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AP English Literature and Composition Course Home Page

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

Electronic Discussion Groups
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  AP English EDG
  Registration for Electronic Discussion Groups

Subscribe to the AP Central AP English Newsletter
About twice a school year, the AP Central staff compiles and sends email updates alerting members to important program updates and new content items for AP English Language and Composition and AP English Literature and Composition. You automatically receive this course newsletter unless you choose the "Do not send" option on the Personal Profile page. To see an example of the AP English newsletter, click on the link below.
  AP English Literature Newsletter
  Personal Profile

Contributions
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  Contact Us

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