HUMANITIES

2015 Summer Assignment(s)

HUMANITIES I

Read and annotate(using post-its)"Introduction: Pre-history and the Birth of Civilization"inTheHumanistic Traditionissued during SummerBridge. As you read, focus on the following essential question: What are the elements ofculture? Your annotations should include summary notes, questions and text to self, text toworld, text to text connections. Please note key dates and terminology. You will have a reading quiz on the first day of school. *Summer assignment attached – 16 pages.

HUMANITIES II

Purchase and read the following novel:

• Pudd’nhead Wilson (ISBN: 0553211587) by Mark Twain

Assignment: In novel, you must determine what the author is saying about the way in which culture is defined in our society. Highlight passages in each text that provide textual evidence of your conclusion. Return to school prepared to participate in a class discussion in which we will examine how culture has been defined in America throughout our history. You must come to class with your novels highlighted with notes in the margins. (This applies to e-Readers users too!). Students should be prepared for a reading assessment on the first day of class.

HUMANITIES IV

Purchase and read the following novel:

• The Alchemist,Paulo Coehlo

There will be a formal assessment the first day of class

AP LITERATURE

Purchase and read the following novel:

• Weep Not Child,NgugiWaThiongo

There will be a formal assessment the first day of class

AP LANGUAGE AND COMPOSITION

Assignment number 1:All Juniorswill be expected to read Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers: The Story of SuccessISBN-13: 9780316017930. This text will be discussed in various ways across disciplines in your classes. In AP Language and Composition, we will use the text as a means to define good writing, as an example of argument, and as an examination of supporting evidence and structure.

Assignment number 2: Read and annotate Thomas C. Foster’sHow to Read Literature Like a Professor. Be sure to get the revised edition:ISBN-13: 9780062301673.We will use this text throughout the year as a guide for interpretation, allusion, symbolism, motifs, and more.

Assignment number 3: Choose and readonetext listed below.Compose an essaythat reflects how the style and form of the work makes an impact on the author’s purpose.Avoid plot summary.This essay must be a minimum of four pages long (typed), must follow MLA documentation and rules, and is due the first day of class.

•Autobiography

Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez

•Fiction

Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

•Political Writing

The Souls of Black Folk by WEB DuBois

•Science and Nature Writing

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

You have three texts to read and an essay to write. Please be sure to start your work no later than mid-July in order to complete all assignments by the 1stday of school.