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Generally Important Documents

Syllabus (revised 6-7-13)
Poetic and Dramatic Structure
Comedy Theory
Revenge Tragedies
Jacobean Theatre
Hamlet According to Freytag
Movie Critique

General Classroom Related Pages for you to Check Out...

If you have signed up to take AP Lit/Comp during the 2012-13 school year, you may want to take a look at the class WIKI. You can find it by following this link. It's always a "work in progress," but you will want to bookmark it on your computer!

Here's our classroom BLOG.

PLEASE DO NOT FORGET THE IMPORTANCE OF PREPARING FOR YOUR VOCABULARY QUIZ EVERY FRIDAY. WHILE I WILL NOT PLAN TO TAKE UP THE EXCERCISES, I DO EXPECT YOU TO SPEND TIME ON THE WORD STUDY DAILY. BE PREPARED! LAST SEMESTER, I OFFERED EXTRA CREDIT FOR THE COMPLETED EXERCISES.

Novels read in AP Literature & Composition:

The Stranger by Albert Camus
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura  Esquivel
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy

Plays read from the text:
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
Hamlet by Shakespeare (or Lear or Othello)
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
Much Ado about Nothing by Shakespeare
"Trifles" by Susan Glaspell

Check out these "generally" helpful sites for AP GENERALS!

 Shmoop a test-prep help site

 Questions for Death of a Salesman

 This UNC site will provide you with a great deal of information about writing.

 Here's a page that will entertain you! It's full of insults from Shakespeare's plays and has some fun facts about the bard as well!

 Here's the link to the literary terms flashcard.