AP Language Summer Assignment: Ms Rankin
2015-2016
Part 1: Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Essential Questions:
1. How does Mark Twain satirize the society in which he lives? (pre-Civil-war America)
2. Through his voice in Huck Finn, do you think Mark Twain is Racist?
Context: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was written by Mark Twain in 1884, using seven different dialects, during the literary time of Realism. Although he writes this tale after emancipation, the book is set prior to emancipation and satirizes the society of the time. Twain has been criticized as being racist, in both the way he portrays and voices the black characters of the novel, and in the other characters’ reactions to them. The “n-word” is used 219 times, which feels abrasive while reading the novel, but we must remember that the novel is one of Realism, and Twain was trying to portray and satirize the tenor of the times. Hence, in the way he uses language, is Twain reinforcing the stereotype, or is he satirizing the ignorance of his era? Look for clues as you read...
Task: Read the novel and annotate examples of... (post-it each in a different color)
Part 2: Free Choice Book (Idea links below...)
Essential Question:
How does the author use diction, ethos, logos, and pathos to convey the major themes presented in the text?
A) Read a book of your choice and pay attention to:
B) Annotate while reading...
&
Write a 2 page response about the items above after reading the text...
Essential Questions:
1. How does Mark Twain satirize the society in which he lives? (pre-Civil-war America)
2. Through his voice in Huck Finn, do you think Mark Twain is Racist?
Context: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was written by Mark Twain in 1884, using seven different dialects, during the literary time of Realism. Although he writes this tale after emancipation, the book is set prior to emancipation and satirizes the society of the time. Twain has been criticized as being racist, in both the way he portrays and voices the black characters of the novel, and in the other characters’ reactions to them. The “n-word” is used 219 times, which feels abrasive while reading the novel, but we must remember that the novel is one of Realism, and Twain was trying to portray and satirize the tenor of the times. Hence, in the way he uses language, is Twain reinforcing the stereotype, or is he satirizing the ignorance of his era? Look for clues as you read...
Task: Read the novel and annotate examples of... (post-it each in a different color)
- Twain’s racism
- his satire/ridicule of racism
- other satires of society
Part 2: Free Choice Book (Idea links below...)
Essential Question:
How does the author use diction, ethos, logos, and pathos to convey the major themes presented in the text?
A) Read a book of your choice and pay attention to:
- diction (word choice, connotations, syntax)
- themes (main ideas & how they are conveyed)
- ethos (credibility of source, ethical appeal, character of author)
- logos (logic, fact, evidence)
- pathos (appeal to emotion)
B) Annotate while reading...
&
Write a 2 page response about the items above after reading the text...
Free choice book idea links
Non-fiction Reading List - with covers and summaries
The Ultimate AP Language List
More Nonfiction
*AP recommended nonfiction books:
- IN COLD BLOOD by Truman Capote
- THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS by Rebecca Skloot
INTO THE WILD by John Krakauer
AMAZING GRACE by Jonathon Kazol
THE RIGHT STUFF by Tom Wolfe
FAST FOOD NATION by Eric Schlosser
NICKEL AND DIMED: ON (NOT) GETTING BY IN AMERICA by Barbara Ehrenreich
OVERACHIEVERS: THE SECRET LIVES OF DRIVEN KIDS by Alexandra Robbins
THERE ARE NO CHILDREN HERE by Alex Kotlowitz
KABUL BEAUTY SCHOOL: AN AMERICAN WOMAN GOES BEHIND THE VEIL by Deborah Rodriguez
THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER by Stephen Chbosky
BLACK HAWK DOWN by Mark Bowden
SHE SAID YES: THE UNLIKELY MARTYRDOM OF CASSIE BERNALL by Misty Bernall
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN by Frank Abagnale
THE ZOOKEEPER’S WIFE: A WAR STORY by Diane Ackerman
READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN by Azar Nafisi
DRESS YOUR FAMILY IN CORDUROY AND DENIM by David Sedaris
HOW STARBUCKS SAVED MY LIFE: A SON OF PRIVILEGE LEARNS TO LIVE LIKE EVERYONE
ELSE by Michael Gates Gill
ESCAPE by Carolyn Jessop
THE GLASS CASTLE by Jeannette Walls
BEAUTIFUL BOY: A FATHER’S JOURNEY THROUGH HIS SON’S ADDICTION by David Sheff
PROZAC NATION by Elizabeth Wurtzel
SEABISCUIT: AN AMERICAN LEGEND or UNBROKEN by Laura Hillenbrand
THE INNOCENT MAN by John Grisham
FREAKONOMICS by Malcolm Gladwell
THE PERFECT STORM by Sebastian Junger
The Ultimate AP Language List
More Nonfiction
*AP recommended nonfiction books:
- IN COLD BLOOD by Truman Capote
- THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS by Rebecca Skloot
INTO THE WILD by John Krakauer
AMAZING GRACE by Jonathon Kazol
THE RIGHT STUFF by Tom Wolfe
FAST FOOD NATION by Eric Schlosser
NICKEL AND DIMED: ON (NOT) GETTING BY IN AMERICA by Barbara Ehrenreich
OVERACHIEVERS: THE SECRET LIVES OF DRIVEN KIDS by Alexandra Robbins
THERE ARE NO CHILDREN HERE by Alex Kotlowitz
KABUL BEAUTY SCHOOL: AN AMERICAN WOMAN GOES BEHIND THE VEIL by Deborah Rodriguez
THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER by Stephen Chbosky
BLACK HAWK DOWN by Mark Bowden
SHE SAID YES: THE UNLIKELY MARTYRDOM OF CASSIE BERNALL by Misty Bernall
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN by Frank Abagnale
THE ZOOKEEPER’S WIFE: A WAR STORY by Diane Ackerman
READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN by Azar Nafisi
DRESS YOUR FAMILY IN CORDUROY AND DENIM by David Sedaris
HOW STARBUCKS SAVED MY LIFE: A SON OF PRIVILEGE LEARNS TO LIVE LIKE EVERYONE
ELSE by Michael Gates Gill
ESCAPE by Carolyn Jessop
THE GLASS CASTLE by Jeannette Walls
BEAUTIFUL BOY: A FATHER’S JOURNEY THROUGH HIS SON’S ADDICTION by David Sheff
PROZAC NATION by Elizabeth Wurtzel
SEABISCUIT: AN AMERICAN LEGEND or UNBROKEN by Laura Hillenbrand
THE INNOCENT MAN by John Grisham
FREAKONOMICS by Malcolm Gladwell
THE PERFECT STORM by Sebastian Junger
Another good list...
