HHS AP Literature 1409 Summer Assignment 2021

Part 1: Required Reading

 Select one novel from the list below to read over the summer. Students can purchase a book on their own, borrow a copy from a local library, or check out SORA as e-books are available there for free. https://tinyurl.com/fc327yuh  NOTE: Students are advised to annotate the text while reading for analysis purposes. Although annotations are not required, handwritten notes/annotations may be used for an in-class essay and other, beginning of the year assignments (typed notes are not permitted).

1984 by George Orwell Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy Native Son by Richard Wright The Awakening by Kate Chopin Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Beloved or Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston The Color Purple by Alice Walker Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Part 2: Reading Response Journals

 Compose three reading response journals in essay form (1 – 2 pages, typed, double-spaced, 12-point font).  Focus Journal One on your reading of the first few pages or chapters (beginning), focus Journal Two on your reading during the text (middle), and focus Journal Three on the latter portion of the text (end).  Avoid summarizing the text in the essays; journals are meant to be your reflections of and personal responses to the novel – not a summary or book report.  Write authentic, thoughtful, and organized responses. For example, a journal on the first few pages might analyze the feelings the text awakened in you, your surprise at the opening scene, or your response to the main character. During the reading, you might examine emerging patterns, answer developing questions, begin making connections, or make predictions about what will happen next in the plot. At the end of the book, you might identify and analyze relevant themes or discuss the book’s ending, the appropriateness of the title, whether you enjoyed the book or not, or whether any aspects of the book were confusing. These are just a few suggestions; feel free to write a response on another idea if it responds appropriately to the text. Grades for journal responses will be based on a logical development of ideas in reaction to the text.  Save each journal as a separate document and prepare to submit your journals on Schoology. Part 3: Optional/Encouraged �

 Email Mrs. Devey a summer selfie/picture of you reading your novel to be displayed on our class bulletin board.

JOURNALS ARE DUE BY FRIDAY, 9/3 (DEADLINE 9/10/21) Please email pictures and/or questions to Mrs. Devey: [email protected]