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AP Literature Teaching Units

Get the most out of literature with challenging units modeled after the AP exam.

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Get the most out of literature with challenging units modeled after the AP exam.

Teach literature at the AP level—without weeks of prep work.

It’s not easy doing the work necessary to prepare students for the AP exam while also planning daily lessons that engage students in literary analysis and close readings of text.

AP Literature Teaching Units* do that prep work for you. These ready-to-use lesson plans will save you hours of work by combining test prep with the literature you’re already teaching.

Thanks to a comprehensive introductory lecture and a chapter-by-chapter study guide, you’ll have everything you need to make sure your students get the most out of their reading, and the free-response and multiple-choice questions modeled after the AP exam will give your students the confidence they need to score 5s on test day.

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“With my AP class, the multiple choice questions in the AP Teaching Units are great practice. It would take forever to make such high level questions, and they really help provide in-depth study of novels.”

B. Esslinger, English Language Arts Teacher


Each title-specific AP Literature Teaching Unit includes:

  • A list of academic objectives your students will meet upon completion of the unit
  • In-depth lecture notes on themes, motifs, symbols, author techniques, and historical context
  • A chapter-by-chapter study guide consisting of short-answer questions based on literary techniques and elements found in the text
  • A test consisting of multiple-choice questions and free-response essay writing prompts—both designed to mimic questions students will encounter on the AP exam
  • Answer keys for both the multiple-choice test and study guide questions

Complete list of AP Literature Teaching Units

1984
Author: Orwell, George
The Alchemist
Author: Coehlo, Paulo
All Quiet on the Western Front
Author: Remarque, Erich Maria
Animal Farm
Author: Orwell, George
Anthem
Author: Rand, Ayn
Antigone
Author: Sophocles
As I Lay Dying
Author: Faulkner, William
The Awakening
Author: Chopin, Kate
The Bean Trees
Author: Kingsolver, Barbara
Beloved
Author: Morrison, Toni
Beowulf
Author: Unknown
Bless Me, Ultima
Author: Anaya, Rudolfo
The Bluest Eye
Author: Morrison, Toni
The Book Thief
Author: Zusak, Markus
Brave New World
Author: Huxley, Aldous
Candide
Author: Voltaire
The Canterbury Tales
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey
The Catcher in the Rye
Author: Salinger, J.D.
The Color of Water
Author: McBride, James
The Color Purple
Author: Walker, Alice
The Comedy of Errors
Author: Shakespeare, William
The Crucible
Author: Miller, Arthur
Death of a Salesman
Author: Miller, Arthur
A Doll's House
Author: Ibsen, Henrik
Dubliners
Author: Joyce, James
Ethan Frome
Author: Wharton, Edith
Fahrenheit 451
Author: Bradbury, Ray
A Farewell to Arms
Author: Hemingway, Ernest
Flowers for Algernon
Author: Keyes, Daniel
Frankenstein
Author: Shelley, Mary
The Glass Castle
Author: Walls, Jeannette
The Glass Menagerie
Author: Williams, Tennessee
The Grapes of Wrath
Author: Steinbeck, John
Great Expectations
Author: Dickens, Charles
The Great Gatsby
Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Grendel
Author: Gardner, John
Hamlet
Author: Shakespeare, William
The Handmaid's Tale
Author: Atwood, Margaret
Heart of Darkness
Author: Conrad, Joseph
In Cold Blood
Author: Capote, Truman
Invisible Man
Author: Ellison, Ralph
Jane Eyre
Author: Brontë, Charlotte
Julius Caesar
Author: Shakespeare, William
The Jungle
Author: Sinclair, Upton
King Lear
Author: Shakespeare, William
The Kite Runner
Author: Hosseini, Khaled
A Lesson Before Dying
Author: Gaines, Ernest J.
Life of Pi
Author: Martel, Yann
Lord of the Flies
Author: Golding, William
Macbeth
Author: Shakespeare, William
Medea
Author: Euripides
The Merchant of Venice
Author: Shakespeare, William
The Metamorphosis
Author: Kafka, Franz
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Author: Shakespeare, William
Much Ado About Nothing
Author: Shakespeare, William
My Ántonia
Author: Cather, Willa
Native Son
Author: Wright, Richard
Night
Author: Wiesel, Elie
Oedipus Rex
Author: Sophocles
Of Mice and Men
Author: Steinbeck, John
The Old Man and the Sea
Author: Hemingway, Ernest
Oliver Twist
Author: Dickens, Charles
Othello
Author: Shakespeare, William
Our Town
Author: Wilder, Thornton
Outliers
Author: Gladwell, Malcolm
The Pearl
Author: Steinbeck, John
The Poisonwood Bible
Author: Kingsolver, Barbara
Pride and Prejudice
Author: Austen, Jane
Pygmalion
Author: Shaw, George Bernard
A Raisin in the Sun
Author: Hansberry, Lorraine
Richard III
Author: Shakespeare, WIlliam
Romeo and Juliet
Author: Shakespeare, William
The Scarlet Letter
Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
A Separate Peace
Author: Knowles, John
Siddhartha
Author: Hesse, Hermann
Slaughterhouse-Five
Author: Vonnegut, Kurt
The Stranger
Author: Camus, Albert
A Streetcar Named Desire
Author: Williams, Tennessee
The Waste Land
Author: Eliot, T.S.
A Tale of Two Cities
Author: Dickens, Charles
The Taming of the Shrew
Author: Shakespeare, William
The Tempest
Author: Shakespeare, William
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Author: Hurston, Zora Neale
Things Fall Apart
Author: Achebe, Chinua
Transcendentalism: Essential Essays of Emerson and Thoreau
Author: Emerson, Ralph Waldo and Henry David Thoreau
Treasure Island
Author: Stevenson, Robert Louis
Twelfth Night
Author: Shakespeare, William
Wuthering Heights
Author: Bronte, Emily

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