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Advanced Placement English 2002


Below is the summer reading list for Advanced Placement English students 2002-2003. Nothing that you can do to prepare for the 2003 A.P. English Examination will be as valuable as reading. Therefore, do not waste time, money, or energy looking for short cuts. Consider the assigned reading a basic minimum and read as extensively as you possibly can concentrating on works of acknowledged literary merit. Please have The Elements of Style with you and be prepared to discuss it on the first day of school in September. Thank you.

If you have any questions or comments, please stop by 313 any day before or after school. Have a nice summer, but don't even think of going to the beach without Irving, O'Brien, O'Neill, etc.

Read all of the following books.

A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving
The Oresteian Trilogy Aeschylus
Mourning Becomes Electra Eugene O'Neill
The Elements of Style William Strunk and E.B. White

Read three of the following books.

Breakfast of Champions Kurt Vonnegut
All the King's Men Robert Penn Warren
Going After Cacciato Tim O'Brien
The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison
Empire Falls Richard Russo
Ceremony Leslie Silko

For each book that you read, take notes in your notebook to be handed in on the first full school day in the fall. Include such things as character identifications, themes, conflicts, and your personal responses to each book.

 

From: Ms. Keane Room 313


 


 


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