Eliot - The Love Song of J. Alfred Profrock + criticisms, background and summary

  7. Robert Frost - Birches & Out, Out!

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

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

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

  11. Modernism Handout

  12. Background of Realism

  13. Twain The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

  14. Realism Lesson Plans

  15. Edith by William Dean Howells

  16. Emerson Transparent Eyeball, Self-Reliance, Ode to Beauty & Give All to Love

  17. Thoreau Why I Went to the Woods

  18. The Great Gatsby Background Information

  19. Lear Critiques: The Ending of King Lear, King Lear Critical Commentaries, King Lear Good vs. Evil

  20. Shakespeare and Hamlet

  21. Hamlet Readings

  22. Aristotle and Tragedy

  23. Aristotle's Tragic Hero

  24. Edgar Allen Poe: "The Fall of the House of Usher, ""The Raven" and Theory of Poetry

  25. Emily Dickinson: Poems and Letters  and Background

  26. Beloved Paideia Seminar

  27. Punctuation and Structure Handout

  28. Essay Introductions

  29. Beloved Criticisms (1, 2 and 3)

  30. Christmas Stuff

  31. The Birth of Christ [Luke 1-2]

  32. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest criticisms

  33. Beloved - Reading Information

  34. Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner & Discussion Questions

  35. William Wordsworth – Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey; John Keats - Ode on a Grecian Urn; Lord Byron – She Walks in Beauty; William Cullen Bryant - Thanatopsis; William Blake – Holy Thursday

  36. Poetry Imagery

  37. Similes & Metaphor

  38. Poetry by Nikki Giovanni, The Sow by Sylvia Plath, and Camp in a Prussian Forest by Randell Jerrell

  39. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Study Questions

  40. Jonathan Swift's Modest Proposal

  41. Augustan Age lesson plans, background and poetry

  42. Peer Review Format and Rubric

  43. Restoration Lesson Plans

  44. Restoration Poetry

  45. Ken Kesey & One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

  46. Parent's Day Agenda

  47. As I Lay Dying Paideia Seminar

  48. As I Lay Dying Critical Analysis - Addie

  49. Jacobean / Metaphysical Period 1603-1625

  50. "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning," "To His Coy Mistress" & "The Life of Man"

  51. Lesson Plan Format

  52. Presentation Package Assignment

  53. Historical and Literary Characteristics of Elizabethan Literature

  54. Shakespearean & Elizabethan Lesson Plans

  55. Marlowe - "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"; Sir Walter Raleigh - "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd"; "To His Son"; Ben Johnson (Cavalier Poet) - "On My First Son"

  56. AP Group Lesson and Grading

  57. Format for Lesson Plans

  58. Literary Periods Overview (PDF)

  59. The Nature of Proof - Perrine

  60. Bright Star - Keats

  61. Lesson Plans for Woff "Hunters in the Snow" and Jackson "The Lottery"

  62. The Lottery  -Shirley Jackson

  63. Hunters in the Snow - Thomas Wolff

  64. Plagiarism Information for Students

  65. MLA Style Presentation

  66. Using Quotations in Formal Analysis

  67. Essay Samples - Blake and Scarlet Letter

  68. Writing an Essay

  69. Essay Grading Rubric

  70. Avoiding Plot Summary in a Literature Essay

  71. American Beauty Film Analysis

  72. Information on Literary Structures and Devices - Thanks to B. McDaniel from AP Listserv!

  73. Tone Exercise

  74. Tone Words

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

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

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

  78. A&P by John Updike

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

  80. "Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway

  81. The Tell-Tale Heart

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

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

  84. What's in a Name? Etymology and As I Lay Dying

  85. As I Lay Dying Small Group Work

  86. Faulkner's Maps of Yoknapatawpha County

  87. Marquez Nobel Prize Speech

  88. "Lost in the Funhouse" Criticism for Class

  89. "Lost in the Funhouse" Paideia Seminar

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

  91. General Class Information

  92. Helpful Resources for Analysis and Writing

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Past AP Exams

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