A.P. LITERATURE SUMMER READING PROJECT

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1 A.P. LITERATURE SUMMER READING PROJECT ASSIGNED TEXT: 2018 GUIDELINES FOR REQUIRED WORK Acquire a copy of How to Read Literature like a Professor by Thomas Foster (you will not need to annotate, so an electronic version or a borrowed copy is fine). The book is recently revised, but either the revised edition or the previous is acceptable. In the previous edition, the information about the symbolism of weather is in chapter 10; it is in chapter 9 in the revised edition. All other chapters cover the same content in both editions. Read the Introduction and chapters 1, 9- or 10-15, 18-24, 26 and complete the Cornell Notes for How to Read Literature Like a Professor. This portion of the summer assignment should be completed neatly by hand on the organizer provided. Notes should be legible and thorough. NOTE: YOU ARE NOT REQUIRED TO READ UNASSIGNED CHAPTERS OR THE TEST CASE DURING THE SUMMER. NOVEL: Read and mark up (highlight/annotate) the novel you select. You will bring your annotated copy of the book to school on the first day of class. Use the study guide you created from How to Read Like a Professor to focus your reading. Complete the A.P. Literature Summer Reading Literary Analysis Assignment for your novel. Write neatly. In your responses, use complete sentences, and observe the rules of formal writing, including correct grammar, spelling, punctuation, and usage. (choose ONE from the list) Great Expectations by Charles Dickens The Memory Keeper s Daughter by Kim Edwards Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini The Color Purple by Alice Walker You are expected to purchase or borrow a copy of How to Read Literature like a Professor and a copy of the novel you have chosen, and to turn in a completed notes organizer and a completed analysis of your novel. Your work should be your own; you should not consult other sources for your analysis of any of your texts. This includes study guides, films, or other people. Your work will be graded on both thoroughness and insight. Make sure that your work is legible. Assume that if you did not show it, we cannot know that you understood it, and that there will be a test.

2 A. P. LITERATURE SUMMER ASSIGNMENT RUBRIC CONTENT READING (How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas Foster) FICTION READING Respond to the following sections of the content reading text using the organizer provided Introduction Quests/Journeys: chapter 1 Setting: chapters 9 or 10,19,20 Conflict: chapter 11 Symbols: chapters 12-15, 18 Symbols: 21-24, 26 Apply understanding from content reading text to a work of fiction selected from the list on the front of this page, identifying significance of motifs, setting, conflict, and symbols. read novel complete Literary Analysis Assignment All materials should be placed in a large manila envelope with your first and last name clearly printed on the outside. There will be a box labeled for the materials on the counter in the main office. A CHECKLIST OF ITEMS TO TURN IN (these should be in your manila envelope) Cornell Notes Organizer on How to Read Literature Like a Professor A.P. Literature Summer Reading Literary Analysis Assignment You should place completed materials (Cornell Notes for How to Read Literature Like a Professor, A.P. Literature Summer Reading Literary Analysis Assignment) in a manila envelope (not a folder), clearly labeled as an AP Literature Summer Assignment and with your first and last name. Deliver materials to the Main Office and place in the box marked with the name of the course, located on the counter. Do not include books or notebooks. COMPLETED PROJECT IS DUE MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 2017 COMPLETED PROJECT IS DUE MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 2018

3 Rules of Formal/Academic Writing: AP Literature 1. Write in the 3 rd person; do not use 1 st or 2 nd person. 1 st person: I, me, my, mine, we, our, ours, us, myself, ourselves 2 nd person: you, your, yours, yourself 3 rd person: he, she, they 2. Do not use contractions. (she s = she is, don t =do not, they re=they are) 3. Use blue or black ink for in-class writings, quizzes, and tests. 4. Format titles appropriately. Center the title of original essay on the first line. Do not underline (italicize) or use quotation marks unless a title of another work is included in your title. Girls Just Wanna Have Fun: Characterization in Madame Bovary Show Me the Money: An Analysis of Greed in The Rockinghorse Winner Underline/italicize titles of books, plays, epics, movies, albums (longer works) Quotation marks indicate titles of short stories, poems, television shows, songs Elyse loved reading The Giver but didn t care much for The Raven or The Tell-Tale Heart. 5. Use proper MLA heading and maintain standard 1 inch margins. 6. Use 12 pt. font (Times New Roman is always appropriate) and double space. Do not add additional space between paragraphs. 7. Write out one-digit numbers and use numerals for 10 and above. five, seven, 10, 17, 458 *If the number begins the sentence, write it out One student forgot his notebook. 8. Do not use vague words ( a lot get thing stuff ) 9. Do not use abbreviations or slang. 10. Do not write on the back of your paper on in-class writings. 11. Avoid modals. (may, might, must, shall, should, will, would, can, could) 12. Avoid passive voice. (be verb +past tense verb: is given was noted is baked ) 13. Skip lines on all drafts of in-class writings. 14. Use present tense unless otherwise instructed. 15. AP essays are still handwritten; illegible work will not be scored. Write neatly.

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5 SELECTIONS FOR SUMMER 2018 AP LITERATURE READING NONFICTION SET TEXT All students are responsible for reading the assigned portions of this and completing the assigned notes. How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster A lively and entertaining introduction to literature and literary basics, including symbols, themes and contexts, that shows you how to make your everyday reading experience more rewarding and enjoyable. While many books can be enjoyed for their basic stories, there are often deeper literary meanings interwoven in these texts. How to Read Literature Like a Professor helps us to discover those hidden truths by looking at literature with the eyes and the literary codes-of the ultimate professional reader, the college professor. From Amazon.com FICTION SELECTIONS All students are responsible for reading one of these and completing the assigned literary analysis. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Great Expectations is up there for me with the world's greatest novels. Howard Jacobson. Great Expectations charts the course of orphan Pip's life as it is transformed by a vast, mysterious inheritance. A terrifying encounter with the escaped convict Magwitch in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the bitter, decrepit Miss Havisham and her beautiful, cold-hearted ward Estella at Satis House; the sudden generosity of a mysterious benefactor - these change the orphaned Pip's life forever, and he eagerly abandons his humble station as an apprentice to blacksmith Joe Gargery, beginning a new life as a gentleman. Charles Dickens's haunting late novel depicts Pip's education and development through adversity as he discovers the true nature of his identity, and his 'great expectations'. From Amazon.com The Color Purple by Alice Walker Superb... A work to stand beside literature of any time and place. San Francisco Chronicle Published to unprecedented acclaim, The Color Purple established Alice Walker as a major voice in modern fiction. This is the story of two sisters one a missionary in Africa and the other a child wife living in the South who sustain their loyalty to and trust in each other across time, distance, and silence. Beautifully imagined and deeply compassionate, this classic novel of American literature is rich with passion, pain, inspiration, and an indomitable love of life. From Amazon.com

6 The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini A story of fierce cruelty and fierce yet redeeming love. New York Times The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father s servant, caught in the tragic sweep of history, The Kite Runner transports readers to Afghanistan at a tense and crucial moment of change and destruction. A powerful story of friendship, it is also about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption; and an exploration of the power of fathers over sons their love, their sacrifices, their lies. From Amazon.com The Memory Keeper s Daughter by Kim Edwards Anyone would be struck by the extraordinary power and sympathy of The Memory Keeper s Daughter. The Washington Post Kim Edwards s stunning novel begins on a winter night in 1964 in Lexington, Kentucky, when a blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy, but the doctor immediately recognizes that his daughter has Down syndrome. Rationalizing it as a need to protect Norah, his wife, he makes a split second decision that will alter all of their lives forever. He asks his nurse, Caroline, to take the baby away to an institution and never to reveal the secret. Instead, she disappears into another city to raise the child herself. So begins this beautifully told story that unfolds over a quarter of a century in which these two families, ignorant of each other, are yet bound by the fateful decision made that winter night long ago.. From Amazon.com Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy The greatest tragic writer among English novelists Virginia Woolf Jude Fawley s hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy Arabella, who later abandons him. Moving to the town of Christminster where he finds work as a stonemason, Jude meets and falls in love with Sue Bridehead, a sensitive, freethinking "New Woman." Refusing to marry merely for the sake of religious convention, Jude and Sue decide instead to live together, but they are shunned by society and poverty soon threatens to ruin them. Jude the Obscure, Hardy s last novel, caused a public furor when it was first published, with its fearless and challenging exploration of class and sexual relationships. From Amazon.com

7 Cornell Notes: How to Read Literature Like a Professor READING Topic: terms/ideas/questions Expert readers (how they read differently) Conventions (what they are) Reading & memory Reading & symbols Reading & patterns Name: Use this organizer to take notes about the assigned chapters of the text(intro, 1, 9 or 10-15, 18-23, 26). Due Monday, August 27, 2018 (Main Office, JHS) notes/definitions/elaboration/examples summary

8 Topic: QUESTS & JOURNEY MOTIFS/ terms/ideas/questions Trips in Literature 5 Components to quests Real Reason for all quests quest metaphors/non-literal quests notes/definitions/elaboration/examples summary

9 SETTING / chapters 9 or 10 (depending on edition),(weather), 19 (geography) and & Topic: terms/ideas/questions setting & WEATHER Judeo-Christian/Islamic tradition -floods weather as a plot device weather & paradox setting & GEOGRAPHY going south hills & valleys setting & SEASON spring summer fall winter notes/definitions/elaboration/examples summary Holidays

10 CONFLICT /chapter 11 Topic: terms/ideas/questions CONFLICT: Violence in literature ways that violence can appear MEANINGS of violence narrative violence that causes harm in general patterns from myth, legend violence as conflict what to watch for notes/definitions/elaboration/examples summary

