Archbishop O'Hara High School
Advanced Placement English Language and Composition Grade 11
Advanced Placement United States History Grade 11
Summer 2014 Reading and Writing
Mrs. Schaffer / Ms. Wright
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We look forward to teaching you next school year and want to work with you
during the summer. Email us, call us, or stop by school to see us and visit about
the readings. Most of the time we can help you through a difficult-to-understand
passage.
The AP classes are fast paced and you must keep up with the intensive reading
schedule. If you are unable to complete these summer assignments, we will move
you out of AP English Language and Composition and AP US History and into
regular American Literature and US History. Let us know if you are having trouble
or second thoughts.
Happy reading and have a great summer. We look forward to hearing from you
this summer.
FOR AP US HISTORY. Please sign up for twitter for AP US History and follow me at
aleew55. This is a requirement for AP US History. I will tweet information that
helps with the AP US History exam and information of general interest. Please
follow my blog at http://historymattersatohs.blogspot.com
# 1 Assignment : (Every Friday from June 13 through August 15 – choose 5)
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/01/our-fifth-annual-new-york-times-summerreading-contest/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=1&
The link above will take you to the “Fifth Annual New York Times Summer Reading
Contest.” Here’s how it works:
Every Friday from June 13 through Aug. 15 we’ll pose the same question: What interested
you most in The Times this week? You will become a contestant for those 5 weeks (you
may enter more weeks if you wish) and can choose from any Times article, essay, video,
interactive or photograph published in 2014, on any topic you like — whether Ukraine, the
universe or ugly selfies.
Every Tuesday The Times staff chooses winners, and publishes them on the blog. Email us
your responses each time you enter. YOU MUST SEND THEM TO US TO RECEIVE
CREDIT!
There are details and tips on the webpage so check it out and begin reading The New York
Times at http://nytimes.com .
# 2 Assignment : Nonfiction – Due July 15 – The AP English Language and
Composition course suggests a strong emphasis on nonfiction. Because many of the
selections that you are required to read during the school year are fictional novels, we are
asking you to read, review, and present a nonfiction work. Nonfiction includes the following
genres: autobiography, biography, memoir, and all other accounts that are true.
Assignment: Choose a full-length, nonfiction work. Read it, and then complete a book
review as a Photo Story presentation, using iMovie and send it to both of us. Although you
may browse in a bookstore to choose a book, you may also conduct a Google search of the
best-selling nonfiction novels to gain ideas and read reviews. Please remember, this is a
college-level course. Therefore, your book selection should be appropriate for a college-level
course (no Hatchet by Gary Paulsen level books ). If you are unsure of the appropriateness
of your book selection, please e-mail either Ms. Wright or Mrs. Schaffer to gain approval.
Below is a list of suggested nonfiction books:
A Girl Named Zippy – Haven Kimmel
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
A River Runs Through It – Norman MacLean
A Walker in the City - Alfred Kazin
ADHD and Me: What I learned from Lighting Fires at the Dinner Table – Blake E.S. Taylor
and Honos-Webb
An American Childhood – Annie Dillard
Beautiful Boy by David Sheff
Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden
Brainiac – Ken Jennings
Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to
Harvard – Liz Murray
The Butler: A Witness to History – Wil Haygood
Catch Me If You Can by Frank Abagnale
Chew on this: Everything You Don’t Want to Know about Fast Food by Charles Wilson &
Schlosser
Coming of Age in Mississippi—Anne Moody
Dead Man in Paradise by J.B. MacKinnon
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
Electroboy by Andy Behrman
Escape by Carolyn Jessup
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
Firebird: A Memoir - Mark Doty
Freakonomics by Malcolm Gladwell
Growing Up—Richard Baker
Home before Morning by Lynda Van Devanter with Christopher Morgan
How Starbucks Saved My Life by Michael Gates Gill
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents—Julia Alvarez
Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez - Richard Rodriguez
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
It’s All Over But the Shoutin’—Rick Bragg
Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez
Kaffir Boy - Mark Mathabane
Life Inside the Bubble: Why a Top-Ranked Secret Service Agent Walked Away from it all –
Dan Bongino
Lost Boy by Dave Pelzer
Lucky by Alice Sebold
Memoirs of a Catholic Girlhood - Mary McCarthy
Miss American Pie by Margaret Sartor
Moving Violations by John Hockenberry
On Writing by Stephen King
Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
She Said Yes by Misty Bernall
Teacher Man by Frank McCourt
The Girl in the Green Sweater by Krystyna Chiger
The Glass Castle: A Memoir—Jeannette Walls
The Innocent Man by John Grisham
The Other Side of the Ice: One Family’s Treacherous Journey Negotiating the NW PassageTheobald, Kreda
The Overachievers by Alexandra Robbins
The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
The Road from Coorain--Jill Ker Conway
The Year the Colored Sisters Came to Town by Jacqueline Guidry
The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
Three Little Words by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
Tweak by Nic Sheff
Wait Til Next Year—Doris Kearns Goodwin
Warriors Don’t Cry - Melba Pattillo Beals
Photo Story Presentation
Featuring your selected nonfiction
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To meet minimum requirements, 20 pictures must be used to feature your non-fiction
novel. Create a folder and save various pictures from the Internet or digital camera.
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Text and/ or voice must be added to narrate your presentation. Be sure the text you
include is clearly visible. If you have the capabilities to add voice narration that will
also work.. Also, add music to your presentation by either selecting a song that has
relevance to the novel or by creating your own musical accompaniment.
