Just for Advanced Placement Teachers

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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.

Advanced Placement® Literature Tests (to 2023)

AP Lit Referenced Titles, 1970 to 2023, as Webpage.
AP Lit Referenced Titles as PDF (and 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, as PDF.
AP Poets Referenced, 1970-2023, as PDF.

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

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.
• And more. . .

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

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 Language Home Page -- Classroom Resources
• AP Language Exam -- CED (Course and Exam Description), 2021 FRQ (Free Response Questions), and Past Exam FRQs (from 1999).
• AP Literature Home Page -- Classroom Resources
• AP Literature Exam -- CED (Course and Exam Description), 2021 FRQ (Free Response Questions), and Past Exam FRQs (from 1999).
• AP Teacher Community (Skip Nicholson) -- Join the AP English community, a combined group for Language & Literature. New version of the old ListServ.
• AP Language YouTube Channel (Live Review) -- 11 videos
• AP Literature YouTube Channel (Live Review) -- 10 videos

AP English FaceBook Groups

• AP Language and Composition Teachers (Kristy Seidel)
• AP Literature and Composition (Brian Sztabnik)
• AP Literature and Composition Teachers (Michael Yeakey & Heather Davide Carlotz)

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.
• Susan 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.
• MsEffie’s LifeSavers: Several ways to get there – Google “mseffie” [first hit], use the short domain router (mseffie.com). Mine. What can I say? Such a nerd!

Terminology

• Brian Tolentino Teaching includes 35 term specific videos
• Dictionary of Literary Terms (Joel Littauer)
• Literary History
• Literary Terms and Definitions (Kip Wheeler)
• Handbook of Rhetorical Devices (Robert Harris)
• Oregon State Guide to English Literary Terms -- videos for more than 60 terms
• Poetic Terms (Robert Shubinsky)

Writing Help

• Elements of Style
• Guide to Grammar and Writing
• Purdue OWL (Online Writing Lab)

Literary Theory and Criticism

• Literary Resources on the Net (Jack Lynch)
• Literary Theory and Criticism (Brigham Young University)
• Guide to Critical Theory (Dino Felluga)
• Introduction to Modern Literary Theory (Kristi Siegel)

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

“The Lady of Shalott” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Macbeth by William Shakespeare