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American Literature AP

Below you will find useful course links and American Lit resources. Feel free to contact me with questions or suggestions.

Course Info

Calendar (includes daily assignments and notes)

Course Profile

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Music Poetry 2016-2017 (Spotify playlist)

Class Blog

True American Stories (go to your Blogger account to post)

Class Schedule 2026-2027

RSS True American Stories

  • Analysis of Gone With The Wind
  • Qualifications to be pretty
  • No amount of roses or champaign will mask this blatant sexism
  • Espionage at its finest
  • The United States of Tom
  • Defiance of Female Stereotypes in “The Big Bang Theory”
  • Feminism Has Seen Stranger Things
  • Going Inside of "Inside Amy Schumer"
  • Gone Girl Feminist Critique
  • Batman And Gender Norms, A Love Story

RSS English A: Our Stories

  • A Return to a World Under Attack
  • Anya’s Ghost By: Vera Brosgol
  • Life Means Everything
  • Addicted to the Rush
  • The Folk of the Air
  • Living a Life of War is Living a Life Without Freedom
  • My Review of Kanan: The Last Padawan
  • The Endless Loop
  • Pills
  • A Great Sci-fi Book

RSS AP Lit: Story Power

  • Review of The Stranger
  • How the Courtroom Rewrites Meursault’s Reality
  • The Silencing of Marie in Albert Campus’s “The Stranger”.
  • Beyond The Surface: How We Should View The Stranger
  • Trust: A Portrait of Monotony
  • The Stranger + Trust = Slaughterhouse-Five
  • Trust and The Stranger: The Expectations We Place on Grief
  • How Hal Hartley’s “Trust” (1990) and Camus’s “The Stranger” Inadvertently Expose Existentialism’s Illusory Ideological Standing
  • Is the acting in Trust bad, or is it the whole point?
  • “Trust” and its role in Independent filmmaking

RSS American Lit: True American Stories

  • Analysis of Gone With The Wind
  • Qualifications to be pretty
  • No amount of roses or champaign will mask this blatant sexism
  • Espionage at its finest
  • The United States of Tom
  • Defiance of Female Stereotypes in “The Big Bang Theory”
  • Feminism Has Seen Stranger Things
  • Going Inside of "Inside Amy Schumer"
  • Gone Girl Feminist Critique
  • Batman And Gender Norms, A Love Story
The top image is the amazing art of Dave Gibbons from the Watchmen graphic novel (1987): Adrian Veidt/Ozymandias at his controls for understanding and manipulating the world. He takes his cultural criticism and his apocalyptic morality a bit too far -- okay, way too far! -- but we can still take inspiration from his intellectual effort, right? :)

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