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Use this podcast to interpret the significance of tragedy in ancient and modern times.

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What is Tragedy? | University of Oxford Podcasts - Audio and Video Lectures

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Over 4000 free audio and video lectures, seminars and teaching resources from Oxford University.

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Use this website to continue to study for the exam with sample tests and study guides.

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Great Exp. | Dracula | Frankenstein | Posthuman | BNW | 1984 | Poetry | Sir Gawain | Dr. Faustus | Macbeth | IRP | Richard III ]

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Use this website to access lists of previous AP prompts and helpful study guides.

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Just for Advanced Placement Teachers

If you download or print anything from this site, please consider making at least a $10.00 donation through PayPal.
I can maintain and expand this website only with your help.

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

After consulting a copyright lawyer (who just happens to be married to an Advanced Placement® English teacher), I am once again sharing online some of the lists I have maintained since 2004, with modifications.

Versions of all these files are available in the DropBox in Word format so you can edit them yourself. Some materials cannot be shared online and are found only in the DropBox files. Many of these files are available in Word document form in the DropBox, so you can edit the originals easily.

Materials Available Online

Advanced Placement® Literature Tests (to 2023)

AP Lit Referenced Titles, 1970 to 2023, as Webpage.
AP Lit Referenced Titles asPDF (2-column format).

AP Literature Open Prompts, 1970-2023, as PDF, PowerPoint, and Webpage. Condensed 1-Page List (Thanks to Claudia Felske).

AP Literature Poetry Prompts, 1970 to 2023, as PDF.
AP Literature Poetry Prompts with Poems, 1970 to 2023, asPDF.
AP Poets Referenced, 1970-2023, asPDF.

AP Literature Prose Prompts, 1970 to 2023, as PDF.
AP Literature Prose Passages, 1970 to 2023, asPDF.
AP Prose Writers Referenced, 1970-2023, asPDF.
AP Prose Prompts Rewritten with Stable Wording, asPDF (Thanks to Tia Miller).

Overview of AP Literature Stable Pronots, as PDF and as PowerPoint.

Interesting re-grouping of AP Literature prompts by subjects (Thanks to Ann Elizabeth Richards). Open Prompts Grouped, Poetry Prompts Grouped, and Prose Prompts Grouped.

Advanced Placement® Language Tests

All Three AP Language Free Response Prompts, 1970 to 2023, as PDF.

AP Language Prose Passages, 1982 to 2023, as PDF (Thanks to Chris Godat).

Overview of AP Language Stable Prompts, as PDF and as PowerPoint.

DropBox Files
I am unable to share some materials online. A DropBox link will be provided to donors who contribute at least $25.00, using any of the "Donate" buttons on any page. Your donation pays for online storage space, extended bandwidth, software, security services, and my time. You will need to have a free DropBox account for access. (These materials are offered under the face-to-face teaching fair access exemption). Donors are welcome to contact me with any special requests for information (mseffie@mac.com).

Materials Available in the DropBox Files

Detailed List of All Materials - DropBox Content.

Binder materials from my summer workhops (300+ pages in .PDF format). Reworked to include both AP Language and AP Literature (with an admitted greater emphasis on literature).

New rubrics in several formats.

More than 20 Bell Work / iOpeners for beginning your classes.

More than 25 Book Projects.

More than 50 AP appropriate Short Stories.

More than 75 Passages appropriate for AP English.

More than 75 PowerPoints suited to both AP and Regular English classes.

Visual Literacy Materials for Art and Advertising.

Advanced Placement® Language and Literature Tests from 1970 to 2023.

AP Language and LiteratureTests Reorganized: Each prompt is now a separate dated file with prompt, scoring guide (6-point and/or 9-point), sample student essays, comments -- whatever I have, attached. Released multiple-choice exams are in a separate folder.

Q3 Sample Essay List organized by Title, Year, and Score (Thanks to Brian Sztabnik), as PDF.

