AP Language and Composition 2018-2019 Summer Reading Assignment

Dear Students:

If you are receiving this letter, you have accepted the challenge of taking the AP English Language and Composition course in the fall. I am looking forward to working with you and helping you work toward achieving your potential as readers, writers and thinkers between now and the AP Exam next spring.

According to the College Board course description, the AP English Language and Composition course “engages students in becoming skilled readers of prose written in a variety of contexts, and in becoming skilled writers who compose for a variety of purposes.” This sounds a great deal like what you have been doing in English class for the past several years, right? It’s true that since this course revolves around nonfiction that we will be exploring different areas than you might have previously; however, the bottom line is that everything we do in AP Lang is designed to support your growth as critical readers and effective writers.

To help prepare for next year, you will be reading, taking some notes and preparing a short presentation on a topic or issue of your choice. The READING and NOTETAKING you do this summer will help you ​ ​ get a jumpstart on a couple of assignments: an interest-based introductory project (Semester 1, Week 1) and a comparative paper centered around the topic and implications of your nonfiction book choice (Semester 2). The first week of school, you will be assigned a PRESENTATION that will allow you to ​ ​ share a topic or issue through interest-based reading of multiple types of texts (print and non-print) that you choose. If you have time, you may read these additional materials - articles, political cartoons, etc. to prepare for this. This interest-based topic does not have to match the topic of your nonfiction choice book, but it may, and that might be a good use of your time!

If you have questions about the course or assignment, please feel free to come by room 824 or email me. I do check my emails on a periodic basis over the summer, but I may not be able to get back to you right away.

It is my hope that you thoroughly enjoy your well-deserved vacation. Pursue your interests and passions, relax, reflect, spend time with friends and family, maybe even “veg” out on Netflix a bit!

Take Care,

Mrs. Heisler [email protected]

Attachments: 1. AP English Language Summer Assignment Overview and Instructions 2. Dialogue/Double Entry Journal Instructions & Rubric 3. Current Fiction Author & Nonfiction Lists

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AP English Language Summer Assignment Overview and Instructions

Reading and Notetaking You will READ TWO BOOKS: one full-length nonfiction book and one full-length ​ ​ ​ ​ fiction book. For each book, create a double-sided journal, or dialogue journal - ​ handwritten on loose leaf paper. WRITE 15 DJ entries FOR EACH BOOK adding up to a ​ ​ TOTAL of 30 entries! See “Dialogue/Double Entry Journal Instructions” ​ ​

BOOK 1: ONE book of your choice from the Current Nonfiction Book List. Please note: You will be reading at least one other text later in the year on the same topic, so if you have time to read a second book on the same topic, you may! If you choose something outside of this list, I want you to read a book written recently (within 0-15 years) that has earned some critical acclaim (bestseller, book list). Email me to clear any choice outside of this list.

BOOK 2: ONE book by an author from the Recommended Fiction Author List* PLEASE, NOT A BOOK YOU HAVE ALREADY READ! For Example: Jimmy really liked Jeff Shaara’s The Killer Angels; it was his ​ ​ favorite book in eighth grade. If Jimmy selects Jeff Shaara as an author, he should select something other than The Killer Angels. There are plenty ​ ​ more!

Authors on this list have written multiple books, short stories, even articles or essays. Of course, I may never know, but I expect that you will take it ​ upon yourself to read something brand new to you!

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Dialogue/Double Entry Journal Instructions ​ Do this assignment on loose leaf college-ruled paper.

What is a double-entry journal? In double-entry journals, facts are written in the left-hand column and interpretations or reactions on the right. (See section on format below)

The Role of the Journal for the Summer Assignment and in Class Your double-entry journal will include responses to your summer reading books. During the school year, you will also take notes during lectures or class discussions and in response to readings. Ideas in your notes will help to prompt class discussions, as well as help you further process these discussions, serving as resources for essays. You are required to keep a binder for this class. Recommended: 1 or 1 1/2 binder.

