AP Language Websites

AP Language Websites
An Internet Hotlist on AP Language Websites

created by Mary Filak
Ridge High School

Introduction
Thanks to Peggy Gannon and other AP Listserv members who contributed their favorite Language websites. If you have others, please email them to me, and I will add to our collective list.

The Internet Resources

General Interest

American Online - Newspaper Columnists and Commentators Index
Annotating a Text - Reading strategies
Arts & Letters Daily - 'Ideas, criticism, detbate.'
Language Resource Guide - Contains writing rubrics and themes and essential questions.
Lit. Circle Bookmark - PDF template for a character card bookmark with room for character names on one side and core discussion questions on the reverse courtesy of The English Companion site
Lit. Circle Roles - PDF template of literature circle roles from The English Companion site
New York Times Daily Lesson Plans -
Pulitzer Prize Commentary - Winning commentary through the years and links to other Pulitzer Prize information.
Socratic Seminar Guidelines - Cindy Adams' site with helpful rubrics, guidelines and how to ask questions
Townhall - Columnists online

Rhetoric & Logic

A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices - Virtual Salt detailed alphabetical list.
A Rhetorical Glossary of Literary Terms -
Arguement - Parts of an argument, logical fallacies
Introduction to Rhetoric - 'A fast-paced introduction to the study of rhetoric, from Aristotle to the present, with emphasis on rhetorical and stylistic analyses of essays, stories, speeches, poems, advertisements, lawn ornaments, t-shirts, and other forms of discourse.'
Rhetorical Dictionary - University of Kentucky's alphabetical list of rhetorical terminology
Rhetorical and Literary Terminology - In case you can't find the alphabetically listed term you are searching on any of the OTHER sites! This one is by Jack Lynch of Rutgers University.
Strategies for Teaching Toulmin - Resources from College Online : A Classroom Strategy for Teaching Toulmin
The Forest of Rhetoric - A comprehensive site for rhetorical terms-a 'tree' of knowledge with many 'branches.'
The Toulmin Project - In-depth from the University of Nebraska
Toulmin's Analysis - From OWL, with diagrams

Writing

Grammar Bytes - Terms, exercises, tips, rules from a gorilla with attitude.
Grammar Help - Complete index by topics of handouts from OWL with interactive practice
Grammar and Writing - Very comprehensive with many facets
List of Common Errors - More errors listed alphabetically than any class could make
Plagiarism Stoppers: A Teacher's Guide - Offers suggestions for prevention and free detection services
Punctuation Made Simple - Well, more or less...
Writing a Rhetorical Analysis - Writing guidelines, questions to ask

Teacher websites

Edie Parrott's AP Language site - Contains essay assignments and a blog project.
Mr. Sharkovitz's Home Page - Contains syllabus, assignments and other related info. from Dan Sharkovitz
Mrs. Hayes's Lessons and Projects - AP Language website
Web English Teacher - Lots of links, lots of pleasurable surfing

Study Guides & Specific Lessons

Bioethics - The President's Council on Bioethics site, useful for synthesis questions or with teaching Shelley's Frankenstein.
Class Matters - Graphs, materials from NY Times on class
Quotes Project - A presentation by Anne Arvidson for NCTE
Study Guides - General study guides on preparing for tests.
The Dam Letters - Located on Mr. Gunnar's AP website, the humorous exchange of letters regarding beaver dams makes a good pairing with the Coke letters from a previous AP Lang. exam.
Today's Front Pages - Compare coverage of major events by comparing the way various newspapers around the world craft their headlines.
Vocabulary for Specific Novels - Vocabulary for 131 novels as well as Shakespeare plays and short stories

Visual Rhetoric & Speeches

American Rhetoric - Subtitled 'The Power of Oratory in the United States' contains top 100 American speeches, online speech bank and speech of the week
Favorite Advertisements - A good place to have students view ads for their rhetorical strategies.
Fifty Years of Coca-Cola TV ads - A trip down memory lane for some, a lesson in visual rhetoric for others.
Historical Speeches - From The History Channel
Lines in the Sand - Political cartoons of Herblock
Political Cartoons - The Association of American Cartoonists searchable by topic
Professional Cartoonists Site - Search by topic. Very extensive and current.
Pulitzer Prize Photography - Photos awarded the Pulitzer throughout the years.
Queen Elizabeth I - Selected writing and speeches
St. Crispen's Day Speech - The 'band of brothers' speech from Shakespeare's Henry V
Streamed Speeches - Online Audio Recordings:historic speeches in streamed audio
Two Speeches about Monica Lewinsky by President Clinton - From Mr. Gunnar's site, a comparison/contrast in speeches and other useful AP Language material
U.S. Government Graphics and Photos - Sources for synthesis and research papers, visual interpretation exercises

Content by Mary Filak, Shatzie2@aol.com
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Last revised Tue Jun 2 10:15:06 US/Pacific 2009