12th Grade AP Summer Reading List 2006-07 - eSchoolView
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English 151 - <strong>AP</strong> English Literature and Composition - <strong>Summer</strong> <strong>Reading</strong> 2013<br />
Advice from the <strong>AP</strong> Lit class of 2012: “Read more.” These titles should serve as a pragmatic preview of the course,<br />
and having a common literary framework will make our lives easier during the school year. All titles are required,<br />
and must be thoroughly read by September 4 th . Some titles contain mature content, as can be expected in college<br />
level courses. I hope you enjoy your summer reading this year!<br />
Non Fiction<br />
How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to <strong>Reading</strong> Between the Lines by Thomas C.<br />
Foster<br />
I recommend reading this one first, since you’ll then be able to read the other titles, well, the way a professor would<br />
read them.<br />
Novels<br />
Crime & Punishment by Feodor Dostoevsky (Norton Critical edition—please try to obtain this edition so we can<br />
be on the same page when discussing this title in class.)<br />
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (Anchor edition preferred)<br />
For Crime & Punishment, please complete a six-page dialectic notebook, showcasing a balance of critical analysis,<br />
reaction, identification of literary devices, themes, motifs, characterization, predictions, etc. Choose passages from<br />
throughout the novel. Include vocab. Be yourself with this—let me know who you are as a reader and writer!<br />
Ideally, this will offer your view on the novel and will prompt discussion during our C&P unit in late September.<br />
For both novels, be prepared to answer objective and essay questions on an exam within the first week of school.<br />
Choice Works<br />
Please read at least two works from the attached suggested titles list that you have not read for any other<br />
classes*. At least one of these works should be a novel, and the other may be a play. Ask former <strong>AP</strong> Lit students<br />
for suggestions, or spend a morning flipping through the titles in a library. I’ve been tossing around the idea of<br />
adding restrictions to your choices such as: one work needs to be 21 st Century and one work needs to be 19 th<br />
Century; or, one of the novels you choose to work with needs to be a Booker or Pulitzer winner, BUT I’ll leave<br />
this up to you.<br />
For each of these titles, please write an analytical response connecting one of the ideas presented in Foster’s How to<br />
Read Literature Like a Professor to the work. For example, perhaps you read The Grapes of Wrath and think that<br />
grandma’s illness or death may be metaphorical, which Foster discusses in the chapters “It’s Never Just Heart<br />
Disease,” and “…And Rarely Just Illness.” You could then use Steinbeck’s novel to exemplify the concepts Foster<br />
brings up in these chapters. It goes without saying that specific textual support is essential in any paper that<br />
confronts a text, but I’ll say it right off the bat just to let you know it is expected. ~3 pages each; MLA formatted,<br />
typed. Models of successful essays will be avail. on my website (though the site may be ‘under construction’ toward<br />
the end of the summer, so…)<br />
Happy reading and writing!<br />
*We’ll go over the nuts and bolts of all this and answer any questions you may have about the summer reading at the <strong>AP</strong> meeting, but this should be<br />
enough to keep you busy—and, more importantly, intellectually stimulated—throughout the summer! (Also, I’m going to axe Waiting for Catch<br />
22 and irony.<br />
*The condensed version: Read four novels and one play OR five novels. Write one Dialectic Notebook and two essays, and be ready for a test on<br />
these!
2013 <strong>AP</strong> Lit. Choice Titles - Works of Literary Merit from <strong>AP</strong> Lit. Free Response Q3<br />
The following list contains the frequency of titles suggested for <strong>AP</strong> Free Response Question #3 for the past three decades,<br />
which indicates that they (officially) have ‘literary merit.’ Please consider titles you’ve encountered in the AG curriculum to<br />
date to be ‘off-limits’ for the purposes of summer reading, although it will be beneficial for you to revisit these titles at some<br />
point during this school year in preparation for the exam in May!<br />
23 Times<br />
Invisible Man (Ellison)<br />
15+ Times<br />
Crime and Punishment<br />
Wuthering Heights (16)<br />
10+ Times<br />
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (11)<br />
Great Expectations(13)<br />
Heart of Darkness<br />
Jane Eyre (13)<br />
A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man (14)<br />
The Scarlet Letter<br />
9 Times<br />
The Awakening<br />
The Color Purple<br />
The Grapes of Wrath<br />
Light in August<br />
Moby Dick<br />
A Raisin in the Sun<br />
8 Times<br />
Billy Budd<br />
The Great Gatsby<br />
Jude the Obscure<br />
Native Son<br />
Their Eyes Were Watching God<br />
Waiting for Godot<br />
7 Times<br />
Catch 22<br />
Ceremony<br />
Death of a Salesman<br />
The Glass Menagerie<br />
King Lear<br />
Oedipus Rex<br />
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead<br />
6 Times<br />
Anna Karenina<br />
Antigone<br />
Beloved<br />
A Doll’s House<br />
Hamlet<br />
Medea<br />
Obasan<br />
The Sun Also Rises<br />
5 Times<br />
As I Lay Dying<br />
Cry the Beloved Country<br />
Equus<br />
Hedda Gabler<br />
Madame Bovary<br />
The Mayor of Casterbridge<br />
The Merchant of Venice<br />
Moll Flanders<br />
Othello<br />
A Passage to India<br />
Pride and Prejudice<br />
Song of Solomon<br />
The Sound and the Fury<br />
Sula<br />
4 Times<br />
An Enemy of the People<br />
Bless Me Ultima<br />
Cry the Beloved Country<br />
Frankenstein<br />
Macbeth<br />
Murder in the Cathedral<br />
1984<br />
The Stranger<br />
A Streetcar Named Desire<br />
Things Fall Apart<br />
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf<br />
3 Times<br />
All the Pretty Horses<br />
As You Like It<br />
Atonement<br />
The Crucible<br />
Ethan Frome<br />
A Farewell to Arms<br />
Fences<br />
Go Tell It on the Mountain<br />
Major Barbara<br />
Mrs. Dalloway<br />
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich<br />
Our Town<br />
The Piano Lesson<br />
The Plague<br />
The Poisonwood Bible<br />
Tess of the D’Urbervilles<br />
Twelfth Night<br />
The Women of Brewster Place<br />
2 Times<br />
Absalom, Absalom!<br />
The Age of Innocence<br />
All the King’s Men<br />
The American<br />
Another Country<br />
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man<br />
The Birthday Party<br />
Black Boy<br />
The Blind Assassin<br />
The Bonesetter’s Daughter<br />
Brave New World<br />
Cat’s Eye<br />
The Cherry Orchard<br />
David Copperfield<br />
Don Quixote<br />
For Whom the Bell Tolls<br />
The God of Small Things<br />
Henry IV, parts 1 & 2<br />
The Homecoming<br />
Jasmine<br />
Julius Caesar<br />
The Kite Runner<br />
Lord of the Flies<br />
The Metamorphosis<br />
A Midsummer Night’s Dream<br />
Moby Dick<br />
My Antonia<br />
Persuasion<br />
The Portrait of a Lady<br />
Reservation Blues<br />
Romeo and Juliet<br />
A Separate Peace<br />
Sister Carrie<br />
Snow Falling on Cedars<br />
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle<br />
Surfacing<br />
A Tale of Two Cities<br />
The Tempest<br />
A Thousand Acres<br />
A Thousand Splendid Suns<br />
To Kill a Mockingbird<br />
The Turn of the Screw<br />
Typical American<br />
The Wide Sargasso Sea<br />
Only Once<br />
Adam Bede<br />
Adventures of Augie March*<br />
Alias Grace<br />
An American Tragedy<br />
Angle of Repose<br />
A Tale of Two Cities<br />
The Bear<br />
Bleak House<br />
Breath, House, Memory*<br />
Brideshead Revisited<br />
The Brothers Karamazov<br />
Brown Girl, Brownstones*<br />
Candide<br />
The Catcher in the Rye*<br />
The Chosen*<br />
The Cider House Rules*<br />
Cold Mountain<br />
The Crossing<br />
Daisy Miller<br />
Dr. Faustus<br />
Dr. Zhivago<br />
Emma<br />
East of Eden<br />
Ethan Frome<br />
Faust<br />
The Fixer<br />
Fifth Business<br />
A Gathering of Old Men<br />
A Gesture of Life<br />
Ghosts<br />
The Golden Bowl<br />
Gulliver’s Travels<br />
The Hairy Ape<br />
House Made of Dawn<br />
The House of Mirth<br />
The House on Mango Street*<br />
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone<br />
The Joy Luck Club*<br />
The Joys of Motherhood*<br />
Lady Windemere’s Fan<br />
A Lesson Before Dying<br />
The Little Foxes<br />
Long Day’s Journey Into Night<br />
Lord Jim<br />
M. Butterfly<br />
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets<br />
Mansfield Park<br />
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter<br />
Middlemarch<br />
The Misanthrope<br />
The Moor’s Last Sigh<br />
The Namesake<br />
Native Speaker<br />
No Country for Old Men<br />
No Exit<br />
The Odyssey<br />
O Pioneers!<br />
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest<br />
One Hundred Years of Solitude<br />
Orlando<br />
Oryx and Crake<br />
The Other<br />
Out of Africa<br />
Paradise Lost<br />
Pere Goriot<br />
Phedre<br />
Poccho<br />
A Prayer for Owen Meany<br />
Purple Hibiscus*<br />
Pygmalion<br />
Ragtime<br />
The Road<br />
Robinson Crusoe<br />
The Secret Life of Bees*<br />
Sent for You Yesterday<br />
Set This House on Fire<br />
Siddhartha*<br />
Sister of My Heart<br />
Snow<br />
The Sorrows of Young Werther*<br />
The Things They Carried<br />
Tom Jones<br />
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn*<br />
The Trial<br />
The Vicar of Wakefield<br />
The Way We Live Now<br />
When the Emperor Was Divine<br />
The Winter’s Tale<br />
Wise Blood<br />
The Woman Warrior*<br />
*New title - 2013
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