Why use a double-entry journal? Goals: ● To help students prepare for essays and for contributing thoughtfully to class discussions (both small-group and whole-class) ● To teach students to become critical thinkers ● To enhance close reading skills ● To help students distinguish between facts (quotations, summaries, paraphrases) and applications, personal responses, and analyses ● To show that making meaning is a process. Ideas can evolve and change as students interact with information and reflect on it ● To help students become active/reflective learners who construct knowledge (rather than passively absorb it), making it their own, and to create the foundation for student-centered learning. The journal provides a way for students to engage with texts and to begin class discussion with what they feel is relevant. See “Advantages” below. Advantages: 1. Active engagement on the part of the student 2. Students question and construct meanings; students make relevant connections 3. Improves the student’s ability to think vs. simply reproducing what the instructor wants to hear

Double-Entry Journal Format -In double-entry journals, facts are written on the left and interpretations or reactions on the right.

-In the left-hand (fact) column, you may include quotations, summaries, or paraphrases.

-In the right-hand (interpretation and reaction) column, you may analyze or personally respond.

● (Fiction): What do I predict will happen? Give support from the text. ● How does this tie in with my experience, previous readings, class discussions, expectations? ● What do I not understand? What questions do I have? ● Do I agree/disagree with the author? Why? ● What impressed me/annoyed me about the reading? ● What do I notice about the author’s techniques—how does he or she emphasize a point or evoke a reaction? (Consider mood, tone, foreshadowing, irony, figurative language devices, sound devices, and other literary devices. Figurative language devices include simile, metaphor,

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personification, hyperbole, synecdoche, metonymy. Sound devices include rhyme, alliteration, assonance, consonance, euphony, cacophony. ) ● How does this new information fit with my beliefs, my philosophy, prior knowledge? ● Where have my ideas been challenged, changed, confirmed?

Reflections should be more than just "I like this idea," or "I've never met a person who could live up to this." Comments should reflect thoughtful views on the implications of what the author is saying. The WHY and HOW should be explored rather than the WHAT. Be sure to title and date each entry. ​

Sample Double Entry Journal Responses and Rubric Rating

Maya Angelou and Frederick Douglass Passage July 22, 2018

Left-hand Column: Facts Right-hand Column: Responses and Interpretation ​ ​ Quotes, summaries, (Commentary) paraphrases, concrete details “My race groaned. It was our The people in the store think Joe Louis is losing the people falling. It was another fight. (Weaker - Developing Proficiency, Does not ​ lynching, yet another Black Meet - C-) man hanging on a tree” (Angelou 135). The people in the store are filled with anxiety and expectation as they watch the fight. When Joe Louis appears to be losing, they feel that symbolically they are all losing. Their hope and dreams for freedom and respect are fighting in that ring. (Medium-Meets ​ Proficiency - B) Frederick Douglass describes Douglass suggests that his own education comes at a his experience of learning to huge mental cost. The weight of learning to read and read and write as one that write is not difficult because of the concepts but causes him great “anguish.” He because of the burden it puts on him. He knows the full describes this suffering as extent of slavery. This language is the opposite how causing him to “writhe” under a we expect Douglass to see his education. “curse” (132). (Strong-High Proficiency -Exceeds the Standard - A)

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Current Nonfiction Book List The full-length works below represent a range of nonfiction from approximately the last decade arranged by topic. On the PDF version, titles are hyperlinked to their Amazon.com page, where you may read reviews and summaries before making a decision.

