Language and Composition Summer Assignment (Junior AP)
1.
Advanced Placement Critical Reading and Writing Skills: Please find attached a practice
Advanced Placement exam. Complete this exam to the best of your ability. Allow
yourself 60 minutes for the multiple choice questions, and 135 minutes for the essays.
Following the essays, you will find AP scoring rubrics for each question. Score your
own essay. Write your score on the top of each essay. I will collect the summer packet
on the first day of class. You will receive credit for completing the assignment, 20 points
for a complete packet, but I will not be grading the packet. I will use your responses for
data collection purposes, that is, establishing your level of skill. Note: If you wish to
complete this prior to summer vacation, please feel free to do so and turn it in.
2.
Reading: I have selected two texts from the Romantic period of American Literature.
Early in the semester, we will be writing an in-class response to The Narrative of the Life
of Frederick Douglass. This topic will be writer’s purpose, tone, and audience, and the
rhetorical devices he employs to satisfy all three. This essay will be graded using the
rubric for Student Performance #1. Later in the quarter, we will be using The Adventures
of Tom Sawyer as a contrast to our study of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Fiction:
Twain, Mark – The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Non-Fiction:
Douglass, Frederick – Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Bring this to class on the day listed on the assignment sheet. We will work with it.
3.
Background: If for some reason you have not read the texts listed below, you may want
to. We refer to them often in the class.
Salinger, J.D. – The Catcher in the Rye
Homer – The Odyssey
Golding, William – Lord of the Flies
4.
Reading Ahead: If you would like to get a jump on the extensive reading we will be
doing next year, below is a list of books in the order that we read them.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel – The Scarlet Letter
Twain, Mark – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Chopin, Kate – The Awakening
Hurston, Zora Neale – Their Eyes Were Watching God
Hemingway, Ernest – A Farewell to Arms
Fitzgerald, F. Scott – The Great Gatsby
Steinbeck, John – The Grapes of Wrath
Kesey, Ken – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest