<p>Heart of Darkness was the most confusing book I ever read. Ever.</p>
<p>You can't tell when Marlow's talking, or Kurtz...</p>
<p>i think hating Heart of Darkness is a pre-requisite for life itself. whenever i mentioned it to my AP teacher (who never expresses a negative opinion on anything, least of all literature) went into a gagging fit. it was so funny.</p>
<p>i liked it as commentary, and i thought the narrative set-up was...interesting...but uh. i can think of so many other things i'd rather be reading.</p>
<p>How to read like a professor (god I hate this book. the guy is full of himself...)</p>
<p>1984
Wuthering Heights
Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man</p>
<p>There are many choices, but we only have to read a few over the summer.</p>
<p>The Namesake
Alias Grace
The God of Small Things
Eva Luna
(all modern, all by women)</p>
<p>and. . . Othello</p>
<p>Three essays and 300 word vocab list to memorize</p>
<p>We need to read one of the following books:</p>
<p>Tess of the D'Uberbilles
Antony and Cleopatra
A Tale of Two Cities
Candide
Mansfield Park
The Life of Pi
Catch-22
Atonement</p>
<p>Then we have these journal questions to do every 30 pages. We have an timed essay the first day of class, and practice AP test second day of class. yay.</p>
<p>mine's
Song of Solomon
Metamorphosis ( dont even know how to spell it , how can i read it? haha)
Catch 22</p>
<p>Ho hum</p>
<p>The Namesake
Chronicle of a Blood Merchant
The Wild Sheep Chase
The Kite Runner
The Inheritance of Loss</p>
<p>^^All Asian authors</p>
<p>Actually now i think my school is fairly rigorous on summer reading</p>
<p>10th grade
The Great Gatsby by the one and only F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Chosen by Chaim Potok</p>
<p>11th grade
Frankenstein- Mary Shelley
Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte
A Passage to India- E.M. Forster</p>
<p>12th grade
Death of a Salesman- Arthur Miller
The Odyssey- Robert Fitzgerald translation- by of course (presumably) Homer
Madam Bovary- Gustave Flaubert</p>
<p>Macbeth and Things Fall Apart</p>
<p>Les Miserables (the whole thing)
macbeth was cool
we just finished reading that for ap lang</p>
<p>How To Read Literature Like a Professor
Frankenstein</p>
<p>Crime and Punishment</p>
<p>And then I have to answer some short answer questions and write a typed page about each section. Not bad at all, but I have some more reading to do during the summer program I'm attending, so I'll just need to coordinate it all.</p>
<p>Jane Eyre or Invisible Man</p>
<p>Which one should I read? Any ideas?</p>
<p>I read Jane Eyre last year in AP Lang and liked it a lot, but some of the other people in my class didn't like it much...</p>
<p>I'm so happy.... my school didn't give an AP lit assignment. Maybe I should read one of the books on the curriculem though so I'll be ahead?</p>
<p>Last year we had to read:</p>
<p>How to read Literature like a Professor
The Great Gatsby
Typical American
Something in the Water</p>
<p>jenkster: Invisible Man is the book most often cited for the free response question, but you really can't go wrong either way.</p>
<p>1984- mandatory
Ragtime- mandatory
Demian- chose from a list of 8
The Things they Carried- chose from same list of 8
Rosa Parks- mandatory
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest- read and watch the movie; write a paper comparing the two- chose from a list of 10 books w/ movies
I also have to write outlines for the first four.</p>
<p>We had a pretty big list of options, 2 are mandatory and then choose two. Basically we just need to take notes, prepare to work with them.</p>
<p>Pride and Prejudice
The Stranger</p>
<p>and I chose:
Catch-22
Slaughterhouse-Five</p>
<p>I will probably reread these and take notes in case the other aren't as interesting:
Frankenstein
1984</p>
<p>I like the idea of the book with the movie essay, sounds neat.</p>
<p>Pride and Prejudice! My school's AP Lit only requires one and we have to write several journal entries in letter format and various paragraphs that analyze certain aspects of the story.</p>
<p>Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Just that =)</p>