AP LANG SUMMER READING
Read the following books or excerpts:
You can probably find cheap, used copies of these books if you pefer to read hard copies that you can annotate..
James Baldwin Notes of a Native Son
http://www2.csudh.edu/ccauthen/570f15/baldwin.pdf
Passages from Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
http://www.sjsu.edu/people/marcos.pizarro/courses/185/s1/Coates.pdf
Kozol Savage Inequalities (This is the entire text. Read at least four chapters)
https://archive.org/stream/SavageInequalities-Eng-JonathanKozol/savage-inequalities-jonathan-kozol_djvu.txt
NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS, AN AMERICAN SLAVE BY FREDERICK DOUGLASS
https://www.ibiblio.org/ebooks/Douglass/Narrative/Douglass_Narrative.pdf
You must have a composition book (or some slim notebook) to take notes. Start using it this summer. Do not use a three ring binder but have a notebook devoted to this class. I will sometimes collect it.
Include Title, Author, Genre and the take notes as you read. Your notes are your original writing. The computer will flag anything that looks like plagiarism. Put quotes in quotes.
Quotes – Choose one every few pages. Explain why the quote is meaningful.
Vocabulary – List and define in context any vocabulary that is new you.
A thematic statement includes: title of work, author, genre, tone, and theme.
The theme is the subject and the author’s point of view.
Write a thematic statement for each chapter of each work, if there are chapters.
Support your idea of the tone and theme using your quotes.
Write a thematic statement for every chapter of the Frederick Douglas book.
Support your idea of the tone and theme using your quotes.
A thematic statement includes: title of work, author, genre, tone, and theme.
The theme is the subject and the author’s point of view.
You can probably find cheap, used copies of these books if you pefer to read hard copies that you can annotate..
James Baldwin Notes of a Native Son
http://www2.csudh.edu/ccauthen/570f15/baldwin.pdf
Passages from Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
http://www.sjsu.edu/people/marcos.pizarro/courses/185/s1/Coates.pdf
Kozol Savage Inequalities (This is the entire text. Read at least four chapters)
https://archive.org/stream/SavageInequalities-Eng-JonathanKozol/savage-inequalities-jonathan-kozol_djvu.txt
NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS, AN AMERICAN SLAVE BY FREDERICK DOUGLASS
https://www.ibiblio.org/ebooks/Douglass/Narrative/Douglass_Narrative.pdf
You must have a composition book (or some slim notebook) to take notes. Start using it this summer. Do not use a three ring binder but have a notebook devoted to this class. I will sometimes collect it.
Include Title, Author, Genre and the take notes as you read. Your notes are your original writing. The computer will flag anything that looks like plagiarism. Put quotes in quotes.
Quotes – Choose one every few pages. Explain why the quote is meaningful.
Vocabulary – List and define in context any vocabulary that is new you.
A thematic statement includes: title of work, author, genre, tone, and theme.
The theme is the subject and the author’s point of view.
Write a thematic statement for each chapter of each work, if there are chapters.
Support your idea of the tone and theme using your quotes.
Write a thematic statement for every chapter of the Frederick Douglas book.
Support your idea of the tone and theme using your quotes.
A thematic statement includes: title of work, author, genre, tone, and theme.
The theme is the subject and the author’s point of view.