AP English Literature and Composition
Scott High School
A School of Excellence
3400 Old Taylor Mill Road
Taylor Mill, Kentucky 41016
Dear Students and Parents:
This summer, each student at Scott High School has a reading
assignment. Literacy is a key component in being successful in high
school, and our Summer Reading Program is designed to help students
maintainand even sharpenthe skills they already possess.
This summers assignment allows students to choose high-quality
books that appeal to their interests. In addition to reading the
book, students must prepare a presentation about the book.
(Advanced students have additional assignments, too.) Presentations
will be given the first week of English class; all other
advanced-class assignments are due on the first day of school.
The presentation assignment, rubric and list of acceptable books
are available on the schools web site and in the school office. For
Advanced, Honors and Advanced Placement students, the required
texts are:
Incoming Freshman Advanced English: Great Expectations, by
Charles Dickens, plus a presentation on a book from the A.P.
listIncoming Sophomore Advanced English: To Kill a Mockingbird, by
Harper Lee, plus a presentation on a book from the A.P.
listIncoming Junior Honors English: The Grapes of Wrath, by John
Steinbeck; Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller; plus a
presentation on a book from the A.P. listIncoming Senior Honors
English: Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, Lord of the Flies, by
William Golding; and a presentation on a book from the A.P.
listIncoming A.P. English Literature: Brave New World, by Aldous
Huxley; Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston; and The
Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini; and a presentation on a book from
the A.P. list.
Incoming A.P. English Language: The Elements of Style, by Strunk
& White, and a presentation on a book from the A.P.
list.Students searching for a book should read the plot synopses
and reviews posted at amazon.com. All of these books may be
borrowed at local libraries or purchased at local bookstores. Many
can be found at stores specializing in used books, such as The Book
Rack and Half-Price Books in Florence, and the used book service on
amazon.com. Some students may benefit from using unabridged
editions of the books on tape or CD.We encourage all students to
make time in their summer for these assignments. Students who fail
to complete the work will earn a 0which is not the best way to
begin a new school year. If you have questions regarding the
assignments, please email me at [email protected]; Ill
respond as quickly as possible.
Happy reading!
Tom ClarkChair, English Department AP English Literature and
Composition
Summer Reading Guidelines
Required Reading and Assignments
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston The Kite
Runner by Khaled Hosseini Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Novel of
choice and presentation (see note #3 below)It is recommended that
you purchase your own copy of each of these works because we will
be discussing these texts at the beginning of the year; however,
you may check before the end of this school year to see if the
English Department has any copies you can borrow. Annotate the text
by underlining and marking important passages, including your
comments. If you must borrow a book, be sure to take copious notes
on paper or post-its (dont forget page numbers) so you are prepared
to contribute in a meaningful way to classroom discussion.
As you read, you need to do the following:
1. Create three journal entries for each of the three novels
(Eyes, Kite, and Brave), for a total of nine journals. All entries
must be a minimum one typed page, double-spaced, and should be
compiled into one Word document. Look at the list of possible
topics below, and identify at the top of each entry the topic you
have selected. Each topic can be used only once per novel, and no
more than twice in the entire series of entries. Be sure that you
are making specific references to the text in your journal entries.
You will receive instructions on the first day of class about how
to submit your journals electronically to your teacher. Journals
will be graded on both the quantity and the analytical quality of
your responses, as well as on compliance with the assignment
specifications. Any diction, passage, imagery, or situation that
affects you
Three things you agree (disagree) with
How the book makes you feel
How the reading relates to your life
How the reading relates to a period in history
Relate the reading to another literary work
What you think the author was trying to accomplish and how it
reflects his personal life
Why you think a character (major or minor) acted like (he/she)
did
What you think it would be like to live in the setting of each
book
Note any reference to fine arts (music, art, drama, theatre,
etc.)
How you can use this knowledge in your own life
What you think the book means, and why you think that
Assume the role of one of the main characters and discuss your
reaction/handling of a particular situation
Three things you would like to discuss in class
2. Complete the AP Major Works Data Sheet for each novel (posted
on our schools website under Summer Reading). These forms will be
used later in the year as we review novels and plays for the AP
exam, so please pay careful attention to each section and use
specific examples. Some sections of the Data Sheet require that you
do outside research on the author as well as the historical context
of the novel. This assignment must also be typed because it will be
submitted electronically. Instructions will be given on the first
day of class about how to submit this assignment for a grade.3.
Novel of Choiceselect one novel or play on the list of works which
have been referenced on the AP English Literature Exam since 1973
(henceforth known as the AP list). Read this novel and
electronically complete a Data Sheet for it, then follow all the
attached guidelines (also posted on our schools website) to create
a powerpoint presentation on the novel. This project will be
electronically submitted and presented during the first week of
class. You may NOT select any novel or play previously read in your
English classes or being read this summer for class, NOR may you
select any of the following, which we will be reading this
year:
A Dolls House, The Color Purple, Wuthering Heights, Hamlet,
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Heart of Darkness, Lord of
the Flies, Oedipus Rex, AntigoneAdditionally, be prepared for a
test on the three specified novels, one on each of the first three
days of class.
Recommended ReadingIn addition to completing the required
reading, I assume that all of you will continue to read for
pleasureafter all, you have signed up for AP English Literature
because you love to read! Two lists have been posted on the school
website (look in the Summer Reading section) which might prove
helpful as you select additional works to read over the summer. One
is the AP List; the other is a list from Entertainment Weekly of
the 100 New Classics. I would recommend that you fill out Major
Works Data Sheets for any of these works you read.
QuestionsFeel free to email Mrs. Welp
([email protected]) or Mrs. Henson
([email protected]). We do not check our emails
daily, but you should receive a response within a week or two. Dont
wait until August 17 to ask your questions!!!!Scott High School
2010 Summer Reading Project
For AP English Literature and Composition Students
Directions
Choose a novel or play from the AP List. This should be a book
that you must physically bring with you on the day of your
presentation. Do not select any novel or play you have previously
read for class, nor any others on the summer reading list or ones
we will read in class this year.
Note: This should be a book that you have not read before. (We
are English teachers. We pretty much know what your past teachers
have assigned.)
Read the book! As you read, use post-it notes, index cards, or
paper inserts in order to mark significant passages/quotes that you
find particularly interesting or important. On your insert, write a
brief explanation (1-2 sentences) of the chosen important passages.
(Why did you choose this passage? How do you know it is important?)
You must have one annotation/insert per chapter. Be able to defend
your choice!(Those of you who choose books without chapters must
make an annotation every ten pages, for a total of at least twenty
annotations.)
When you are finished with your chosen book and your
annotations, design a 2-3 minute powerpoint presentation for your
class in which you inform your peers regarding whether or not they
should purchase the book based on your own evaluation. (Consider
the strengths and weaknesses of the book.) If you liked the book,
sell it to the class. If not, use your presentation to convince
students to avoid the book still, of course, thoroughly covering
the characterization and the themes. Get creative and make this
powerpoint presentation reflect your personality and style.
Rememberthis will be one of the first impressions we have of you!
The presentation requirements are specified on the attached rubric
which you must read thoroughly before you even choose your
book.
Know and understand that this assignment will be worth 10% of
your course grade in your first trimester English class. You must
take it seriously.
Due Date: Your teacher will explain on the first day how/when to
submit this powerpoint presentation. Presentations will take place
during the first week of class.
DefinitionsTheme authors lesson/moral/message shared with the
reader through the novel
Ex: Spiderman II Theres a hero in all of us who helps us to be
noble, even if we have to give up the thing we want the most.
Characterization authors portrayal of the character,
particularly the characters personality, through the authors
narration, the characters actions, and the characters words
Ex: Napoleon Dynamite The movie opens with Napoleon, dressed in
tapered jeans, moon boots, an early 90s t-shirt, toting a
Trapper-Keeper, getting on the bus and throwing an action figure on
a string out the window. This gives viewers clues to Napoleons
idiosyncrasies and general attitude toward life.
Summer Reading Presentation
Rubric
****(No Rubric: -5) Rubric must be brought to class on
presentation day
Category
151050
Themes
Student discusses at least two themes and shows how these themes
are represented in the novel, with full explanations of examples
from the reading.
Student discusses two themes from the novel and shows how they
are represented in the novel. There was good explanation of how
these themes are presented in the novel, but more explanation or
clarification would have been helpful.
Student discusses one to two themes from the novel, but examples
and explanations are unclear or shaky. Student does not demonstrate
that they understand the reading.
