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Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition Summer Reading Assignment 2018 We are reducing our summer reading assignment this year in the hopes that our students will benefit from the break and come back ready to hit the ground running the first day. In preparation for AP English Literature and Composition, please read two texts from the list below over the summer. You should read mindfully and carefully and come to class ready to discuss and write about your summer reading texts. You are not required to keep annotations or journals of your readings; however, you may want to jot down your thoughts about the readings as you finish them so that you can recall the texts when asked to (particularly if you read early in the summer). While re-reading loved texts can be a good activity, you should choose texts that are new to you for this assignment. The intent is for you to push a little outside of your reading comfort zone with these. If you’d like to check out a text from the school, you may do so the last week of school during lunch or after school. Multiple-copy texts (indicated by an asterisk) may be checked out from B-18. Some texts on the list may have more mature content (which is appropriate for a college-level course). Please look into summaries and choose texts using your own discretion. If you have questions about the summer reading or want suggestions for texts to read, please contact: Dr. Jennifer Bogdanich Room B-18 [email protected] You can also add the AP Lit Remind for next year by texting @Lit1819 to 80101. You may use that account to ask questions over the summer. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner Atonement by Ian McEwan The Awakening by Kate Chopin* Beloved by Toni Morrison Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky* Dracula by Bram Stoker* East of Eden by John Steinbeck Fences by August Wilson* The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams* The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin* Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad* In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison King Lear by William Shakespeare* The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving* Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen* Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams* Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy* The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien* *Indicates that we have multiple copies of this text available for summer checkout in B-18 .

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