AP English IV: Literature and Composition Summer Reading 2021

SELECTED NOVELS (Choose ONE):

Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Adichie All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safar Foer The Nightingale, Kristin Hannah The Road, Cormac McCarthy Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens

REQUIRED READING FOR ALL AP ENGLISH IV STUDENTS:

How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Thomas C. Foster (Either edition is acceptable, though the included chapter list refers to the revised edition)

RECOMMENDATION: Read your novel FIRST, then work through How to Read Literature Like a Professor while creating your chart.

Each student is encouraged to research and select a novel with care, as this novel will be utilized heavily throughout the frst quarter.

ASSIGNMENT: How to Read Literature Like a Professor presents various motifs and patterns presented in literature. Using the following chapters from this text (some are combined), create a chart comparing the motif or pattern presented with a specifc example from your novel selection. You should have a 3-5 sentence response for each item on the list below, explaining how the chapter is relevant to a specifc scene, character, or aspect of your novel. You MUST incorporate quotations for support from your novel (NOT from How to Read Literature…).

You only need a response for TEN of the following numerical entries; it is not necessary to create three different responses for each of the three chapters on allusions. You also do not need an entry for “Now, Where Have I Seen Her Before?”, “Interludes”, “Don’t Read With Your Eyes”, or “A Test Case”. We will address those chapters in discussion the frst week of school. Again, you are to select TEN of the following chapters from this list to create your chart.

1. Every Trip is a Quest (Except When It’s Not) 2. Nice to Eat With You: Acts of Communion 3. Nice to Eat You: Acts of Vampires 4. When In Doubt, It’s from Shakespeare…; …Or the Bible; Hanseldee and Greteldum; It’s Greek to Me 5. It’s More Than Just Rain or Snow 6. Never Stand Next to the Hero 7. …More Than It’s Gonna Hurt You: Concerning Violence 8. Is That a Symbol?; It’s My Symbol and I’ll Cry If I Want to 9. It's All Political 10. Yes, She's a Christ Figure, Too 11. Flights of Fancy 12. It's All About Sex…; …Except Sex 13. If She Comes Up, It's Baptism AP English IV: Literature and Composition Summer Reading 2021 14. Geography Matters…; …So Does Season 15. Marked for Greatness 16. He's Blind for a Reason, You Know; It's Never Just Heart Disease...And Rarely Just Illness 17. Is He Serious? And Other Ironies

SAMPLE CHART:

Beloved by Toni Morrison 1. Every Trip is a Quest Sethe’s journey to Ohio fulflls the four parts of the quest because [reasons] [with embedded text from the novel for support]...

SUBMISSION:

After you complete this part of the assignment, you will submit your chart to turnitin.com. You must enroll in the class titled “AP IV SUMMER READING 2021”. Please submit your chart to the assignment entitled, “Comparison Chart”. This assignment is worth 50 points.

Turnitin class ID: 29142108 Password: books

PLEASE DO NOT PROCRASTINATE, AS THIS ASSIGNMENT IS DUE BY THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL (regardless of whether we meet as a class). Due Date: 8:00 am August 18th

These works will be the foundation for our style analysis study in the frst quarter, so be thorough and conscientious in your work! Please email me at [email protected] should you encounter any questions or concerns with this assignment.