AP English Literature and Composition Course Information
- AP English Course Description (.pdf/2.3MB)
- AP English Literature Teacher's Guide (.pdf/858KB)
- Sample Syllabi
- AP English Literature and Composition FAQs
- AP English Literature and Composition Development Committee
- AP English Literature and Composition Newsletter
- AP English Literature and Composition Course Perspective
AP Course Audit Information
Exam Information and Resources
- AP English Literature and Composition Exam Information
- Free AP English Literature and Composition Practice Exam
- An Exam Reader's Advice on Writing
- Strategies to Approach Multiple-Choice Questions in the Classroom and on the Exam
Classroom Instruction and Resources
Special Focus Materials
Lesson Plans and Teaching Strategies
- 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)
- Stand and Deliver: The Power of Performance Poetry
- 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
- 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
- AP and Archetypes: Creating a Seasonal Syllabus
- The Art of Teaching AP English Literature: An Introduction
- Teaching "Offensive" Literature
- Nurturing the Reader's Imagination
- AP Lesson Plan for a Unit on A. S. Byatt's Possession
- Made for TV: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Course Content - Related Articles
- Papers, Papers, Papers: Helping Teachers Handle the Paper Load
- AP English -- Dispelling the Myth
- Broadening the AP English Literature Curriculum: Israeli Author Amos Oz
- Islamic Women's Voices
- The Wisdom of Solomon: A Tribute to Bellow
- 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
- 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
Web Guides
Pre-AP Strategies
- Pre-AP Strategies in English New!
- SOAPSTone: A Strategy for Reading and Writing
- Two Sides of a Coin: Pre-AP Skills and Strategies for Readers
Reviews of Teaching Resources
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