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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.

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Calendar (includes daily assignments and notes)

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Course Outline

Music Poetry 2016-2017 (Spotify playlist)

Class Blog

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

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

  • Today, Tonight, Tomorrow
  • Tess of the Road by Rachel Hartman
  • REAMDE Book Review – Neal Stephenson
  • Book Update: The Electric Kingdom
  • enders game
  • ‘Salem’s Lot Book Update
  • The Loop Reading Update #5
  • Lord of the Flies review
  • The Dragonfly Effect book review
  • The Loop Reading Update

RSS AP Lit: Story Power

  • Humans are a part of nature, even if we don’t see it
  • Transcendental Music – Our Playlist
  • The Lakes
  • “Imagine” and Romanticism
  • The Beatles and A Noiseless Patient Spider
  • Michael Jackson and Walt Whitman as Romantics?
  • To Autumn by John Keats and Autumn Serenade by by John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman
  • Don’t Fear The Reaper
  • All of Me Song Analysis
  • “I’ll Fly Away” by Hank Williams and “Song of Myself” by Walt Whitman

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, but we can still take inspiration from his intellectual effort, right? :)

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