AP Literature and Composition 12
SUMMER READING ASSIGNMENTS
Mrs. Murdock/2013
1. Read one of the following books and write an essay responding to the following prompt from the 2013
AP Exam. Submit your typed essay to turnitin.com. Instructions for submitting your essay to turnitin.com
are on the back of this assignment sheet.
Book Choices
Breath, Eyes, Memory
All the Pretty Horses
Atonement
The Joy Luck Club
The God of Small Things
The Color Purple
The Namesake
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Cat’s Eye
Edwidge Danticat
Cormac McCarthy
Ian McEwan
Amy Tan
Arundhati Roy
Alice Walker
Jhumpa Lahiri
David Wroblewski
Khaled Hosseini
Margaret Atwood
Essay Prompt
A bildungsroman, or coming-of-age novel, recounts the psychological or moral development of its protagonist
from youth to maturity, when this character recognizes his or her place in the world. Select a single pivotal
moment in the psychological or moral development of the protagonist of a bildungsroman. Then write a wellorganized essay that analyzes how that single moment shapes the meaning of the work as a whole. Support
your response with specific text references, using MLA citations.
SUBMIT ESSAY TO TURNITIN.COM BY JULY 12, 2013.
2. Select and read a collection of poems by one of the following poets (or another of literary merit):
John Donne
Rita Dove
W. B. Yeats
Christina Rosetti
Seamus Heaney
Langston Hughes
Walt Whitman
Robert Hayden
E. A. Robinson
Eavan Boland
e. e. Cummings
Emily Dickinson
Keep a poetry journal (handwritten or typed) with responses to at least five poems. Your responses
should be in paragraph form and contain the following:
 The complete text of the poem.
 Discussion of the meaning of the work as a whole (with text references—quotes).
 Written analysis of literary devices (i. e., meter, rhyme, figurative language, structure, etc.) that
contribute to the meaning of the work as a whole (with text references—more quotes).
Poetry Journals are due on July 12, 2013.
3. Read both of the following books. During the first week of school, you will take a test and/or
do a timed writing on each. I have limited copies of these that I will check out for the summer.
Brave New World
Silas Marner
Aldous Huxley
George Eliot
Tests will be given the first week of school.
SUMMER READING ASSIGNMENTS ARE REQUIRED; IF YOU DO NOT COMPLETE THESE
ASSIGNMENTS, YOU MUST CONTACT MR. ASADORIAN BY JULY 12, 2013, TO DROP THE COURSE.
See me if you have any questions. If you need to contact me over the summer, email me at
Rmurdock@dps.k12.oh.us or call me at 643-1981. Have a great summer!
Instructions for Submitting to turnitin.com
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Go to http://www.turnitin.com .
Click “Create Account.”
Under “New students start here” click “Create a user profile.”
Under “Create a New Account” click “student.”
Fill in the required information.
Class ID: 6471503
Password: AP12