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Advanced Placement English Literature Summer Reading & Author Study Advanced Placement English Literature Summer Reading & Author Study M. Fredeking Beyer High School “We work by wit [our intelligence]”—Shakespeare, Bill Welcome to your senior year of AP English! You’ve worked hard and deserve congratulations for having dedicated yourself to obtaining the finest quality of language arts education. Your senior year will be a busy one, full of exciting activities and responsibilities. Success with senior AP English will depend much on your dedication to remain organized and consistently involved with the course’s requirements. Below is a concise description from the College Board lucidly explaining the demands for AP Lit/Comp English. Please read them carefully in order to appreciate fully the requirements of senior AP English: AP Senior English is a college-level course that “engage[s] students in the careful reading and critical analysis of imaginative literature.” This class will explore mature, adult-level, thought-provoking works of high literary value which encompass a variety of genres, time periods, and language usages. All students are expected to “read deliberately and thoroughly, taking time to understand a work’s complexity, to absorb its richness of meaning, and to analyze how that meaning is embodied in literary form.” Intelligent interpretation and evaluation of the literature is absolutely required. “In short, students in an AP English Literature course should read actively. The works taught in … [this] course… involve students in learning how to make careful observations of textual detail, establish connections among their observations, and draw from those connections a series of inferences leading to an interpretive conclusion [a thesis] about the work’s meaning and value.” Quality writing is a must and “should be an integral part of an AP English Literature and Composition course… Writing assignments… focus on the critical analysis of literature and… include expository, analytical, and argumentative essays. … Critical essays… make up the bulk of student writing.” The approaches to writing will vary, from notebook-type responses and full in-class essays to an in-depth research paper. Most assignments will be relatively brief, but thorough. In essence, the goal of this course “is to increase students’ ability to explain clearly, cogently, even elegantly, what they understand about literary works and why they interpret them as they do. To that end, writing instruction… includes attention to developing and organizing ideas in clear, coherent, and persuasive language.” Moreover, writing is a shared experience as students work together to develop and refine their critical-thinking skills: “Much writing should involve extended discourse in which students can develop an argument or present an analysis at length.” (Advanced Placement Course Description, English, May 1999. The College Board. 1997. 39-42). Finally, AP Senior English obviously prepares students for the Advanced Placement Literature and Composition exam (held in May). Learning to read and respond and write intelligently under time constraints remains essential. Effective practice and classroom discussion concerning timed reading and writing approaches will be emphasized. Please remember: College Board expectations for reading analysis exist well beyond any high school CP- or honors-level curriculum. AP Lit/Comp is specifically designed ONLY for sincerely serious students who possess the MATURATION TO ENGAGE AND SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETE THE STRICT AND RIGOROUS and TIME- CONSUMING DEMANDS of UC-level college work while in high school. Students must provide approximately 30 to 60 minutes of UNINTERRUPTED READING TIME, 2-3 TIMES PER WEEK, MINIMALLY, in order to thoughtfully engage the literature examined during the summer and academic school year. Thus, EXTERNAL SOCIAL DISTRACTIONS (computer/internet time, texting, extra-curricular activities, etc.) must be CAREFULLY BALANCED AGAINST TIME SPENT READING AND MEANINGFULLY ENGAGING THE LITERARY TEXT FOR ANY REASONABLE SUCCESS WITH THE COURSE’S REQUIREMENTS. In short: be prepared to spend the time and do the work necessary in order to demonstrate consistent competence with demands of college expectations. I. Summer Reading, What you Must DO: Preparation for the fall semester begins in the summer with TWO (2) reading assignments. ALL students will read and respond to Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain, a National Book Award winner. Classroom study/reading guides to help you to respond and react to the novel’s interacting characters and themes are provided below. AUTHOR STUDY READING Besides Cold Mountain, you will also select one author who interests you and you must read at least ONE other significant work by that particular author during the summer. You may choose any writer from the following lists--the titles accompanying the author names are listings of the writers’ better-known works--OR choose another quality author whose work is respected as legitimate literature. (If unsure of ANY potential choice, please consult with me!) NOTE: Macbeth and Hamlet (Shakespeare) and Pride and Prejudice (Austen) are class requirements and thus DO NOT qualify for the summer