Antelope High School AP English Literature and Composition Summer Reading 2018-2019 Elise Balderas- [email protected] Robert Moreno- [email protected]

Congratulations on making it to your senior year and for being enrolled in AP English Literature and Composition! As you know, AP English is designed to be a college/university level course, thus the “AP” designation on a transcript rather than “H” (Honors) or “CP” (College Prep). This course will provide you with the intellectual challenges and workload consistent with a typical undergraduate university English literature course. As a culmination of the course, you will take the AP English Literature and Composition Exam given in May (required).

Summer Assignment Every student will read Thomas C. Foster’s How to Read Literature Like a Professor in addition to viewing a film. Foster’s work will help you understand how to approach a literature more effectively, while the film provide an opportunity to exercise his theory.

Part ONE-Reading the Text: How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas Foster I. Please read How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas Foster while specifically annotating chapters 1, 2, 9, 12, 19, and 21. Yes, you should read the entire book, but these are the chapters you need to be especially cognizant of.

II. Read and annotate Katherine Mansfield’s short story “The Garden Party” in Chapter 27 of the book.

Part TWO- Reading a Movie: Please complete AFTER part ONE! I. Pick ONE film from the following list:  Avatar (2009) directed by  Big Fish (2003) directed by  Citizen Kane (1925) directed by Orson Welles  Pan's Labyrinth (2006) directed by Guillermo del  LaLa Land (2016) directed by Damien Chazelle Toro  Midnight in (2011) directed by  Ran (1985) directed by  The Prestige (2006) directed by  Othello (any production) II. Review the following chapters in How to Read Literature Like a Professor and apply the following SIX chapters from Foster’s book to your selected film: Chapter 1 – “Every Trip is a Quest” Chapter 2 – Nice to Eat with You: Acts of Communion” Chapter 9 – “It’s More Than Just Rain or Snow” Chapter 12 – “Is That a Symbol?” Chapter 19 – “Geography Matters . . .” Chapter 21—“Marked for Greatness” Respond by writing well-developed paragraphs that explain the main points Foster is making in these chapters and analyze how they apply to your selected film (100 to 150 words for each chapter). a. Include at least two examples that show how the specific technique or idea discussed in Foster’s chapter is used in your film. b. This means that you will write 6 responses total—(one for chapters 1, 2, 9, 12, 19, and 21). Each response will relate some concept from your chosen film to the idea in the chapter. i. For Example: If my chosen film is , I might write my “Every Trip is a Quest” paragraph about Sebastian’s journey relating his specific experiences to the observations I found in Foster’s work. c. Make sure to follow MLA guidelines.

JUST TO CLARIFY: When you arrive on the first day of school, you will:  PART ONE: have read and annotated How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas Foster, which also includes reading and annotating the short story “The Garden Party.”  PART TWO: turn in your application analysis of your film to Foster’s work (CH 1, 2, 9, 12, 19, and 21).

So how should this look like??? Here is an example of the topical responses. In this example, you have a student analyzing the novel Jane Eyre to Chapters 9 and 12 of Foster’s book. Take note that these are not in traditional essay format, but still discuss the text thoroughly and academically:

IS THIS IT? I want to read a novel! Do you have any good books I can read for fun? Yes! I think reading novel on your own is a great idea and way to get ready for this class. Here are some recommend titles for those of you looking for a good summer read:

 Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe  The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald  Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë.  1984 by George Orwell  Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad  Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison  Othello by William Shakespeare  The Things They Carried by Tim O-Brien  The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne  Cather in the Rye by JD Salinger

Final Comments: There is no excuse for completing the assignment—you have two months! In addition, be prepared for further application and assessment of this work in the first week of class!

Note- This assignment must be submitted to the instructor by the end of the first week of school regardless if you have this class in the spring.