Guide your students in the study of character change through clips from Mad Men and Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour."
AP Lit Skill Spotlight: Character Change
10 Feel-Good Book Recommendations
When I need a break from the smart but sad, I have a short list of feel-good fiction that I can also count on to raise my mood. Here is a list of 10 uplifting, feel-good books when you need a break from literature’s typically sad or dismal stories.
AP Lit Skill Spotlight: Unreliable Narrators
This lesson helps AP and Pre-AP students study a narrator's reliability in a text using a short film and "The Yellow Wallpaper."
FAQs with Gina Kortuem
In this blog post I pause to answer some questions that I frequently get from other teachers. Come meet the person behind the name!
My 10 NEW Favorite Poems to Teach in AP Lit
This blog post presents 10 MORE engaging and challenging poems to enrich your AP English Literature curriculum, plus several more honorable mentions!