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 Edwidge Danticat

All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy

Atonement Ian McEwan

The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan

The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy

The Color Purple Alice Walker

The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle David Wroblewski

A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini

Cat’s Eye 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 well-organized 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 Christina Rosetti Walt Whitman Eavan Boland

Rita Dove Seamus Heaney Robert Hayden e. e. Cummings

W. B. Yeats Langston Hughes E. A. Robinson 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:

q  The complete text of the poem.

q  Discussion of the meaning of the work as a whole (with text references—quotes).

q  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 Aldous Huxley

Silas Marner 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 or call me at 643-1981. Have a great summer!

Instructions for Submitting to turnitin.com

AP LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION 12

1.  Go to http://www.turnitin.com .

2.  Click “Create Account.”

3.  Under “New students start here” click “Create a user profile.”

4.  Under “Create a New Account” click “student.”

5.  Fill in the required information.

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