AP English Language and Composition. Reading Assignment
AP English Language and Composition
Summer Reading Assignment
Welcome to APE! You are about to begin a course unlike any other English class you have taken. Before beginning your summer reading assignment, you must revisit your ideas about critical reading. Follow the link below to the site “Critical Reading of an Essay’s Argument.”
While this site focuses on finding the central argument of an essay, the strategies suggested will benefit your reading of any text. Please annotate the article and have it on the first day of class.
(Link: http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/reading_basic.html)
Your reading assignment for the summer consists of two works: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and a work of your choice from an approved list. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn will be lent to you by the school; buy or borrow the non-fiction. You will need the work of nonfiction once or twice the first month of school.
For Huck Finn, you will keep a journal of 15 entries. The assignment is to be structured as follows:
1. Head your page: Your name English 11AP Class Period
2. Complete one entry for every three chapters (fifteen entries total).
3. Each entry should be numbered.
4. Each entry is to be preceded by the quote, typed in boldface, which has inspired the entry, and should be followed by the page number on which the quote appears. The page number should be in parentheses and the period ending the sentence follows the parentheses.
5. Label the type of response in boldface parentheses.
• 4 entries will focus on the characterization of a certain character. Please refer to specific sections of the passage provided in your discussion of character.
• 4 entries will focus on a theme you have identified in the novel. Remember that a single word is not a theme (i.e. ‘friendship’).
• 4 entries will focus on specific vocabulary that has commanded your attention. The word will contribute to character or theme.
• 3 entries will
Summer Reading Assignment
Welcome to APE! You are about to begin a course unlike any other English class you have taken. Before beginning your summer reading assignment, you must revisit your ideas about critical reading. Follow the link below to the site “Critical Reading of an Essay’s Argument.”
While this site focuses on finding the central argument of an essay, the strategies suggested will benefit your reading of any text. Please annotate the article and have it on the first day of class.
(Link: http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/reading_basic.html)
Your reading assignment for the summer consists of two works: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and a work of your choice from an approved list. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn will be lent to you by the school; buy or borrow the non-fiction. You will need the work of nonfiction once or twice the first month of school.
For Huck Finn, you will keep a journal of 15 entries. The assignment is to be structured as follows:
1. Head your page: Your name English 11AP Class Period
2. Complete one entry for every three chapters (fifteen entries total).
3. Each entry should be numbered.
4. Each entry is to be preceded by the quote, typed in boldface, which has inspired the entry, and should be followed by the page number on which the quote appears. The page number should be in parentheses and the period ending the sentence follows the parentheses.
5. Label the type of response in boldface parentheses.
• 4 entries will focus on the characterization of a certain character. Please refer to specific sections of the passage provided in your discussion of character.
• 4 entries will focus on a theme you have identified in the novel. Remember that a single word is not a theme (i.e. ‘friendship’).
• 4 entries will focus on specific vocabulary that has commanded your attention. The word will contribute to character or theme.
• 3 entries will