Course Description & Introduction: AP English Language & Composition (11th grade)/ Ms. Yeilding *The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Classic American Lit.) *In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (non-fiction) Summer Reading & Assignments Welcome to AP Language and Composition, a course designed to be the equivalent to a college course in rhetoric, literature studies, and composition. The focus of AP Language and Composition is an intensive analysis of literature fiction, poetry, drama, and most significantly, non-fiction. This focus on non-fiction will require students to recognize rhetorical, stylistic, literary devices and strategies that can be used to enhance their own writing. Please note that this is an advanced course and students will be required to complete advanced-level work throughout the year. There will be a variety of outside reading assignments, but this is primarily a writing course, so be prepared to begin writing essays as soon as school begins. The assigned summer reading and related assignments must be completed by the FIRST DAY of school. Summer reading is necessary in initiating the framework of the AP Language program as well as to continue growth in the love of reading as a life skill. Please bring all summer reading books and assignments with you the first day of school, as we will continue to focus on summer reading the first few weeks. Your summer reading assignment (200 points) includes the following: First, you will need to purchase the following (paperback copies only for annotation purposes) four books and a notebook or small binder. *Please complete all summer reading assignments and the AP terms dictionary in your notebook/binder. Required: *Night by Elie Wiesel (non-fiction/holocaust memoir) Choice between: *Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (Future/ Science Fiction) Assignment #1 Define required AP terms (see attached) Directions: Create an AP Literary Terms dictionary by defining the terms on the last page of this handout. Take extra care to create a dictionary that you may reference throughout the school year for preparation on multiple-choice questions, prose passage analysis, and essay composition. You may type or handwrite the definitions, but please add extra space (at least double space, if not more) so you may add examples and clarify the definitions throughout the school year.
*Place an asterisk next to the ten words with which you are least familiar. We will begin reviewing & having quizzes (20 words per week) on these terms in August. WE WILL REFER TO THESE IMPORTANT AP TERMS ALL YEAR! Assignment # 2 Write your name on the inside cover of Fahrenheit 451 and/or In Cold Blood. You will need four highlighters to complete the annotations: yellow, pink, green, and blue. In-text annotations: Characters highlight information about the characters in yellow. Write notes or questions about the characters in the margin. On the first page of each chapter, make a list of the characters introduced in that chapter. Setting highlight information about the setting in pink. Also, highlight archetypes seasons, locations desert, water, light/dark images, etc. in pink. Write notes or questions about the setting or archetypes in the margin. Tone highlight words that create tone in green. At the top of at least one page per chapter, highlight words that create tone and write the tone word at the top of that page. Indicate if the tone is positive, negative, or neutral. Rhetorical Devices highlight rhetorical devices in blue. Refer to the AP vocabulary list on the last page of this handout for rhetorical devices. Find at least one every 2 chapters and write down its purpose on that page. Example: The dialect and vernacular in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are rhetorical devices used by Mark Twain to depict a realistic regional setting in the South, where slavery was legal. Assignment #3- For Night by Wiesel, as you read & annotate, you will create a double entry journal. Journals should include quotes from the book that are important, written on the left side of the page and reactions /reflections/ explanations, purpose, significance, literary device of quote, etc. written across from it on the right hand side of the page, also identify any motifs in the book. Be sure quotes are dispersed throughout the novel, not just at the beginning. A minimum of 10 pages is expected. List the page number of each quote. 5 quotes per page minimum. Please add this assignment to your notebook/binder and write your name inside your Night book. Here s an example of a double entry journal entry from Their Eyes Were Watching God by Quotation Reaction/Reflection/explanation/significance/etc. Ships at a distance have every man s wish on board...for others they sail This quote contains at least two literary devices: symbolism and foreshadowing.
forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing...now, women forget all those things they don t want to remember and remember everything they don t want to forget... (Hurston 1). The ships at a distance symbolize everyone s desires. Some only dream of what they want, but others chase their dreams. Author establishes differences b/t people saying some individuals have courage to pursue their greatest wishes. This foreshadows J. s journey and struggle to obtain her dreams in spite of any obstacle that may come to distract or hinder her. Assignment #4 Read closely and annotate The Grapes of Wrath. Create a map of The Joads journey in the novel. List important quotes (with page #s) that show a shift in character along their journey of life, and describe how these shifts promote author s theme or purpose in writing the book. 10 quotes/descriptions minimum, please include this map in your notebook/binder. *Please remember that we will be reviewing all of your summer reading and assignments the first weeks of school. These assignments will help to set the framework for our journey together this year. I look forward to meeting each and every one of you in August. Please email me with any questions between now and then. *Plagiarism: The school s plagiarism policy will be applied to any plagiarism for the summer assignments. You will not receive credit for plagiarism because you did not do the work. Furthermore, you may not make up the assignment. You may not use SparkNotes, or any other materials to replace reading the actual book, including the use of materials from another student. Do not work collaboratively on this assignment. Collaboration has its place in our classroom. However, I am currently working to prepare you for the AP Exam, where no collaboration is allowed. Thanks in advance. I look forward to working with you this year! Happy reading, Ms. Yeilding
**AP Required Terms to define for Assignment # 1 1. absolute 2. adage 3. ad hominem argument 4. allegory 5. allusion 6. analogy 7. anaphora 8. anecdote 9. antecedent 10. antithesis 11. aphorism 12. apostrophe 13. argument 14. asyndeton 15. bathos 16. chiasmus 17. cliché 18. colloquialism 19. conceit 20. concrete details 21. connotation 22. cumulative sentence 23. denotation 43.idiom 44. imagery 45.implication 46.inductive reasoning 47.inference 48.invective 49.irony 50. jargon 51.juxtaposition 52.limerick 53.limited narrator 54.literary license 55.litotes 56.malapropism 57.maxim 58.metaphor 59.metonymy 60.mood 61.motif 62.non sequitur 63.oxymoron 64.parable 65.paradox 86. satire 87. Juvenalian satire 88. Horatian satire 89. solecism 90. structure 91. style 92. surrealism 93. syllepsis 94.synecdoche 95.zeugma 96.theme 97. usage 98. exigence 99. antimetabole 100. anthimeria 101. isocolon 102. epiplexis
24. dialect 25. diction 26. didactic 27. dilemma 28. dissonance 29. ellipsis 30. epigram 31. epigraph 32. epiphany 33. epitaph 34. eulogy 35. euphemism 36. expletive 37. figurative language 39. frame device 38. genre 39. homily 40. hubris 41. hyperbole 42. hypothetical question 66.parallelism 67.parody 68.parenthetical 69.pathos 70.pedantic 71.philippic 72.polysyndeton 73.pun 74.syllogism 75.synecdoche 76.syntax 77.tautology 78.thesis 79.tone 80.trite 81.understatement 82.vernacular 83.rhetoric 84.rhetorical questions 85.sarcasm