Spring Semester 2008
To: Students Registered for Advanced Placement Literature and Composition 20082009
From: Millard West High School English Department
Summer Reading Assignment
To better prepare you for the Advanced Placement Literature course and the AP
exams, you will be required to read two selections from the attached list during
summer break. One selection must be 19th century or earlier; part of the assignment
measures your problem solving skills by putting the onus of making that distinction on
you.
The assignment has several parts:
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Complete the Major Works Data Sheet for each selection. This page can
be found on the Millard West English Department’s web page under the
AP tab (www.mpsomaha.org/mwhs/INDEX.HTM ). Print it and complete
it thoroughly. You must cite any secondary sources you use to complete
this. (15 points per data sheet)
Early in the semester you will write an essay in class addressing the
works studied over the summer. In depth reading and thinking about
each work is essential to a successful essay. ( 25 points)
These assignments are due the second week of the first semester you have
the course. Tentative due dates are Aug. 18, 2008 for first semester
students and Jan. 12, 2009 for third semester students. No late assignments
will be accepted.
Additionally, you will need to complete and return the Proposal Form prior to school’s
dismissal. See attachments. Don’t wait until July to see if you have the class after winter
break before you start this assignment. By doing a thorough job on the data sheets, you
will be prepared whenever you have the class. Relying on a Spark Notes or the like
indicates an intellectual laziness inappropriate for Advanced Placement level of work.
Apart from the attached list of selections, your reading Edith Hamilton’s Mythology, and
Thomas C. Foster’s How To Read Literature Like a College Professor will be helpful.
There will be a brief meeting Wednesday, May 28 in room 131 to answer any questions
you might have about this assignment.
The list:
Things Fall Apart-Chinua Achebe
Bless Me, Ultima—Rudolf Anaya
The Dollmaker—Harriette Arnow
Oryx and Crake—Margaret Atwood
Another Country, Go Tell It on the Mountain—James
Baldwin
Jane Eye—Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights—Emily Bronte
America Is In the Heart--Bulosan, Carlos
The Stranger, The Fall—Albert Camus
Don Quixote—Miguel Cervantes
The Awakening—Kate Chopin
Lord Jim, Victory—Joseph Conrad
Moll Flanders—Daniel Defoe
Bleak House, David Copperfield, Hard Times, Our
Mutual Friend—Charles Dickens
The Brothers Karamozov, Crime and Punishment,
Notes From the Underground—Feodor Dostoevsky
American Tragedy, Sister Carrie—Theodore Dreiser
Middlemarch, Mill On the Floss—George Eliot
Invisible Man—Ralph Ellison
Love Medicine—Louise Erdrich
Light In August, Sound and the Fury—Wm Faulkner
Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones—Henry Fielding
Madam Bovary--Gustave Flaubert
Passage to India—E.M. Forster
One Hundred Years of Solitude—Marquez Garcia
Jude the Obscure, Mayor of Casterbridge—Thomas
Hardy
Catch22—J. Heller
The Little Foxes—L.Hellman
The Sun Also Rises—E. Hemingway
Their Eyes Were Watching God—Zora Neal
Hurston
Brave New World—A. Huxley
Portrait of a Lady, Turn of the Screw—H. James
Volpone—B. Johnson
Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man—J. Joyce
The Woman Warrior—Maxine Hong Kingston
Obasan—J. Kogaw
Sons and Lovers—D.H. Lawrence
Main Street—S. Lewis
All the Pretty Horses—C.McCarthy
Benito Cereno—H. Melville
Paradise Lost—J. Milton
House Made of Dawn—N.Scott Momaday
Beloved, The Bluest Eye—T. Morrison
Pnin—V. Nabokov
We Were the Mulvaneys—J.C. Oates
The Stone Angel—C. O’Connell
Wise Blood—F. O’Connor
No-No Boy—J. Okada
Cry, The Beloved Country—A. Paton
Praisesong For the Widow--M. Paule
The Shipping News—A. Prouxl
Phedre—J. Racine
Wide Sargasso Sea—J. Rhys
Pamela—S. Richardson
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitch—M.Richler
The Caretaker—A. Roth
Ceremony—L. Silko
The Jungle—U. Sinclair
Tristam Shandy—L. Sterne
The Grapes of Wrath—J. Steinbeck
Gulliver’s Travels—J. Swift
The Joy Luck Club—A. Tan
Anna Karenina, The Death of Ivan Ilych—L. Tolstoy
The Warden—L. Trollope
The Centaur---J.Updike
Candide—Voltaire
Slaughterhouse Five—K. Vonnegut
The Color Purple—A. Walker
The Loved One—E. Waugh
Winter in the Blood—J. Welch
The Optimist’s Daughter—E. Welty
Miss Lonelyhearts—N. West
The Age of Innocence—E. Wharton
Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse—V. Woolf
Native Son—R. Wright