Student does not discuss a theme of the book.
Characterization
Student thoroughly discusses authors portrayal of at least two
characters, particularly the characters' personality, through the
authors narration, the characters actions, and the characters
words.
Student discusses the characterization of two characters in the
novel, but does not do so thoroughly, leaving questions about the
characterization of one or both of the characters.
Student discusses one or two characters in the novel, but the
discussion is shaky or unclear. The discussion focuses more on a
basic description of the character(s) than on an analysis of the
characters personality.
Student does not discuss the characters in the book.
Powerpoint
The powerpoint for the presentation is an accurate and
attractive representation of the novel and helps with the
presentation of the book.
The powerpoint for the presentation is accurate and attractive,
but did not enhance or assist in the presentation of the book.
The powerpoint is somewhat accurate, but does not demonstrate
much effort or time and does not assist in the presentation of the
book.
No powerpoint was created for the presentation of the book.
Text
Student brought the book in on presentation day and had one
annotation for each chapter or, if chapters don't exist, one
annotation is written for every ten pages.
Student brought the book in on presentation day and had
annotations for most chapters or every 15 pages if chapters did not
exist.
Student brought the book in on the day of the presentation, but
very few annotations were included in the book.
Student did not bring in the book on the day of the presentation
and no or very few annotations were brought in for the book.
Total:
_____________ / 60
AP English: Literature and Composition
Name___________________
Major Works Data Sheet
Major Works Data SheetPage 2
Major Works Data SheetPage 3
Characters
NameRole in the storySignificanceAdjectives
Major Works Data SheetPage 4
Titles from Free Response Questions*Adapted from an original
list by Norma J. Wilkerson.Works referred to on the AP Literature
exams since 1971 (specific years in parentheses).
AAbsalom, Absalom by William Faulkner (76, 00)Adam Bede by
George Eliot (06)The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
(80, 82, 85, 91, 92, 94, 95, 96, 99, 05, 06, 07, 08)The Aeneid by
Virgil (06)Agnes of God by John Pielmeier (00)The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton (97, 02, 03, 08)Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
(00, 04, 08)All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (00, 02, 04,
07, 08)All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (95, 96, 06, 07,
08)America is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan (95)An American
Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (81, 82, 95, 03)The American by Henry
James (05, 07, 10) Angle of Repose (10)Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
(80, 91, 99, 03, 04, 06, 08)Another Country by James Baldwin (95,
10)Antigone by Sophocles (79, 80, 90, 94, 99, 03, 05)Apprenticeship
of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler (94)As I Lay Dying by William
Faulkner (78, 89, 90, 94, 01, 04, 06, 07, 09)As You Like It by
William Shakespeare (92, 05, 06, 10)Atonement by Ian McEwan
(07)Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson (02,
05)The Awakening by Kate Chopin (87, 88, 91, 92, 95, 97, 99, 02,
04, 07, 09)B"The Bear" by William Faulkner (94, 06)Beloved by Toni
Morrison (90, 99, 01, 03, 05, 07, 09)A Bend in the River by V. S.
Naipaul (03)Billy Budd by Herman Melville (79, 81, 82, 83, 85, 99,
02, 04, 05, 07, 08)The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter (89,
97)Black Boy by Richard Wright (06, 08)Bleak House by Charles
Dickens (94, 00, 04, 09)Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya (94, 96,
97, 99, 04, 05, 06, 08)The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
(07)The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (95, 08)Bone: A Novel by Fae M.
