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Summer Reading: AP Literature, AP Language, Honors Eng 10, W131

Summer 2022

Honors 10 English

Before the beginning of the 2022-2023 school year, incoming Honors 10 English students should read F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby. Students should analyze a character’s development throughout the novel by completing the following:

• Double-entry journal: Write down 5 quotations from the novel that demonstrate your chosen character’s development throughout the novel. After each quote, provide three or more sentences that analyze the character at that moment. In other words, what does the reader learn about the character from this quote?
• Below your double-entry journal, write 3-5 sentences summarizing your analysis of the character’s development.
• The above assignment is due on the first day of school. In addition, students should be prepared to discuss the novel in a Socratic discussion and for an in-class timed writing on the novel during the first week of school.

Questions? Contact Ms. Day at mday@bishopchatard.org or Mrs. Hilton at khilton@bishopchatard.org

AP Literature

• Choose one of the books listed below to read and analyze for your summer reading assignment. In addition, complete the following literary analysis assignment for your chosen text.
• Before the start of the school year, students should analyze a character’s development throughout the novel by completing the following:
  1. Double-entry journal: Write down 10 quotations from the novel that demonstrate your chosen character’s development throughout the novel. After each quote, provide three or more sentences that analyze the character at that moment. In other words, what does the reader learn about the character from this quote? How is the character developing/changing throughout the course of the plot?
  2. Below your double-entry journal, write 3-5 sentences summarizing your analysis of the character’s development, and what message you believe that the author is attempting to portray through the character’s development.

The assignment is due the first day of school and should be completed electronically. You should also be prepared for a timed writing on your summer reading text during the first week of school.

Questions? Email Ms. Day at mday@bishopchatard.org. She looks forward to having you in class!

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Fences by August Wilson

*Book summaries are from Amazon.com

AP Language

One of the key elements of AP Language & Composition is being knowledgeable about the world around you AND being able to form a well-educated position about a topic. This assignment is intended to give you a foundation about themes that we will discuss throughout the year. The goal is not just for you to read a nonfiction text but to increase your rhetorical analysis skills, expand your vocabulary, and provide background information on the topics we will cover throughout the school year.

Summer Required Reading

• Read and annotate (take notes) Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell.
• Submit the written assignment on Day 1 of class
• Participate in Socratic Seminars and group discussions during the first week of class.

The Assignment

• Do a close reading of the text. A close reading means to keep a pencil or pen in your hand as you read and make notes in the margins, underline confusing and/or favorite passages, highlight interesting information, comment on significant language, and identify the purpose of each chapter and the overall text. If you get your book from the library and cannot write in it, make your notes in a notebook. Be sure to separate your notes into chapters.
• As you read, concentrate on Gladwell’s unique definition of success. Notice how he uniquely defines and presents this abstract concept through his chapter titles, research, personal stories, and observations. You will be surprised how much you will learn from this original perspective on success.
• For each chapter you will use the following format:
  1. In 3-4 sentences you will write the main claim of that chapter. What point is Gladwell trying to make? What is his argument?
  2. After you have decided on Gladwell’s main claim, list a minimum of 5 pieces of evidence that support his main claim. That support may be a quote, a personal story, research, etc. Each piece of evidence should be a “brief” summary (1-2 sentences)
  3. Discuss any fallacies you see in his evidence. In other words, are there any problems with the evidence? Are there areas that you don’t quite think are true, or do you know instances that disprove Gladwell’s main claim?
  4. Finally, what is your opinion of the chapter? What did you find interesting? What did you learn? If you found a chapter uninteresting or confusing, say so and discuss why.
• Outliers has 9 chapters, an Introduction, and an Epilogue, so you should have a total of 11 entries, with each entry having the 4 parts outlined above. You may either type your responses into a Google doc that you will submit on the first day of school, or you may handwrite your answers into a notebook that I will collect.

If you have any trouble at all with the assignment or have questions, please do not hesitate to email Mrs. Marx at jmarx@bishopchatard.org over the summer. You will enjoy this book!!

W131 Summer Reading Requirement

The summer reading assignment for this class was emailed to those students who have signed up for the class.

Questions? Contact class teacher Mrs. Barnes at Lbarnes@bishopchatard.org.

Original source can be found here.