Summer Work
Advanced Placement: English Language and Composition
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Collegeboard.com
Find English Language and Composition Course Description (pdf)
Print pages 4-48
Read and annotate
Perform practice multiple-choice tests
o Score yourself honestly (answers are in the document)
o Record score as a pre-assessment and bring to class in September
Read the sample question section to become familiar with exam
o Analysis Essay Questions 1and 2
o Argument Essay Questions 3 and 4
o Synthesis Essay Question 5 and 6
For II and III use attached graphic organizers
II.
 Rhetorical Analysis of essays (Postmarked by July 10th)
o “Politics and the English Language” by George Orwell
o “Where I lived and What I lived For” by Henry David Thoreau
o President Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address
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Read two selections from the attached reading list
o Notes (Will be collected in September)
o Rhetorical Analysis (Postmarked by August 14th)
Mail your materials to:
Middletown High School
C/O Daniel Raucci
200 LaRosa Lane
Middletown, CT 06457
Remember:
1. Letters must be mailed and postmarked
2. Include your full name on each piece
3. Be sure to use enough postage
Reading List
Advanced Placement: English Language and Composition
Read for pleasure, but you should take careful and thoughtful notes as you read. Use any
method that you like to take these notes. Please bring these to class at the start of the new
school year.
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
Couldn’t Keep it to Myself edited by Wally Lamb
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
Reading Lolita in Tehran by by Azar Nafisi
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time by
Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
What is the What by Dave Eggers
The World is Flat by Thomas L Friedman
Anything by:
 Bill Bryson
 David Sedaris
In addition, please bring in a list of other books, collections, or anthologies that you read
over the summer.