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. This site was last updated 5/3/12.

The Internet Resources

General Interest

American Online - Newspaper Columnists and Commentators Index
Annotating a Text - Reading strategies
Arts & Letters Daily - 'Ideas, criticism, detbate.'
Grammar Bytes - Terms, exercises, tips, rules from a gorilla with attitude.
How to Mark a Book - Annotating and slow reading practice.
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
New York Times Daily Lesson Plans -
Pulitzer Prize Commentary - NY Times site. Follow links to commentary page.
Socratic Seminar Guidelines - Cindy Adams' site with helpful rubrics, guidelines and how to ask questions
Townhall - Columnists online
Vocabulary for Specific Novels - Vocabulary for specific novels such as Jane Eyre if you scroll down below general subject area vocabulary
Where the Classroom Ends - A collection of teacher-friendly technology like Prezi and other resources for teachers.

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
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 Help - Complete index by topics of handouts from OWL with interactive practice
Grammar and Writing - Very comprehensive with many facets
Lit. Circle Roles - PDF template of literature circle roles from The English Companion site
Punctuation Made Simple - Well, more or less...
Writing a Rhetorical Analysis - Writing guidelines, questions to ask

Teacher websites

Fifty Years of Coca-Cola TV ads - A trip down memory lane for some, a lesson in visual rhetoric for others.
Mr. Sharkovitz's Home Page - Contains syllabus, assignments and other related info. from Dan Sharkovitz
Mrs. Hayes' Lessons and Projects - AP Language website
Web English Teacher - Lots of links, lots of pleasurable surfing

Study Guides & Specific Lessons

American Journal of Bioethics - 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 in PDF format
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.

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
Americans Who Tell the Truth - Portraits of and speeches by famous Americans like Mark Twain, Chief Josef and Frederick Douglass
Favorite Advertisements - A good place to have students view ads for their rhetorical strategies.
Historical Speeches - From The History Channel listen to historical speeches, some on video as well as audio
Inaugural Speeches through the years - Speeches 1789 to the present
Lines in the Sand - Political cartoons of Herblock
List of Common Errors - More errors listed alphabetically than any class could make
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 - Video of film production.
St. Crispin's Day Speech video - View 4 different productions' versions of the famous '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

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Last revised Thu May 3 10:38:59 US/Pacific 2012