Biography:

Characterization:

Close Reading:
Analyzing the Rhetoric of the Princess Di Eulogy   from Sondra Zeldin, Chatsworth High School, Chatsworth, California

The College Application Essay:

Comparison and Contrast:

Checklist for the Forty-Minute Effect Comparison and Contrast Essay

Grouping Works by Theme The following list of works of literary merit have been paired by themes that have been implied or explicitly stated in previous AP Literature and Composition examinations since 1970.

Galapagos Archipelago by Charles Darwin and  The Encantadas (Enchanted Isles) by Herman Melville.

Works of Literary Merit Grouped by Theme

Contests of Knowledge:
Stylistic or Rhetorical Devices Games

Creative Suggestions:
 

Critical Thinking:
Fostering Critical Thinking using Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" Speech:  Grade 10-12
from Mary Barton, Bishop Carroll High School, Wichita, KS 

Debate:

Description:

Diction:
Changing the Diction of E. B. White's "Once More to the Lake" from  Sondra Zeldin, Chatsworth High School, Chatsworth, California
 

Discussion:

Drama:

Essay Tests:
Student Grading Made Easy with Comprehensive Checklists

Exposition:

Extended Writing Projects:

Fables:

Favorite Quotes and Aphorisms:

The Forty-Minute Agree or Disagree Essay: 
How to Write an Agree or Disagree Questions

Checklist for the Agree or Disagree Essay

The Forty-Minute Agree or Disagree Essay Test Examples:
America's Bigotry - Susan B. Anthony

The Role of Computers - Lewis Thomas

The Result of Family Quarrels - F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Definition of Beauty - Jonathan Swift

How America is "environed by hostile powers" as seen in The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

The Consequences of Suspicion - Francis Bacon

The Diminishing Importance of Language - N. Scott Momaday

The Forty-Minute Evaluation of an Argument Test Examples:

Checklist for any Forty-Minute Essay Which Evaluates an Assertion

Ida B. Wells-Barnett  "Mob Murder in a Christian Nation"

Henry V Speech to his Troops at Agincourt

The Analysis Essay:
Hints for Writing any Analysis Essay 

How to Organize any Analysis Essay
 

Checklist for the Forty-Minute Tone, POV, or Author Attitude Essay

"The Gettysburg Address" by Abraham Lincoln

An Excerpt from Herman Melville's Typee
 

The Forty-Minute Effect  Test Examples:

Checklist for the Forty-Minute Effect Essay

The Forty-Minute Open Question Essay- Test Examples:
The Concept of True Heroism

Checklist for the Forty-Minute Open Essay
 

The Forty-Minute Poetry Essay -
Test Examples:
Checklists for Forty-Minute Poetry Essay:

The Forty-Minute Purpose Essay -
Test Examples:

Checklist for the Forty-Minute Open Essay

Grammar Usage:
Post It Notes from Sondra Zeldin, Chatsworth High School, Chatsworth, California
Parts of Speech in "Jabberwocky" from Sondra Zeldin, Chatsworth High School, Chatsworth, California

Journal Writing:
 

Literature:
 

Letter Writing:
 

Multiple-Choice Testing:
A 12 Point MC Test on Mohandas Gandhi's Open Letter to the Führer, Adolph Hitler
 

A Fifty-Point Practice Multiple-Choice Test based on five passages from the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Non-Fiction:

Paraphrasing:

Persuasion:
Writing Argumentative Essays:  Grades 9-12
from Bill Daly, of the Victoria University of Technology in Australia  bill.daly@eudoramail.com.

Model Persuasive Essays:

Poetry:

Punctuation:

Research Paper:
Topics for the AP Language and Composition Research Paper   The following list of works of literary merit have been paired by abstract topics that have been implied or explicitly stated in previous AP Language and Composition examinations since the middle 80's.

Rhetorical and Stylistic Devices:
Glossary of Rhetorical and Stylistic Devices

Satire:
A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift 1729

Short Story:
Short Story Chart 

Setting:
Map of Ship Trap Island:  Grade 9  from Linda Kramer, Central Mid High School;  Norman, Oklahoma
 

Speeches and Essays of Literary Merit:
Speeches and Essays Chart

Style:

Syntax:

Test-Taking Strategies:

Tone:
Practice Using Tone to Convey a Message

A List of Tone Words

Vocabulary: