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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. King Lear Animal Imagery

  2. King Lear Character Study

  3. King Lear Reading Questions

  4. Shakespeare Final Discussion Worksheet

  5. The Great Gatsby Background and Reading Information

  6. Beloved Criticism 1

  7. Beloved Criticism 2

  8. Tragedy Handouts - Tragic Structure and Tragic Hero

  9. Background Information on King Lear

  10. Paideia Seminar Agenda

  11. Christmas Stuff

  12. Poe's Theory of Poetry and Compositon

  13. Background & Discussion Questions on Beloved

  14. One Criticism of Beloved

  15. The Handsomest Drowned Man In The World

  16. Young Goodman Brown - Symbolism and Human Nature in Nathaniel Hawthorne

  17. Peer Review Format

  18. Granny Weatherall and The Virgins

  19. The Jilting of Granny Weatherall Critique

  20. Group Work over The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

  21. A Reading of Shirley Jackson Lottery

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

  23. The Lottery Criticism

  24. The Lottery Criticism 2

  25. Point of View Worksheet for the Lottery

  26. Plagiarism Information for Students

  27. The Formal Essay - An Overview

  28. Formal Essay Sample with Guided Notations

  29. Formal Essay Rubric

  30. Critical Commentary on Addie

  31. Paideia Seminar Handout for As I Lay Dying

  32. Parent's Day Agenda

  33. Discussion of characterization in Everyday Use

  34. Critical Commentary of Everyday Use.

  35. Information on Plot

  36. Literary Terms and Types

  37. Critical Analysis of The Destructors

  38. Critical Analysis of The How I Met My Husband

  39. Group Work Character Discussion Activity - As I Lay Dying

  40. "What's in a Name"  -  Article on As I Lay Dying

  41. Faulkner's Maps of Yoknapatawpha County.

  42. Chapter One Perrine

  43. Background Information & Reading Questions for As I Lay Dying

  44. Faulkner Nobel Prize Speech

  45. Marquez Nobel Prize Speech

  46. "Lost in the Funhouse" Criticism for Class

  47. "Lost in the Funhouse" Paideia Seminar

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

  49. General Class Information

  50. Helpful Resources for Analysis and Writing

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General Online Resources...in REVERSE Chronological Order

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Book Reviews

  • 1984, Orwell (1, 2)
  • As You Like It, Shakesepare (1)
  • Bluest Eye, The, Morrison (1, 2)
  • Catch 22, Heller (1, 2)
  • Crucible, The, Miller (1)
  • 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)
  • Equus, Shaffer (1, 2)
  • Fall, The, Camus (1)
  • Great Expectations, Dickens (1, 2)
  • Henry IV, Shakespeare (1)
  • High Treason, Livingstone, Groden (1)
  • Huckleberry Finn, Twain (1)
  • 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)
  • Madame Bovary, Flaubert (1, 2, 3, 4)
  • Merchant of Venice, The, Shakespeare (1)
  • Merry Go Round, Maugham (1)
  • Midsummer Night's Dream, A, Shakespeare (1, 2, 3, 4)
  • Moby Dick, Melville (1)
  • 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)
  • Opinions of a Clown, Boll (1)
  • Othello, Shakespeare (1, 2)
  • Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A, Joyce (1, 2, 3)
  • Pride and Prejudice, Austin (1)
  • Respectful Prostitute, The, Sartre (1)
  • Screwtape Letter, The, Lewis (1)
  • Shipping News, The, Proulx (1, 2)
  • Stranger, The, Camus (1, 2, 3, 4)
  • 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)
  • Things Fall Apart, Achebe (1)
  • This Side of Paradise, Fitzgerald (1)
  • To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee (1, 2)
  • Turn of the Screw, The, James (1, 2)
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin, Stowe (1)
  • Waiting for Godot, Beckett (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
  • Widow for One Year, Irving (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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