Ng (03)The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan (06, 07)Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley (89, 05, 10)The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor
Dostoevski (90, 08)CCandide by Voltaire (80, 86, 87, 91, 95, 96,
04, 06)The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (06)Catch-22 by
Joseph Heller (82, 85, 87, 89, 94, 01, 03, 04, 05, 07, 08)The
Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger (01, 08)Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
by Tennessee Williams (00)Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood (94, 08,
09)Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko (94, 96, 97, 99, 01, 03, 05, 06,
07)The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov (71, 77, 06, 07, 09)The
Chosen by Chaim Potok (08)Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (06,
08)The Color Purple by Alice Walker (92, 94, 95, 96, 97, 05, 08,
09)Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje (01)Cry, The
Beloved Country by Alan Paton (85, 87, 91, 95, 96, 07)Crime and
Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevski (76, 79, 80, 82, 88, 96, 99, 00,
01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 09, 10)The Crossing (09) The Crucible by Arthur
Miller (71, 83, 86, 89, 04, 05, 09)DDaisy Miller by Henry James
(97, 03)Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel (01)David Copperfield by
Charles Dickens (78, 83, 06)"The Dead" by James Joyce (97)Death of
a Salesman by Arthur Miller (86, 88, 94, 03, 04, 05, 07)Delta
Wedding by Eudora Welty (97)Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by
Anne Tyler (97)The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (06)The
Diviners by Margaret Laurence (95)Doctor Faustus by Christopher
Marlowe (79, 86, 99, 04) Doctor Zhivago (10)A Doll House (09) A
Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen (71, 83, 87, 88, 95, 05)Don Quixote by
Miguel de Cervantes (01, 04, 06, 08)Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina
Garcia (03)Dutchman by Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones (03, 06)EEast of
Eden by John Steinbeck (06)Emma by Jane Austen (96, 08)An Enemy of
the People by Henrik Ibsen (76, 80, 87, 99, 01, 07)Equus by Peter
Shaffer (92, 99, 00, 01, 08, 09)Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (80,
85, 03, 05, 06, 07)The Eumenides by Aeschylus (in The Orestia)
(96)FA Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (99, 04, 09)The Father
by August Strindberg (01)Faust by Johann Goethe (02, 03)Fences by
August Wilson (02, 03, 05, 09)A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
(03)Fifth Business by Robertson Davis (00, 07)The Fixer by Bernard
Malamud (07)For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (03,
06)Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (89, 00, 03, 06, 08)GA Gathering of
Old Men by Ernest Gaines (00)A Gesture Life by Chang-Rae Lee (04,
05)Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen (00, 04)The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee
Williams (71, 90, 94, 97, 99, 02, 08, 09)Going After Cacciato by
Tim O'Brien (01, 06)The Golden Bowl (09) The Good Soldier by Ford
Maddox Ford (00)The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (95, 03, 06,
09)Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (79, 80, 88, 89, 92, 95,
96, 00, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 07, 08)The Great Gatsby by F. Scott
Fitzgerald (82, 83, 88, 91, 92, 97, 00, 02, 04, 05, 07)Go Tell It
on the Mountain by James Baldwin (83, 88, 90, 05)Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift (87, 89, 01, 04, 06)HThe Hairy Ape by Eugene
O'Neill (89, 09)Hamlet by William Shakespeare (88, 94, 97, 99,
00)The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (03)Heart of Darkness by
Joseph Conrad (71, 76, 91, 94, 96, 99, 00, 01, 02, 03, 04, 06, 09,
10)Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen (79, 92, 00, 02, 03, 05)Henry IV,
Parts I and II by William Shakespeare (80, 90, 08)Henry V by
William Shakespeare (02)A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes
(08)House Made of Dawn by N Scott Momaday (95, 06)The House of
Mirth by Edith Wharton (04, 07)The House on Mango Street by Sandra
Cisneros (08)IThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (06)In
the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien (00)In the Time of Butterflies
by Julia Alvarez (05)Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (76, 77, 78,
82, 83, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 91, 94, 95, 96, 97, 01, 03, 04, 05, 07,
08, 09, 10)JJane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (78, 79, 80, 88, 91, 94,
95, 96, 97, 99, 00, 05, 07, 08, 10)Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee
(99, 10)Joe Turner's Come and Gone by August Wilson (00, 04)The Joy
