A.P. English Literature and Composition Home Page 

Argo Community High School --- District 217 

Welcome to the Argo Community High School A.P. English Home Page. This page provides students with information about the A.P. English course, as well as a collection of literature and writing resources on the web. Additionally, it collects other education-related resources that are useful to college-bound students.

"Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who 
look through to guess what is seen during a moment."

                                             ~~ Carl Sandburg

Here's a list of what's on this page:

Course Information and Web Resources:

• Course Description

• Guidelines for Success in A.P. English

• Essay Writing: Format and Grading

• Class Readings

• Writing Resources on the Web

• Virtual Libraries on the Web

• Student Projects
   

Recommended Links for Students in A.P. English:

• Silva Rhetoricae

• EasyBib: The Free Automatic Bibliography Maker

• Blogger.com
   

• Voice of the Shuttle: Humanities Research

• Digital Dante

• Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet

• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

• Luminarium
  

• Milton-L Home Page

• Milton's England
   

• Eighteenth-Century Resources

• Gulliver's Travels Home Page

• The Regency Collection

• The Literary Gothic
  

• Victorian Web Sites

• David Perdue's Charles Dickens Page

• Discovering Dickens
  

• The Modern Word

• James Joyce: The Brazen Head

• The Beat Page

• IntrepidTrips.com

• Anniina's Toni Morrison Page
   

The Milton Marathon (from the A.P. English archives)

Reading Schedule and Assignments
 

 2009 Summer Reading Assignment

First Semester

• Syllabus for Weeks 1 - 6

• Syllabus for Weeks 7 - 12

• Syllabus for Weeks 13 - 18

Second Semester

• Syllabus for Weeks 1 - 6

• Syllabus for Weeks 7 - 12

• Syllabus for Weeks 13 - 18

 

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This page was last updated on May 28th, 2009.

Please send me any comments, suggestions, or book recommendations. Thanks. =) 

Tim Strzechowski
Argo Community High School --- District 217 
7329 West 63rd Street 
Summit, IL 60501-1829 
(708) 728 - 3200   Ext. 709 

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