9th Grade Summer Reading List (if you are going into 9th grade)
1. Autobiography of a Face Lucy Grealy
2. Catalyst Laurie Halse Anderson
3. The Pact Jodi Picoult
4. 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East Naomi Shihab Nye
5. Pay It Forward Catherine Ryan Hyde
6. Divergent Veronica Roth
7. Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China Jung Chang
8. Girl with a Pearl Earring Tracy Chevalier
9. Matched (Trilogy) Ally Condit
10. Ender’s Shadow Orson Scott Card
11. The Fault In Our Stars John Greene
12. I May Be Wrong but I Doubt It Charles Barkley
13. Monument 14 Emmy Laybourne
14. And Still We Rise Miles Corwin
15. Kitchen Banana Yoshimoto
16. Summerland Michael Chabon
17. Rocket Boys Homer Hickam
18. Postcards from No Man's Land Aidan Chambers
19. Sacred Hoops Phil Jackson
20. Watership Down Richard Adams
- 1 - English 9 – College Prep Required Summer Reading
Students enrolled in English 9 CP must read:
• Finding Forrester by James Ellison • One selection from the 9th Grade Reading List
All incoming English 9 CP students will be tested on the second day of school on the first reading selection. This test will include comprehension questions and short answer responses, and it will be the first recorded grade of the 1st marking period. Students will also write an essay on their individual selection (chosen from the 9th Grade Reading List) during the first week of school, which will count as a second major grade in the 1st marking period. Please be prepared.
- 2 - English 9 – Honors Required Summer Reading Assignments
In order to prepare for English 9 Honors, please complete the following required assignments over the summer break.
1. Read I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou. This work is readily available in libraries and bookstores. There will be a graded Socratic seminar and a test in the first week of school based on this reading selection. In order to be prepared for these assessments it is strongly recommended that you annotate, journal, or take notes while reading the novel.
2. Read one book from the provided 9th Grade Summer Reading List. Within the first week of school, you will be given a specific essay question and time to create the outline for that essay. The outline and essay will both be written in class.
As with all schoolwork, plagiarism will not be tolerated.
- 3 - 10th Grade Summer Reading List (if you are going into 10th grade)
1. Five People You Meet in Heaven Mitch Albom
2. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven Sherman Alexie
3. Looking For Alaska John Greene
4. Sold Patricia McCormick
5. Rule of the Bone Russell Banks
6. Jaws Peter Benchley
7. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Ann Brashares
8. Sailing Alone Around the Room Billy Collins
9. White Oleander Janet Fitch
10. Contact Carl Sagan
11. Snow Falling on Cedars David Guterson
12. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Mark Haddon
13. Cider House Rules John Irving
14. Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter Seth Grahame-Smith
15. Under the Dome Stephen King
16. She’s Come Undone Wally Lamb
17. The Help Kathryn Stockett
18. Katie.com: My Story Catherine Tarbox
19. Slaughter-House 5 Kurt Vonnegut
20. This Boy’s Life Tobias Wolfe
- 4 - English 10 – College Prep Required Summer Reading
Students enrolled in English 10 CP must read:
• The Lovely Bones by Alice Seabold • One selection from the 10th Grade Reading List
All incoming English 10 CP students will be tested on the second day of school on the first reading selection. This test will include comprehension questions and short answer responses, and it will be the first recorded grade of the 1st marking period. Students will also write an essay on their individual selection (chosen from the 10th Grade Reading List) during the first week of school, which will count as a second major grade in the 1st marking period. Please be prepared.
- 5 - English 10 – Honors Required Summer Reading Assignments
In order to prepare for English 10 Honors, please complete the following required assignments over the summer break.
1. Read The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. There will be a graded Socratic seminar and a test in the first week of school based on this reading selection. In order to be prepared for these assessments it is strongly recommended that you annotate, journal, or take notes while reading the novel.
2. Read one book from the provided 10th Grade Summer Reading List. Within the first week of school, you will be given a specific essay question and time to create the outline for that essay. The outline and essay will both be written in class.
As with all schoolwork, plagiarism will not be tolerated.
