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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 Discussion Questions

  2. Gatsby Criticisms & Essays

  3. The American Dream

  4. What Makes Something Funny?

  5. King Lear Animal Imagery

  6. King Lear Character Study

  7. King Lear Reading Questions

  8. Shakespeare Final Discussion Worksheet

  9. The Great Gatsby Background and Reading Information

  10. Beloved Criticism 1

  11. Beloved Criticism 2

  12. Tragedy Handouts - Tragic Structure and Tragic Hero

  13. Background Information on King Lear

  14. Paideia Seminar Agenda for Beloved

  15. The Nobel Prize Speech - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  16. The Handsomest Drowned Man In The World - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  17. Peer Review Format

  18. Christmas Stuff

  19. Beloved Background & Discussion Questions & One Criticism

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

  21. Peer Review Format

  22. Ox-Cart Man Poem

  23. Parent's Day Agenda

  24. As I Lay Dying Paideia Seminar

  25. Addie Critical Commentary

  26. The Lottery Worksheet

  27. A Reading of Shirley Jackson Lottery

  28. The Lottery Criticism

  29. The Lottery Criticism 2

  30. Discussion of Characterization in Everyday Use

  31. Critical Commentary - Everyday Use

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

  33. What's in a Name - As I Lay Dying

  34. Faulkner's Maps of Yoknapatawpha County

  35. The Destructors Critical Analysis

  36. Plot Structure

  37. Literary Terms and Types

  38. Faulkner & As I Lay Dying Background Information & Reading Questions

  39. Faulkner Nobel Prize Speech

  40. Marquez Nobel Prize Speech

  41. "Lost in the Funhouse" Criticism for Class

  42. "Lost in the Funhouse" Paideia Seminar

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

  44. General Class Information

  45. 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, 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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