Below are the summer reading books recommended for all students and required for PreAP/AP students. See specific details at end of post for the 11th reading assignment.
9th — House on Mango Street
10th — Lord of the Flies and A Separate Peace
11th — Farewell to Arms and Fast Food Nation (Eric Schlosser)
12th AP – A Prayer for Owen Meany and Life of Pi
College Now—either: Angela’s Ashes or All Over But the Shoutin
English III AP Summer Reading Assignments
Welcome to the Class of 2015!
We look forward to meeting each of you in August! Your junior year promises to be a challenging, rigorous, AND fun year in English III AP. The summer reading books for you are A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway and Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser. You may get the books from a variety of places: Half-Price Books, Barnes & Noble, amazon.com, etc. Make the books your own by annotating using the skills you have learned during your sophomore year.
A Farewell to Arms
Choose one of the following prompts from the AP Literature and Composition Exam. Write a 750 to 1200 word response to the prompt in the form of a well-organized essay. You should provide substantial textual support for your claims by including direct quotations from the novel and in-text citations. Do NOT reference any outside source. We are interested in your own interpretations and ideas. This essay is due at the end of the first week of school. Type your essay using MLA formatting. Don’t procrastinate!
1. In The Writing of Fiction (1925), novelist Edith Wharton states the following: “At every stage in the progress of his tale the novelist must rely on what may be called the illuminating incident to reveal and emphasize the inner meaning of each situation. Illuminating incidents are the magic casements of fiction, its vistas on infinity.”
Using A Farewell to Arms write a well-organized essay in which you describe an “illuminating” episode or moment and explain how it functions as a “casement,” a window that opens onto the meaning of the work as a whole. Avoid mere plot summary.
2. A symbol is an object, action, or event that represents something or that creates a range of associations beyond itself. In literary works a symbol can express an idea, clarify meaning, or enlarge literal meaning.
Using A Farewell to Arms, focus on one symbol and write an essay analyzing how that symbol functions in the work and what it reveals about the characters or themes of the work as a whole. Do not merely summarize the plot.
Fast Food Nation
Keep a chapter by chapter journal of your reflections while you read this book. The introduction, epilogue, and afterword are part of the book and should be included in your reflection. Create a format to follow for this journal. It needs to be consistent throughout with detailed elaboration. The finished journal must be typed and is also due the first week of school. The following should be included in your reading journal:
1. Reflections, summaries of each chapter. As you reflect you will obviously mention specific ideas, evidence from the book, so we will know that you have read.
2. A provocative quote from each chapter that summarizes the main points of the chapter.
3. A discussion of your recent fast food meals in relation to Eric Schlosser’s work.
9th — House on Mango Street
10th — Lord of the Flies and A Separate Peace
11th — Farewell to Arms and Fast Food Nation (Eric Schlosser)
12th AP – A Prayer for Owen Meany and Life of Pi
College Now—either: Angela’s Ashes or All Over But the Shoutin
English III AP Summer Reading Assignments
Welcome to the Class of 2015!
We look forward to meeting each of you in August! Your junior year promises to be a challenging, rigorous, AND fun year in English III AP. The summer reading books for you are A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway and Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser. You may get the books from a variety of places: Half-Price Books, Barnes & Noble, amazon.com, etc. Make the books your own by annotating using the skills you have learned during your sophomore year.
A Farewell to Arms
Choose one of the following prompts from the AP Literature and Composition Exam. Write a 750 to 1200 word response to the prompt in the form of a well-organized essay. You should provide substantial textual support for your claims by including direct quotations from the novel and in-text citations. Do NOT reference any outside source. We are interested in your own interpretations and ideas. This essay is due at the end of the first week of school. Type your essay using MLA formatting. Don’t procrastinate!
1. In The Writing of Fiction (1925), novelist Edith Wharton states the following: “At every stage in the progress of his tale the novelist must rely on what may be called the illuminating incident to reveal and emphasize the inner meaning of each situation. Illuminating incidents are the magic casements of fiction, its vistas on infinity.”
Using A Farewell to Arms write a well-organized essay in which you describe an “illuminating” episode or moment and explain how it functions as a “casement,” a window that opens onto the meaning of the work as a whole. Avoid mere plot summary.
2. A symbol is an object, action, or event that represents something or that creates a range of associations beyond itself. In literary works a symbol can express an idea, clarify meaning, or enlarge literal meaning.
Using A Farewell to Arms, focus on one symbol and write an essay analyzing how that symbol functions in the work and what it reveals about the characters or themes of the work as a whole. Do not merely summarize the plot.
Fast Food Nation
Keep a chapter by chapter journal of your reflections while you read this book. The introduction, epilogue, and afterword are part of the book and should be included in your reflection. Create a format to follow for this journal. It needs to be consistent throughout with detailed elaboration. The finished journal must be typed and is also due the first week of school. The following should be included in your reading journal:
1. Reflections, summaries of each chapter. As you reflect you will obviously mention specific ideas, evidence from the book, so we will know that you have read.
2. A provocative quote from each chapter that summarizes the main points of the chapter.
3. A discussion of your recent fast food meals in relation to Eric Schlosser’s work.
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