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  • Pre AP AP classes demand you read literature of merit and exemplary texts, occasionally of adult topics, and intended to provide the rigor and stamina to prepare you for college work.
  • For your independent reading this school year, you’ll choose a selection from the following quarterly lists and are expected to finish the book to earn a passing grade.
  • Your selection will be entered into our classroom log as you begin reading it & will be subject to my approval.
  • For each book you will complete a Major Data Works Sheet (MDWS). See attached for sheet anddue dates.
  • Also on the due date, you will also be required to complete an in-class writing assignment test, using your book to complete it in one class period.
  • PLEASE NOTE: you are expected to actually read the selection you choose, not just Cliff’s Notes or SparkNotes summaries or information. Your in-class writing and your MDWS will show that you have read the book completely and your grade will reflect this expectation.
  • There is no make-up text, re-do, or late work accepted for this ongoing assignment. As AP students, please plan ahead and complete the assignments on time all year.
  • Have your Parent or Guardian complete the box below and you’ll return this page to me tomorrow.
  • You’ll also keep an on-going independent reading journal (IRJ) with weekly entries (due and graded on Fridays) that will be graded randomly throughout the year. Each entry is 100+ words, with page numbers if you are referencing specific quotes. These notes are to help you with the MDWS entries.

PARENTS/GUARDIANS – PLEASE CHECK AND SIGN JUST ONE OF THE BOXES BELOW:

□ I TRUST MY STUDENT’S JUDGEMENT OF READING SELECTIONS; I DO NOT NEED TO APPROVE EACH BOOK FOR CONTENT.

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□ I WISH TO APPROVE EACH BOOK MY STUDENT READS BEFORE HE OR SHE BOOK TESTS WITH YOU.

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DUE DATES:

Book Test One– Inclass Writing & Major Data Works Sheet due Tues. November 3, 2015

Book Test Two – In class Writing & Major Data Works Sheet due Tues. January 19, 2016

Book Test Three – In class Writing & Major Data Works Sheet due Tues. April 5, 2016

Book Test Four – In class Writing & Major Data Works Sheet due Tues. June 7, 2016

1st Quarter Choices: Character
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris
Bless Me, Ultima by Rodolfo Anaya
Catcher in the Rye by J. D Salinger
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brönte
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Memory Keeper’s Daughterby Kim Edwards / 2nd Quarter Choices: Author’s Style
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Ceremony by Leslie Silko
Cry The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty
House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray
Bradbury
The Outside Boy by Jean Cummings
3rd Quarter Choices: Setting’s Impact
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Beloved by Toni Morrison
In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Peony In Love by Lisa See
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
The Pearl The Red Pony by John Steinbeck / 4th Quarter Choices: Drama
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
Antigone by Sophocles
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Our Town by Thornton Wilder
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

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9th Grade Pre-AP Major Data Works Sheet

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