Pre-AP/AP summer reading requirements

Pre-AP/ AP Summer Reading Requirements

Students will need to purchase the following books for summer reading because they will be using the books in class during the first few weeks of school. In all classes, students will be tested over the books sometime during the first week of school.

Pre-AP English II

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Click this link for assignments for these novels

AP English III ( AP Language and Composition)

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
On Writing Well by William K. Zinsser ( be prepared for a test on the 1st/2nd day of school)
SAT vocabulary words ( click the link for the list of words)

Click this link for the assignment : Assignment for In Cold Blood

AP English IV ( AP Literature and Composition)

Crime and Punishment by Fydor Dostoevsky
Things Fall Apart by Achebe
How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster

Click this link for the assignment for Crime and Punishment: AP English IV, assignment : Close Reading Notes

Click this link for the assignment for Things Fall Apart: AP English IV, assignment: Things Fall Apart

Reading, How to Read Literature Like a Professor will help the student with literary analysis; therefore the student should read the book and be ready for a discussion, writing assignment or test.