The Advanced Placement and English Literature and
Composition course offers highly motivated students
the opportunity to earn college English credits while
completing their senior year in high school. This
course challenges students not only to read and
analyze a variety of high quality literary genre but
also to write about literature in a mature and
sophisticated style.

While successfully participating in the Advanced
Placement testing program is an obvious goal of this
course, the curriculum also focuses on helping
students develop as effective communicators who
think deeply, analyze critically, effectively solve
problems, and employ emerging technologies for
research and writing as they prepare for a college
career. Students will complete the required summer
reading prior to taking this course..
AP Central -
English Literature Website
Internet Public Library
Literary Criticism
What is the AP English Literature class currently studying?  Click
on the link at the left for the current syllabus.

We continue our study of the 'hero' as it has evolved through
time, incorporating elements of culture and gender.  Works
include Death of a Salesman, Things Fall Apart, Fences, Othello,
and Beloved.













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Listen to John Irving's interpretation of A Prayer for Owen Meany.
Part I: (5 blank minutes at end)
Part II:   



If you would like to purchase your texts for this year, click...
Resources:
Other Links to Literary Resources:
Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller Interview with Jim Lehrer - PBS - 1999
Death of a Salesman Study Guide - Homework Online
Novel Guide - Death of a Salesman
Notes on Literary Elements - Death of a Salesman - revision-notes.co.uk.
Essay - Craig M. Garrison - The System & the American Dream
Beloved resources
Google Book Search - Toni Morrison's Beloved
Wonderful Interview w/ Morrison re: Beloved and the writing process
Academic Info - Toni Morrison - Directory of Online Resources
Beloved Study Guide by Homework Online
The Toni Morrison Anchor
http://www.luminarium.org/contemporary/tonimorrison/beloved.htm
http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/mspouwbray/lit/beloved.htm
http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?ti=bel-64
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/beloved/
http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blbio_morrison_toni.htm
http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/id-32,pageNum-84.html

Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury

C-Span American Writers Series - Faulkner
William Faulkner on the Web
Hypertext Edition - The Sound and the Fury
Scene Shift Criticism (password required)
Selected papers about Faulkner and his works - The Faulkner
Journal of Japan
Oprah Books site - with links to Faulkner resources and lectures.
On William Faulkner's Sound and the Fury - Evelyn Scott
Reading Group Guide - Random House
A Reader's Guide to William Faulkner - Volpe - Google Books
Link to Dry September - William Faulkner
Summer Reading:
The Awakening - Study Site - Anne Woodlief - Virginia Commonwealth Univ.
A Prayer for Owen Meany Study Guide - Tim Averill - Manchester High School
The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini's web site
The Kite Runner - Discussion Guide - Penguin Books
lMr. Y's Book List for AP English Literature
Gender/Family Relationships
Joyce Carol Oates - Celestial Timepiece - resources
Kate Chopin - Re-awakening - resources
VCU Study Notes - The Awakening
Henrik Ibsen - Internet Public Library resources
Bedford-St. Martins resources
Tillie Olsen - Resource Site
Chalotte Perkins Gilman - online resources
Overview of The Yellow Wallpaper, including  text and criticism
Link to Ian Johnston's lecture on A Doll's House
Gilman - Internet Public Library resources
Proof
Proof - A Symposium - featuring Real Video of presentations
Study Guide - Western Michigan University
Study Guide - Open Stage Theatre Company
Popular Representations of Mathematicians - Melissa J. Schoffer
Interview with David Auburn - The Mathematical Association of America
"What I like in a
good author isn't
what he says, but
what he
whispers.”

Logan Pearsall
Smith
AP Literature
Mr. Yastremski
Theodore Roethke resources
VirtuaLit - Analysis & Criticial Perspectives
Favorite Poem Project - Video
Academy of American Poets - Audio
1998 essay - John McKenna - ANQ magazine
Missed Steps - A.S.M. - Associated Content
E-texts of works:
The Awakening - Chopin
A Doll House - Ibsen
Julius Caesar - Shakespeare
Othello - Shakespeare
Metamorphosis - Kafka
Othello
Shakespearean Navigator at clicknotes.com
A.C. Bradley's Shakespearean Tragedy
Study Guide - Bob Jones University
Othello Study Guide -  Dr. Janice Siegel
Othello Study Guide - Dr. Rebecca Wall - WSSU
Othello Study Guide - Cummings Guides
Study Guide - TheatreDance
Lesson Archive - The Folger Library
Search the plays for words and phrases
Teacher' Guide: teachervision.com
Othello Resources: Masterpiece Theatre
For an updated list of book signings in the NYC area, visit
http://www.stilljohn.com/
Go meet your favorite authors, poets, and celebrities!!
Things Fall Apart
Study Guide - Briens - Washington State University
Study Guide - Hastings - Northern State Universityh
Ongoing Assignments: :
Nabokov Lecture on "Good Readers and Writers"
How and Why to Annotate a Book - Nick Otten
AP Notebook Assignment
Class Participation Rubric
Youtube Links:

Toni Morrison's interview with Time Magazine
Toni Morrison's interview with Charlie Rose (1993) - Nobel Prize
Toni Morrison's interview with Charlie Rose (1998) - Paradise