reading. Also, ANY school-assigned literary piece from previous years (e.g., Of Mice and Men or Romeo and Juliet, etc.) is NOT acceptable for summer reading unless directly cleared from the teacher! Key to Notations (for all authors listed): P=playwright; Etc=many more significant works are available ( * = available in the Beyer Book Room) STANDARD AMERICAN WRITERS Bellow, Saul—Adventures of Augie March; Humbol’s Gift; etc. Faulkner, William—Light in August; As I Lay Dying; etc. *Hemingway, Ernest—Sun Also Rises; A Farewell to Arms; For Whom the Bell Tolls; etc. *Hurston, Zora Neale—Their Eyes were Watching God; Jonah’s Gourd Vine Malamud, Bernard—The Natural; The Fixer; The Assistant Oneill, Eugene (P)—Long Day’s Journey…; Mourning Becomes Electra; etc. Simon, Neal (P)—Brighton Beach Memoirs; Lost in Yonkers; etc. *Steinbeck, John—Grapes of Wrath; East of Eden; Cannery Row; etc. Twain, Mark—Huck Finn; Tom Sawyer; Connecticut Yankee; etc. Updike, John—The four “Rabbit” novels; etc. Wharton, Edith—Ethan Frome; Age of Innocence; House of Mirth William, Tennessee (P)—Streetcar Named Desire; Glass Menagerie; etc. Wright, Richard—Native Son; Black Boy AND Ellison, Ralph—Invisible Man STANDARD ENGLISH WRITERS Austen, Jane—Emma; Sense and Sensibility; Persuasion Bronte Sisters—Emily (Wuthering Heights); Charlotte (Jane Eyre; Villette) *Conrad, Joseph—Lord Jim; Heart of Darkness/Secret Sharer; etc. *Dickens, Charles—David Copperfield; Great Expectations; Tale of Two Cities; ETC. Eliot, George (female)—Adam Bede; Mill on the Floss; Middlemarch Forster, E.M.—Howard’s End; Room with a View; etc. Hardy, Thomas—Far from the Maddening Crowd; Tess…; Jude…; Mayor of Casterbridge *Huxley, Aldous—Brave New World; Point Counter Point Joyce, James—Dubliners; Portrait of a Young Man…; Ulysses Lawrence, D.H.—Women in Love; Sons and Lovers; Lady Chatterley’s Lover; etc. *Orwell, George—Animal Farm; 1984 *Shakespeare (P)—King Lear; Othello; 12th Night; Henry V; ETC.!!! Shaw, George Bernard (P)—Pygmalion; Saint Join; etc. Woolf, Virginia—Orlando; Room of One’s Own; To the Lighthouse STANDARD WORLD-WIDE CLASSICS Camus, Albert—The Stranger; The Plague; The Fall Chekov, Anton (P)—Three Sisters; Cherry Orchard; Uncle Vanya; etc. Dostoyevsky—Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; The Brother Karamazov Flaubert, Gustave—Madame Bovary Hesse, Herman—Siddharta; Steppenwolf Hugo, Victor—Les Miserable; Hunchback of Notre Dame Ibsen, Henrik (P)—Doll House; Enemy of the People; Hedda Gabler; etc. Kafka, Franze—The Trial; The Castle; The Metamorphosis Mann, Thomas—Death in Venice; The Magic Mountain Tolstoy, Leo—Anna Karenina; War and Peace; Death of Ivan Ilyich CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE (post 1960’s) Roth, Philip—Portnoy’s Complaint; Goodbye Columbus; American Pastoral; etc. Albee, Edward—Three Tall Women; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf; etc. Atwood, Margaret—The Handmaid’s Tale; The Circle Game Chabon, Michael—Wonder Boys, Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Doyle, Roddy—Star Called Henry; The Commitments; etc. Gaines, Ernest—Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman; A Lesson Before Dying; etc. Erdrich, Louise—Love Medicine; The Beet Queen; Tracks McCarthy, Cormac—All the Pretty Horses; The Crossing; etc. *Morrison, Toni—Beloved; Bluest Eyes; Song of Soloman *O’Brien, Tim—The Things They Carried; Going After Cacciato; In the Lake of the Woods Proulx, Anne—The Shipping News; etc. Russo, Richard—Empire Falls; Nobody's Fool; etc. Shields, Carol—The Stone Diaries; Unless; etc. Tan, Amy—Joy Luck Club; Kitchen God’s Wife; etc. Walker, Alice—The Color Purple; Temple of My Familiar Here are some other contemporary works that have become popular with AP lit seniors during the last few years. (That is, students have found many of these writers to be a bit more “user friendly” than traditional writers such as Shakespeare or Jane Austen or Dickens!) These are the current novels listed on the summer instructions for your reading for AP lit (remember: everyone reads Cold Mtn and then you choose ONE author and read at least ONE of his/her works) * = available in the Beyer Book Room CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE (post 1960’s) Albee, Edward—Three Tall Women; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf; etc. Atwood, Margaret—The Handmaid’s Tale; The Circle Game; ETC. Chabon, Michael—Wonder Boys, Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay; ETC. Doyle, Roddy—Star Called Henry; The Commitments; etc. Gaines, Ernest—Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman; A Lesson Before Dying; etc. Erdrich, Louise—Love Medicine; The Beet Queen; Tracks McCarthy, Cormac—All the Pretty Horses; The Crossing; etc. *Morrison, Toni—Beloved; Bluest Eye; Song of Soloman * O’Brien, Tim—The Things They Carried; Going After Cacciato; In the Lake of the Woods Proulx, Anne—The Shipping News; etc. Russo, Richard—Empire Falls; Nobody's Fool; etc. Shields, Carol—The Stone Diaries; Unless; etc. * Tan, Amy—Joy Luck Club; Kitchen God’s Wife; ETC. Walker, Alice—The Color Purple; Temple of My Familiar; ETC. Here are some other contemporary works that have become popular with AP lit seniors during the last few years: * Enger, Lief—Peace Like a River, etc.
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