Luck Club by Amy Tan (97, 03)Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy (71,
76, 80, 85, 87, 95, 04, 09, 10)Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
(82, 97, 05, 07)The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (77, 78, 82, 88, 89,
90, 96)KKafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (08)King Lear by
William Shakespeare (77, 78, 82, 88, 89, 90, 96, 01, 03, 04, 05,
06, 08, 10)The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseinii (07, 08, 09)LLady
Windermeres Fan (09) A Lesson before Dying by Ernest Gaines
(99)Light in August by William Faulkner (71, 79, 81, 82, 83, 85,
95, 99, 03, 06) The Little Foxes (10)Little Women by Louisa May
Alcott (08)Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill (90, 03,
07)Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (77, 78, 82, 86, 00, 03, 07)Lord of
the Flies by William Golding (85, 08)Love Medicine by Louise
Erdrich (95)MMacbeth by William Shakespeare (83, 99, 03, 05,
09)Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (80, 85, 04, 05, 06, 09,
10)Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw (79, 96, 04, 07)Mansfield
Park by Jane Austen (03, 06)Master Harold...and the Boys by Athol
Fugard (03, 08)The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy (94, 99,
00, 02, 07, 10)M. Butterfly by David Henry Wang (95)Medea by
Euripides (82, 92, 95, 01, 03)The Member of the Wedding by Carson
McCullers (97, 08)The Memory Keepers Daughter (09) The Merchant of
Venice by William Shakespeare (85, 91, 95, 02, 03)Metamorphosis by
Franz Kafka (78, 89)Middlemarch by George Eliot (95, 04, 05,
07)Middle Passage by V. S. Naipaul (06)A Midsummer Night's Dream by
William Shakespeare (06)The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (90,
92, 04)The Misanthrope by Moliere (08)Moby Dick by Herman Melville
(76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 89, 94, 96, 01, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 09)Moll
Flanders by Daniel Defoe (76, 77, 86, 87, 95)Monkey Bridge by Lan
Cao (00, 03)The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie (07)Mother
Courage and Her Children by Berthold Brecht (85, 87, 06)Mrs.
Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (94, 97, 04, 05, 07)Mrs. Warren's
Profession by George Bernard Shaw (87, 90, 95, 02)Much Ado About
Nothing by William Shakespeare (97)Murder in the Cathedral by T. S.
Eliot (76, 80, 85, 95, 07)My Antonia by Willa Cather (03, 08, 10)My
Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok (03)N The Namesake (09) Native Son
by Richard Wright (79, 82, 85, 87, 95, 01, 04)Native Speaker by
Chang-Rae Lee (99, 03, 05, 07, 08)1984 by George Orwell (87, 94,
05, 09)OObasan by Joy Kogawa (94, 95, 04, 05, 06, 07, 10)The
Odyssey by Homer (86, 06, 10)Oedipus Rex by Sophocles (77, 85, 88,
00, 03, 04)Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (01)Old School by
Tobia Wolff (08)One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander
Solzhenitsyn (05, 10)One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel
Garcia Marquez (89, 04)One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
(01)O Pioneers! by Willa Cather (06)The Orestia by Aeschylus
(90)Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf (04)Othello by William
Shakespeare (79, 85, 88, 92, 95, 03. 04, 07)
The Other (10)Our Town by Thornton Wilder (86, 97, 09)Out of
Africa by Isaak Dinesen (06)PPale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (01)A
Passage to India by E. M. Forster (71, 77, 78, 88, 91, 92,
07)Paradise Lost by John Milton (85, 86, 10)Peer Gynt by Henrik
Ibsen (06)Pre Goriot by Honore de Balzac (02)Persuasion by Jane
Austen (90, 05, 07)Phaedre by Jean Racine (92, 03)The Piano Lesson
by August Wilson (96, 99, 07, 08)The Picture of Dorian Gray by
Oscar Wilde (02)The Plague by Albert Camus (02, 09)Pnin by Vladimir
Nabokov (97)Pocho by Jose Antonio Villarreal (02, 08) The
Poisonwood Bible (10)Portrait of a Lady by Henry James ( 88, 92,
96, 03, 05, 07)Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
(76, 77, 80, 86, 88, 96, 99, 04, 05, 08, 09, 10)Praisesong for the
Widow by Paule Marshall (96)A Prayer for Owen Meany (09) Pride and
Prejudice by Jane Austen (83, 88, 92, 97, 08)The Prime of Miss Jean
Brodie by Muriel Spark (90, 08)Push by Sapphire (07)Pygmalion by
George Bernard Shaw (03, 05, 08)RRagtime by E. L. Doctorow (03,
07)A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry (87, 90, 94, 96, 99,
07, 09)The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (08)The Remains of
the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (00, 03)Reservation Blues by Sherman
Alexie (08, 09)The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy (07)A River
Runs Through It by Norman Maclean (08) The Road (10) Robinson