AP Language FRQs

Argument

Defend, Challenge, or Qualify

Paired Passages

Thetorical Analysis

Synthesis Prompts

Take a Position

AP Literature FRQs

Open Question

Poetry

Prose

You can still use the list of titles to locate which file holds the scored sample essays.

Speci al Prompts -- Long lost formats, four that were actually used for both Literature & Language. Personal favorites, like the Pairs Prompt. And a 1996 Country Prompt student essay on The Things They Carried that the Chief Reader agreed was a 10 (and photo-copied for me). Yes, a 10.

It's All Happening Online -Useful Links

AP Central & YouTube -- Finding your way around the Advanced Placement website can be tricky. Direct links listed below (with some of those acronyms defined).
AP English FaceBook Groups
Teacher Sites -- Where have all the teachers gone? On sabbatical, into administration, to commercial sites, to retirement. So sorry.

Gina Korteum's Lit & More: Modest but masterful, Gina shares a wealth of free resources on her website and extensive affordable materials on Teachers Pay Teachers. Practical, adaptable jewels.

Tim Freitas' The Garden of English: Delightful, often surprising viewpoint. Sense of humor meets excellence. Love all the videos, handouts and posters.

Susa n Barber's and Brian Sztabnik's Much Ado About Teaching: The reincarnation of AP LIT Help. These gifted inspiring teachers have mastered the ability to explain everything AP clearly. Articles, videos, handouts are amazing.

Beth Hall's Coach Hall Writes offersmany free AP Language materials with links to Teachers Pay Teachers materials. Subscribe to her YouTube channel for excellent, focused videos.

Brian Tolentino shares dozens of short videos on his YouTube Channel, Tolentino Teaching. SAT Vocabulary and Rhetorical Terms are especially helpful.

Kristian Kuhn's home page shares some excellent assignments. Teachers Teaching Writing, his YouTube channel has dozens of clever, useful videos for AP Literature.

Susan Barber's Teach with Class site offers Teacher Resources.

Jerry Brown's website has buried treasure, well worth seeking.

Don Pogebra's Quixotic Pedagogue: Gorgeous website with generous materials. Retired.

Ronnie Campagna's DropBox is a wealth of materials. Please download; do not delete or move.

Dawn Hogue's Online English Resources provides a Teacher's Toolbox and other online resources for AP and regular classes.

Terminology Writing Help Literary Theory and Criticism Miscellaneous Resources -- $ Resource Requiring Payment

TeachIt is a United Kingdom site (for their teachers) whose worksheets approach texts in a different way than we do. Though designed for their "regular" classes, the emphasis is usually on the kind of analysis we do in Advanced Placement classes. PDF files are free to download if you register.

Thought.Co Writing is the old About.com and offers a disorganized but intriguing mess of articles on language, literature, art, and more -- tips on grammar, sample paragraphs of every mode, suggestted topic lists, critical analyses, passages by well-known authors focusing on specific stylistic traits, and so on. The short introductions analyze each piece and help focus discussion.

TED Ed: Lessons Worth Sharing -- Based upon the regular TED Talks and a library of original animated videos, TedEd provides a platform for teachers to share lessons based on the videos.

CrackAP.com -- provides free access to 50+ practice multiple-choice exams on various passages, many of them from previous AP exams. A very awkward confusing site, but students get immediate assessment and explanations. Just IGNORE all the pop-ups & exterior clicks. AP Language Practices. AP Literature Practices.

PrepScholar -- One-stop location for every AP Literature Practice Test available, free & official, including many older ones not available at AP Central.AP Language. AP Literature.

$ Applied Practice -- Resource Guides for more than 100 titles. Each includes AP style multiple-choice and free response questions withy answers. With explanations of answers. Other stuff available, too.

$ Prestwick House -- Reasonably priced packages include Activity Packs, Response Journals, Literature Teaching Units, AP Teaching Units, and Multiple Critical Perspectives, Response Journals, and Activity Packs. Samples available to download to check them out. (Free Crossword Puzzles and free Posters.)

Links to My Pages with Handouts & URLs for Specific Major Works

Advanced English Genre Packets

Advanced World History Resources

How to Read Literature like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster (1st & 2nd editions)

"The Lady of Shalott" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Projects for Reports (creative projects)

Why the Mystery? Why Sherlock Holmes?

Thomas Hardy Poetry & Novels

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

If you download or print anything from this site, please consider making at least a $10.00 donation through PayPal.
I can maintain and expand this website only with your help.

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Use this website to access Dr. Andrew Barker's excellent lectures on various poets and their poetry.

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A Mycroft Lecture will enable you to understand a poem without reading a book on it. Study a Mycroft lecture if you:

need to understand a poem for an examination;

need do a presentation on a poem;

are interested in poetry in general.

We have been careful to ensure these lectures are easy to understand, while containing very little "fat." Each lecture provides a lot of information. After watching, students at school or college level will be able to understand these poems, while students at university level will find new points for consideration and analysis.
www.youtube.com/user/mycroftlectures Lecture 1 - Seamus Heaney's Mid-Term Break
Download: Mycroft Notes - 1 Seamus Heaney - Mid-Term Break
Lecture 2 - Robert Browning's My Last Duchess
Download: Mycroft Notes - 2 Robert Browning - My Last Duchess
Lecture 3 - Seamus Heaney's Digging
Download: Mycroft Notes - 3 Seamus Heaney - Digging
Lecture 4 - Dylan Thomas's Do No Go Gentle into that Good Night
Download: Mycroft Notes - 4 Dylan Thomas - Do Not Go
Lecture 5 - William Butler Yeats's No Second Troy
Download: Mycroft Notes - 5 William Butler Yeats - No Second Troy
Lecture 6 - Wilfred Owen's Dulce Et Decorum Est
Download: Mycroft Notes - 6 Wilfred Owen - Dulce Et Decorum Est
Lecture 7 - William Wordsworth's Upon Westminster Bridge
Download: Mycroft Notes - 7 William Wordsworth - Upon Westminster Bridge
Lecture 8 - Chinua Achebe's Refugee Mother and Child
Download: Mycroft Notes - 8 Chinua Achebe - Refugee Mother and Child
Lecture 9 - Andrew Marvell's To His Coy Mistress
Download: Mycroft Notes - 9 Andrew Marvell - To His Coy Mistress
Lecture 10 - John Donne's The Good-Morrow
Download: Mycroft Notes - 10 John Donne - The Good-Morrow
Lecture 11 - Philip Larkin's Toads
Download: Mycroft Notes - 11 Philip Larkin - Toads
Lecture 12 - Philip Larkin's Toads Revisited
Download: Mycroft Notes - 12 Philip Larkin - Toads Revisited
Lecture 13 - Rupert Brooke's The Soldier
Download: Mycroft Notes - 13 Rupert Brooke - The Soldier

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AP Central- Sample Literature and Composition Exams  

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AP Central- Sample Literature and Composition Exams  

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Use this link to find sample multiple choice and essay questions.

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Important Updates

Secure Exam for Classroom Use
A secure 2017 AP English Literature and Composition Exam is available on the AP Course Audit website. To access, sign in to your AP Course Audit account, and click on the Secure Documents link in the Resources section of your Course Status page.

Previously Secure Exam Publicly Available
The 2012 AP English Literature Exam that was previously available only through your AP Course Audit account is publicly available. This means you can use the questions from this older exam without restriction.

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AP English Literature and Composition: The Exam | AP Central - The College Board

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Important Updates Secure Exam for Classroom Use A secure 2017 AP English Literature and Composition Exam is available on the AP Course Audit website. To access, sign in to your AP Course Audit account, and click on the Secure Documents link in the Resources section of your Course Status page.