Current Events ● Five Days at Memorial, Sheri Fink ​ ​ ​ ● Detroit City is the Place to Be, Mark Binelli ​ ● Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Katherine Boo ​ ​ ● Thank You for Your Service, David Finkel ​ ​ ● Hidden America: From Coal Miners to Cowboys an Extraordinary Exploration of the Unseen People Who Make this Country Work, Jeanne Marie Laskas ​ ​ ● The Long Walk: The Story of War and the Life that Follows, Brian Castner ​ ● Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman, Jon Krakauer ​ ​ Digital ● Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of Teenagers and Outlaws who Hacked Ma Bell, Phil ​ ​ Lapsley ● Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker, Kevin Mitnick ​ ● Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today’s Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter, ​ Steven Johnson ● Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World:, Jane ​ ​ McGonigal

Sports ● Collision Low Crossers: A Year Inside the Turbulent World of NFL Football, Nicholas Dawidoff ​ ​ ● Muck City: Winning and Losing in Football’s Forgotten Town, Bryan Mealer ​ ● Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen, ​ Christopher McDougall ● Over Time: My Life as a Sports Writer, Frank Deford ​ Popular Culture ● Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking, Susan Cain ​ ● Rejuvenile: Kickball, Cartoons, Cupcakes and the Reinvention of the American Grownup, ​ Christopher Noxon ● The Know it All, A.J. Jacobs ​ ● Moby Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them, Donovan Hohn ​ History ● The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of those Who Survived the American Dustbowl, Timothy ​ Egan ● Arc of Justice, Kevin Boyle ​ ● The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair that Changed America, Eric ​ Larson ● In The Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Berlin, Eric Larson ​

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Religion/Faith: ● Come Be My Light, Mother Teresa ​ ​ ● Shaken: Discovering Your True Identity in the Midst of Life’s Storms, Tim Tebow ​ ● No Turning Back: A Witness to Mercy, Fr. Don Callaway ​ ● Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations, Alex and Brett Harris ​ ● Roots of the Faith: From the Church Fathers to You, Mike Aquilina ​ ● Ablaze: Stories of Daring Teen Saints, Colleen Swaim ​ ● Young Faces of Holiness, Ann Ball ​ ​ ● St. Francis of Assisi, G.K. Chesterton ​ ● The Fragility of Order, George Weigel ​ ​ ​ ​ ● Defying Gravity: How Choosing Joy Lifted My Family from Death to Life, George Sikorra ​ ​ ● One Beautiful Dream: The Rollicking Tale of Family Chaos, Personal Passions, and Saying Yes to Them Both, Jennifer Fulwiler ​ ​ ● Strangers in a Strange Land: Living the Catholic Faith in a Post-Christian World, Archbishop ​ ​ Charles Chaput

Biography, Autobiography, Memoir ● Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West, ​ Dorothy Wickenden ● Blue Nights, Joan Didion ​ ● Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock, David Margolick ​ ● Miracle Boy Grows Up: How the Disability Rights Revolution Saved My Sanity, ​ Ben Mattlin ● A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey From the Inner City to the Ivy League, Ron ​ Suskind

Science ● The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature, David George Haskell ​ ​ ● The Sixth Extinction, Elizabeth Kolbert ​ ● The Girls of Atomic City, The Untold Story of Women Who Helped Win World War II, Denise ​ ​ Kiernan ● The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot ​ ​ ● Annoying: The Science of What Bugs Us, Joe Palca & Flora Lichtman ​ ● That’s Disgusting: Unraveling the Mysteries of Repulsion, Rachel Herz ​ ​ ● Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers, Mary Roach ​ ● Gulp: Adventures of the Alimentary Canal, Mary Roach ​ ● Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Oliver Sacks ​ ​ ● Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything, ​ Joshua Foer

Food ● Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us, Michael Moss ​ ​ ● Birds Eye: The Adventures of Curious Man, Mark Kurlansky ​ ​ ● Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Ruined Our Most Alluring Fruit, Barry Estabrook ​ ​ ● The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food, ​ Jennifer B. Lee ● Eating Animals, Jonathan Safran Foer ​ ​

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Travel ● The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World, ​ Eric Weiner ● My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who’s Been Everywhere, Susan Orlean ​ ● Cross County: Fifteen Years and 90,000 miles on the Roads and Interstates of America with Lewis and Clark, a Lot of Bad Motels, a Moving Van, Emily Post, Jack Kerouac, My Wife, My Mother-in-Law, Two Kids, and Enough Coffee to Kill an Elephant, Robert Sullivan ​

Resources for Full Length Non-Fiction ● Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction ● The Guardian’s 100 Best Nonfiction Books th ● The 6 ​ Floor’s Nonfiction Picks –Blog of The New York Times Magazine ​ ● List of the New York Times Best Nonfiction through the year

Fiction Author List for Summer Reading 18th-19th c Early 20th c Late 20th c Late 20th c Late 20th c 1700-1899 1900-1960 1960-Present 1960-present 1960-present James Fenimore Cooper Flanner O' Conner Robin Cody Carson McCullers David Guterson Benjamin Franklin Tillie Olson Joseph Heller Ursula LeGuin Alice Munro Washington Irving John Hersey William Goldman Bernard Malamud David J. Duncan Edgar Allan Poe Zora N.. Hurston Ernest Gaines N. Scott Momaday Thomas Berger Ralph W. Emerson Jack Kerouac Cormac McCarthy Toni Morrison Grace Payley Herman Melville John O'Hara Maya Angelou Bharati Mukherjee Norman MacLean Nathaniel Hawthorne Katherine Porter Larry McMurtry Gloria Naylor Garrison Keillor Henry D. Thoreau J.D. Sallinger Craig Leslie Joyce Carol Oates Bobbie Ann Mason Mark Twain William Saroyan Barbara Kingsolver Sherman Alexie Jack Kerouac Harriet B. Stowe Issac B. Singer Anna Quindlen Chaim Potok Norman Mailer Kate Chopin John Steinbeck Fannie Flagg Philip Roth David Sedaris Bret Harte James Thurber Margaret Atwood Leslie Silko Betty Smith Sarah O. Jewett Eudora Welty W.P. Kinsella Jane Smiley Tom Wolfe Hart Crane Thomas Wolfe Isaac Asimov Wallace Stegner Richard Wright Saul Bellow William Styron James Michener Ray Bradbury Amy Tan Roberson Davies Truman Capote Anne Tyler Pearl Buck Raymond Carver John Updike John Knowles Sandra Cisneros Alice Walker Henry James Annie Dillard James Welch Theadore Dreiser E.L. Doctorow Kurt Vonnegut Steven Crane Ivan Doig William Kittridge

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H.D. Lovecraft Michael Dorris Rudolfo Anaya Sylvia Plath Louise Erdrich Tim O'Brien John Irving William Gibson Ken Kesey Gordon Parks Jamaica Kincaid Annie Lamott Maxine Hong Kingston Vladamir Nabakov Science Classic Fiction/Fantasy Historical Fiction Contemporary Contemporary Jane Austen Douglas Adams Geraldine Brooks Chinua Achebe Salman Rushdie James Fenimore Cooper Isaac Asimov Forest Carter Isabel Allende Amy Tan Daniel Defoe Ray Bradbury Margaret Craven Sherman Alexie Anne Tyler Charles Dickens A.C. Clarke Hilary Mantel Maya Angelou Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Fyodor Dostoyevsky Ursula LeGuin William Martin Margaret Atwood Alice Walker Alexander Dumas JRR Tolkien Lisa See Sebastian Barry Tobias Wolff George Eliot Philip Pullman Jeff Shaara Michael Chabon William Faulkner Sandra Cisneros Naguib Mahfouz F.Scott Fitzgerald E.L. Doctorow Cormac McCarthy Thomas Hardy Roddy Doybe Gregory Maguire Ernest Hemingway Margaret Drabble Gabriel Garcia Marquez Vitor Hugo Louise Erdrich Carson McCullers James Joyce Alice Hoffman Alice McDermott John Steinbeck Zora Neale Hurston Ian MacEwan

Mark Twain John Irving Toni Morrison

Edith Wharton Ha Jin Joyce Carol Oates

Virginia Woolf Barbara Kingsolver Tim O'Brien

Jamaica Kinkaid Flannery O'Connor

Jhumpa Lahiri Chaim Potok

Annie Proulx

Anrundhati Roy

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