AP Language and AP Literature Summer Reading 2010 (Non-Humanities)

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1 AP Language and AP Literature Summer Reading 2010 (Non-Humanities) Dear English AP Literature and Language Students: You are to be commended for choosing exciting and challenging English courses in preparation for your life goals. Alfred Lord Tennyson considers in his poem Ulysses, that all experience is an arch leading to unknown adventures. We wish you a summer filled with wonderful journeys--whether, like Ulysses, you will sail to faraway places to taste of the beauty and diversity of this planet or explore opportunities to test your own inner strengths, convictions, compassions and commitments. We hope that your experience in AP Literature/Language and Composition this year will be an adventure into your own academic and personal growth. We hope you will appreciate how the canon of great thought covered in our courses reflects the sometimes tragic, sometimes comic, sometimes controversial, sometimes enlightening paths that all humans including yourselves must follow. Required books can be obtained from any course instructor prior to the conclusion of the school term. Of course, students can purchase their own copies for annotation and note taking. Most of you have already reviewed this assignment in your English classes. For AP Language students will read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. This controversial text, set in the ante-bellum period of American history, satirizes southern society and is acclaimed for its use of dialects typical to the region and the times. Also read All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy. This coming of age novel, by an author once proclaimed as Faulkner s heir, won the 1992 National Book Award for fiction in 1992 and the National Book Critic Circle Award for fiction in Finally read Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, a journal-like non-fiction offering of fifteen essays set in piedmont Virginia. Its author, Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Dillard, expresses her thoughts on seeing the natural world in this beautifully written meditation. Students will complete a 5X8 index card of specific reaction for each; the criteria for the index cards are outlined on the next page. Students will work further with these texts by preparing to write essays, completing research, and delivering presentations that will be assessed according to standard AP criteria. To prepare you to engage in this type of critical study, please complete an index card with the required criteria for each text and bring them and your books to class on the first day of instruction. For AP Literature read Sophocles Oedipus Rex and Chinua Achebe s Things Fall Apart. Also select a title from the recommended reading list and focus on the historical and cultural insights each book projects. The suggested titles have appeared over the years on the AP exam as suitable for study and exposition. Complete one of the assignments outlined below. Pause at the English Department website and review resources such as AP Central, GaleNet for literary criticism, and Purdue University s online writing lab to help you with your work this year. We hope you have a wonderful summer vacation and return, like Tennyson, yearning in desire/to follow knowledge like a star,/beyond the utmost bound of human thought. Sincerely, Poolesville High School AP Teachers Go on to the next page.

2 AP LANGUAGE AND COMPOSITION (Grade 11) Mrs. Liu/Ms. Gomer Required Reading: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn All the Pretty Horses Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Mark Twain Cormac McCarthy Annie Dillard Assignment: Fill out a 5 x 8 index card for each book; include the following: Side one: author (last name, first name); title (remember to underline); date you started reading; date you finished reading. Also copy a short quotation from the book which impressed you. Put quotation marks around it and give the page number in parentheses. Side two: Part I: In three/four carefully constructed sentences, indicate the theme(s) or the author s purpose in writing the book. Part II: In three or more carefully constructed sentences, write out your personal reactions to the book. Bring in these three 5 x 8 index cards and your books* on the first day of instruction. A timed writing assignment will be given within the first week that will test your close reading skills and your ability to write about literature. * If you do not wish to purchase your summer reading books, see Mrs. Liu in room 15 by the last day of school in June to borrow them. AP LITERATURE & COMPOSITION (Grade 12) Ms. Tabachnick/ Mr. McKenna Required Reading: Choose one book from the recommended list. Read Oedipus Rex and Things Fall Apart. Assignment: All books derive from the historical/cultural/intellectual contexts of the authors. As you read your books, identify a SECONDARY CHARACTER who best reflects the context of the time period in which the book was written and collect text evidence that supports your opinion. Then, choose ONE of the following ways to explain how these characters are reflective of a given historical/cultural/intellectual context: Assignment A: Write a two page script in which your three selected characters have a conversation about a mutual historical/ cultural/intellectual point of interest Assignment B: Create a visual project (e.g. collage, sculpture, teaching aide) based on your collected text evidence for the three secondary characters which illustrates the historical/ cultural/intellectual context of the three works. Go on to AP Lit Suggested Reading List.

