"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." ~Anton Chekhov

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 AP Practice:

• Course Syllabus
• AP terms
• AP Scoring Rubric
• Eavan Boland AP Practice Essay
• Sentence Structures
• AP Practice Essay: Dunbar and Wordsworth
• A Top (9,8,7) Essay
• AP Writing Style Rewrite Guide

Online Texts:

• John Cheever's "The Swimmer"
• Charles Baxter's "Gryphon."
• Araby Questions (download "Araby" here.)
• Should we read King Kong or King Lear?
• “Before the Law” parable by Franz Kafka
• The Myth of Sisyphus
•  No Exit  
• William Faulkner's "A Rose For Emily"

Questions on Literature:

• "The Dead" Questions
• Portrait of the Artist Questions
• Run Lola Run Questions
• Cry, the Beloved Country Questions
• Long Day's Journey Into Night Questions
• Hamlet Quotes (Act One)
• Hamlet Quotes (Act Two)
• Review Questions on The Metamorphosis
• The Stranger Review questions
• Brave New World Quotations
• A Doll's House Questions
• Mrs. Warren's Profession Questions

Research Paper:

• Library Database Information
• Help on Research in the PHS library
• Peer-Editing Research Paper Criteria
• Critical Theories Sheet
• Types of Literary Criticism

Projects and Assignments:

• Literacy Portrait
• Reading Response Journal (print out new sheets here)
• Hamlet Song Comparison Project
• Hero's Journey Assignment
• Photo Essay
• Poem Explication
• “Hell is other people” Essay
• Introduction to Rhetoric 
• Book Review Criteria

English-Related Handouts:

• Archetypes in Literature
• Color Symbolism
• Mythology and Heroes
• Campbell's Journey Pattern
• Great Chain of Being
• Apartheid Facts
• Advertising Techniques
• Amusing Ourselves to Death
• What is Existentialism?