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AP English Literature and Composition Course Home Page
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Course Information
 AP English Course Description (.pdf/1.3MB)
AP English Literature Teacher's Guide
(.pdf/858KB)
AP English Literature and Composition Development Committee
AP English Literature and Composition Course Perspective
Sample Syllabi
Exam Information
AP English Literature and Composition Exam
Free AP English Literature and Composition Practice Exam
An Exam Reader's Advice on Writing
Teaching Resource Materials
For the Classroom
The Importance of Tone (.pdf/310KB)
Reading Poetry (.pdf/554KB)
Web Guides
Grammar Web Guide
Comedy Web Guide
Teaching Strategies
Poetry—
Calling Forth Joy: A Poet's Ideas About Teaching Poetry
Dancing with Poetry
"Looking Underneath" History: An Approach to Teaching Rita Dove's Poetry (.pdf/333KB)
Reading Like a Tourist and Other Activities: Billy Collins in the AP Classroom (.pdf/135KB)
Suggestions for Reading and Studying Eavan Boland (.pdf/241KB)
Writing—
Implicit and Explicit Documentation: Teaching Students to Write from Literature
The Language of Literary Analysis
Lazy Cheaters and Other Misnomers: Part I
Lazy Cheaters and Other Misnomers: Part II
Reading the Novel—
Teaching the Odyssey
Seeing the Image in Imagery: A Lesson Plan Using Film
Know Before You Go: Anticipating and Previewing Difficult Texts such as The Bluest Eye
Planning for English Literature—
AP and Archetypes: Creating a Seasonal Syllabus
The Art of Teaching AP English Literature: An Introduction
Teaching "Offensive" Literature
Nurturing the Reader's Imagination
Pre-AP
SOAPSTone: A Strategy for Reading and Writing
Stand and Deliver: The Power of Performance Poetry
Two Sides of a Coin: Pre-AP Skills and Strategies for Readers
College Board Products
APCD: English Literature
CB Store: Products for AP English Literature
Teachers' Resource Reviews
The Teachers' Resources section for AP English Literature and Composition currently offers reviews of more than 600 teaching materials. The catalog includes reviews of books, articles, Web sites, CDs, audio and video materials, and other useful teaching tools. Novice and veteran teachers alike are certain to find invaluable teaching resources.
Teachers' Resources
Resources for Teaching Shakespeare
Readers and Anthologies
Using the AP English Teachers' Resource Catalog
Feature Articles
Course Development and Management—
Papers, Papers, Papers: Helping Teachers Handle the Paper Load
Strategies to Approach Multiple-Choice Questions in the Classroom and on the Exam
AP English -- Dispelling the Myth
Broadening the AP English Literature Curriculum: Israeli Author Amos Oz
Islamic Women's Voices
Novels, Short Stories and Plays—
Why Teach Dubliners? New!
AP Lesson Plan for a Unit on A. S. Byatt's Possession
The Wisdom of Solomon: A Tribute to Bellow
Made for TV: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Death of a Playwright: A Tribute to Arthur Miller
Outsiders on the Inside: Suburbia and Narrative Distance in the Novels of Chang-Rae Lee
Zora Neale Hurston: Finding the Universal in the Local
Poetry—
Li-Young Lee: A Most Welcome "Guest in the Language"
Poet Richard Wilbur's Letter About "The Death of a Toad"
Geoffrey Chaucer: The Father of English Poetry
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AP English EDG
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AP English Literature Newsletter
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