11 Topic: SYMBOL/chapters 12 (symbolism), 13 (politics), 14(Christ figures), 15 (flight), 18 (baptism) terms/ideas/questions SYMBOLISM: multiple meanings symbols vs. allegory problems with symbolism POLITICS CHRIST FIGURES/Importance of familiarity with religious texts/ideas how to recognize a Christ Figure FLIGHT symbolism of flight flight and the soul BAPTISM symbolism of baptism drowning successful rebirth purposes of politically symbolic writing notes/definitions/elaboration/examples summary

12 SYMBOL/chapters 21 (differences), 22 (vision), 23 (illness); IRONY/chapter 26 Topic: terms/ideas/questions AFFLICTION : difference between disability in literature & life symbolism of physical differences how authors use physical differences VISION symbolism of vision ILLNESS how illness functions symbolically symbolism of heart problems author s choice of disease picturesque illness IRONY irony and interpretation what irony does to symbolism dangers of irony notes/definitions/elaboration/examples summary

13 Name: Due Monday, August 27, 2018 (Main Office, JHS) A.P. LITERATURE SUMMER READING LITERARY ANALYSIS ASSIGNMENT Title: Author: Year: Plot Summary Characters (For important characters, give name, role in story, personality traits, physical traits; identify as protagonist, antagonist; identify as round [detailed] or flat [not detailed], static [unchanging] or dynamic [changing]) Setting (place and time; what role the setting plays in the story)

14 Tone (how is the story being told seriously?, humorously?, etc., and how is the tone conveyed?) Mood (what is the mood of the story suspenseful? sentimental?, etc.; why does the story have this mood?) Point of View (what point of view or narrative perspective is used to tell the story? How does this add to the story?) Conflict (explain the main conflict or conflicts in the story. Are these conflicts resolved by the end of the book?) Theme (In one sentence, state what you consider to be the main idea of the story or the author s message.) Title (explain the significance of the title as it relates to the story. Include both literal and symbolic interpretation of the title, if possible. Why did the author choose this title for this book?)

15 Historical or Cultural Significance (Explain what this book shows or tells about the time period in which it was written, whether that is in the past or the present day. What issues are the characters having to deal with that show something about their world?) Are the characters believable can you imagine a real person acting, thinking, or feeling this way? Explain. Is the theme or message of the book one that people today could apply to their lives? Explain. What was good about this book? What was bad about this book? Did you like the author s writing style? Why or why not?

16 Describe a part of the story you can relate to. Explain how you have a particular understanding of this situation, type of place, type of person, etc. What have you learned more about as a result of reading this book? What lesson about life or the world have you learned or had reinforced through this story? Compare this book to something else that you have read, or to a movie or play that you have seen. On the following pages, record twenty quotations from your novel that are both significant to your interpretation of the work as a whole and that reflect the use of the symbols and patterns identified and discussed in How to Read Literature Like a Professor. Identify the topic from How to Read Literature Like a Professor and provide some analysis of the quotation. A sample is completed below for your reference using the Great Gatsby. Quote (please copy the full quotation) & Topic Topics: Quest/Journey; Setting (weather, geography, season); Conflict; Symbol (politics, flight, Christ figures, baptism, physical traits, illness); Irony Setting/weather rain Topic: #. Quote: (Chapter 5) The day agreed upon was pouring rain. Analysis how does this appearance of the topic contribute to your understanding of the novel? Rain traps characters together or forces them apart. In Gatsby, it only rains twice; this quote is from the first time, when Gatsby has planned to see Daisy again for the first time in five years. He wants to lure Daisy away from her husband. Rain appears again on the day of Gatsby s funeral when he and Daisy are permanently forced apart.

17 Quote (please copy the full quotation) & Topic Topics: Quest/Journey; Setting (weather, geography, season); Conflict; Symbol (politics, flight, Christ figures, baptism, physical traits, illness); Irony Topic: 1. Quote: Analysis how does this appearance of the topic contribute to your understanding of the novel? Topic: 2. Quote: Topic: 3. Quote: Topic: 4. Quote: Topic: 5. Quote:

18 Quote (please copy the full quote) & Topic Topics: Quest/Journey; Setting (weather, geography, season); Conflict; Symbol (politics, flight, Christ figures, baptism, physical traits, illness); Irony Topic: 6. Quote: Analysis how does this appearance of the topic contribute to your understanding of the novel? Topic: 7. Quote: Topic: 8. Quote: Topic: 9. Quote: Topic: 10. Quote:

19 Quote (please copy the full quote) & Topic Topics: Quest/Journey; Setting (weather, geography, season); Conflict; Symbol (politics, flight, Christ figures, baptism, physical traits, illness); Irony Topic: 11. Quote: Analysis how does this appearance of the topic contribute to your understanding of the novel? Topic: 12. Quote: Topic: 13. Quote: Topic: 14. Quote: Topic: 15. Quote:

20 Quote (please copy the full quote) & Topic Topics: Quest/Journey; Setting (weather, geography, season); Conflict; Symbol (politics, flight, Christ figures, baptism, physical traits, illness); Irony Topic: 16. Quote: Analysis how does this appearance of the topic contribute to your understanding of the novel? Topic: 17. Quote: Topic: 18. Quote: Topic: 19. Quote: Topic: 20. Quote: