I Would Like to Welcome You to Pre-AP English II at Porter High School. I Am Looking Forward

May 1, 2016

Dear Student:

I would like to welcome you to Pre-AP English II at Porter High School. I am looking forward to sharing a rigorous yet enriching 2016-2017 with you. While this course will not be easy, it will prepare you for the following two years of AP courses and ultimately for the AP tests that you will take. The first challenge of the upcoming school year will be how well you discipline yourself to complete the following work over the summer months. Please purchase and read William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies. This is a classic 10th grade reading experience as well as a novel that is on the College Bound Reading List. This book can be purchased online at websites such as Amazon.com or at any bookstore of your choice. You will need to complete the following summer reading activities before the first day of school: 1. Purchase and annotate (mark, highlight, take notes) your copy of Lord of the Flies. Suggestions include highlighting or underlining names and information about each new character as they appear in the book, circling new or challenging vocabulary that you encounter, and identifying examples of figurative language such as similes, metaphors, personifications, and hyperboles. In addition, write notes in the margins with your thoughts and questions as you read. Also, make note when the settings change. Your book should look "used" when you finish reading it. Be prepared to turn this in the FIRST day of school. 2. The AP literary terms sheet is attached with a list of 50 terms. You will need to define each word and find an example for each. Please prepare flashcards or Quizlets by writing the word and definition on one side and an example on the other. You will need to be familiar with these words and examples by the FIRST day of school. The expectation is that you have all of the above assignments with you on the first day of class. Have a wonderful summer! I look forward to meeting you soon!

Sincerely,

Ms. Kara Karn English II Pre-AP and Dual Credit English AP Terms 1-50

1. Allusion 2. Ambiguity 3. Analogy 4. Antecedent 5. Apostrophe 6. Atmosphere 7. Clause 8. Colloquial 9. Connotation 10. Denotation 11. Diction 12. Didactic 13. Euphemism 14. Extended Metaphor 15. Figurative Language 16. Figure of Speech 17. Genre 18. Homily 19. Hyperbole 20. Imagery 21. Inference/Infer 22. Invective 23. Irony/Ironic 24. Loose sentence 25. Metaphor 26. Narrative 27. Oxymoron 28. Paradox 29. Parallelism 30. Parody 31. Pedantic 32. Periodic Sentence 33. Predicate Adjective 34. Predicate Nominative 35. Prose 36. Rhetoric 37. Rhetorical Modes 38. Satire 39. Style 40. Subject Complement 41. Subordinate Clause 42. Syllogism 43. Symbol/Symbolism 44. Syntax 45. Theme 46. Thesis 47. Tone 48. Transition 49. Understatement 50. Wit