SUMMER READING ASSIGNMENT FOR STUDENTS IN RIO AMERICANO HIGH SCHOOL ADVANCED PLACEMENT ENGLISH LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION. SUMMER 2016 Here is the link to summer reading for Mr. Mahoney's AP English Literature and Composition class at Rio Americano High School. The assignment is also on the school website. A bit of advise on reading the Bible. Some sections of Genesis and Exodus are repetitive. You can skim through the the Begats and the description of material for the Ark of the Covenant, for example. Focus on the stories and key characters. Look for themes. You are reading the Bible as literature. Be prepared to discuss. As for the list of allusions, it is OK to google them. That will save you a lot of time. You should read the King James version, but if you have trouble with the language in places you may use a new translation. New translations are more accurate but less poetic (and may not contain the language that has become of allusions in so many works of Western literature.) One Hundred Years of Solitude is a challenging book. But if you can get the names down, the story flows. Don't worry about catching every detail or remembering which Jose is which. Give it honest effort. Enjoy. It's summer. Here is a link to the AP Literature terms that you may want to review over the summer. Mr. Mahoney
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Semester Overview and Ongoing
Second Semester Points. This is a list of all the assignments and point values for second semester 2015. The points total up to 1000 so you can keep track of your grade exactly as we go through the semester. Figure that each 10 points equals one percentage point, so if you want an A you have 100 points to give. |
ap_lit_syllabus_2015-2016.doc | |
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ap_literature_schedule.doc | |
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cultural_event_reflection_blank.doc | |
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ap_literature_open_questions_prompts.pdf | |
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College Essay
college_essay_assignment.doc | |
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college_essay_peer_editing.doc | |
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Plays of Sophocles
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oedipus_essay_questions_2015.docx | |
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tragedy_miller_and_aristotle.pdf | |
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using_quotations_sophocles.pdf | |
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Hamlet
Hamlet Memorization link to Drop box
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights AP questions passage 4-6
Wuthering Heights AP Questions passage 7
Wuthering Heights AP Questions passages 8-10
Wuthering Heights Essay Prompts
Wuthering Heights AP questions passage 4-6
Wuthering Heights AP Questions passage 7
Wuthering Heights AP Questions passages 8-10
Wuthering Heights Essay Prompts
Colonialism Readings
Essays and other readings related to unit on colonialism and literature. Anchor texts are Heart of Darkness, Things Fall Apart and "Shooting an Elephant."
tfa_info_packet_2012.pdf | |
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Video on King Leopold's bloody rule in the Congo. This youtube video is low def. "Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death."
Colonialism Source Documents
Source Documents Link in dropbox
Source Document Link
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hod_marlow_on_women.pdf | |
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achebe_on_hod.doc | |
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culture_and_imperialism_text.pdf | |
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culture_and_imperialism.pdf | |
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culture_in_chinua_achebe_1.pdf | |
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Ted Talk video "The Power of a Single Story" by Chimamanda Adichea
divya_bhaskar-stereotypes_fall_apart_divya_bhaskar.pdf | |
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noah_lightman-colonialism_essay.pdf | |
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Here are templates from They Say/I Say that will help you write your essay.
Existentialism
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