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This is a fun, yet challenging course designed to strengthen your writing skills and broaden your abilities in analyzing literature. In preparation for our study in the fall, you do have some work to complete over the summer. Please see below for more info. All readings and reflections are expected to be completed and ready to turn in on the first day of class.  \nE-Mail me if you have [any questions-MAndrews@Hendricken.com](any questions-MAndrews@Hendricken.com)  \nAssignment 1: Poetry Analysis (Written Reflection Required)  \nWe will spend a portion of our year studying poetry. In preparation for this, I would like you to complete an assignment that tells me your interpretation of “great poetry.” Select a poem that you consider to be worthy of study and instruction in AP English Literature. Then, write a 250+ word response explaining what makes this a “great” poem. I will not put any parameters on you; I simply want to know what you think makes a poem worthy of your time. Try to avoid online assistance in completing the analysis portion of the assignment. There is no “wrong answer”!  \nAssignment 2: Literary Merit-Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (Written Reflection Required)  \nThe AP Exam challenges students to analyze texts that are described by the College Board to have “Literary Merit”. Throughout the year we will be reading several novels and plays with such “merit” in preparation for the exam. You will read Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, a work that the College Board frequently cites as a “text of Literary Merit” and often appears on the exam. I suggest annotating the book while reading-see my directions on annotation; this skill will be useful to you throughout the year. Upon completion, write a 250+ word reflection explaining what the phrase “Literary Merit” means to you, and why this novel qualifies to be determined as such.  \nAssignment 3: How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster (Written Reflection Required)  \nFoster explores different ways to approach literary analysis to start developing skills that you’ll find helpful for this class. It provides tips and strategies to help readers recognize important concepts in text and how to think critically. You will read this book and write a 250+ word reflection comparing and connecting one of the chapters/concepts to a book, play, poem, or short story that you have read in high school. Make sure that you have the original version (not the kids edition-the one you’re looking for has a red cover) .  \nI have also attached a list of other literary works that have been on the AP exam in the past. If you’re looking for a fiction work to read in your spare time, check out these titles-we’ll be reading a few throughout the year!  \nThe expectation is that all written submissions follow standard MLA formatting and are of high quality.  \nRemember, this is my first impression of your writing!  \nHappy Reading! ☺  \nSuggested Literature Ancient Texts  \n800 BC – The Iliad-Homer  \n800 BC – The Odyssey – Homer Neoclassical  \n1759 – Candide– Voltaire Romantic  \n1811 – Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen 1813 – Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen 1838 – Oliver Twist– Charles Dickens Victorian  \n1847 – Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontё 1847 – Jane Eyre– Charlotte Brontё  \n1850 – The Scarlet Letter– Nathaniel Hawthorne  \n1861 – Silas Marner – George Eliot 1869 – Little Women – Louisa May Alcott 1897 – Dracula– Bram Stoker  \n1891 – The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde 1899 – The Awakening – Kate Chopin Naturalist  \n1902 – Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 1903 – The Call of the Wild– Jack London 1911 – Ethan Frome– Edith Wharton Modern  \n1925 – The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald 1925 – Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf 1937 – Of Mice and Men– John Steinbeck  \n1939 – The Grapes of Wrath– John Steinbeck 1940 – The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene 1945 – Animal Farm– George","cbCaig1neQzIzyGu","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaig1neQzIzyGu","pdf",77754,"English","# Assignment 1: Poetry Analysis (Written Reflection Required)\n# Assignment 2: Literary Merit - Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (Written Reflection Required)\n# Assignment 3: How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. 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