READ BOTH SIDES!!
BHS 2009-10 AP English Language and Composition Summer Work
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In preparation for the year, you will read and annotate two selections from the “Suggested Reading List” that follows.
Annotation (notes) may be done in any way that works for you. Some students prefer to keep a reading journal (writing responses each chapter or so) while others keep double column notes (with specific passages, incl. page numbers listed in the left column and notes about the passage in the right column). I will expect a minimum of ten pages of notes per book. Annotation is an important part of critical reading. You will hand in your notes in class the first day of school in August.
Suggested Reading List
Ashe, Arthur Days of Grace
Baker, Russell Growing Up
Blumenthal, Karen Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX: The Law That Changed the Future of Girls in America
Brokaw, Tom The Greatest Generation
Brown, Dee Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Bryson, Bill I’m A Stranger Here Myself
Carson, Rachel Silent Spring
Criddle, Jan D. To Destroy You Is No Loss: The Odyssey of a Cambodian Family
Crow Dog, Mary Lakota Woman
Conroy, Pat My Losing Season
The Water is Wide
Delany, Sara & Elizabeth Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 10 Years
Dillard, Annie Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
An American Childhood
Ehrenreich, Barbara Nickel and Dimmed
Ehle, John Trail of Tears: Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation
Franklin, Benjamin The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Giblin, James Cross Good Brother, Bad Brother: The Story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth
Grisham, John A Painted House
Hemingway, Ernest Death in the Afternoon
Hershey, John Hiroshima
Hillenbrand, Laura Seabiscuit
Kennedy, John F. Profiles in Courage
Kovic, Ron Born on the Fourth of July
Krakauer, Jon Into Thin Air
Into the Wild
McBride, James The Color of Water
McCourt, Frank Angela’s Ashes
Teacher Man
Mah, Adeline Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
Mathabane, Mark Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth’s Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa
Momaday, Scott The Way to Rainy Mountain
Mowat, Farley Never Cry Wolf
Myers, Dean Bad Boy: A Memoir
O’ Brien, Tim The Things They Carried
Agee, James A Death in the Family
Alvarez, Julia Before We Were Free
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
In the Time of Butterflies
Anderson, Sherwood Winesburg, Ohio
Baldwin, James Go Tell It On the Mountain
Buck, Pearl The Good Earth
Bellow, Saul Henderson the Rain King
Humboldt’s Gift
Seize the Day
Bradbury, Ray Fahrenheit 451
Martian Chronicles
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Carter, Forrest The Education of Little Tree
Cather, Willa Death Comes for the Archbishop
My Antonia
Clark, Walter Von Tillburg The Ox-Bow Incident
Crave, Margaret I Heard the Owl Call My Name
Cisneros, Sandra The House on Mango Street
Conroy, Pat Beach Music
The Great Santini
Crane, Stephen The Red Badge of Courage
Dorris, Michael Yellow Raft in Blue Water
Ellison, Ralph Invisible Man
Frazer, Charles Cold Mountain
Gaines, Ernest A Gathering of Old Men
A Lesson Before Dying
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Halley, Alex Roots
Hawthorne, Nathaniel The House of the Seven Gables
The Scarlet Letter
Heller, Joseph Catch-22
Hemingway, Ernest A Farewell to Arms
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Old Man and the Sea
The Sun Also Rises
Hurston, Zora Neale Their Eyes Were Watching God
James, Henry The Turn of the Screw
Kidd, Sue Monk The Secret Life of Bees
Kingsolver, Barbara The Bean Trees
Pigs in Heaven
The Poisonwood Bible
McCarthy, Cormac All The Pretty Horses
McCullers, Carson The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
The Member of the Wedding
Melville, Herman Bartleby the Scrivener
Moby-Dick
Morrison, Toni Sula
Potok, Chaim The Chosen
Sebold, Alice The Lovely Bones
Steinbeck, John the Grapes of Wrath
Tan, Amy The Joy Luck Club
The Kitchen God’s Wife
Twain, Mark The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Vonnegut, Kurt Slaughterhouse Five
Weisel, Elie Night
Welty, Eudora Thirteen Stories
Wolfe, Thomas Look Homeward, Angel
Wright, Richard Black Boy
Native Son
See you in August! Mr. Ducat
You will also familiarize yourself with the following terms and vocabulary. You will be expected to have a working knowledge of these terms when you arrive.
· Rhetoric: find and learn Aristotle’s definition.
· The Rhetorical Triangle (as understood by Aristotle).
· Rhetorical Appeals: logos, ethos and pathos (you must know which is which).
· Pronoun antecedent.
· Sentence fragment.
· The difference between: there, they’re, and their; your and you’re; to and too.
· When to use the possessive (‘s).
Ad Hominem
Allegory
Alliteration
Allusion
Analogy
Anecdote
Antecedent
Antithesis
Argument
Attitude
Cacophony
Character
Colloquial
Comic Relief
Conflict
Connotation
Context (in rhetoric)
Deduction
Denotation
Dialect
Diction
Didactic
Ellipsis
Epigraph
Euphemism
Euphony
Exposition
Figurative Language
Flashback
Form
Hyperbole
Image
Imagery
Induction
Inference
Invective
Irony
Logic
Logical Fallacy
Metaphor
Metonymy
Monologue
Narrator
Onomatopoeia
Oxymoron
Parable
Parody
Pedantic
Personification
Persuasion
Plot
Point-of-View (all aspects)
Pun
Purpose (in rhetoric)
Reductio ad Absurdum
Rhetoric
Rhetorical Question
Rhetorical Situation
Sarcasm
Satire
Setting
Simile
Structure
Style
Syllogism
Symbol
Synecdoche
Syntax
Theme
Thesis
Tone
Transition
Understatement
adage
ad hominem argument
anaphora
aphorism
archetype
bathos
chiasmus
cliche'
climax
colloquialism
compound sentence
declarative statement
dilemma
dissonance
Ellipsis
epic
epigram
epiphany
epitaph
epithet
eulogy
expletive
fantasy
foreshadowing
genre
homily
hubris
idiom
implication
inductive reasoning
invective
jargon
juxtaposition
legend
limerick
literary license
malapropism
maxim
mood
motivation
myth
narrative
non sequitur
omniscient narrator
paradox
parallelism
paraphrase
parenthetical
plot
polysyndeton
resolution
rhetorical devices
riddle
round character
scapegoat
scene
solecism
surrealism
syllepsis
symbol
synesthesia or synaesthesia
tautology
trite
vernacular