Welcome to the world of Advanced Placement English Literature.  In preparation for the class to begin in the fall, you have the opportunity to read and view several works of literature over the summer.  Our study will focus on world cultures with a strong emphasis on Shakespeare.

Create a reading record card for each of the summer readings/viewings including:
Title, author (date born/died/where lived)
Publication date of work (original, not current edition)
Setting: time/place/atmosphere
Theme: in one sentence please
Brief plot synopsis-1 to 2 sentences
Characters (with brief descriptions, identify protagonists, antagonists)
Major symbols /systems or allusions
Distinguishing characteristics of the work
Your personal response to the content and style of the work.

These will be collected on the first day of class and will comprise your initial grade.


**If the class is only 2 terms, your summer reading assignment will differ;  instead of the 3 independent novels, you will read The Brothers Karamazov
Regardless of two or three terms, the movie assignment holds. 
You will be accountable for checking Moodle.  I will give you the pass code. 
Make sure you have supplied me with your summer e mail address and that you have signed out a copy of Brothers. 
Choose any three novels from:

In addition watch at least three movies and fill out viewers cards on them.

Austen, Jane Pride and Prejudice (movie version available)
Emma( movie version available)
Sense and Sensibilities(movie version available)
Bronte, Emily Wuthering Heights(movie version available)
Camu, Albert The Fall
Conrad, Joseph Lord Jim
Dickens, Charles Great Expectations
Tale of Two Cities
David Copperfield
Elllison, Ralph Invisible Man
Fitzgerald, F.Scott The Great Gatsby*(Movie version available)
Flaubert, Gustave Madame Bovary
Forster, E.M. Passage to India
Golding, Willilam Lord of the Flies*(movie version available)
Hardy, Thomas Return of the Native
Heller, Joseph Catch 22
Hemingway, Ernest For Whom the Bell Tolls
Farewell to Arms
Hugo, Victor Les Miserables (movie version available summer 98)
James, Henry Portrait of a Lady (movie version available)
Lawrence, D.H. Sons and Lovers
Melville, Herman Moby Dick (movie version available)
Orwell, George 1984
Pasternak, George Dr. Zhivago(movie version available)
Shakespeare, William Much Ado about Nothing (movie version)
Othello (movie version)

Solzhenitsyn, A First Circle
Cancer World
Steinbeck, John Grapes of Wrath*(movie version available)
Twain, Mark Huckleberry Finn
Walker, Allice Color Purple (movie version available)
Waugh, Evelyn Brideshead Revisited
Power of One (Movie version preferred)

Items with an (*) should have been read in previous English classes; if you have not read them, please add them to your summer list.  These are additional items. 

Since so many of the works we are studying have Biblical references within, Please familiarize yourself with the following areas of the Bible:
from King James version
Genesis
Matthew
Psalms
Mark
Luke
John
in addition to stories of Old Testament heroes.





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In preparation for reading All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren, you are responsible for creating a scrapbook of any political candidate running in the 2008 election. 
Pick one candidate and find the following information:
 Biographical information
 Family life / education / formal training
 Voting record / platform
 Editorials about candidate (5)
 Place this information into a scrapbook format
 A one page summary about what you think about the candidate and why you would vote for him/her
Your work will be collected the first day of class









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