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Advanced Placement English IV Summer Reading/Writing Assignment 2013

Read all instructions carefully as you complete the assignments.

The purpose of the summer reading/writing assignment is not to ruin your summer, nor is it intended for turning you into geeks! Really! Hopefully, you will improve your vocabulary, reading skills, and writing skills, and you will be better prepared for the rigorous demand of Advanced Placement courses. In addition, students who read lots do better on those highly relevant tests like the A.C.T. and the S.A.T. In conjunction with the reading, you will also be asked to do lots of writing in the AP English course. The two go hand in hand. For your summer assignment you will be asked to complete the following:

• Read three or four books (depending on what you choose) • Complete a reading background project • Complete a book/movie or book/book comparison • Complete a reading log in preparation for your senior research project (Note: ONLY this part is due the day you pick up your schedule. This is also the most significant part because it is in preparation for your research paper. Make sure you like this novel/play.) • At least ONE of the books you read this summer needs to be published before 1900. Half of the AP exam has pre-1900 readings on it and students (nationwide) generally struggle more with this.

With these thoughts in mind, the following is your summer reading/writing assignment.

BASIC SKILL - READING

Part I – Reading Background

A. In preparation for the AP course in literature and composition, you should have read the following books/plays to provide a common foundation for the course: Mark the ones you have already read and studied.

A Farewell to Arms Mayor of Casterbridge, The A Raisin in the Sun Merchant of Venice, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Mrs. Dalloway As I Lay Dying Much Ado about Nothing As You Like It Persuasion Awakening, The Picture of Dorian Gray Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Bleak House Return of the Native, The Crime and Punishment Sense and Sensibility Comedy of Errors, The Song of the Lark David Copperfield Sound and the Fury, The For Whom the Bell Tolls Sun Also Rises, , The Taming of the Shrew, The Great Expectations Tender is the Night House of Mirth, The Tess of the D’Urbervilles Jane Eyre To the Lighthouse Jude the Obscure Twelfth Night Light in August Washington Square Love’s Labours Lost Woman in White Madame Bovary Wuthering Heights Mansfield Park B. Choose one of the books from the list you have NOT already read and/or studied in class and complete Part II of the assignment.

Part II – Reading Background Project

• The purpose of this assignment is to familiarize you with literary classics and review literary terms relevant to the course. • For this part of the summer assignment choose one (1) book/play from the above list that YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY STUDIED IN CLASS. Read the book and complete ALL THREE PARTS of the following assignment:

1. Stylistic Prose Techniques: • As you read, notice the stylistic prose techniques that the author uses to communicate more effectively and powerfully. • Examples of stylistic prose techniques are point of view, tone, diction, syntax, narrative pace, humor, satire, figurative language, imagery, irony, selection of detail and many more. • Select at least ten (10) examples of stylistic prose techniques from your novel/drama. • Define the term in your own words, cite the example from the text (quote the passage and give the page number), and provide a brief analysis of how the author uses the technique effectively. (Note: You might set up a chart on Word or Excel or you can type out a list.) • Please type this and make sure it is not longer than two pages.

2. Reader Response: • Divide your book into fourths. After you finish each fourth, write a reader response/reaction to that section. These responses should be handwritten in ink and at least one page (one front of a page=one page) in length. DO NOT WRITE A PLOT SUMMARY. Identify literary concerns that seem particularly important to the specific work. Examples might include autobiographical elements, philosophy of life, plot structure, use of imagery and other symbols, or thematic implications. (See explanation for Part IV Journal if you need further details.) 3. Commercial: Prepare a 1-2 minute advertisement for your book. You may present in front of the class, create a video, or present a powerpoint. (Note: this is an individual assignment, meaning every student needs to have a separate presentation; however, know that if you want to have friends “star” in your video production, you may.) The purpose of your presentation will be to persuade/encourage others to read your book, as well as give them a glimpse of what they might read. It should include enough information that we know what your book is about, as well as make us want to read it. Your presentation must be no more than two minutes long. You must use visuals to enhance your presentation. (You may not include already made film clips/photos from the movie versions. This needs to be original.) An overhead projector, a projector to show powerpoint, and a TV/VCR/DVD will be provided.

BASIC SKILL – CRITICAL THINKING

Part III – Comparisons (Choose either option A or option B)

A. Directions – Novel/Movie Comparison

Choose from the options below. Read the novel and watch a movie version of that novel. (NOTE: Some of the films below are rated R and contain violence and/or mature themes. Do pay attention to ratings and reasoning why before you choose your book/movie.) After reading the novel/viewing the movie, complete the following assignment.

. Beloved – . Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini . Atonement – Ian McEwan . Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan . – . Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez . The Natural – . Bee Season – Myla Goldberg . Revolutionary Road – Richard Yates . All the Pretty Horses – Cormac McCarthy . The Namesake – . Life of Pi – Yann Martel

Write a journal response (handwritten, in ink) of three pages (3 fronts of a page) comparing the book and the movie. Include a brief summary, personal reactions (explain “why”), and criticisms (your own). Discuss the differences/similarities between the book and movie versions. Determine whether the director/producer was honest to the author’s range of intentions. Explain the reasons for and the effectiveness of any changes that were made. You may find and discuss similarities and/or differences in the following categories:

1. Setting 2. Characters 3. Point of View 4. Imagery and/or symbolism 5. Themes

A thoughtful journal entry will provide notes for your formal essay.

B. Directions – Novel/Novel Comparison

Choose from the options below. Read both novels/dramas. After reading the novels/dramas, complete the following assignment.

• Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen / Death Comes to Pemberly – P.D. James • Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Wolfe / The Hours – Michael Cunningham • King Lear – William Shakespeare / – • Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte / The Flight of Gemma Hardy- Margot Livesey • I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem – Maryse Conde / Salem Falls – Jodi Picoult

Write a journal response (handwritten, in ink) of three pages (1 page = 1 front of a page) comparing the two books. Include a brief summary, personal reactions (explain “why”), and criticisms (your own). Discuss the differences/similarities between the books. Explain the effectiveness of the adaptations. You may find and discuss similarities and/or differences in the following categories:

1. Setting 2. Characters 3. Point of View 4. Imagery and/or symbolism 5. Themes

A thoughtful journal entry will provide notes for your formal essay.

BASIC SKILL – WRITING

Part IV – Reading and Research

This part of the summer assignment is required so that you will be prepared for the first major assignment of the year, the literary research paper. Choose your book carefully; you will be working with it extensively.

This assignment will be fulfilling two requirements: senior research paper and foundation for the literary analyses and writing you will be doing the rest of the year. The following are your responsibilities for research: Your journals must be LEGIBLY handwritten in ink. (There is a reason for this. Writing your journals will give you practice in penmanship and the AP exam requires that you handwrite your essays in ink.)

Directions:

Choose a novel/play of recognized literary merit (see following reading list). Choose your book carefully. You may not use a novel/play you have studied in previous English classes, nor may you use the novels/plays you chose for any other part of the summer assignment. For the first part of the assignment, you will be required to keep a reading response journal. (This doesn’t necessarily need to be a notebook; it could be stapled pages of looseleaf.) This is meant to encourage you to read carefully and critically. Your reading response journal must include the following:

A. Identify the work. Include the title, publisher, and copyright date for your edition of the work.

B. Responses: a minimum of six responses is required. As you read the selected work, record your thoughts and discoveries. Each response must be at least a full page in length. (1 page = 1 front of a page.) Ah, you may ask, “But what if I don’t have enough to say to fill up a page?” Then I will respond, “You are not reading and thinking enough about your topic. Do NOT give me a plot summary of the book. A plot summary will only earn you a maximum of 60 of 100 possible points. Identify literary concerns that seem particularly important to the specific work. Examples might include autobiographical elements, philosophy of life, plot structure, use of imagery and other symbols, or thematic implications.

C. Quotes – Keep a journal of favorite and/or significant passages. You must have a minimum of five passages. Write the passage, cite the page number(s) and give a response to why you chose that particular passage.

The reading response journals for this project (just Part IV) will be due the day you pick up your schedule in August. You may turn it in to me in room 129. Anyone not turning in the journal that day will receive a 10% late deduction on his/her grade for this project.

Suggested Reading List

The reading list is arranged by major themes

Search for Identity

Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Juneteenth , , The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven , Daughter of Fortune Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice Russell Banks, Rule of the Bone , My Antonia , The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Michael Dorris, A Yellow Raft in Blue Water , The Sportswriter William Falkner, Light in August Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day Henry James, Portrait of a Lady Giah Jen, Typical American Charles Johnson, Middle Passage James Weldon Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man , Obasan Nella Larsen, Quicksand Chang-rae Lee, Native Speaker Toni Morrison, Sula , The Women of Brewster Place Joyce Carol Oates, Wonderland; We Were the Mulvaneys Kenzaburo Oe, The Silent Cry Richard Powers, 2.2 , , The Crying of Lot 49 Edmund Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac Frances Sherwood, Vindication Agnes Smedley, Daughter of Earth Zadie Smith, White Teeth Henri-Beyle Stendahl, The Red and the Black Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club; Bonesetter’s Daughter Virginia Woolf, Orlando

Narrative Traditions; Illusion and Reality

Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale; Alias Grace George Orwell, 1984 , As I Lay Dying Edward Albee, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Martin Amis, Time’s Arrow Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities Truman Capote, In Cold Blood Louis DeBernieres, Corelli’s Mandolin Don DeLillo, Libra D.L Doctorow, Ragtime John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman; The Magus Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude Myla Goldberg, Bee Season Robert Grudin, Book: A Novel Jane Hamilton, A Map of the World, The Book of Ruth Henrik Ibsen, The Wild Duck Ha Jin, Waiting Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being D.H. Lawrence, The Fox Jonathan Lethem, As She Climbed Across the Table Bobbie Ann Mason, In Country Joyce Carol Oates, Expensive People Tim O’Brien, Going After Cacciato; In the Lake of the Woods Iain Pears, An Instance of the Fingerpost Richard Powers, Mark Salzman, Lying Awake Tom Stoppard, Arcadia D.M. Thomas, The White Hotel Jean Toomer, Cane , Gertrude and Claudius Kirt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

The Nature of Good and Evil

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, Notes from Underground James Joyce, A Portrain of the Artist as a Young Man , All the King’s Men Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart Charles Baxter, Shadow Play Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie Gustav Flaubert, Madame Bovary E.M. Forester, A Passage to India Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles Joseph Heller, God Knows , The Sun Also Rises William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Henry James, The Aspen Papers Archibald Macleish, JB Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Billy Budd Brian Moore, No Other Life Alan Paton. Cry the Beloved Country Richard Powers, Mary Dora Russell, The Sparrow; The Children of God Bernhardt Schlink, The Reader Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

Nathanael West, The Day of the Locust , The House of Mirth Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities; A Man in Full Richard Wright, Native Son Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

Finding Purpose

Joseph Heller, Catch 22 Albert Camus, The Plague Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha , Surfacing James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain Russell Banks, Cloudsplitter Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees Albert Camus, The Stranger Michael Cunningham, The Hours Annie Dillard, The Living Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov David James Duncan, The Brothers K Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory Kent Haruf, Plainsong John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany Jack Kerouac, On Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible; Prodigal Summer Norman Maclean, A River Runs through It Bernard Malamud, W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor’s Edge Gloria Naylor, Bailey’s Café Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar Reynolds Price, Kate Vaiden; The Promise of Rest Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues , Housekeeping Jose Saramago, Blindness Jean-Paul Sarte, No Exit Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One

If you have any questions about the summer assignment, e-mail me through Ryle’s web site. If you feel overwhelmed by the number of choices, e-mail a list of books you have liked in the past or a genre you enjoy. I can give you suggestions. I will answer your questions ASAP. Enjoy your summer. I look forward to meeting you in August.  Ms. Schwartz [email protected]

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