 | Suggested Reading for ap & College Bound ap english Literature and Composition Dickens, Charles Bleak House, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Hard Times, Oliver Twist, a tale of Two Cities 84.04 Kb.  1 | read |
 | Ap english Literature and Composition Course Description This course will enable students to demonstrate their achievement in college-level work by taking the Advanced Placement English Examination in Literature and Composition 36.47 Kb. 1 | read |
| Shakespeare’s Sister Virginia Woolf, “Shakespeare’s Sister” (drawn from Chapter 3 and the conclusion to the final chapter of a room of One’s Own, 1929) 25.67 Kb. 1 | read |
 | Colonization Spanish and Portuguese Colonization The process of establishing an outpost, or colony, of a state, economy, and/or people at some distance from the location of the establishing entity 18.39 Kb. 1 | read |
| Here is a list of frq topics and some dbq topics going back to the 1970’s. Practice writing thesis statements as well as topic sentences with evidence for the ones from 2001 on To what extent and in what way may the Renaissance be regarded as a turning point in the Western intellectual and cultural tradition? 103.5 Kb. 1 | read |
| Chapter 2: Drawing The Color Line Howard Zinn, “Chapter 2: Drawing The Color Line”, a people’s History of The United States: 1492-Present, (New York, N. Y.: Harper Perennial, 1980), pp23-38. Edited and reformatted from electronic copy 75.5 Kb. 1 | read |
| The Modern World-System Immanuel Wallerstein It has the characteristics of an organism, in that it has a life-span over which its characteristics change in some respects and remain stable in others 53 Kb. 1 | read |
| Revisioning Smallpox, ver. May 17, 2000 Revisioning smallpox in Mexico City-Tenochtitlán, 1520-1950 Total smallpox deaths over the intervening 430 years probably exceeded those caused by the many invasions, wars, rebellions, and revolutions which afflicted the City 104.5 Kb. 2 | read |
| National Gallery Technical Bulletin Volume 24, 2003 The nature of these carbon black pigments is well understood, because their preparation is discussed in detail in early treatises (note 4) 365.67 Kb. 7 | read |
| Mercantilism: Mercantilism is economic nationalism for the purpose of building a wealthy and powerful state. Adam Smith In contrast to the agricultural system of the physiocrats or the laissez-faire of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the mercantile system served the interests of merchants and producers such as the British East India Company 18.34 Kb. 6 | read |
| Slavery in the Americas Global History and Geography I name African laborers, who were fit enough to work in the tropical conditions of the New World. The numbers of slaves imported across the Atlantic Ocean steadily increased, from approximately 5,000 slaves a year in the sixteenth century to over 50.5 Kb. 3 | read |
| The Fehrs: Four centuries of Mennonite migration Translated from the Dutch by Leslie Fast. Leiden, Netherlands: Winco Press, 2013. 264 pp 45.5 Kb. 1 | read |
| William Shakespeare William Shakespeare is sometimes considered the greatest playwright of all time. What is it that made Shakespeare so famous? In his plays he combined the elements that people of his time loved and that people still like today 23 Kb. 1 | read |
| The Protestant movement successfully challenged the Roman Catholic Church and triggered changes in all aspects of European life Literature of the period reflected the struggle between conflicting religious ideologies. Two of the leading authors of the era, Cervantes and Shakespeare, wrote out of the Catholic and Protestant traditions, respectively 31 Kb. 5 | read |
| History of english literature: an overview Langland, Chaucer, Malory, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Pope, Swift, Wordsworth, Keats, Byron and Dickens. I apologise to the many superb but deceased writers whom I cannot include in this all too brief summary, and even to those whom I have 55 Kb. 1 | read |