This lesson explores contrasting characters, including protagonists, antagonists, and foils, using classic Disney films and Updike's "A & P"
AP Lit Skill Spotlight: Contrasting Characters
Category: Prose Analysis Lessons & Resources
AP Lit Skill Spotlight: Character Relationships
This lesson helps students move from character analysis to the study of character relationships with Little Women and A Raisin in the Sun.
10 Short Stories for AP Lit
This is a list of short stories frequently used in AP Lit classrooms. For each, I suggest AP Lit skills and texts that you can use with it.
AP Lit Skill Spotlight: Narrator & Perspective
In this guest post from Susan Barber, we explore the narrator's perspective in popular movie clips and James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues."
AP Lit Skill Spotlight: Character and Setting
Analyze the relationship between setting and character using scenes from Pride and Prejudice and Ann Petry's "The Street."