Click below to open the syllabus for this class. This document includes the objectives for the course and the literature covered.
| AP English Syllabus.doc |
Click below to go to the Writing and Grammar Guide at Capital Community College. The guide is one of the most comprehnsive sites for grammar and usage rules as well as writing tips.
| Guide to Grammar/Writing |
Click below to open Purdue University's Online Writing Lab. There, you will find help with organization, revision, documentation, voice, grammar, and more.
| The OWL at Purdue |
Click here to open www.turnitin.com and submit your summer reading logs.
| TurnItIn |
The document below contains links to online and library resources for your literary research paper.
| lit research sites.doc |
Open the document below for some helpful links to the research topics for The Poisonwood Bible.
| poisonwood research websites.doc |
Frankenstein Web Quest
Search options...
Here is a list of all the allusions in the novel.
You can search through the list to find the titles and texts: http://www.english.upenn.edu/Projects/knarf/Indexes/works.html
Or search by individual title...
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” Coleridge http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/poems/Rime_Ancient_Mariner.html
or
http://www.studyguide.org/rime_of_the_ancient_mariner.htm
“Mutability,” Percy Shelley http://www.internal.org/view_poem.phtml?poemID=311
Ruins of Empires, Volney http://www.rochester.edu/College/ENG/eng529/aeza/volney.htm
or
http://www.english.upenn.edu/Projects/knarf/Volney/volneytp.html
The Sorrows of Werter http://www.english.upenn.edu/Projects/knarf/V2notes/werter.html
Paradise Lost, John Milton http://www.paradiselost.org/5-sum-short.html
or
http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/paradiselost/summary.html
or
http://www.english.upenn.edu/Projects/knarf/Contexts/pl.html
or
http://www.webwinds.com/thalassa/adameve.htm#Paradise
or
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/links/index.shtml
Plutarch’s Lives http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutarch#Parallel_Lives
or
http://www.english.upenn.edu/Projects/knarf/Plutarch/lives.html
Fun Stuff:
The coolest site on the text of Frankenstein that I have ever found; it's packed with resources. http://www.english.upenn.edu/Projects/knarf/index.html
The Frankenstein Museum http://thebakken.org/frankenstein/intro.htm
Scientific American video http://www.pbs.org/saf/1209/video/watchonline.htm
(Get some headphones from me so you can hear the sound on this.
Click on the "Play Video" icon on the first story, "How to Make a Nose.")
The texts of the other ghost stories written by the guests at Lord Byron’s
manor when Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, etc.
Polidori, "The Vampyre" http://www.english.upenn.edu/Projects/knarf/Polidori/vampyre.html
Byron, "A Fragment" http://www.english.upenn.edu/Projects/knarf/Byron/fragment.html
Click below to open the word document of today's webquest.
| Frankenstein webquest.doc |
Not sure what career might suit you in life? Try the Matchmaker on Career Cruising. The user ID is Cadillac and the password is vikings.
| Career Cruising |
Click on the link below to get information about any college in the United States. This website will give you entrance requirements, tuition information, and application instructions.
| American Universities |
Click below to see the pacing guide for this course.
| AP English pacing guide for students.doc |