Crusoe (10)A Room with a View by E. M. Forster (03)Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare (90, 92, 97, 08)Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
Are Dead by Tom Stoppard (81, 94, 00, 04, 05, 06, 10)SSaint Joan by
George Bernard Shaw (95)The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
(71, 77, 78, 83, 88, 91, 99, 02, 04, 05, 06)Sent for You Yesterday
by John Edgar Wideman (03)A Separate Peace by John Knowles (82,
07)The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (97)Silas Marner by George
Eliot (02)Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser (87, 02, 04, 10)
Sister of My Heart (10)Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut (91,
04)Snow (09) Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson (00, 10)Song
of Solomon by Toni Morrison (81, 88, 96, 00, 04, 05, 06, 07)The
Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (77, 86, 97, 01, 07, 08)The
Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence (96, 04)The Stranger by Albert
Camus (79, 82, 86, 04)A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee
Williams (91, 92, 01, 04, 07, 08, 09)The Street by Ann Petry
(07)Sula by Toni Morrison (92, 97, 02, 04, 07, 08)Surfacing by
Margaret Atwood (05)The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (85, 91,
95, 96, 04, 05)TA Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (82, 91,
04, 08)Tarftuffe by Moliere (87)The Tempest by William Shakespeare
(71,78, 96, 03, 05, 07, 10)Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas
Hardy (82, 91, 03, 06, 07)Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zorah
Neale Hurston (88, 90, 91, 96, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08)Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe (91, 97, 03, 09, 10)The Things They Carried by Tim
O'Brien (04)A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (06)To Kill a
Mockingbird by Harper Lee (08)To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
(77, 86, 88, 08)Tom Jones by Henry Fielding (90, 00, 06, 08)Tracks
by Louise Erdrich (05)The Trial by Franz Kafka (88, 89, 00)Trifles
by Susan Glaspell (00)The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (92, 94,
00, 02, 04, 08)Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (85, 94,
96)Typical American by Gish Jen (02, 03, 05)VThe Vicar of Wakefield
by Oliver Goldsmith (06)WWaiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (77,
85, 86, 89, 94, 01, 09) The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
(06)We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates (07)Who's Afraid of
Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee (88, 94, 00, 04, 07)Wide Sargasso
Sea by Jean Rhys (89, 92, 05, 07, 08)Winter's Tale by William
Shakespeare (82, 89, 95, 06)Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor (82,
89, 95, 09)Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston (91, 08)The Women
of Brewster Place (09, 10) Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
(71,77, 78, 79, 83, 86, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 96, 97, 99, 01, 06, 07,
08, 10)ZThe Zoo Story by Edward Albee (82, 01)Zoot Suit by Luis
Valdez (95)
Entertainment WeeklyNew Classics List
1. The Road , Cormac McCarthy (2006) 2. Harry Potter and the
Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling (2000) ****cannot use on AP lit test3.
Beloved, Toni Morrison (1987)4. The Liars' Club, Mary Karr (1995)5.
American Pastoral, Philip Roth (1997)6. Mystic River, Dennis Lehane
(2001)7. Maus, Art Spiegelman (1986/1991) *****cannot use on AP lit
test8. Selected Stories, Alice Munro (1996) *****cannot use on AP
lit test9. Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier (1997)10. The Wind-Up
Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami (1997)11. Into Thin Air, Jon
Krakauer (1997)12. Blindness, Jos Saramago (1998)13. Watchmen, Alan
Moore and Dave Gibbons (1986-87)14. Black Water, Joyce Carol Oates
(1992)15. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers
(2000)16. The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood (1986)17. Love in
the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garca Mrquez (1988)18. Rabbit at Rest,
John Updike (1990)19. On Beauty, Zadie Smith (2005)20. Bridget
Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding (1998)21. On Writing, Stephen King
(2000) *****cannot use on AP lit test22. The Brief Wondrous Life of
Oscar Wao, Junot Daz (2007)23. The Ghost Road, Pat Barker (1996)24.
Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry (1985)25. The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
(1989)26. Neuromancer, William Gibson (1984)27. Possession, A.S.
Byatt (1990)28. Naked, David Sedaris (1997) ******cannot use on AP
lit test29. Bel Canto, Anne Patchett (2001)30. Case Histories, Kate
Atkinson (2004)31. The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien (1990)32.
