AP Lit Summer 2010
For your summer reading assignment you need to read the following books (I suggest you read the 3rd one before tackling Heart of Darkness). I’ve added links to Amazon.com, but of course feel free to purchase wherever you like.
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas Foster
You will need to complete reader’s responses totally 2500 to 3000 words minimum. So you might want to figure about 10 in all.
If you’ve never done a reader response here are some things you may want to think about:
- What were you thinking about as you read?
- What did the text make you think about?
- What do you think this text/passage was about?
- How might other people (of different backgrounds) think about this text/passage?
- What one question would you ask the writer if you got the chance? Why?
- What are the most important ideas/moments in this text/section?
- What do you think will happen next—and why?
- What was the most important change in this section? How and why did it happen?
- What connections can you make to your own life?
- What other places or people could you compare this story to?
- What other books or stories might you compare to this one?
- What other characters or authors might you compare to this one?
- What is the most interesting or important connection that comes to mind?
- How does this section relate to those that came before it?
- What are the most important events in the section you read?
- What makes them so important?
- What effect to these events have on the plot or the other characters?
- What changes—in plot, character, or tone—did you notice when you read?
- What questions might appear on an exam about this section you read?
- What might be a good essay topic for this section of the story?