Advanced Placement Literature & Composition Summer Reading Assignment Overview
Explore the summer reading assignment for the Advanced Placement Literature & Composition class at Dwight Morrow High School. Choose poems and short stories, analyze their structure and themes, and annotate effectively to prepare for the upcoming school year.
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Dwight Morrow High School / Academies at Englewood Advanced Placement Literature/Composition Summer Reading Assignment 2024 Mr. Daniel Markert
Poetry Chose and print two of the poems from this list Clint Smith "The Drone" Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan Walt Whitman, Mannahatta * Alicia Keys New York * Ardienne Rich Diving into the Wreck Sterling Allen Brown Southern Cop *Read Whitman and Keys together as one poem Langston Hughes: Let America Be America Again Wilfred Owen: Dulce et Decorum Est Dylan Thomas: Do not go gentle into that good night Robert Frost: Mending Wall Sylvia Plath Blackberrying Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan All poems are available at poetryfoundation.org
Poetry Directions You are only completing the thesis paragraph. You will have two separate documents (one for each thesis) Annotate the poem as necessary to aid you Please use the template on the last slide. Make sure it is in MLA format and follow the file naming convention (first initiallastnamepoemname) as a word document. When complete print out AND save it to your computer and then you will attach it to the assignment link in Teams the first week of school. Prompt In the poem you chose the speaker compares/contrast/describes (theme). Write an essay in which you consider the structure and contrast in the poem and explain how they are conveyed by the poem's diction, imagery, and tone in relation to the theme.
Short Fiction Chose two of the short stories from this list The Sound of Thunder The Story of an Hour (Kate Chopin) (Ray Bradbury) Sonny s Blues (James Baldwin) Eleven (Sandra Cisneros) There Was Once (Margaret Atwood) The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas (Ursula K. Le Guin) Popular Mechanics (Raymond Carver) 2 B R 0 2 B (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.) Many of these are available at https://www.gutenberg.org
AP SIX BIG IDEAS FOR USE WITH THE SHORT FICTION 1. Character 2. Setting 3. Structure 4. Narration 5. Figurative Language 6. Literary Argumentation (Method by which you us the first five ideas)
Short Fiction Directions Please list one major / one minor character Details of setting Main plot point and structure notes Voice of narrator (asides, action, and stage directions) Important words/imagery/symbolic items What is being compared? You are completing one chart for each story. Print and annotate the stories as necessary to aid you Please use the chart template on the last slide. Make sure it is in MLA format and follow the file naming convention (first initiallastnamestoryname) as a word document. When complete print out AND save it to your computer and then you will attach it to the assignment link in Teams the first week of school.
Documents Poetry Short Fiction [Last Name] 1 Explain the function of character. Explain the function of setting. Explain the function of plot and structure. Explain the function of the narrator or speaker. Explain the function of word choice, imagery, and symbols. Explain the function of compariso n. Skill Categories [Your Name] Mr. Markert Evidence from text American Literature [1 or 2] [Date] [Title] Narrative stories do not require a Work Cited page. You start with your introduction and Explain move your story forward from there. It should be no longer than 3 pages. IT MUST BE GRAMMARLY CHECKED before submitting. After you check the grammar when you cut and paste it back into your document make sure you check ALL FORMATTING.
