AP English Literature & Composition Summer Reading Assignment 2014-2015 Ms. Morgan [email protected] HS East W24 I am so happy you are interested in entering the strange and exciting world of AP Literature! Please realize that the Guidance Department still needs to process all course requests and prerequisite requirements over the summer. Attending this meeting and / or completing the AP Literature Summer Reading Assignment DOES NOT MEAN you are officially in the course yet, nor does it ‘guarantee’ your acceptance, which again is dependent upon your satisfaction of the minimum prerequisites, etc. If you choose to complete the assignment prior to Guidance’s confirmation of your placement in the course – which usually occurs in July – you do so AT YOUR OWN RISK. BUT … if you are accepted … which I certainly hope you will be … then yes, we will work hard. Yes, we will learn a lot. Yes, we will have FUN!! (You might have to trust me on that last one…) First, though, we have to get through the summer. And who wants to lie around on the beach or by the pool when you could be reading great literature? The good news is, you don’t have to make that horrible choice—you can kill two birds with one stone! Your AP Lit assignment for this summer has two parts: (1) The Dastardly Lit Terms— · Study the attached list of literary terms and definitions. They are one among several tickets to the Mystical Land of 5! · Be prepared for a comprehensive vocabulary test in September. That will be one among several tickets to the Mystical Land of A+! (2) The Dastardly Lit (naturally)— · Read two (2) works from the reverse list that you have NOT read before. If you took AP Language last year instead of American Lit, then you MUST include at least one (1) American work among your selections. · Complete a Blue Review Sheet for each work you read. (Don’t lose these! They are more tickets to your desired destination…) · Be prepared to write an extensive literary analysis of both works in September, including the author’s use of literary devices such as symbolism, figurative language (metaphors, similes, etc), sensory imagery (visual as well as the other physical senses), character foils, parallel plotlines, and so on to convey plot, character, and theme development. · DO YOUR OWN INTERPRETIVE WORK! “Easy interpretation” sites (SparkNotes, et al) are NOT ACCEPTABLE sources of academic literary analysis, especially at the AP level. Additionally, working from such sites without crediting them is PLAGIARISM. Copying or submitting the same work as one another is also PLAGIARISM and is NOT ALLOWED. Either action, if detected, will result in not only a 0, but also disciplinary action. Besides, these are the ways of the literary coward. I would rather you get it FLAT WRONG all by yourself than STEAL it from somebody else!! (See reverse for list of Summer Reading selections.) Read Two! (See front for further instructions.) Atonement (Ian McEwan) Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf) The Beautiful and the Damned My Antonia (Willa Cather) (F. Scott Fitzgerald) No Country for Old Men (Cormac McCarthy) Beloved (Toni Morrison) One Hundred Years of Solitude La Bête Humaine (Emile Zola) (Gabriel Garcia Marquez) Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky) The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver) East of Eden (John Steinbeck) Pygmalion (George Bernard Shaw) Emma (Jane Austen) The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne) Faust, Part 1 (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) Silas Marner (George Eliot, i.e. Mary Ann Evans) For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway) The Stranger (Albert Camus) The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck) A Streetcar Named Desire (Tennessee Williams) The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood) The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway) Inferno (Part III of Divina Commedia) (Dante Alighieri) A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens) Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy) Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston) Les Miserables (The novel, not the musical!) (Victor Hugo) Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe) Love in the Time of Cholera The Trial (Franz Kafka) (Gabriel Garcia Marquez) Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Middlemarch (George Eliot, (Edward Albee) i.e. Mary Ann Evans) NOTE: Please secure parental permission before reading any work listed. Name: ___________________________________________________ Date: ____________________ Advanced Honors & AP English Literature and Composition Review Form for Major Works (eg Epic Poem, Drama, Novel) Full Title of Work: ___________________________________ Year of Publication: ____________ Genre: _____________ Historical Era / Cultural Movement: _______________________________ Author: ______________________ Birth–Death Dates / Places: _____________________________ Setting(s) [times and places as well as significant socio-economic and historical aspects] Primary: ___________________________________________________________________________ Secondary: _________________________________________________________________________ Other: _____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ Major Characters Protagonists / Archetypes: ___________________________________________________________ Antagonists / Archetypes: ___________________________________________________________ Primary Foils [to whom?]/ Archetypes: _________________________________________________ Primary Love Interests & Sidekicks / Archetypes: _______________________________________ Minor Characters Of Significant Plot Function / Archetypes: ______________________________________________ Of Symbolic Function / Archetypes: ___________________________________________________ Other: _____________________________________________________________________________ Central Conflicts [identify both sides, eg “X vs. Y”] Primary External: ___________________________________________________________________ Primary Internal: ____________________________________________________________________ Secondary: _________________________________________________________________________ Key Plot Points Exposition / Status Quo: _____________________________________________________________ [Subplots:] ______________________________________________________________________ Rising Action: ______________________________________________________________________ [Subplots:] ______________________________________________________________________ Dramatic Climax / Height of Dramatic Tension: ________________________________________ [Subplots:] ______________________________________________________________________ Falling Action: ______________________________________________________________________ [Subplots:] ______________________________________________________________________ Resolution / Denouement / Catastrophe: ______________________________________________ [Subplots:] ______________________________________________________________________ Narrative Style [point of view / perspective, distinctive literary style / devices used, and narrator’s name / character traits]: ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Themes [full statements of the lessons or messages of the work, not 1-word “concepts”] Primary: ___________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ Secondary: _________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ Other: _____________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ Symbols, Metaphors, and Allegories: _________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ Mythological, Biblical, Literary, Historical, Scientific, and Cultural Allusions: ____________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Other Significant Literary Devices / Notable Aspects: ___________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ QUOTES!!! [include at least 3, from beginning, middle, and end of work] [SPECIAL NOTE: Many students do not fill this part in—and later express EXTREME REGRET!] Chapter / page OR Who? Said What? [“EXACT WORDS & PUNCTUATION!”] To Whom? Why? Act / scene / line Name: ___________________________________________________ Date: ____________________ Advanced Honors & AP English Literature and Composition Review Form for Major Works (eg Epic Poem, Drama, Novel) Full Title of Work: ___________________________________ Year of Publication: ____________ Genre: _____________ Historical