Requirements
Your Photo Story presentation must:
• Identify title and author
• Establish setting
• Introduce people in the work
• Tell about the book’s subject
• Provide author’s bio-information
• Identify author’s purpose and tone
• Comment on author’s writing style
# 3 Assignment : Due August 1. Email to both of us.
Watch the following three movies and answer the questions below each movie. Download
the questions and print them out or copy and paste them into a document and email the
document to both of us. Due: August 1st.
#1 I ron Jaw ed Angels Study Questions
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What is your reaction to what happened at the parade? Was it a good or bad thing? Explain.
Respond to the quote: “Those in power should be held responsible not only for what they do
but for what they do not do.”
What does Alice Paul decide to do when NAWSA leaders basically call her a thief? Why is this
important?
Why does Alice go home after what happened to Inez? Why does Alice feel so bad about her
death?
Would you have picketed even though the country was at war? Why or why not? Thoroughly
explain your position.
Why did Alice Paul go on a hunger strike? Why did the prison respond by bringing her to the
mental ward to speak to a doctor?
What does the prison start doing to Alice when her followers join her in the hunger strike?
What is your reaction to this?
What happens when the news that force feeding has been going on in the prison gets to the
papers and the public? What happens to the suffragettes once the news got out? What is
President Wilson’s reaction?
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From the Seneca Falls Convention to when the amendment was put in the Constitution, how
long did it take for women to get the vote? Were you surprised by the tactics used by the
government to try to silence the suffragettes? Why or why not?
What is your reaction to the movie as a whole? What happened to the arrests of the
suffragettes? Is this justice?
#2 The Great Debaters
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What did the members of the debate team have in common? What made them
different? What made them come together as a team?
What was the relationship like between James and his father? How did the fact that
James’ father was a preacher and a professor affect him?
Why was it so important to Professor Tolson that the Wiley College debate team get an
invitation to debate against Harvard?
Professor Tolson wrote the arguments for all the debates while the students
researched them. Do you think that was the right thing for him to do? How did it
impact their preparation for the Harvard debate?
How did the stress of competing at Harvard affect the team?
Both Samantha and Henry temporarily deserted the team during the debate season.
How did that affect the team? Should they have been allowed to return?
How did Professor Tolson’s involvement in the organization of the unions affect the
debate team? Was it fair? Should he have done anything differently?
Samantha Booke was one of the few black women to attend college during the time of
this movie. What do you think were some of the challenges for her?
Hamilton Burgess left the debate team because he did not agree with the work
Professor Tolson was doing with the unions. What made him come to this decision?
How did his decision affect the team?
What impact did the viewing of the lynching have on the members of the team? Did
they do the right thing by fleeing the scene or should they have stayed to stand up for
the man who was lynched like Henry wanted to do?
Why do you think Professor Tolson got involved in working with the Southern Tenant
Farmers union? Why was he trying to get them to come together? What were the
risks? What were the benefits? What would you have done?
What scene in the movie had the greatest impact on you? Why?
#3 Thirteen Days
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How did the Kennedy Administration know that the Soviet Union was putting
ballistic missiles into Cuba?
How much warning would any US city in range of these MRBMs have?
Why did some of the key decision makers want to avoid attacking or invading Cuba?
How will a “sneak attack” be played in the news, according to Bobby Kennedy?
Why is the word “quarantine” used instead of blockade?
The day after JFK addressed the nation about the “quarantine” in Cuba, various
military leaders attempt to pressure him into the use of military force. Explain what
they try to get him to agree to/do – be as specific as possible.
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As part of the strategy to gain more information about the Cuban missile sites, low
level flights are authorized by the President. What does Kenny O’Donnell (Kevin
Costner) tell the pilot he must not do and why does he say this?
How quickly could the “quarantine” on Cuban have turned into WWIII? Be as specific
as possible.
Explain the back channel deal that the US & USSR are trying to work out (confirmed
by Khrushchev’s first letter.
What conclusion does the second letter from the USSR suggest?
Explain how the Kennedy Administration finally decided to respond to the two letters
from the Kremlin.
# 4 Assignment:Due during advisory by August 26.
One book from the “Staff
recommendations” – you will meet with the teacher who recommended your book for an
evaluation. The meeting will occur during advisory on August 26.
#5 Assignment: Due August 14, 2014.
Purchase the book, Founding Brothers, by
Joseph Ellis. It is widely available at Barnes and Noble or through amazon.com. (used copies
begin at .01 but be careful about previous highlighting) Please purchase a paper version and
NOT a digital version. As you read, annotate the text. For reference about HOW to annotate
a text see this article from AP Central
http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/courses/teachers_corner/197454.html
An annotated book should include highlighted pages, marginalia (comments, questions,
connections written in the margin) and a list of key ideas written in the frontpiece of the book
with page numbers. You will turn in your highlighted and marked up text on the first day of
class. There will be a short, essay quiz over the book as well.
#6 Assignment: Due August 14, 2014.
Visit an historic site over the summer in the
Kansas City area or while on vacation with your family. Some suggestions include: Pony
Express Museum in St. Joseph, home of Amelia Earhart in Atchison, Arrow Rock State Park
(near Columbia--home of George Caleb Bingham and frontier doctor, Sappington), Jazz
Museum, Steamboat Arabia (at the city market), Bruce Watkins Cultural Center, Negro
Leagues Baseball Hall of Fame, state Capitol in Jefferson City (or Topeka), Watkins Mill,
Truman Library, WWI Museum, Liberty Jail, Jesse James’s home. Using your phone or
iPad, take 5-10 pictures at the site. Annotate these with the Skitch app (This link will help
you figure out skitch http://evernote.com/skitch )
Upload these pictures to Dropbox and share the dropbox link with both Mrs. Schaffer and
Ms. Wright. The annotation should include something about the photo, its importance,
what you learned, etc.