3 AP Literature Suggested Reading List ( * indicates number of times the title has appeared on AP exam) 1984* Death of a Salesman*** Absalom, Absolom! Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (The) ******** Diviners (The) Age of Innocence (The) *** Doctor Zhivago Alias Grace Doll s House (A)* All the King s Men** Dollmaker (The) All the Pretty Horses* Don Quixote** America Is in the Heart Dr. Faustus The American** Emma* American Tragedy (An)* Eumenides (The) Angle of Repose Enemy of the People (An)* Another Country* Equus*** Antigone** Ethan Frome** Anna Karenina**** Farewell to Arms (A)* Antony and Cleopatra Faust* Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (The) Fences* As I Lay Dying Fifth Business As You Like It** Fixer (The) Atonement Frankenstein** Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (The)* For Whom the Bell Tolls Awakening (The) ******** Gesture of Life (A) Bear (The) Glass Menagerie (The)**** Beloved** Go Tell It on the Mountain Billy Budd*** Grapes of Wrath (The) Birthday Party (The) Great Gatsby (The)***** Bleak House Great Expectations***** Bless Me, Ultima** Hamlet**** Blind Assassin (The) Handmaid s Tale (The)* Bluest Eye (The) Heart of Darkness***** Bonesetter s Daughter (The) Hedda Gabler** Brave New World* Henry IV, Part 1 Brothers Karamazov (the) Henry V Candide* House Made of Dawn Catch 22** House of Mirth (The) Cat s Eye Invisible Man (The) ******* Ceremony*** Jane Eyre******* Cherry Orchard (The) Jasmine* Cold Mountain J.B. Color Purple (The) ******* Joy Luck Club (The) Crime and Punishment**** Joseph Andrews Crucible (The) Jude the Obscure** Cry, the Beloved Country*** Julius Caesar* Daisy Miller King Lear*** Dead (The) Kite Runner (The)*

4 Light in August** The Little Foxes Lesson before Dying (A) Long Day s Journey into Night* Lord Jim* Lord of the Flies Love Medicine Macbeth* Madame Bovary* Major Barbara Mansfield Park Mayor of Casterbridge (The) *** M. Butterfly Medea** Merchant of Venice (The) ** Middlemarch** Misanthrope (The)* Midsummer Night s Dream (A) Mill on the Floss (The)* Member of the Wedding (The) Moby Dick*** Moor s Last Sigh (The) Moll Flanders Mrs. Dalloway*** Mrs. Warren s Profession* Much Ado about Nothing Murder in the Cathedral My Antonia Native Son Native Speaker* No-No Boy Obasan**** The Odyssey Oedipus Rex One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich* The Optimist s Daughter Othello* The Other Our Town Paradise Lost Passage to India (A) ** Pere Goriot Persuasion* Phedre* Piano Lesson (The) *** The Picture of Dorian Gray The Plague Pnin Poccho The Poisonwood Bible Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (A) *** Portrait of a Lady (The) ** Power and the Glory (The) Praisesong for the Widow Pride and Prejudice** Pygmalion* Ragtime* Raisin in the Sun (A) **** Reservation Blues The Road Robinson Crusoe Romeo and Juliet* Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead** Saint Joan Scarlet Letter (The) *** Sent for You Yesterday Separate Peace (A) Shipping News (The) Silas Marner Sister Carrie* Slaughterhouse Five Snow Falling on Cedars Song of Solomon Streetcar Named Desire (A) *** Stone Angel (The) Sound and the Fury (The)* Sula*** Sun Also Rises (The)* Surfacing Tale of Two Cities (A)* Tempest (The) ** Tess of the D Urbervilles** Their Eyes Were Watching God**** Twelfth Night* Things Fall Apart*** Tom Jones Turn of the Screw (The) ** Typical American* Watch That Ends the Night (The) Waiting for Godot

5 Warden (The) Who s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?* Wide Sargasso Sea Winter in the Blood Wise Blood Woman Warrior (The) The Women of Brewster Place Wuthering Heights***** Zoot Suit Suggested Authors Aeschylus Aristophanes Margaret Atwood Jane Austen James Baldwin Samuel Beckett Charlotte &Emily Bronte Lord Byron Geoffrey Chaucer Charles Dickens Fyodor Dostoevsky George Eliot T. S. Eliot William Faulkner Henry Fielding Loraine Hansberry Zora Neale Hurston Aldous Huxley Henry James Ben Jonson Franz Kafka D. H. Lawrence Arthur Miller Margaret Laurence Bobbie Ann Mason Moliere Toni Morrison Vladimir Nabokov Gloria Naylor Eugene O Neill Walker Percy Harold Pinter Alexander Pope Barbara Pym Mordecai Richler William Shakespeare George Bernard Shaw Sophocles Tom Stoppard Jonathan Swift Mark Twain Voltaire Evelyn Waugh Oscar Wilde Tennessee Williams