Summer Assignment Part 1 Define the literary terms from the AP list ...

AP English 12Summer AssignmentPart 1Part 2Part 3Define the literary terms from the AP list. I recommend that you define each word separately on anote card and include examples. These terms must be handwritten! Learn all of them. There willbe a test the first or second week of school. (Don’t worry too much. You already know most ofthem.)Reductions for the novels read in Honors English 11: The Scarlet Letter, The Catcher in the Rye,Their Eyes Were Watching God. You should also complete a reduction for one of the two longershort stories that we read, since they have been included as choices for the open-ended AP essay.Those stories are “Bartleby, the Scrivener” and “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber.”A reduction is a one-page reduction (clever, isn’t it?) of a literary work. The process of doing thereduction will help you to think about what you have read and learned and retain the content ofthe novel. It will also serve as a source for future reference (particularly at AP test time).The reduction should be handwritten, but the page itself is an open canvas. Your goal is to createsomething that will spark your memory of the novel, to the point that reading over the reductionwill make you feel as if you have re-read the book.Information that you would typically put on a reduction include the following:• Author and title• Setting(s)• Main characters and any points crucial to understanding their roles in the story• Plot development• Themes/underlying messages• Mood/atmosphere• Symbolism• Significance of title• Special style techniques of author• Significant quotationsThe reductions are 100% for you, so tailor it to your liking. If you think better using pictures anddiagrams, use pictures and diagrams. The goal isn’t to copy down the text of Spark Notes to onepage of paper (which is why they have to be done by hand). Organize them as you like. Includewhatever you like in it. We will eventually do these for all of the works we read in class as well.What I don’t want you to do is to create a one-page book report. Use a page without lines so thatyou don’t feel limited.All AP students must read:All the King’s Men- Robert Penn WarrenBrave New World – Aldous Huxley

AP English 12For each novel, you need to do a double-entry diary (DED). It’s similar to a journal entry, butuses a two-column format and is more specific, efficient, and easier to read. 1Here’s how one teacher describes the assignment 2 :Passage from novel:As you read, use post-it notes to mark interestingphrases, vivid description, exciting events, or otherparts of the story that evoke emotion or response.Select a passage – a few words to a few sentences – thatcaptures you interest for any reason at all.Quote that passage on the left side of your journal.Copy the passage exactly using quotation marks. Besure to include the page number.Response:Write your response in the right side of yourpage. Each response should be about 1/3 to1/2 page. Responses shorter than this willnot receive full credit. This is where youshow me what you are thinking as you read.Explain why the passage engaged yourinterest. Some ways to respond to showactive reading are:Question: Ask about anything that puzzlesyou. For example: Could this really happen?Are people really this…polite/mean/romantic/religious/violent, etc?What does this word mean the way it is usedhere? Why did the author choose this way todescribe the voice/character/action, etc?Predict: Answer these questions: What willhappen next? Where do you think this isleading? Who is the killer? Will thesecharacters fall in love/end up together?Clarify: What do you understand now thatyou did not get previously? Have yourquestions been answered? Were yourpredictions accurate? Do you understandsomething you didn’t before?Connect: Text-to-Text (What other works orliterature, film, art, etc. does this remind youof? What makes the connection for you?),Text-to-Self (Is there some connectionbetween the words on the page and yourlife?), Text-to-World (Do you see somereflection of the world or of society here?).Evaluate: Give your opinion of thecharacter/event/word/sentence/message.What makes this passage effective? What doyou like or dislike about it?Analyze: How does the author impact the1 To set up columns in Microsoft Word, see the attached page.2 http://staff.esuhsd.org/~mccreadyl/evlibrary/apeng3.htm

AP English 12reader: imagery, dialect, comparisons,etc…How original and vivid is the passage?I have included a very short example of a DED, created by Mr. Turakhia, the former AP teacher.He created this DED for freshmen; so, even though this is an example, I expect your entries to bemore thoughtful and engaging.Some of your comments should focus on literary elements of the novel that yourecognized as you were reading. This type of comment would be considered acomment of evaluation. For example, if you want to make a comment on the syntaxof a particular passage in All the Kings Men, you should type the passage in the leftcolumn and then your ideas as to what is striking/significant about the syntax in theright column. Or you may comment on characterization, or antithesis or ambiguity.For Brave New World, you may want to comment on genre or foil or tone. If youwant a number, let’s say at least four of your entries for each book MUST address someliterary figure.Of course, you’re wondering about length, and the number of entries required per book.This question makes me a bit queasy. Here’s why: All the King’s Men is long…theequivalent of 2.5 The Catcher in the Ryes or 3 Their Eyes Were Watching Gods. So, let’sgo with an estimate. For All the King’s Men, do at least two entries per chapter. For theother novel, I’m expecting twelve entries. The passages you respond to should comefrom all areas of the books, the beginning, middle, and end. I don’t think that will be toobad—it’s easy, conversational writing.The summer assignments are due ONE WEEK BEFORE SCHOOL STARTS. You are todrop them off in the office (I will have a box) and I will pick them up on August 16 byNOON. If your assignments are not in the office by noon on that day, you did not do theassignment. Do not email me with your sob story.Just as a heads up, when we start school, I will be introducing schools of literarycriticism; we dabbled in these ideas this year (structuralism, feminism, andpsychoanalytic are a few), but we will expand those ideas during AP. Purdue’s OnlineWriting Lab is a terrific source of information. So, you might want to get acquainted.

AP English 12Example of a DED (made for freshmen)To Kill a MockingbirdChapter 12p. 115After one altercation when Jemhollered, "It's time you startedbein' a girl and acting right!" Iburst into tears and fled toCalpurnia.p. 115"Don't you fret too much overMister Jem-" she began.I wonder if this idea is still true today. During the 1930s, it seems thatgirls played with dolls and played house, while boys played sports. Idon’t think that we separate boys and girls like that. Girls play allkinds of sports now. Do people still say things like “Act like a boy,”or “Act like a girl”? If they do, what do they mean?I still remember the first time a worker in a store called me sir. It wasone of the first times I felt like an adult."Mister Jem?""Yeah, he's just about MisterJem now."p. 116But summer came and Dill wasnot there. I received a letter anda snapshot from him. The lettersaid he had a new father whosepicture was enclosed, and hewould have to stay in Meridianbecause they planned to build afishing boat.p. 116I had never thought about it, butsummer was Dill by the fishpoolsmoking string, Dill's eyes alivewith complicated plans to makeBoo Radley emerge;p. 117Calpurnia evidentlyremembered a rainy Sundaywhen we were both fatherlessand teacherless. Left to its owndevices, the class tied EuniceAnn Simpson to a chair andplaced her in the furnace room.The experience of getting a new parent or step-parent must be reallyodd. I’ve never had to go through that so I’m not really sure what it’slike, but I imagine that it must be difficult to get a step-parent and allof a sudden have to accept them as a rule-maker in the house. Plus, Ithink I would be confused with all of the names—some people changethem, some hyphenate, some leave the names alone, but even figuringout what to call the new person would be an awkward experience(Dad? Bob? Hey…).This really reminds me of my childhood and the way we used to playoutside, hike trails through the woods, and play by creeks. Somehow,we were able to keep ourselves completely entertained all day long. Ijust don’t see kids playing outside anymore the way we used to.Maybe they have more stuff to do with computer games, PS2s andXboxes, but it seems like they’re missing out on something cool.I remember an incident from seventh grade, when my Spanish classhad a substitute teacher. One of the boys in the class sat behind a girlwith really long hair, and somehow, he tied her hair in a knot aroundthe back of her chair. When she tried to get up, her head jerked backso hard that she screamed really loud. With all of her crying andpanicking, it seemed like it took the substitute over ten minutes tountie her from the chair.