Summer Reading Instructions
Advanced Placement Literature and Composition
Outside Reading Books (ORBs) & Summer Reading Instructions- 2010-2011
Patrice Norris- Instructor Email: elwyn.norris@mnps.org
READ THIS HANDOUT VERY CAREFULLY BECAUSE THE INSTRUCTIONS ARE QUITE SPECIFIC
Part I. All AP Literature students are required to read How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster. You will refer to this book throughout the year. The book is very entertaining and very informative as an introduction to studying motifs and patterns in literature. PLEASE READ THIS BOOK BEFORE READING THE TWO NOVELS!
Viewing and writing assignment for HTRLLAP:
The following short writing assignments will let you practice your literary analysis and they will help me get to know you and your literary tastes. Whenever I ask for an example from literature, you may use short stories, …show more content…
Each journal should be a minimum FIVE TYPED pages WRITING IN THE FIRST PERSON IS ENCOURAGED!
Requirements: these components must be included in your journals
*Choose 8-10 passages (quotes) from the novel you find particularly powerful, striking, and important. Discuss these passages and the effect they have on the meaning of the novel as a whole. Convince me of their importance!
*Apply two or more chapters from How to Read Literature Like a Professor to your novel and discuss the way the writer uses these motifs and the effect they have on overall meaning. Provide proof from the text for support.
*Must show plentiful and meaningful personal connections. I am interested in your reactions to your reading. Explore!
*Make connections between the novel and other literary works you have read. Discuss these connections.
*If you have seen a filmed version of your book, you need to include an evaluation of the film as it compares to the book. Keep in mind that it is very rare for a film to be exactly like the book. Never make that
Outside Reading Books (ORBs) & Summer Reading Instructions- 2010-2011
Patrice Norris- Instructor Email: elwyn.norris@mnps.org
READ THIS HANDOUT VERY CAREFULLY BECAUSE THE INSTRUCTIONS ARE QUITE SPECIFIC
Part I. All AP Literature students are required to read How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster. You will refer to this book throughout the year. The book is very entertaining and very informative as an introduction to studying motifs and patterns in literature. PLEASE READ THIS BOOK BEFORE READING THE TWO NOVELS!
Viewing and writing assignment for HTRLLAP:
The following short writing assignments will let you practice your literary analysis and they will help me get to know you and your literary tastes. Whenever I ask for an example from literature, you may use short stories, …show more content…
Each journal should be a minimum FIVE TYPED pages WRITING IN THE FIRST PERSON IS ENCOURAGED!
Requirements: these components must be included in your journals
*Choose 8-10 passages (quotes) from the novel you find particularly powerful, striking, and important. Discuss these passages and the effect they have on the meaning of the novel as a whole. Convince me of their importance!
*Apply two or more chapters from How to Read Literature Like a Professor to your novel and discuss the way the writer uses these motifs and the effect they have on overall meaning. Provide proof from the text for support.
*Must show plentiful and meaningful personal connections. I am interested in your reactions to your reading. Explore!
*Make connections between the novel and other literary works you have read. Discuss these connections.
*If you have seen a filmed version of your book, you need to include an evaluation of the film as it compares to the book. Keep in mind that it is very rare for a film to be exactly like the book. Never make that