Just for Advanced Placement Teachers

This site must be moved by the end of June. Less than 5¢ a hit barely pays for software updates, online storage, and domain name. Even though I had hoped that more than 100,000 visits would help me retire to Italy, I cannot even afford to maintain the site, much less update and move it, at this rate. A donation would encourage me to continue the website. Regardless, you should download whatever you feel is useful before the end of June, when .Mac will be discontinued.

I welcome any donation you feel is appropriate, payable through PayPal. Updated 21 May 2012 with this year's Lit and Lang Questions.

You may find other useful materials at Assignments, Handouts OR Yummy Bytes.

• The Exam Questions
• Pre-AP Teacher Resources
• AP Language Home Page
• AP Literature Home Page

• Registration for EDG (Electronic Discussion Groups) -- combined group for Language & Literature
• AP English Files -- Yahoo Group where we can post files since the EDG no longer accepts attachments

Binder material from my APSIs is a very large fils so please be patient. It is approximately 250 pages in .PDF format. I have revised the two previous binders into the latest one as of July 2011.

• Effinger_Binder.pdf

Please note that I have not included answer keys for any Binder materials. They are available at my APSIs or from the College Board.

Literary Goodies - Terminology, Background, Best Handouts, Overview Handouts

• Drama
• Essay
• Novel
• Poetry
• Short Story

These handouts are usually about 20-25 pages long and were developed for workshops one hour long.

• All Books Are Either Dreams or Swords: Responding to Reading
• Covers: Using Musical Interpretation to Teach Poetry
• Anecdote, Imagery, Epiphany, and Rant: Voice in the Essay
• Doing More with Less: The Short Story
• First Chapters: Passage Analysis and Book Promotion
• Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man in the Spotlight
• Poem-a-Day: Using National Poetry Month and Online Resources for Poetry Immersion
• Rhetoric for Beginners: Using Advertisements to Introduce Rhetoric
• Don’t Throw that Away: Using Free Catalogues to Teach Almost Everything English
• Getting to the Root of Vocabulary

Terminology

• Dictionary of Literary Terms (Joel Littauer)
• Literary History
• Literary Terms and Definitions (Kip Wheeler)
• Glossary of Rhetorical Devices (University of Kentucky)
• Handbook of Rhetorical Devices (Robert Harris)
• Poetic Terms (Robert Shubinsky)

Writing Help

• Elements of Style
• Guide to Grammar and Writing
• Purdue OWL (Online Writing Lab)

Literary Theory and Criticism

• Illuminations (University of Texas)
• Literary Resources on the Net (Jack Lynch)
• Bedford St. Martin VirtuaLit Critical Approaches
• Contemporary Literary Theory (John Lye)
• Glossary of Literary Theory (University of Tornto)
• Guide to Critical Theory (Dino Felluga)
• Introduction to Modern Literary Theory (Kristi Siegel)
• Start of the Hero’s Journey

• Autobiography Portfolio
• Career Workshop (uses College Board’s My Roads)
• Classical Literature (Greek Mythology)
• The Fairy Tale
• Film Studies
• “The Lady of Shalott”
• Poem-a-Day (National Poetry Month)
• Poetry Presentations
• Poet Research Project
• Experiencing Shakespeare