Summer Reading. AP English. 2013 ... The Stranger by Albert Camus and Cat on
a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams; Term III: Alias Grace by. Margaret ...
Summer Reading AP English 2013 •
Read Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen, The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill, and Bee Season by Myla Goldberg. Write a comparative literary analysis exploring the connection between the portrayal of each protagonist and the time and place in which each literary work was set.
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The essay should include primary source textual evidence and a Works Cited page.
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Secondary source textual evidence is not required. However, if you use secondary sources, you must cite them.
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In addition, you will be required to hand in a Vocabulary Notebook. In this notebook, you will record unfamiliar words you encounter through your reading. You should record the word (underlined), part of speech, a definition, and the textual context with parenthetical documentation.
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You will need a total of 50 vocabulary words in your notebook.
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The Vocabulary Notebook MUST BE handwritten.
Follow the example for James Joyce’s short story “Araby”: 1.
Salver (noun): tray usually used for the presentation of letters or visiting cards: “Before a curtain, over which the words Café Chantant were written in colored lamps, two men were counting money on a salver” (Joyce 1151). GOOD LUCK! If you have any questions, please email Ms. Hines at
[email protected].
NOTE: Most of the readings we will complete during the 2013-2014 academic year will be from your textbook. However, there are eight titles you will need to secure on your own. Please visit your local library or bookstore for the following: Term I: Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser and Antigone by Sophocles; Term II: The Stranger by Albert Camus and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams; Term III: Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood and Othello by William Shakespeare; and The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton and Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett.
