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 Easy Writer web site.
| Easy Writer |
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 below to see how the ideas that Orwell presented in 1984 persist today.
Below is a document with successful thesis statements from past papers as well as some past topics students have chosen. The lists might help you to think about topics and angles.
| sample thesis statements - lit research.pdf | |
| sample topics - lit research.doc |
The document below contains links to online and library resources for your literary research paper.
| lit research sites.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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantin-Fran%C3%A7ois_Chasseb%C5%93uf (entry on Voney's life, contains a few sentences on the book)
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:
Frankenstein: The Musical (I am not making this up!): http://www.frankensteinthemusical.com/.
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
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.")
Frankenstein: An Educated Animated Version: http://www.brainpop.com/english/famousauthorsandbooks/frankenstein/.
The Frankenstein Exhibit at the National Library of Medicine: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/frankenstein/frankhome.html.
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 file on using the turnitin website for your response logs.
| AP Turn It In Instructions.doc |
Click here if you would like to gather your poetry definitions online.
| Gale Glossary of Literary Terms |
Click below to open the Poetry 180 web page.
| Poetry 180 |
Click below to read more about Orwell and 1984.
| Orwell Today | |
| Orwell's Diaries | |
| 1984 Relevance of Predictions | |
| Doublespeak | |
| Doublespeak Satire | |
| Doublespeak Awards |
Click below to open the word document of today's webquest.
| Frankenstein webquest.doc |
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| 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 |