Students taking AP Language and Composition are required to read 1 book, for which they should be prepared to discuss upon their return in September.
In addition, they should read 5 essays of their own choosing. They should then choose 2 essays to do a close reading analysis. They will submit a close reading template and 1 paragraph for each of these 2 essays.
The close reading template as well as other helpful materials can be found in the link below.
Book Choices (Choose one)
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen
Brother, I’m Dying by Edwidge Danticat
Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life by Yiyun Li
Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg (contributors: Mary Hartnett and Wendy W. Williams)
My Life and Hard Times by James Thurber
Essay Reading List (Choose five).
James Baldwin’s Notes of the Native Son
Wendell Berry’s An Entrance to the Woods
Eula Bliss’s The Pain Scale
Robert Dallek’s The Medical Ordeals of JFK
Joan Didion’s Goodbye to All That
William Hazlitt’s On the Feeling of Immortality in Youth
Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place (first section only)
John McPhee’s The Search for Marvin Gardens
Chimamanda Adichie's We Should All Be Feminists
Lia Purpura’s Autopsy Report
Scott Russell Sanders’s Under the Influence
Richard Selzer’s The Knife
David Foster Wallace’s Consider the Lobster
E.B. White’s Once More to the Lake
Virginia Woolf’s Shakespeare’s Sister
Click on the link below to access the close reading template and other materials that will be useful as you complete the Summer Reading Assignment for AP Lang.
Link is accessible with wwprsd account.
AP Lang Summer Reading Materials