2017-2018 AP English Language and Composition

Summer Requirements

Instructors:

Claire Yetko

Christine Shepherd

Thank you for accepting the challenge of AP English Language and Composition. To better prepare you for the new school year, you will need to complete all of the summer requirements. This work will make up the bulk of your grade for the first six weeks. I look forward to seeing you in class in August, and I hope your summer will be productive and restful.

Summer Contact Information

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us by email. Please note that this is the school email system and some or most junk mail is filtered. Type “AP summer work” in the subject line or your email may be ignored or tossed out.

Book

Samuel Cohen’s 50 Essays: A Portable Anthology, second edition

Note: This book is available in Century’s library and can be checked out before you leave for summer break. If you choose to purchase, you will be able to annotate and make notes in your copy, which I find very helpful. We will be using the book throughout the course of the year.

Assignments

The following assignments will be collected on Friday of the first week of school:

1. Analysis of 10 Essays from 50 Essays: A Portable Anthology

Read the 10 essays as indicated from the text. Use post-it notes to annotate the text if you are using a copy from the library. At the end of each essay that you read, write a minimum of one paragraph summarizing what you have read and an additional paragraph reflecting on it. Please note the difference between a summary and a reflection. A summary is an overview of important content. A reflection is your response to it (i.e., what do you think about it, what did it make you think about, what do you have to think about now, etc.). This may be typed (Times New Roman, size 12, black, double spaced, one inch margins) or written neatly in blue or black ink.

· Sherman Alexie, The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me (11)

· Barbara Lazear Ascher, On Compassion (56)

· Dave Barry, Lost in the Kitchen (82)

· Natalie Angier, Men, Women, Sex, and Darwin (29)

· Maya Angelou, Graduation (16)

· Susan Bordo, Never Just Pictures (85)

· Gloria Anzaldua, How to Tame a Wild Tongue (43)

· Joan Didion, On Keeping a Notebook (131)

· Annie Dillard, Death of a Moth (139)

· Lars Eighner, On Dumpster Diving (161)

2. Current Events

You will be watching or reading the news on a regular basis. Each week, you will reflect on a current news story in the form of a journal entry. This assignment must be done over the course of the summer, and cannot be rushed in the last minute. Please see the attached instruction page for guidance.

Current Events

Create and maintain a journal for current news articles You will write an entry every Monday (8 entries total) on a news article of your choice. Please choose news that covers current local or global issues instead of simple reporting such as what you might find on the sports page or the weather report. Each entry will begin with basic information about the news story followed by a summary and reflection of your own.

EXAMPLE:

Entry #1: Monday 6/19/17

News Source: CNN

Title of Article: UCLA shooting: Gunman's wife found dead in Minnesota

When: 6/18/17 (you’ll choose something more current than this. I’m only using it as an example to show what kind of content I expect for each entry)

Summary: Write a short summary of what the article or news story is about. Be objective.

Reflection: Write a thorough reflection about the article. Analyze what has happened, why it is important, why do you think it might have happened, who does this affect and what will it mean for them in the short term or long term.

Your journal entries can be typed (preferred) or hand-written. Be sure to label them clearly. You do not have to start a new page for every journal entry.

In addition to finding a specific current event each week, watch and read news regularly. Please come to class in August with a general working knowledge of what is going on the world and the general perceptions people have of this news.

Dates for entries (all Mondays during break): 6/26/17, 7/3/17, 7/10/17, 7/17/17, 7/24/17, 7/31/17, 8/7/17, 8/14/17

3. Literary Device Flashcards

Make flashcards for the included list of terms. Write the word on one side of the card. On the other side, write the literary definition. It will help you to use a dictionary of literary terms (such as the Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms—available for checkout in the library) since some of the works have a definition other than that for literature. Another good source is the website www.dictionary.com. It has icons that you can click on and hear how the word is pronounced. However, be sure it is the literary definition if you use this site.

AP Lang & Comp

Literary Terms

Please create a flashcard for each term

Yetko/Shepherd

1 Allegory

2 Alliteration

3 Allusion

4 Ambiguity

5 Anachronism

6 Analogy

7 Anaphora

8 Antithesis

9 Apostrophe

10 Appeals

11 Archetype

12 Aside

13 Asyndeton

14 Blank verse

15 Cacophony

16 Caesura

17 Catharsis

18 Character/flat, round

19 Characterization

20 Claim

21 Colloquial

22 Comedy

23 Conceit

24 Conflict

25 Connotation

26 Consonance

27 Dues ex machine

28 Denotation

29 Dialect

30 Diction

31 Dystopia

32 Elegy

33 Epigram

34 Epilogue

35 Epithet

36 Extended metaphor

37 Euphony

38 Fable

39 Farce

40 Flashback

41 Foil

42 Formal diction

43 Foreshadowing

44 Frame story

45 Fee verse

46 Hubris

47 Hyperbole

48 Iambic pentameter

49 Imagery

50 In medias res

51 Informal diction

52 Internal rhyme

53 Inversion

54 Irony/cosmic, dramatic, situational , verbal

55 Malapropism

56 Matriarchal society

57 Metaphor

58 Metonymy

59 Motif

60 Narrative structure

61 Nemesis

62 Ode

63 Onomatopoeia

64 Oxymoron

65 Pantomime

66 Parable

67 Paradox

68 Paralysis

69 Parallelism

70 Parody

71 Pastoral setting

72 Pathetic fallacy

73 Pathos

74 Patriarchal society

75 Periodic structure

76 Personification

77 Poetic justice

78 Point of view

79 Prologue

80 Protagonist

81 Puns

82 Realism

83 Rhetoric

84 Rite of passage

85 Sarcasm

86 Satire

87 Setting

88 Shift

89 Simile

90 Soliloquy

91 Sonnet

92 Style

93 Symbol

94 Synecdoche

95 Syntax

96 Theme t

97 Tone

98 Tragedy

99 Tragic flaw/hamartia

100 Verisimilitude

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