Help your students analyze the role of a narrator through the opening to "Stranger Than Fiction" and questions from "Eleven."
AP Lit Skill Spotlight: Narrator
AP Lit Skill Spotlight: Plot Order & Sequencing
This lesson provides examples of flashback, foreshadowing, stream of consciousness, and other plot order terms from film clips and Beloved.
AP Lit Skill Spotlight: Characterization in Prose
This lesson uses uses opening scenes from movies and a free character sketch worksheet to help students study characterization. Focus text is "The Open Window" by Saki.
AP Lit Skill Spotlight: Identifying Setting
This lesson uses movie and television clips to introduce analysis of setting, paired with Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants."
AP Lit Skill Spotlight: Literal and Figurative Meanings
This lesson will help you teach literal versus figurative meanings to your AP and Pre-AP students through film and poem analysis.