Summer Reading 2021 for AP Language and Composition (11) ● Must read 1 book from column 1. Be ready to discuss and use the novel in an argument essay in the fall. ● Must read one book from column 2. You will complete an individual essay on the book. ● Must read one book from column 3. This book is your choice of a biography or autobiography of a political, historical, or literary figure. You will be doing a Google slides project with the non-fiction when you return in the fall. Thus three readings and one writing piece are due nearly right away! AP Language and Composition Column 1 The Underground Railroad -Colson Whitehead Their Eyes Were Watching God- Zora Neal Hurston Native Son – Richard Wright Hunger of Memory- Richard Rodriguez The Jungle--Upton Sinclair Snow Falling on Cedars--David Guterson Huckleberry Finn--Mark Twain AP Language and Composition Column 2 On the Road—Jack Kerouac The Invention of Wings –Sue Monk Kidd The Nightingale- Kristin Hannah Main Street -Sinclair Lewis The Plague of Doves-Louise Erdrich The Good Earth—Pearl S. Buck The Last of the Mohicans- James Fenimore Cooper The Kitchen God’s Wife- Amy Tan Flight of the Sparrow-- Amy Belding Brown Nickel and Dimed--Barbara Ehrenreich AP Language and Composition Column 3 Your choice of a memoir or biography or autobiography of a political, historical, cultural, or literary figure. Try to select someone that you find fascinating, so you can share that enthusiasm with the class in your Google Slides presentation! Column 2 Assignment One of your requirements for AP Lang is to read a book from column 2 and analyze it. You may choose any three elements of fiction from the list below and create a thesis-driven and argumentative essay that argues how the author uses these three elements to advance the theme of the novel. Your essay should contain an arguable thesis; each body paragraph should clearly answer how and why the literary device advances the theme of the novel. Each body paragraph must contain a topic sentence that develops and supports your argument, textual evidence for support, an explanation of the textual evidence, and a connection to the theme. Keep your essay to around 500-600 words. You should write the essay in the third person, in the active voice, and in the present tense; the essay should include specific examples and quotes with page numbers from the novel. You may choose from the elements listed below. Theme Symbolism Irony (dramatic, situational, verbal) Structure (flashback, chronological) Imagery Setting Tone Metaphors Similes Analogies Satire Point of View Style (sentence structure, word choice) Character Development Foreshadowing Parallel ideas to other books/characters from the English curriculum Include at least 3 direct quotations (descriptions or actual dialogue) from the book that you cite with the page number followed by a semi-colon, chapter abbreviation followed by a period and chapter number in parentheses. Final punctuation for the sentence goes after the second parenthesis. For example: Lou Ann says, “If Mama ever got married again I’d dance a jig at her wedding" (111; ch. 8). Add a Work Cited page (center the words Work Cited at the top) with the following information punctuated as follows: How to Cite a Book in MLA 8 How to Cite a Book in Print in MLA 8 Notes:*Only include the city of publication if the book was printed prior to 1900, has versions that differ in one country than another, or if it is a rare book. *Exception to the rule: If citing a book that was translated from another language and the focus of your work is on the translation, use the translator’s name in place of the author’s. Scroll down below to see an example Examples of how to cite a book in print in MLA 8: Roth, Veronica. Divergent. Katherine Tegen. Books, 2011. Example of a citation for an e-book found on an e-reader in MLA 8: Doer, Anthony. All the Light We Cannot See. Kindle ed., Scribner, 2014. Examples of how to cite an e-book in MLA 8: Austen, Jane, and Seth Grahame-Smith. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Quirk, 2015. Google Books, books.google.com/books?id=x5xPaPeZzmUC&lpg=PP1&dq=zombies&pg=PP1#v=onepage &q=zombies&f=false.