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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 for next class.

  13. Christmas Stuff

  14. somewhere i have never traveled

  15. Catch 22

  16. Invisible Man Discussion

  17. Invisible Man Criticism

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

  19. A&P + Worn Path Discussion

  20. A Reading of Shirley Jackson Lottery

  21. The Lottery Criticism

  22. The Lottery Criticism 2

  23. Invisible Man Mid-Point Discussion

  24. Discussion of characterization in Everyday Use

  25. Everyday Use Critical Commentary

  26. How I Met My Husband Critical Analysis

  27. Hunters in the Snow Analysis

  28. Hunters in the Snow Analysis 2

  29. Invisible Man Background and Themes

  30. Summer Reading Package

  31. General Class Information

  32. 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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