• Pre-Advanced Placement and Advanced Placement courses provide students with an opportunity for learning that prepare students for the rigors of college and university courses. The rich course materials, classroom discussions, and demanding assignments typical of pre-AP/AP courses will help students develop the content mastery and critical thinking skills expected by colleges across the country. What’s more, by participating in high school AP classes, students have the opportunity to earn college credit and to stand out in the college admission process.

    As students, you might ask yourself what I can do to be more successful in the upcoming year. Parents may be asking, how I can help my child be successful.  Here are a few suggestions:

    • Designate specific areas for homework and studying
    • Work to prioritize classes, activities and work commitments
    • Form a study group and meet regularly
    • Review high school graduation and college admission requirements

    Over the next few years, your teachers will select from a variety of literature, both classic and contemporary, to analyze and discuss.  Below is a list of novels that Killeen ISD teachers have adopted for use in pre-AP and AP English courses. While students may not read all of these works, we encourage students to read as extensively as possible because most of these novels have appeared on prior AP exams.

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    • Animal Farm
    • Child of the Owl
    • The Giver
    • The Grass Dancer
    • House on Mango Street
    • Midsummer's Night Dream
    • A Separate Peace
    • Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
    • The Tempest
    • To Kill a Mockingbird
    • Treasure Island
    • Year of the Hangman
    •  1984
    • A Lesson Before Dying
    • A Tale of Two Cities
    • Animal Farm
    • As I lay Dying
    • Bless Me Ultima
    • East of Eden
    • Fahrenheit 451
    • Romeo and Juliet
    • Speak
    • Things Fall Apart
    • To Kill a Mockingbird
    • Twelfth Night
    • Anthem
    • Brave New World
    • Catch-22
    • Cold, Sassy Tree
    • Enders Game
    • Frankenstein
    • Julius Caesar
    • Lord of the Flies
    • Oedipus Rex
    • Of Mice and Men
    • The Penelopiad
    • Tuesdays with Morrie
    • A Raisin in the Sun
    • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    • Billy Budd
    • Death of a Salesman
    • Grapes of Wrath
    • Great Gatsby
    • Lord Jim
    • Moby Dick
    • Never Let Me Go
    • Scarlet Letter
    • The Awakening
    • The Road 
    • A Comedy of Errors
    • A Man for All Seasons
    • Crime and Punishment
    • Doctor Faustus
    • Hamlet
    • Heart of Darkness
    • Jane Eyre
    • King Lear
    • Othello
    • Picture of Dorian Gray
    • Power and the Glory
    • Pride and Prejudice
    • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
    • Wuthering Heights

    The College Board provides many additional resources to help you as you undertake the rigors of pre-AP and Advanced Placement courses. You can visit their student site by going to the link provided on the navigation menu to the right.

    If you have any questions about our AP program contact your counselor or Killeen ISD Advanced Academics Specialist, John Jackson, at 254-336-0323.