AP Materials – 2013-14
Longer Works:
The Fault in Our Stars
Autobiography of Red
The Things They Carried
Hamlet
White Teeth
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Moon and Sixpence
But Beautiful
Shorter Works:
“Where I Slept”
“How to Work a Locker Room”
“Consider the Lobster”
“Why Don’t You Dance?”
“Distance”
“The Metamorphosis”
Waiting for Godot
“Sonny’s Blues”
Graduation Speeches
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John Green
Anne Carson
Tim O’Brien
William Shakespeare
Zadie Smith
Milan Kundera
W. Somerset Maugham
Geoff Dyer
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Stephen Elliot
Michelle Seaton
David Foster Wallace
Raymond Carver
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Franz Kafka
Samuel Becket
James Baldwin
David Foster Wallace
Conan O’Brian
Kurt Vonnegut
Ann Patchett
Poetry:
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
“Dreamsong 14”
“A Prayer”
“Tell All The Truth But Tell It Slant”
“There is a Certain Slant of Light”
“I reckon, when I count at all” –
“The Brain is wider than the sky”
“Wayman in Love”
“Musee Des Beaux Arts”
“The Fall of Icarus”
“Why I am Not a Painter”
“In My Craft or Sullen Art”
“The Writer”
“The Moose”
“Questions of Travel”
Sonnets by Shakespeare
“What Lips My Lips Have Kissed…”
“Spelling”
T.S. Eliot
John Berryman
Galway Kinnell
Emily Dickinson
Tom Wayman
W.H. Auden
William Carlos Williams
Frank O’Hara
Dylan Thomas
Richard Wilbur
Elizabeth Bishop
Shakespeare
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Margaret Atwood
“I Stop Writing the Poem”
“Mingus in Shadow”
Extra-Credit Texts:
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
The Tragedy of Arthur
Tess Gallagher
William Matthews
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David Wroblewski
Arthur Phillips