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
Category: Prose Analysis Lessons & Resources
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."
Discussing Complexity in AP Lit
This blog post explains how to teach complexity in a simple way, plus several different strategies you can use to teach complexity.