AP English Literature & Composition Ms. Morgan [email protected] HS East W24 2013-2014 Summer Reading Assignment Welcome to the strange and exciting world of AP Literature! Yes, we will work hard. Yes, we willieam 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 studying 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 (l) American work among your selections. • Complete a Yellow Review Form for each work you read. (Don't lose these! They are more tickets to your desired destination...) • Be prepared to write an extensive analysis of both works in September, including plot, character, and thematic development as well as the author's use of literary devices such as symbolism, figurative language (metaphors, similes, etc), imagery (visual as well as the other senses), character foils, parallel plot lines, etc. · DO YOUR OWN INTERPRETIVE WORK! "Easy interpretation" sites such as SparkNotes, etc, are NOT acceptable sources of academic literary analysis, especially at the AP level. Additionally, working from such sites without crediting them is PLAGIARISM. Copying from one another is also plagiarism and is NOT allowed. (See reverse for list ofSummer Reading selections.) Read Two! (See front for further instructions.) 1984 (George Orwell) Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez) Atonement (Ian McEwan) Middlemarch (George Eliot, Beloved (Toni Morrison) i.e. Mary Ann Evans) La Bete Humaine (Emile Zola) Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf) Catch-22 (Joseph Heller) My Antonia (Willa Cather) The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger) No Country for Old Men (Connac McCarthy) Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky) One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez) Dr. Faustus (Christopher Marlow) The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver) East of Eden (John Steinbeck) The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James) Emma (Jane Austen) Pygmalion (George Bernard Shaw) A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway) The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne) Faust, Part I (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) Silas Marner (George Eliot, For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway) i.e. Mary Ann Evans) The Glass Menagerie (Tennessee Williams) The Stranger (Albert Camus) The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck) A Streetcar Named Desire (Tennessee Williams) The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald) The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway) The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood) Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston) Inferno (Part ~;fDivina Commedia) (Dante Alighieri) Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe) Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy) The Trial (Franz Kafka) Les Miserables (The novel, not the musical!) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Victor Hugo) (Edward Albee) NOTE: Please secure parentalpermission before reading any work listed. " ( Nrrne ----:- _ --" _" .. f Advanced Placeme}J.t EnglishLiterature and Composition , , NovelJPlayReview ' Title:----------:---:--.-------­ A;uthor: -'--- _ Setting (time,. place,. socio-economics,. significant historical ev~} < .... , 'ChaTact~:- ( Major.,__-'-- _ Minor:, _ ", 'Plot summary - j~ hit the higb.1i~tSwhich wili help you i~l1 needed aspects: " Central conflict - internal or external: '. ( Theme-:-lessonorm~sage Of1heViorX: : . --------------------------,_.. .' Details wbi~h SL-"port the theme: 1. 2. 3. 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' . " I . \. About the Author McGraw-Hill Higher Education gz A Division of The McGraw-HiU Companies LITERATURE: Reading Fiction, Poetry, and Drama Published by McGraw-Hill, an imprint ofThe McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY, 10020. Copyright © 2002, 1998, 1994, 1990, 1986 by The McGraw­ Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a data base or retrieval system, without the prior written consent ofThe McGraw-Hili Companies, Inc., including, but not limited to, in any network or other electronic storage or transmission, or broadcast for distance learning. Some ancillaries, including electronic and print components, may no.t be available to customers outside the United States. This book is printed on acid-free paper. 1234567890DOC/DOC0987654321 ISBN 0-07-242617-9 Editorial director: Phil/ipA. 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Literature. 2;-Literature-Collections. I.Title. ,PN49 .052 2002:" '.. ;808--<1c21 2001031249 www.mhhe.com 2I60 TIMELINE: LITERATURE IN CONTEXT Text ,e (193(1.. ): "M,arriage Is a Privata A r"; B.mbara (1939-): "The Lesson" (197 Sliko (194 ): "Yellow Womsn"; Walker -----­ Glossary (1944- ): verydlay Use" (1973) McPherson (19 )= "Why I Like Country ----­ Music" (1974) Wideman (1941-): "Damballah' Mason (1940-): "Shiloh"; vale~1938-): ""m Your Horse lin the Night" (19~ Atwood (1939-): "Hlappy Endings"; C, (1939-88): "Cath,edral"; Wasserstaln (195G-): Tender OOer(1983) Hood (1946-): "HoV'V Far She Went"; --.),\:~---l Kincaid (1949- I:: "Girt"; Sanchez-Scott (1953-): The Culban Swlmmer(1984) Wilson (1945- ): Fences (1985) L~ T. O'Brien (1946- ): "'The Things They :-..,/ Carried"; Dove (1952-): Thomas and Beulah (1986) Hegi (1946-): "To the Gate"; Morrison, ~ Beloved (1987) Allegory A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning. Alle­ Hwang (1957-): M. Butterfly; Mukherjee (194G-): "The Tenant" (1998) gory often takes the form of a story in which the characters represent moral qualities. The Tan (1952-), "Rules 01 tha Game" (1989) most famous example in English is John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, in which the name ofthe McNally (1939-): Andre's Mother, Hall (' central character, Pilgrim, epitomizes the book's allegorical nature. Kay Boyle's story ','As­ Poems Old and New (1990) Cisneros (1954-): ~Eleven," "Barb' Q," -----­ tronomer's Wife" and Christina Rossetti's poem "Up-Hill" both contain allegorical elements. ''There Was 8 Melin, There Was Woman," Alliteration The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words. Exam­ "Woman Holleriflg Craek" (1 1) Keillor (1942-): prod/gal Son: boon, Lost in ---­ ple: "Fetched fresh, as 1suppose, offsome sweet wood." Hopkins, "In thev..lley