AP Language: Reading & Annotation Schedule
Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms: PERIOD 3 & 4
Reading Schedule:
*Anticipate close-reading quizzes for each reading assignment that will be announced on
the Teacher Page under “AP Language: Second Semester…”*
DUE DATE
READING
March 11, Wednesday
March 17, Tuesday
March 19, Thursday
March 24, Tuesday
March 26, Thursday
Book One
Book Two
Book Three
Book Four
Book Five
Annotation Guide: Annotate every chapter for one of the following. Diversify your annotations to
demonstrate a greater range of reading comprehension and inferences.
Thematic/Motif/ Symbolic Elements: What theme or motif is particularly relevant in the
chapter? Discuss its context and significance for your understanding of the text thus far (3-4
sentences).
Thematic Ideas:
1) Gender Roles: masculinity versus femininity
2) Dualities:
* Exploration of human resilience versus disillusionment
* Exploration of human capacity for love versus hate or apathy
3) The War Experience
4) Interlocking system of oppression: institutional and social hierarchies
Symbols/Motifs: (A few possibilities)
1) Nature - Rain
2) Catherine’s Hair
3) Games
Literary/Rhetorical Strategies: What rhetorical strategy does Hemingway employ effectively
and for what purpose? Investigate one page or section of the chapter (3-4 sentences).
Rhetorical Elements: (Explain corresponding effect or significance in your annotation)
1) Hemingway’s Prose Style: Declarative sentence; vivid, controlled imagery; shifts in
connotative diction
2) Other tropes (similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole) and other schemes
(parallelism, varied sentence structures and lengths)
* Use your Working Glossary!