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A Death in the Family Pride and Prejudice Go Tell It on the Mountain Waiting for Godot The Adventures of Augie March Jane Eyre Wuthering Heights The Stranger Death Comes for the Archbishop The Canterbury Tales The Cherry Orchard The Awakening Heart of Darkness The Last of the Mohicans The Red Badge of Courage Inferno Don Quixote Robinson Crusoe A Tale of Two Cities Crime and Punishment Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An American Tragedy The Three Musketeers The Mill on the Floss Invisible Man Selected Essays As I Lay Dying The Sound and the Fury Tom Jones The Great Gatsby Madame Bovary The Good Soldier Faust Lord of the Flies Tess of the d'Urbervilles The Scarlet Letter Catch-22 A Farewell to Arms The Iliad The Odyssey The Hunchback of Notre Dame Their Eyes Were Watching God Brave New World A Doll's House The Portrait of a Lady The Turn of the Screw A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man The Woman Warrior To Kill a Mockingbird Babbitt The Call of the Wild The Magic Mountain One Hundred Years of Solitude Bartleby the Scrivener Moby Dick The Crucible Beloved A Good Man Is Hard to Find Long Day's Journey into Night Animal Farm Doctor Zhivago The Bell Jar Selected Tales Swann's Way The Crying of Lot 49 All Quiet on the Western Front Cyrano de Bergerac Call It Sleep The Catcher in the Rye Hamlet Macbeth A Midsummer Night's Dream Romeo and Juliet Pygmalion Frankenstein Ceremony One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Antigone The Grapes of Wrath Treasure Island Uncle Tom's Cabin Gulliver's Travels Vanity Fair Walden War and Peace Fathers and Sons The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Candide Slaughterhouse-Five The Color Purple The House of Mirth Collected Stories Leaves of Grass The Picture of Dorian Gray The Glass Menagerie To the Lighthouse Native Son |
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Agee, James Austen, Jane Baldwin, James Beckett, Samuel Bellow, Saul Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Camus, Albert Cather, Willa Chaucer, Geoffrey Chekhov, Anton Chopin, Kate Conrad, Joseph Cooper, James Fenimore Crane, Stephen Dante de Cervantes, Miguel Defoe, Daniel Dickens, Charles Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Douglass, Frederick Dreiser, Theodore Dumas, Alexandre Eliot, George Ellison, Ralph Emerson, Ralph Waldo Faulkner, William Faulkner, William Fielding, Henry Fitzgerald, F. Scott Flaubert, Gustave Ford, Ford Madox Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Golding, William Hardy, Thomas Hawthorne, Nathaniel Heller, Joseph Hemingway, Ernest Homer Homer Hugo, Victor Hurston, Zora Neale Huxley, Aldous Ibsen, Henrik James, Henry James, Henry Joyce, James Kingston, Maxine Hong Lee, Harper Lewis, Sinclair London, Jack Mann, Thomas Marquez, Gabriel García Melville, Herman Melville, Herman Miller, Arthur Morrison, Toni O'Connor, Flannery O'Neill, Eugene Orwell, George Pasternak, Boris Plath, Sylvia Poe, Edgar Allan Proust, Marcel Pynchon, Thomas Remarque, Erich Maria Rostand, Edmond Roth, Henry Salinger, J.D. Shakespeare, William Shakespeare, William Shakespeare, William Shakespeare, William Shaw, George Bernard Shelley, Mary Silko, Leslie Marmon Solzhenitsyn, Alexander Sophocles Steinbeck, John Stevenson, Robert Louis Stowe, Harriet Beecher Swift, Jonathan Thackeray, William Thoreau, Henry David Tolstoy, Leo Turgenev, Ivan Twain, Mark Voltaire Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. Walker, Alice Wharton, Edith Welty, Eudora Whitman, Walt Wilde, Oscar Williams, Tennessee Woolf, Virginia Wright, Richard |
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