<p>What books are your AP Lit teachers assigning this year?? </p>
<p>We doing: Oedipus Rex, King Lear, Heart of Darkness, Things Fall Apart, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Native Son, Song of Solomon, Catch-22, and All the Pretty Horses</p>
<p>Just curious what other classes are doing, and I'm thinking of doing some reading outside of my own class' required material and am looking for suggestions!</p>
<p>For AP Lit, we read Oedipus the King in class. For the year it will be (some have been read by now) The Poisonwood Bible, Grendel, Candide, Into Thin Air, Gulliver’s Travels, A Tale of Two Cities, Jane Eyre, Three Cups of Tea, and You Know Me Al. We read Owen Meany last year and Things Fall Apart in 9th grade.</p>
<p>Summer work: 1984 (1 day working on this), How to Read Literature Like a Professor (not covered during class time), Hamlet, Choice novel (spend about 1 day working on this)
First Semester: Half poetry, half Hamlet
Second Semester: Joy Luck Club (about 1 day on this), Pride and Prejudice, Beloved
So in-depth, only three books.</p>
<p>For the summer my class had to read Angela’s Ashes and In the Time of the Butterflies. We read Araby a week ago. Other books we will be reading this year: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Bell Jar, A Doll House, Hamlet, Oedipus Rex, Death of a Salesman and Medea</p>
<p>Over the summer, we read the Iliad. We read the Odyssey in the first week of school. We finished Heart of Darkness, and are currently in the middle of Sophie’s World and Things Fall Apart. We also read excerpts from Edith Hamilton’s Mythology. We still have a bunch of poems, Hamlet, Gulliver’s Travels, and few others (I think A Prayer for Owen Meany and Siddartha are on the list) left to go. This is definitely my most work-intensive class, being a math/science person.</p>
<p>Over the summer, we read Wuthering Heights and Macbeth. Over the course of the school year, we’re reading Crime and Punishment, Their Eyes Were Watching God, The Awakening, Jane Eyre, and Things Fall Apart. The plays we’re doing include Hamlet, Oedipus Rex, A Doll’s House, A Streetcar Named Desire, Fences, The Piano Lesson, and Pygmalion. Of course, we may not end up covering it all in the course of a year and we might just do whatever our different teachers feel like doing.</p>
<p>Summer reading: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (req), some book about feminism that I didn’t read (req) and two choice books from an author on a provided list: I picked Native Son by Richard Wright and The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner.</p>
<p>Everything else: All the Pretty Horses by McCarthy, The Awakening by Chopin, Crime and Punishment by Doestyvsky (sp?), Death of a Salesman by Miller, Heart of Darkness by Conrad, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Joyce, Othello by Shakespeare, The Stranger by Camus</p>
<p>In addition, my teacher gave me Things Fall Apart, Waiting for Godot, and Lord of the Flies since I sat there bored during “free reading periods” following the AP (I’d already finished The Stranger which is what we were reading). </p>
<p>Now that I’m a senior in college, I will say that you guys should relax and enjoy the books.</p>
<p>Crime and Punishment was such a good book. I didn’t like The Sound and the Fury. I thought it was overrated.</p>
<p>Summer Reading: Optional with extra-credit incentive.</p>
<p>Assigned Reading: A Doll’s House, The Glass Menagerie, The Great Gatsby, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Hamlet.</p>
<p>over the summer - Their Eyes Were Watching God & Crime and Punishment (discussed when we got back to school)</p>
<p>1st semester - Gilgamesh, Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales, & Dante’s Inferno, various poems</p>
<p>Winter Break - Kafka’s Metamorphosis (discussed beginning of 2nd semester)</p>
<p>2nd Semester - Paradise Lost (some of it), a lot of poems (Keats, etc.) Things Fall Apart, Heart of Darkness</p>
<p>& my personal outside reading was Joy Luck Club, Twelfth Night and Jane Eyre</p>
<p>This year we were assigned Narrative of The Life of Frederick Douglass, Me Talk Pretty One Day, The Great Gatsby, Hiroshima, The Crucible, The Autobiography of Ben Franklin, 1984, Brave New World, and The Glass Menagerie.</p>
<p>This year my class read The Kite Runner, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Frankenstein, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, MacBeth, Streetcar Named Desire, and A Tale Of Two Cities.</p>