Your first assignment is to sign up for my Reminds or follow me on Twitter ASAP because I will be sending further instructions and making myself available to you over the summer through these. If you can't sign up, then you must see me immediately. To sign up for my Reminds, text @seagle to 81010 or join through the Remind app (check out their web page for other options <https://www.remind.com/join>). You can follow me on Twitter @seaglesclass. Your second assignment is to join the 2017 AP Literature class on Google Classroom using join code 86p4s0.

My expectation is that you will be reading something this summer in preparation for the AP English Literature test. With that in mind I am assigning you a choice of one of these six books: (1) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, (2) Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, (3) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, (4) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, (5) The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, or (6) The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. Your book must be read by the start of the school year, and your first writing assignment will be based on your book. You will increase your chances of doing well on your first assignment by reading more than one of these books. Please find copies of the literature in a local library, a bookstore, or on the Internet. I suggest you read at least an hour every day and make reading time sacred: turn off the phone and find a quiet place with few distractions.

My class prepares you to take the AP Literature test. In addition to the 50 or so multiple-choice questions from short passages from novels and poems, the AP English Literature Exam will give you three essay prompts. The first (Q1) will ask you to deeply analyze a poem or two for poetic devices and qualities. The second (Q2) will ask you to deeply analyze a passage from a short story, novel, play, or literary nonfiction essay for its literary qualities. The third (Q3) will ask you to write about a play or novel that you have read in response to some element that the prompt will give you. In most cases, you must show how that element ties into the overall meaning (theme) of the novel. The Q3 will also give you a list of works that the AP test designers feel would be good books to use for that particular prompt. I've included a frequency list below of the books that have been suggested on the test. You should probably read these in your free time. This list is not my own work.

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Summer Reading Assignment

When you read, therefore, make sure you are memorizing who the characters are, what the themes are, and what the major symbols are. You also want to look for short passages that show off the literary qualities of your novel or play and to think about how and why an author is making the literary choices that they are. Your summer assignment will help you think through those things for your novel. Above all, enjoy the book that you are reading. It would be a mistake to just rush through the literature.

Your assignment for your novel is to answer the three questions below associated with your novel and choose one passage from the book that you feel best illustrates a technique or purpose that the author is trying to accomplish in the novel. You MAY NOT use a passage that is already part of or related to one of your three questions. Type the passage out and explain what makes that passage noteworthy. Passages should be about 500 to 1000 words. You will put the questions and answers to your novel and the passage and response to the passage in a single Google document with your full name and "Summer Assignment" as the title. Then, upload your document into TurnItIn.com using the class ID (12802808) and the join enrollment password (seagle). Use your existing TurnItIn.com username. If you have never used TurnItIn.com, create an account using your own personal email. If you have questions, send me a text on Remind, a Tweet at @seaglesclass, or an email at <tseagle@cvusd.k12.ca.us>.

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 1. Discuss the role of each of the male influences or father figures in Pip's like: Joe, Jagger's, Matthew Pocket, Abel Magwitch. 2. Support or refute the following statement by citing incidents from the story: Money is necessary for a person to live a happy

life but does not, in itself, guarantee happiness. 3. Discuss Dickens's use of light and dark as symbols in the story. Find an example of this symbol in each of the three parts of

the book.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 1. Discuss the role of each of the father figures in Huck's life: Pap, Jim, Judge Thatcher, the duke, and the king. 2. Discuss Twain's use of the Mississippi River as a symbol through the the novel. Find examples of at least three different

situation in which the river represents various aspects of life. 3. Discuss the use of weather to foreshadow events and to add mood to scenes throughout the book.

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 1. Consider how Bronte employs the themes of sanity and madness, sight and blindness, or fire and ice throughout the novel. 2. Explain how Bronte makes character reappearances important to the structure of the novel and to the novel as a whole.

Consider the absence and reappearance of these characters: Helen Burns, Bessie Leaven, Mrs. Reed, Edward Rochester, and St. John Rivers.

3. Explain the importance of the five places Jane lives (Gateshead Hall, Lowood Instituition, Thornfield, Moor House/Marsh End, and Ferndean), the significance of each place name, and how each place name represents the quality of Jane's life at each home.

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 1. What different attitudes toward "female accomplishment" does the novel present? To what extent do these different attitudes

function as a critical commentary on female education and gender relations? 2. Which characters can be considered dynamic characters? Which characters do not change over the course of the novel and

why? 3. How does the novel present attitudes of jealousy, envy, and greed, particularly with regard to the relationship between the

Lucas family and the Bennets, Miss Bingley and Elizabeth, Mr. Darcy and Mr. Wickham?

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 1. One of Fitzgerald’s strengths comes from his imagistic style. Explore how he uses images to create contrasting moods at both

Buchanan’s palace and Gatsby’s mansion. How does he bring the Buchanan palace to life? How does he create an amusement park atmosphere at Gatsby’s mansion? How do the moods contribute to the theme of new money vs. old money?

2. Fitzgerald clearly draws parallels between geography, social values, and characters. What social values do West Egg, East Egg, New York City, the East, the West, and the Valley of Ashes represent? Which characters are associated with each?

3. Write an interpretation of the meaning of the new, real books on Nick’s library shelves. Find the text and discuss the nuances implied by the titles of the books and the implications of the similes used to describe them.

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The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 1. Brett Ashley can be described as a femme fatale, a “fatal woman” whose seductive charms put men in compromising

positions. In other words, by their association with her, men are often put in some sort of danger or they must compromise something important. In the novel, Brett is linked to several male characters: Jake, Cohn, Mike and Romero. How does the femme fatale, Brett Ashley, affect each of these men? What does each compromise because of her? Is there one who is unwilling to be affected by her charms?

2. In the bullfight, each participant has a specific role. Within the novel, we can see the bullfight as a metaphor for the behavior of the characters. With this in mind, who can be seen as the matador? Who is the bull? Whom does the bull gore, or injure? Who is the steer (castrated bull)? Think about the scenes in which Jake describes the unloading of the bulls and the bullfights themselves.

3. Writers who fled to Europe and especially Paris after World War I were known as expatriates. American expatriates such as Hemingway felt that they needed new inspiration for their craft, and that America no longer provided that inspiration. Critics have suggested that expatriates were running away from their home countries just as much as they were running to a new place. In the novel, we see a group of these expatriates doing a great amount of drinking. As well, there is a fair amount of sexual promiscuity in the novel. How can these acts be seen as attempts to escape? From what is each character attempting to escape? Does the escape work? Why or why not? What are the consequences of these behaviors? Are there other attempts at escape in the novel, besides drinking and sex? Are they successful or unsuccessful?

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Source of list:

https://aghsguidance.pbworks.com/f/AP+English+Literature+and+Composition+-+Works+of+Literary+Merit+-+Frequently+Suggested+Titles.pdf