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ENGLISH IV AP LITERATURE & COMPOSITION
INDEPENDENT SUMMER READING LIST
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Independent Reading
Project must be completed for the following and books will be tested in this order:
DUE DATES: To be tested during the first four weeks of class.
Project is due at time of testing.
Tim O’Brien
The Things They Carried*
George Orwell
1984*
Aldous Huxley
Brave New World*
During the course
Ernest Hemingway
William Shakespeare
John Gardner
Mary Shelley
Farewell to Arms*
Macbeth*, King Lear*, Othello*, and/or Hamlet*
Grendel*
Frankenstein*
Choose one of the following
Thomas Hardy
Jude the Obscure; Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice* Sense and Sensibility
Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte
Wuthering Heights*
George Eliot
Silas Marner*
(*) Indicates class sets of books available for checkout
Students must complete an Independent Reading Assignment (IRA) for each of the assigned readings.
IRA materials are available in room 518, in guidance, in media center, or on the school website or via
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Good Reference works:
William Strunk, Jr. and E.B. White The Elements of Style (this is also available online at
http://www.bartleby.com)
A good college level dictionary
The American Heritage Dictionary
Abrams, M. H.
A Glossary of Literary Terms
Helpful websites:
Research: http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/index.html;
http://www.collegeboard.com/student/index.html?student
http://www.luminarium.org/lumina.htm
http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/
Writing: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/index.htm
http://writingcenter.gmu.edu/
http://library.cn.edu/wacn/toc.html
http://community-2.webtv.net/solis-boo/Grammar1/
http://www.chompchomp.com/menu.htm
Poetry: http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/28
Suggested Reading
Optional but highly recommended with 50 extra credit points available for reading any of the following
works. Please choose works that have not been read for other classes.
Extra Credit project.
Edith Hamilton’s
Mythology*
This work of mythological reference is invaluable for allusions in both poetry and fiction.
Become familiar with the Greek and Roman nomenclature and the stories in the work.
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William Shakespeare
The Tempest
Ernest Hemingway
Sun Also Rises; For Whom the Bell Tolls
Herman Melville
Moby Dick
Aeschylus
Orestia
Homer
Iliad* Odyssey*
Dante
Divine Comedy
Joseph Heller
Catch-22*
T.S. Eliot
The Wasteland
Yevgeny Zamyatin
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Ayn Rand
Fountainhead*, Atlas Shrugged*
These Ayn Rand books have an essay contest with papers due in April and September respectively
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Books will be checked from Room 518 until the end of the school year. They will then be
available from the media center. (Call ahead to find out summer hours.) Books will be
due 3 weeks after the first day of the school year to be turned in or renewed at that time.
Assignments may be handed in early for extra points.
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Independent Reading Assignment
Evaluation Sheet
Name: ___________________________________________________________
Title of Work ___________________________________________ (due_________)
Date handed in------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Stylistic Prose Devices (5 devices—50 points) …………………………………………………..
As you read, notice the stylistic techniques that the author uses in order to communicate
more effectively and powerfully.
Examples of stylistic techniques are point of view, tone, diction, dialect, syntax,
narrative pace, humor, satire, figurative language, imagery, irony, selection of detail,
and many more. Prepare a list of at least five (5) different examples of powerful prose techniques.
Define the term, cite the example from the text, and provide a brief analysis of how the author uses the
technique effectively. Analysis should be hand-written.
Reading Reactions (4 reactions—25 points each)………………………………………………….
Divide your book into fourths. After you finish reading each fourth, write a
reader response/reaction to that section. These responses should be handwritten
and limited to the space provided on the Reading Response Sheet. Please do not
write a plot summary. Naturally, you will include some plot, but I want to read your reactions to what is
happening in the novel and to the characters and their personalities and motivations, etc.
Prose Analysis (2 samples—50 points) …………………………………………………………….
Choose two (2) passages from the novel.[One passage from the first half of the novel
and one from the last] These two passages should be several sentences long—at least long
enough to get some feel or idea of the author’s style. Typed or photocopied (reduced to fit)
on the “Prose Analysis Sheet.” (Do not forget to include the page number.) Duplicate the
“Prose Analysis Sheet” using the format of your computer if you like. If your sheet does not look exactly
like mine, that is fine. In the analysis section of the “Prose Analysis Sheet,” write an analysis of the prose.
Talk about diction, imagery, syntax, choice of detail, figurative language, tone, and any other tools of the
writer that you consider significant. Discuss what makes this passage memorable to you and what makes
this passage representative of the author’s style. Analysis itself should be hand-written and be a solid ½
page long; if your writing is extra large, increase length; if you write very small (4pt font) increase the size
of your writing. Legibility counts.
Character, Setting, Symbols, Opening and Closing Lines, Themes (100 points) …………
List major characters and write descriptions. Relate how they impact the work and how
are they impacted upon by other relevant features of the work. Describe setting in detail
and list and describe significant symbols and their impact on the work, plot or characters. Describe opening
and closing lines and the impact or importance of each. List and describe all relevant themes in relation to
the work and/ or characters, setting etc.
Total…………………
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To be done on separate paper: format should be neat and orderly, conducive to use as a study guide
Stylistic Prose Devices Find and evaluate five (5) literary devices, i.e. metaphor, simile,
foreshadowing, hyperbole, irony, tone, point of view, allusion, symbolism, imagery,
paradox, flashback, etc. Set up: literary device, definition, sample from text, analysis of
how term is used and to what effect. Five other examples of different devices may be
done for extra credit of 2 points each.
Character, Setting, Symbols, Opening and Closing Scenes, Themes
List major characters and write descriptions. Relate how they impact the work and how
are they impacted upon by other relevant features of the work. Describe setting in detail
and list and describe significant symbols and their impact on the work, plot or characters.
Describe opening and closing scenes and the impact or importance of each.
List and describe all relevant themes in relation to the work and/ or characters, setting etc.
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Reader Response
Title of Book _______________________________________________ Total # of pages _____________
Part I pp.____ -- ____
Part II pp._____ -- ______
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Reader Response
Title of book __________________________________________
Part III pp.____ -- _____
Total # of pages __________
Part IV pp._____ -- _______
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Prose Analysis Sheet
Name ______________________________
Title & author of work ___________________________________________________________________
Text from first half of the novel --- pp._____
Analysis:
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Prose Analysis Sheet
Name ______________________________
Title & author of work ___________________________________________________________________
Text from second half of the novel--- pp. ____
Analysis: