Helpful Links

General AP Information:

• Simple Overview of the Course

• Course Description (including how items are scored, suggested authors, and information on the exam)

Texts to Study:

• Works referred to since 1971 on the AP Exam

• Poems you should be familiar with before the exam

Tips for Reading:

• Kelly Gallagher's Article of the Week (news you should know)

Vocabulary

• The best resource for academic/literary vocabulary is the back of your textbook

• Another teacher's definitions of lit devices for AP Lit (student-friendly definitions): https://jm129.k12.sd.us/ap_literature_terms.htm

• See the attached document below to access vocabulary to help elevate your literary analysis

• See the attached tone words (like a tone thesaurus) to help you better describe the tone of a text

Note: I found some of these links from Mrs. Amy Carter's website. Thanks, Mrs. Carter, for the help!