Parting the Waters, Taylor Branch (1988)33. The Year of Magical
Thinking, Joan Didion (2005) *****cannot use on AP Lit test34. The
Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold (2002)35. The Line of Beauty, Alan
Hollinghurst (2004)36. Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt (1996)37.
Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (2003)38. Birds of America, Lorrie
Moore (1998)39. Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri (2000)40.
His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman (1995-2000)41. The House on
Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros (1984)42. LaBrava, Elmore Leonard
(1983)43. Borrowed Time, Paul Monette (1988)44. Praying for
Sheetrock, Melissa Fay Greene (1991)45. Eva Luna, Isabel Allende
(1988)46. Sandman, Neil Gaiman (1988-1996)47. World's Fair, E.L.
Doctorow (1985)48. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
(1998)49. Clockers, Richard Price (1992)50. The Corrections,
Jonathan Franzen (2001)51. The Journalist and the Murderer, Janet
Malcom (1990)52. Waiting to Exhale, Terry McMillan (1992)53. The
Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon (2000)
54. Jimmy Corrigan, Chris Ware (2000)55. The Glass Castle,
Jeannette Walls (2006)56. The Night Manager, John le Carr (1993)57.
The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe (1987)58. Drop City, TC
Boyle (2003)59. Krik? Krak! Edwidge Danticat (1995)60. Nickel &
Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich (2001) *****cannot use on AP lit test61.
Money, Martin Amis (1985)62. Last Train To Memphis, Peter Guralnick
(1994)63. Pastoralia, George Saunders (2000)64. Underworld, Don
DeLillo (1997)65. The Giver, Lois Lowry (1993)66. A Supposedly Fun
Thing Ill Never Do Again, David Foster Wallace (1997)67. The Kite
Runner, Khaled Hosseini (2003)68. Fun Home, Alison Bechdel
(2006)69. Secret History, Donna Tartt (1992)70. Cloud Atlas, David
Mitchell (2004)71. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Ann
Fadiman (1997)72. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the
Night-Time, Mark Haddon (2003)73. A Prayer for Owen Meany, John
Irving (1989)74. Friday Night Lights, H.G. Bissinger (1990)
*****cannot use on AP lit test75. Cathedral, Raymond Carver
(1983)76. A Sight for Sore Eyes, Ruth Rendell (1998)77. The Remains
of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)78. Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth
Gilbert (2006) *****cannot use on AP lit test79. The Tipping Point,
Malcolm Gladwell (2000)80. Bright Lights, Big City, Jay McInerney
(1984)81. Backlash, Susan Faludi (1991)82. Atonement, Ian McEwan
(2002)83. The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields (1994)84. Holes, Louis
Sachar (1998) *****cannot use on AP lit test85. Gilead, Marilynne
Robinson (2004) 86. And the Band Played On, Randy Shilts (1987)87.
The Ruins, Scott Smith (2006)88. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
(1995)89. Close Range, Annie Proulx (1999)90. Comfort Me With
Apples, Ruth Reichl (2001)91. Random Family, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
(2003)92. Presumed Innocent, Scott Turow (1987)93. A Thousand
Acres, Jane Smiley (1991)94. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser
(2001) *****cannot use on AP lit test95. Kaaterskill Falls, Allegra
Goodman (1998)96. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown (2003) *****cannot
use on AP lit test97. Jesus Son, Denis Johnson (1992)98. The
Predators' Ball, Connie Bruck (1988)99. Practical Magic, Alice
Hoffman (1995)100. America (the Book), Jon Stewart/Daily Show
(2004) ***** cannot use on AP lit test
*****a note about the notes:
The AP Literature and Composition test is based on works of
fiction (novels, plays, poetry), so any work of nonfiction will not
be tested on the exam. Additionally, some works on this list have
not yet been deemed recognized literary merit by the College Board.
It doesnt mean that you cant read the bookits just that you might
not be able to use it as one of your choices on the exam in
May.Plot summary:
Characteristics of the genre:
Biographical information about the author:
Historical information about the period of publication:
Title:___________________________
Author:_________________________
Date of Publication:_______________
Genre: __________________________
Describe the authors style:
An example that demonstrates the style:
Quote
Significance
Memorable Quotes (minimum of five)
Significance of the opening scene
Significance of the ending/closing scene
Old AP Questions (leave blank)
Possible Themes
Symbols
Setting
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