AP ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND COMPOSITION, GRADE 11 Orange County School of the Arts Students taking AP English Language and Composition (AP Lang) at Orange County School of the Arts are required to complete the following assignments. This work is due the student’s first class meeting. Dear AP Lang Scholar: This summer assignment offers students lots of choice and the ability to pace the work over time; know that the AP Lang Team has deeply considered all of the reasons why a summer assignment should be part of this AP course, and that we understand, as well, the value of down time that we all need. The skills we are asking you to use for this assignment are important to the course, and the tasks will enable us to launch into the year with a good measure of steam. You will notice that we have not asked you to write an essay—another aspect of the summer assignment that we have carefully considered. Student writing will be assessed the first week of school with an in-class essay. This document was carefully constructed to be self-explanatory, and part of the task is the ability to follow clearly defined instructions. However, should questions arise, you may contact Pamela Smith at [email protected]. See you in August! -The AP Lang Team Summer Reading and Writing Assignment Two-Part Assignment SUMMER MEMOIR STUDY THREE COLUMNISTS: NINE RHETORICAL PRECIS - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ASSIGNMENT ONE: SUMMER MEMOIR STUDY The memoir is a genre of nonfiction in which a writer composes a narrative from personal experience. Choose ONE memoir from the list below, and finish Content - WHAT is reading your selection prior to the start of the school year. In the first weeks of communicated AP Lang, you will complete a written assignment based on this memoir. This assignment will require you to discuss not only the content of your selected Form - HOW this memoir, but also its form. As you read this summer, use annotation strategies information is that will enhance your comprehension and analysis of the text. communicated List of Memoir Options: Colored People, Henry Louis Gates West with the Night, Beryl Markham The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston Growing Up, Russell Baker This Boy’s Life, Tobias Wolff Hunger of Memory, Richard Rodriguez The Duke of Deception, Geoffrey Wolff Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt In Patagonia, Bruce Chatwin A Monk Swimming, Malachy McCourt Out of Africa, Isaak Dinesen The Road From Coorain, Jill Ker An American Childhood, Annie Dillard Conway Hand To Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure, Paul The Color of Water, James McBride Auster The Autobiography of Malcolm X The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Anne Speak, Memory, Vladimir Nabokov Fadiman Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi Naked, David Sedaris Life on the Mississippi, Mark Twain A Hope in the Unseen, Ron Suskind ASSIGNMENT TWO: Syndicated Columnist Assignment This part of the summer reading assignment provides students with a measure of choice, and is intended to allow them to spread the work over the course of a few weeks, although this assignment may also be completed in less time by using archived material. Students are to select three columnists from the list below and read three articles by the same columnist, writing a rhetorical précis (pronounced “pray-see”) for each article using the guide provided. A brief biography of each columnist is provided (most are quoted or paraphrased from the corresponding newspaper site); students may wish to read one sample article from several writers listed below before settling on the two columnists who will be central to completing this assignment. A diverse selection of columnists has been provided; additional suggestions are welcomed. ASSIGNMENT OVERVIEW Your Nine Precis: (1) Select three syndicated columnists from the list provided (2) Read three articles from each of the three columnists (3) Compose a four sentence rhetorical précis (see directions below) for each of the nine articles (4) A printed copy of your nine precis are due the first day of class Favorite Article and Works Cited Component: (5) Select your favorite article from among the nine you read (6) Using your favorite article, produce a works cited page for that single article (7) Print a copy of your favorite article and your works cited: include it with your nine precis (8) The first day of class, students will receive enrollment information for Turnitin.com; they will then upload their completed rhetorical précis assignment to that site This is an individual assignment: Each rhetorical precis must be the authentic work of the student. You will be submitting this assignment to Turnitin.com. Academic honesty and integrity are an expectation of this course. List of Syndicated Columnists Charles Blow Visual Op-Ed columnist who won first John Gould An American humorist, essayist, and New York Times two best in show awards from the Christian columnist who