Summer Reading Requirements

Advanced Placement English Literature 12

Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger

Nineteen Eighty-four, George Orwell

Macbeth, William Shakespeare

The Stranger, Albert Camus

Requirements:

Read each work carefully and thoroughly, for enjoyment as well as edification. You will not be required to prepare a summer reading journal this year. However, you should keep a reading log for one of the works (your choice).

Reading Log Format

Prepare a reading log on one of the required works. Every time you sit down to read, make an entry. Label each entry according to date and time of reading, and page numbers (or chapters) read.

· Make entries at times when your reading changes:

You see something you didn’t see before.

You recognize a pattern—the images start to overlap, gestures or phrases recur, some details
seem associated with each other.

The story suddenly seems to be about something different from what you thought

You discover you were misreading.

The writer introduces a new context or a new perspective.

· Make entries at times when you are surprised or puzzled:

Something just doesn’t fit.

Things don’t make sense—pose explicitly the question or problem that occurs to you.

· Make entries when details seem important and make you look again.

· Make entries when something seems significant to you.

· Make entries when you particularly enjoy the passage.

In effect, your log will be a reading diary in which you record your reading experience. Length may vary, but your log should give evidence of careful reading and reflection. Do not tell what happens. The log should be more about you than about the book.

UPLOADED: 4/21/2008