AP11 Summer Reading Assignment 2014

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Advanced Placement English 11 Summer Reading Assignment William Byrd High School A. All students are to read The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Please check with your current English teacher if you need to borrow a book over the summer; we do have copies available at WBHS. Take notes as you read the book (see below). After school begins, there will be an in-class test on this novel. The novel will also be used for the basis of introduction to Socratic Seminars / Class discussion following the test. Although there are TONS of study guides online, this is the recommended study guide for The Scarlet Letter: http://www.studyguide.org/scarlet_letter_guide.htm B. All students are to read another book from the list below. While reading, students are expected to annotate their text to prepare for writing an in-class essay the third week of school. Students may choose to write 10-20 pages of double entry journals instead of annotations. Angelou, Maya All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes Bradbury, Ray Dandelion Wine Brown, Dee Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Cather, Willa My Antonia Farmer, Nancy The House of the Scorpion Frasier, Charles Cold Mountain Hansberry, Lorraine A Raisin in the Sun Hemingway, Ernest A Farewell to Arms Hemingway, Ernest The Sun Also Rises Malamud, Bernard The Natural MacLean, Norman A River Runs Through It Morrison, Toni The Bluest Eye Sebold, Alice The Lovely Bones Steinbeck, John The Grapes of Wrath Vonnegut, Kurt Slaughterhouse Five Welty, Eudora The Optimist’s Daughter Wharton, Edith Ethan Frome While reading each novel, please pay close attention to the following: Theme Characterization Symbolism Point of View Motif Figurative Language Diction Syntax Tone

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Advanced Placement English 11 Summer Reading Assignment William Byrd High School

A. All students are to read The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Please check with your current English teacher if you need to borrow a book over the summer; we do have copies available at WBHS. Take notes as you read the book (see below). After school begins, there will be an in-class test on this novel. The novel will also be used for the basis of introduction to Socratic Seminars / Class discussion following the test. Although there are TONS of study guides online, this is the recommended study guide for The Scarlet Letter: http://www.studyguide.org/scarlet_letter_guide.htm B. All students are to read another book from the list below. While reading, students are

expected to annotate their text to prepare for writing an in-class essay the third week of school. Students may choose to write 10-20 pages of double entry journals instead of annotations.

• Angelou, Maya All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes • Bradbury, Ray Dandelion Wine • Brown, Dee Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee • Cather, Willa My Antonia • Farmer, Nancy The House of the Scorpion • Frasier, Charles Cold Mountain • Hansberry, Lorraine A Raisin in the Sun • Hemingway, Ernest A Farewell to Arms • Hemingway, Ernest The Sun Also Rises • Malamud, Bernard The Natural • MacLean, Norman A River Runs Through It • Morrison, Toni The Bluest Eye • Sebold, Alice The Lovely Bones • Steinbeck, John The Grapes of Wrath • Vonnegut, Kurt Slaughterhouse Five • Welty, Eudora The Optimist’s Daughter • Wharton, Edith Ethan Frome

While reading each novel, please pay close attention to the following:

• Theme • Characterization • Symbolism • Point of View • Motif • Figurative Language • Diction • Syntax • Tone

DOUBLE ENTRY JOURNALS

The dialectical, or double entry, journal is a type of two-column double-entry note taking. It helps readers construct meaning from a text, to personalize what they read, and to write down the insights gained from the reading. This type of journal allows students to question, elaborate, make connections, evaluate, reflect upon, make predictions, analyze, or interpret what they have read. Your assignment is to have 10-20 pages of double-entry journals for your chosen work.

To help, find key quotes that… *Include literary elements *Express key ideas or concepts *Reveal something about a character In your own words, provide a clear response to the quote. Why is it important? What does it mean? How does it relate to key themes and literary elements in the book? Do NOT summarize or merely explain the quote’s content. Instead, explain the importance of the quote, the impact on the audience, etc. For any literary work, your double entry journal must cover the entire scope of the book. The left hand column of a double entry journal is the space in which you record key quotes, and the right hand column is the space in which you put your response. An analogy for this is to see the left hand column functioning as a highlighter pen and the right hand column as the notes scribbled in the margin.

The Lord of the Flies by William Golding

“Now we come to the most important thing. I’ve been thinking…We want to have fun. And we want to be rescued.” (p. 37)

This quote symbolizes how Ralph is stuck between two courses of action. He wants to be a kid, to be carefree; but he also wants to be responsible, and to lead the younger kids to safety. He is stuck between the adult world, represented by Piggy, and the world of childish wants, represented by Jack. I wonder which route he will eventually follow…

Annotation

AP English 11 focuses on Language and Composition. Students are expected to be able to do more than summarize a text. Instead they should be looking at the literary and language choices and author makes and determining how these choices create meaning. Annotation is a form of having an interactive discussion with the text. The reader pays attention to moments in the text that stand out to them and reacts: asking questions, noticing the effect of word choice, etc. This process becomes fundamentally important over the course of AP English 11, when the demands of time don’t allow for more in-depth note-taking processes such as double-entry

journals. A reader should be able to scan back through their text and see where they have indicated key quotes, asked questions, pointed out rhetorical choices, and responded to the text. These are usually the pieces of text that will help build more concrete critical analysis, using the indicated quote as textual support and the annotation as a basis for support and explanation. Students who are borrowing a book (either from the school, the library, or a friend) may not have the option to annotate directly on the pages of the book. It is highly suggested to use Post-it Notes in lieu of book margins or to take thorough notes on your own paper. An example of thorough annotation follows: