AP LITERATURE 2018-19 PREREQUISITE READING

RATIONALE:

AP Literature Prerequisite Reading is not an addendum to our curriculum, a hoop to jump through, or a ticket into the class.  The text selections are part of the year’s curriculum and work.  There is simply not time during the year to accomplish all reading tasks we have planned.  Summer Reading allows us to begin our textual work immediately and to increase the amount of total reading we can do together throughout the year.  It also allows you to get a head start on work when you might have more leisure time.

BASIC EXPECATIONS:

·        All reading is to be done in good faith.  We trust you to truly engage with the texts to the best of your ability.  You trust us to have assigned worthy and necessary texts.

·        All HARD COPY WRITTEN work (DE Notes) is due on the first day of school at the beginning of your AP class.  All BLOG work (Posts/Comments) is due on or before July 1.

·        All work must be TYPED; each reading/writing assignment should be clearly labeled (no binders or folders).

THE BREAKDOWN:

ü 1 Non-Fiction Work

ü 2 plays

ü 1 Fictional Work

ü  1 Chosen Novel (does not have to be finished until midway through 1^st quarter)

THE PLAN:

 àMay

·         Attend the Informational Banquet:  TBA

·         Turn in the Receipt of Information Sheet; create Gmail Account

·         Sign up for the Blog

·         Read How to Read Literature Like a Professor (Foster)

o   BLOG Assignment:  Create 2 Posts (250 word minimum) based on posted Prompts and 4 Comments (100 word minimum) on peers’ posts.  Blogs must be completed by JULY 1.

 àJune

·         Read 2 plays:  Hamlet (Shakespeare); Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Stoppard)

o   Create 2 DE Notes for each Act.

o   See attachment for explanation of DE (Double-Entry) Notes.

àJuly

·         Read The Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck)

o   Create 10 DE Notes.  These must come from passages distributed throughout the book—they can’t be from the first 20 pages!

 àAugust/September

·         Choose ONE of the following titles.

• Bluest Eye (Morrison), The Stranger (Camus), Poisonwood Bible (Kingsolver), As I Lay Dying (Faulkner), The Awakening (Chopin), Their Eyes Were Watching God (Hurston)

·         Read and annotate/take notes on the novel by middle of 1^st Quarter

·         Complete a Master Works Data Sheet (assignment sheet will be provided) to be turned in by the end of the 1^st Quarter.

Amy L. McElroy:  (304) 522-6314; (304) 528-6561; amcelroy@k12.wv.us; amy.mcelroy1@gmail.com