- 6 - 11th Grade Summer Reading List (if you are going into 11th grade)
1. Moneyball Michael Lewis
2. Me Talk Pretty One Day David Sedaris
3. Take the Cannoli Sarah Vowell
4. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Dave Eggers
5. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K Dick
6. No Country for Old Men Cormac McCarthy
7. The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro
8. The Bourne Identity Robert Ludlum
9. The Hours Michael Cunningham
10. Dave Barry’s Greatest Hits Dave Barry
11. Fight Club Chuck Palahniuk
12. Atonement Ian McEwan
13. Fast Food Nation Eric Schlosser
14. High Fidelity Nick Hornby
15. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
16. Everything is Illuminated Jonathan Saffan Foer
17. Word Freak Stefan Fatsis
18. Bringing Down the House Ben Mezrich
19. The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn Robin Maxwell
20. The Devil Wears Prada Lauren Weisberger
- 7 - English 11 – College Prep Required Summer Reading
Students enrolled in English 11 CP must read:
• The Hunger Games (or another book in the trilogy) by Suzanne Collins • One selection from the 11th Grade Reading List
All incoming English 11 CP students will be tested on the second day of school on the first reading selection. This test will include comprehension questions and short answer responses, and it will be the first recorded grade of the 1st marking period. Students will also write an essay on their individual selection (chosen from the 11th Grade Reading List) during the first week of school, which will count as a second major grade in the 1st marking period. Please be prepared.
- 8 - English 11 – Honors Required Summer Reading Assignments
In order to prepare for English 11 Honors, please complete the following required assignments over the summer break.
1. Read the non-fiction novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. There will be a graded Socratic seminar and a test in the first week of school based on this reading selection. In order to be prepared for these assessments it is strongly recommended that you annotate, journal, or take notes while reading the novel.
2. Read one book from the provided 11th Grade Summer Reading List. Within the first week of school, you will be given a specific essay question and time to create the outline for that essay. The outline and essay will both be written in class.
As with all schoolwork, plagiarism will not be tolerated.
- 9 - 12th Grade Summer Reading List (if you are going into 12th grade)
1. The Power of Myth Joseph Campbell
2. The Way to Rainy Mountain N. Scott Momaday
3. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat Oliver Sacks
4. One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
5. Dreaming in Cuban Cristina Garcia
6. A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini
7. The Goldfinch Donna Tartt
8. The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown
9. The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel Stephen King
10. I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced Patrick O’Brian
11. Mystic River Dennis Lehane
12. Book of Illusions Paul Auster
13. Norwegian Wood Haruki Murakami
14. The Motorcycle Diaries Ernesto Che Guevara
15. American Gods Neil Gaiman
16. The Shipping News Annie Proulx
17. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers
18. All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy
19. The Count of Monte Cristo Alexander Dumas
20. Life of Pi Yann Martel
- 10 - English 12 – College Prep Required Summer Reading
Students enrolled in English 12 CP must read:
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker • One selection from the 12th Grade Reading List
All incoming English 12 CP students will be tested on the second day of school on the first reading selection. This test will include comprehension questions and short answer responses, and it will be the first recorded grade of the 1st marking period. Students will also write an essay on their individual selection (chosen from the 12th Grade Reading List) during the first week of school, which will count as a second major grade in the 1st marking period. Please be prepared.
- 11 - English 12 – Honors Required Summer Reading Assignments
In order to prepare for English 12 Honors, please complete the following required assignments over the summer break.
1. Read Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton There will be a graded Socratic seminar and a test in the first week of school based on this reading selection. In order to be prepared for these assessments it is strongly recommended that you annotate, journal, or take notes while reading the novel.
2. Read one book from the provided 12th Grade Summer Reading List. Within the first week of school, you will be given a specific essay question and time to create the outline for that essay. The outline and essay will both be written in class.
As with all schoolwork, plagiarism will not be tolerated.
- 12 - AP Language and Composition, Grades 11-12 Required Summer Reading Assignments
AP Language and Composition / Grades 11/12 Ms. Marionni / Room 106 [email protected] (732) 572-2400 x 3106
Introduction
Welcome to the 2014-2015 AP Language and Composition course!!! Prepare for an adventure into the “next dimension” in the realm of English. I trust you are eager for the challenge and satisfaction of doing college level work. Careful analysis of language will in turn sharpen both your literary comprehension skills and your personal writing strategies. We will be examining not only what a text means, but more importantly how an author uses language to enhance meaning. While the main textbook, The Bedford Reader, and a majority of the works of will be NON-FICTION pieces, the course will include fiction works, like Lord of the Flies and Hamlet, adding an analytical and rhetorical focus to the traditional plot or theme-based approaches to literature.
My intention is to treat you like college students as much as possible while adhering to HPHS policies regarding grading, attendance, and other mandatory aspects of high school. Please observe academic courtesy at all times: be prompt, prepared, and polite. Advance Placement courses require mature, active, learners, those who take charge of their own education by looking for answers, for connections, and for solutions. I expect you to be independent, but do not hesitate to seek assistance from both your peers and your instructor. You will need to make a commitment to the course and budget your time outside of class to accommodate the rigorous workload (we read, we write, we read some more, we write….did I mention we write?) required for this course. English, as you know it, is about to change!!! ☺
- 13 - SUMMER READING AND COURSEWORK PREPARATION ALL 3 ASSIGNMENTS ARE REQUIRED AND DUE THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL NO LATE WORK WILL BE ACCEPTED
1. Read The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. Annotations are not required and will not be graded, but are HIGHLY RECOMMENDED if you are to be successful in the assessments of the novel. Annotations can take to form of your preferred method; post- it notes, Cornell notes, dialectical journal, or traditional notes with page numbers and citations. The choice is yours. • A note about “notes”, or ANNOTATIONS, as we call them in AP- Please DO NOT simply underline random information or label a simile a “simile” on a post-it note and place it haphazardly on a page; this is a waste of time! Annotations should be organized, meaning ful, and thoughtful, thereby serving as a resource for the future use by the reader- new vocabulary, figurative language, diction, imagery, syntax, AND comments, connections, questions, responses, ideas, and themes all deserve demarcation in the novel as evidence of active reading.
2. Read and annotate one contemporary non-fiction work of your choice (see list of suggested selections). Please consult the following list for ideas. You are free to read something off the list as long as it is comparable in length, depth, and breadth. These books display the craft of the non-fiction position or argument, using evidence and language to inform or persuade readers. Please select a topic YOU are interested in, thereby predisposing yourself to the reading. THERE WILL BE A WRITTEN ASSESSMENT ON THIS SELECTION IN THE FIRST WEEK OF SCHOOL. PLEASE RETAIN THE COPY UNTIL AFTER THE TEST. (e-readers are fine, just as long as you can bring it to class for the assessment).
• Again, please select accordingly- for example, while Tuesdays With Morrie by journalist Mitch Albom, is a wonderful non-fiction work with great life lessons, the text itself is too simplistic and too brief for AP Language & Composition. If you are truly uncertain about your selection and would like approval or clarification, please email me at [email protected].
• See the note above regarding annotations.
- 14 - 3. AP Language & Composition Terminology- The following terms will be on the AP Lang exam in May, as well as referenced consistently throughout the course, starting Day 1! To prepare all students and create a “level playing field,” please complete the following tasks for the terms. YOU WILL BE TESTED ON THE TERMS IN THE FIRST WEEK OF SCHOOL, but your prep work grade will only be based on the evidence of your study method for learning the terms. Here are the options: Create an organized document with terms, definitions, and examples in alpha order. Consider using appropriate spacing, bullets, bold fonts, etc. to make this list user-friendly. OR… • Create flash cards using index cards and an O-ring to organize the pack. Punch a hole in the edge or each card and place on the ring. Consider color-coding the flash cards or using Sharpies to add some flare and make studying terms interesting! • Create your own on-line or web-based review tool for example, memrise.com. Other sites are out there, and so are term lists already made; however, YOU MAY NOT JUST ACCESS A PRE-EXISTING SITE. How will you remember the terms??? If you would like to work in small groups or partner up, that is fine. Just make sure you can validate your efforts. THERE WILL BE A TERMS TEST.
- 15 - AP LANAGUAGE & COMPOSITION 11/12 – TERMINOLOGY 1. abstract language 2. ad hominem 3. allegory 4. allusion 5. analogy 6. anaphora 7. anecdote 8. annotation 9. antecedent 10. antithesis 11. aphorism 12. apostrophe 13. assonance 14. asyndeton 15. balance 16. cacophony 17. casual relationships 18. chiasmus 19. citation 20. clause 21. colloquialism 22. common knowledge 23. conceit 24. connotation 25. consonance 26. cumulative / periodic sentence 27. deductive reasoning 28. denotation 29. diction 30. didactic 31. either – Or reasoning 32. ellipsis 33. elliptical sentence 34. emotional appeal (pathos) 35. equivocation 36. ethical appeal (ethos) 37. euphemism 38. euphony 39. exposition 40. false analogy 41. figurative language 42. generalization 43. homily 44. hyperbole 45. imagery 46. inductive reasoning 47. invective 48. inverted sentence 49. irony (verbal, dramatic, situational) 50. litotes 52. logical appeal (Logos) 53. logical fallacy 54. metaphor 55. metonymy 56. mood 57. narrative 58. non-sequitur 59. onomatopoeia 60. oversimplification 61. oxymoron 62. parable 63. paradox 64. parallelism 65. parody 66. pathos 67. periodic sentence 68. persona 69. personification 70. persuasion 71. POV (first, third/limited, third/omniscient) 72. polysyndeton 73. post hoc 74. red herring 75. refutation 76. repetition 77. rhetoric 78. rhetorical modes: a) exposition b) argumentation c) description d) narration 79. rhetorical triangle 80. satire 81. sarcasm 82. sentence structure: a) simple b) compound c) complex 83. simile 84. straw man 85. stream 86. snuffleupagus 87. syllogism 88. symbolism 89. synecdoche 90. syntax 91. synthesis 92. theme 93. thesis 94. tone 95. transitions 96. tricolon 97. understatement 98. verbatim 99. voice: a) active b) passive 100. zeugma
Bonus Terms: Anadiplosis anastrophe epanalepsis Epistrophe tropes schemes rhetorical question ad hominem ad populum epithet
- 16 - Suggested Nonfiction Selections for AP Language & Composition Summer Reading The selections are in no particular order…the topics vary from politics to education to self-help to genetics to data analysis, and everything in between. The choice is YOURS…Choose wisely!
1. 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in my Head Dan Harris
2. Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide Nicholas D. Kristof
3. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother Amy Chua
4. How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character Paul Tough
5. Lean In Sheryl Sandberg
6. The Boys in the Boat Daniel James Brown
7. Flash Boys Michael Lewis
8. War Sebastian Junger
9. I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education Malala Yousafzai
10. No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the US Surveillance State Glenn Greenwald
11. Life, Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism Ron Suskind
12. David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants Malcolm Gladwell
13. Outliers: The Story of Success Malcolm Gladwell
14. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, and A Dream H.G. Bissinger
15. How Soccer Explains the World Franklin Foer
16. Unbroken: A World War II Story Laura Hillenbrand
17. Silent Spring Rachel Carson
18. The Tipping Point Malcolm Gladwell
19. The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains Nicholas Carr
20. Columbine David Cullen
21. Drive Daniel Pink
22. The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth Alexandra Robbins
23. Eating Animals Jonathan Safran Foer
24. The Omnivore’s Dilemma Michael Pollan
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25. The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century Thomas L. Friedman
26. Fast Food Nation Eric Schlosser
27. Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson
28. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America Barbara Ehrenrich
29. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot
30. All Creatures Great and Small James Herriot
31. Freakonomics Steven Levitt
32. Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond
33. Savage Inequalities Jonathan Kozol
34. An American Childhood Annie Dillard
35. The Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids Alexandra Robbins
36. The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story Richard Preston
37. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster Jon Krakauer
38. Flags of our Fathers: Heroes of Iwo Jima James Bradley
39. The Perfect Storm Sebastian Junger
40. In Cold Blood Truman Capote
41. The Glass Castle Jeanette Walls
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