wrote a column for the Saturday Malofiej International Infographics Science Monitor Christian Science Monitor for over sixty Summit for work that included deceased; check years from a farm in Lisbon Falls, coverage of the Iraq war. archives Maine. He is known for his role as a mentor to novelist Stephen King. Do not accept not knowing what is knowable. When you encounter an unfamiliar word in your reading, LOOK IT UP! 2 of 8 David Brooks He has been a senior editor at The Bob Herbert Prior to joining The New York Times, New York Times Weekly Standard, a contributing editor New York Times Mr. Herbert was a national Tuesday & Friday at Newsweek and the Atlantic Tuesday & correspondent for NBC from 1991 to Monthly, and he is currently a Saturday 1993, reporting regularly on "The commentator on "The Newshour with Today Show" and "NBC Nightly Jim Lehrer." He is also a frequent News." He had worked as a reporter and analyst on NPR’s "All Things editor at The Daily News from 1976 Considered" and the "Diane Rehm until 1985, when he became a columnist Show." His articles have appeared in and member of its editorial board. The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Forbes, the Washington Post, the TLS, Commentary, The Public Interest and many other magazines. Art Buchwald A humorist and satirist, Buchwald Arianna Co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Washington Post poked fun at much of what was going Huffington Huffington Post, a nationally syndicated deceased; check around him in his illustrious career The Huffington columnist, and author of twelve books. archives that spanned more than five decades. Post She is also co-host of “Left, Right & Center,” public radio’s popular political roundtable program. In 2006, she was named to the Time 100, Time Magazine's list of the world’s 100 most influential people. Gail Collins Gail Collins joined the New York S. Amjad S. Amjad Hussain is a columnist on the New York Times Times in 1995 as a member of the Hussain op-ed pages of the daily Toledo Blade Thursday & editorial board and later as an op-ed Toledo Blade and a professor of surgery at the Saturday columnist. In 2001 she became the Medical College of Ohio. He is a first woman ever appointed editor of clinical professor of surgery at the the Times editorial page. She Medical College of Ohio and the published the book "America's president of the Islamic Center of Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Greater Toledo. Helpmates and Heroines." Maureen Dowd Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Molly Ivins Ivins concentrated on politics and social New York Times distinguished commentary, Dowd … Fort Worth Star justice issues. She was a columnist for Wednesday & has covered four presidential Telegram numerous newspapers including the Sunday campaigns and served as White House deceased; check New York Times, but most recently for correspondent. archives the Fort Worth Star Telegram. Ellen Goodman Pulitzer prize winning columnist, Charles Krauthammer writes on foreign and Boston Globe author, speaker [who] has long been a Krauthammer domestic policy and politics. Winner of Friday chronicler of social change in Washington Post the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished America, especially the women’s Friday commentary, the 1984 National movement and its effects on our public Magazine Award for essays and the and private lives. 2004 Bradley Prize. Do not accept not knowing what is knowable. When you encounter an unfamiliar word in your reading, LOOK IT UP! 3 of 8 Verlyn His work has appeared in many Kathleen Kathleen Parker never took a journalism Kinkenborg magazines, including The New Parker class in college, but … has worked at a New York Times Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, National Washington Post variety of large and small newspapers, not scheduled Geographic, The New Republic, Thursday & covering anything from California Smithsonian, Audubon, GQ, Gourmet, Sunday cuisine to bass fishing contests in the Martha Stewart Living, Sports Afield rural South. Now, she serves on the and The New York Times Magazine. USA Today's Board of Contributors and He has taught literature and creative her twice-weekly column is published in writing at Fordham University, St. 350 different newspapers. Olaf College, Bennington College and Harvard University and is a recipient of the 1991 Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writer's Award and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Many of his columns deal with rural life. Charles Krauthammer writes on foreign and Leonard Pitts, Pitts writes about pop culture, social Krauthammer domestic policy and politics. Winner Jr. issues and family life. Pitts is a five- Washington Post of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Miami Herald time recipient of the National Friday distinguished commentary, the 1984 Sunday Headliners Award and was awarded the National Magazine Award for essays 2004 Pulitzer Prize for commentary and the 2004 Bradley Prize.