AP Literature and Composition

Welcome to AP Literature and Composition, a college-level composition course. This semester we will be reading from a selection of texts including Hamlet, The Stranger, The Awakening, A Raisin in the Sun. 

Click on the links below to access the course syllabus, monthly course calendars, and additional class resources.  If you are absent, need to make-up a test or quiz, have a question about a course assignment, or need extra help of any kind, Mrs. Hunsaker is available during both tutorial (each morning from 8:00-8:20) and lunch.  Please note that tutorial is not held on (late start) Wednesdays. 

This academic year, the AP Literature Exam will be held on Wednesday, May 6th, 2020.

Click here to access a pdf version of Lorraine Hansberry's play, A Raisin in the Sun:

http://azactorsacademy.com/uploads/plays/a_raisin_in_the_sun.pdf

Click here to access pdf versions of Kate Chopin's The Awakening:

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/160/160-h/160-h.htm

http://pages.pomona.edu/~vis04747/h21/readings/The_awakening.pdf

Click here to view videos about A Cry in the Dark (pertinent to The Stranger):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEQ048vDdW0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hwd0iomlM1Y

Click here to read The Stranger, by Albert Camus (translated by Matthew Ward):

https://bxscience.edu/ourpages/auto/2019/2/28/69275970/The%20Stranger%20-%20Albert%20Camus.pdf

Click here to access videos regarding Existentialism and the French-Algerian author, Albert Camus:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQOfbObFOCw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaDvRdLMkHs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_tgqj9MU8M

Click here to access a video summary of Shakespeare's Hamlet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtNMjZoZNbM

Click here to access a Ted Talk on iambic pentameter:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5lsuyUNu_4