Summer Reading and Math

Advanced Placement Language and Composition Summer Reading 2024 

Ms. Baker ([email protected]) 

Textbook: Rhetorical Devices: A Handbook and Activities for Student Writers 

Authors and Editors: by  Brendan McGuigan  (Author), Douglas Grudzina  (Editor), Paul Moliken  (Editor) 

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1580497657 

Directions: You will be reading from the book above and completing exercises that follow each section. Purchase the workbook new and complete the exercises in the book. 

Note: We will continue to use the book during the year. The work you complete during the summer will count as a test grade (100 points). Furthermore, it will facilitate your work on many papers and multiple-choice questions. 

What sections should you read? What exercises should you complete? 

SECTION FOUR: Popular Rhetorical Devices: Strategy-pages 13-100 

Device 1: Hyperbole 

Device 2: Understatement 

Device 4: Antithesis 

Device 6: Rhetorical Question 

Device 9: Simile 

Device 10: Metaphor 

Device 11: Analogy 

Device 12: Allusion 

Device 15: Exemplum 

Summer Reading AP Literature and Composition 2024 

Ms. Baker ([email protected]) 

Novel: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens 

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0735219095 

Directions:  After reading the above novel, choose one of the former AP Lit FRQ3 topics listed on the following website :  

https://mseffie.com/iOpeners/AP%20Lit%20Prompts%20Open%20Questions.pdf 

Choose any topic you feel applies to the novel.  Then type an essay in MLA format that does not exceed three pages in response. Ideally, it should be around two to three pages in length. Do NOT use any outside sources; your only source should be the primary source, the novel itself. 

Basic Requirements: 

1. Make sure to copy and paste the prompt on your document so I will know which one you are addressing; this does not count in your page total. 

2. Use Times New Roman, 12-point font and double space. 

3. Do not use personal pronouns like “I, you, me, we us, our”, etc. 

4. Do not use expressions like “the audience or the reader.” 

5. Keep your introduction short.  Possibly have a hook or an attention getter, give a one to two sentence summary, and state your thesis.  

6. Make sure your thesis makes a claim; it must be something someone can argue against. Also, bring in the importance of the theme or the message of the work as a whole. What does the author want readers to know? What is the big takeaway?  

7. For your body paragraphs, think about the acronym “APE”—Argue, Prove, Explain.  You can also think about it like this—Make a claim, prove with textual evidence via quotes (Keep them short.) and examples, and explain the significance of the quotes and examples.  Why is your proof important?  How do they relate to the theme?   

8. Finally, wrap up with your conclusion that shows why what you have said is important.  Don’t merely repeat everything you have already said.  Look at the theme of the novel.  Why is it important to humanity? Why did the author write the work?  This is a time to get philosophical.  Don’t be heavy handed and say, “Owens wrote the novel because…”  Be subtle. 

We will get more into this format in class, of course, but I just wanted to give you some of the basics to get you started.  If you have any questions, I will monitor my e-mail over the summer.  I look forward to having you all in my class.   

The list of works we will be reading next year are as follows: 

The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy 

Othello by William Shakespeare (Check the edition with the online bookstore.) 

Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen 

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 

The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston 

Princeton Review AP English Literature & Composition Premium Prep, 25th Edition: 5 Practice Tests + Digital Practice Online + Content Review (College Test Preparation) 25th Edition (This will not be released until August 6, 2024.) 

*Note: If time allows, I may require you to purchase another book, or I will print out some short stories.  

Summer Assignment: Dual Enrollment 

Ms. Baker ([email protected]) 

First, purchase a composition notebook. Reference the Amazon product below. Do not use a spiral or other notebook. It may have a decorative cover, but it must be the size listed below. You may find this product at Wal-Mart, Walgreens, Target, Office Depot, and any store that carries school supplies. 

Composition Book: Oxford Marble Composition Book, 7.5 x 9.75 Inches, Wide Rule, Paperback, 100 Sheets, White (63795) 

Next, refer to the list of quotes below. Read and copy each quote into the composition book. Number and date your entry. Then, respond to the quote in paragraph form in no less than eight to ten sentences. You may agree or disagree; share personal experiences; or simply reflect on what is said. All responses must be handwritten, or you will not receive credit. 

Quotes: 

1. “No killer is born a criminal. Sometimes, society’s contempt, hatred, and rancour can transform an innocent victim into a malevolent demon.”  
   ― Criminal Minds 

2. “We accept the love we think we deserve.”  
   ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower 

3. “What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”  
   ― Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now 

4. “You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.”  
   ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook 

5. “If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?” ---Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters 

6. “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”  
   ― Martin Luther King, Jr. 

7. “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”  
   ― John Milton, Paradise Lost 

8. “If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.”  
   ― Confucius 

9. “Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.”  
   ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones 

10. “I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.”  
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye 

11. “How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.” - Eddie de Jong, Time Management for a Productive Life 

12. “Worrying is like paying a debt you do not owe.” - Mark Twain 

13. “If voting made any difference, they wouldn’t let us do it.” - Mark Twain 

14. “If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.” - Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar 

15. “So it is that we can seldom help anybody. Either we don't know what part to give or maybe we don't like to give any part of ourselves. Then, more often than not, the part that is needed is not wanted. And even more often, we do not have the part that is needed.” - Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It 

16. “Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.” - Zora Neale Hurston 

17. “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.” - Stephen King 

18. “In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both, lady, not both.” - Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged 

19. “The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools?” - Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People 

20. “Why does the sun shine on the just and the unjust alike?” - Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles 

21. “All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.” - Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven 

22. “The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.” - Malcolm X 

23. “If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.” - Johann Wolfgang Goethe 

24. “In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. 
    "Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby 

25. “It is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.”  - Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince 

9th Grade—PLUS and Traditional—The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant and The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry

9th Grade—Honors—Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

10th Grade—All Levels—Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

11th Grade— Traditional & PLUS —Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Penguin Classic) by Mary Shelley

11th Grade- Honors- The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

12th Grade—Traditional, Honors, & PLUS—Life of Pi by Yann Martel