Summer Reading- AP Literature & Composition Harper Hunter:
[email protected] 1) Read How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster, and write a brief summary of each chapter. We will discuss this at the beginning of the school year. Copies were distributed at the end of the school year. If you didn’t get one, copies are available in the front office. 2) Choose one novel that you haven’t previously read from the list of Titles from Open Response Questions, and complete a dialectical journal and MaWDS chart for that book (examples provided at end of document). Please be prepared to discuss the book you chose with the class at the beginning of the school year. 3) Bring this list with you when you return to class in August- we will use this list again during the school year. Titles from Open Response Questions & Novels of Literary Merit: Title Author Publication Date Synopsis A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway 1929 A love story of immense drama and uncompromising passion set in Italy in WWI. Absalom, Absalom William Faulkner 1936 A poor man who finds wealth and then marries into a respectable family, but ambition and extreme need for control bring about his ruin and the ruin of his family. Adam Bede George Eliot 1859 A timeless story of seduction and betrayal, it is also a deeper, impassioned meditation on the irrevocable consequences of human actions, moral growth and redemption through suffering. The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow 1953 As he makes his way to a full brimming consciousness of himself, Augie careens through numberless occupations and countless mentors and exemplars.