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KIRBY/SUMMER 2014 Your summer assignment is comprised of two major components--- a fictional work from the list of titles and a nonfiction work from the list. Each component has several sections to be completed, all of them dealing specifically with the text itself and your reading and interaction with it. Each of these components constitutes a major test grade; thus, you will have two major test grades in the grade book the first day you arrive for the new school year. If you complete these two assignments as you have been instructed, then you may also complete the extra credit grade in poetry if you wish. It, too, will be a test grade. No extra credit will be accepted if it is not thoroughly completed or if you haven’t turned in the first two assignments, fully completed. Failure to do this assignment will result in two zeros in the grade book. ASSIGNMENT #1- FICTIONAL WORK Choose one of the fictional works from any of those listed. Personally, I would take a little time and research the titles that piqued my interest. What is the work about? What themes does it touch on? Does it take on a more optimistic tone? What do the critics and literary analysts think of it? What about your parents, your siblings, your friends--- have they read it? Did they enjoy it? Ask yourself any number of questions before you begin reading. I would take the time to do this, rather than start and stop several different works over the summer because I realized they were not my type of reading. Ideally, it would be nice if you read five or six of these just for the sheer love of reading. Once you’ve made your selection, look over the sections that you must complete in connection with the work. There are five sections, and each must be done thoroughly and wisely. Please don't place each page in a separate plastic sheet; I make remarks and comments on these, and I don't need to spend time disassembling papers. Also, If you turn in summer assignments that aren't complete (all sections done according to instructions), then you will be given the appropriate grades, but they will be returned to you with no marks or replies. My time is just as valuable as yours, and I won't waste it on incomplete work. ***An important note: You may NOT read any work that you have already read, either on your own or in a class, no matter how long ago. This is not about appearances and just making do; it's about growing as a reader and a writer and a thinker. It's ADVANCED PLACEMENT, which means beginning college level. Let it be so. *** One more important point: I haven’t read every one of these works nor do I know everything about each one of them. With that said, do a bit of research before you commit to any one work. If you think it contains a degree of profanity, sex, violence, racism, etc. that you are unable to deal with, then by all means, don’t read it. I can’t and won’t be a censor for your reading in this regard. I chose these fiction and nonfiction works because they represent the best examples of their genres. Use your head and make wise decisions based on your reading preferences and your likes and dislikes. Section I- Reading Journals Whatever the number of pages in the book you’ve chosen, divide it into groups of chapters or pages that fall roughly into five sections and write a reader’s response for each of those five sections (For instance, if I’m reading a novel that is 260 pages long, than I’m going to write response journals for about every 52 pages). If you’re reading a collection of short stories, then divide those into five commonsensical sections instead. At the end of this document I have attached a list of possible journal “starters,” statements or questions that may stimulate your writing and reflecting. I do not want a summary; I’ve either read the work or know a great deal about it. You are to simply react to and reflect on what you’ve read. I don’t expect everyone to enjoy reading the works (but you chose it!), but I do expect everyone to engage the text in an intelligent manner. If you didn’t like the work, that’s fine, but by all means tell me why and give proof. It’s all about the text. Each entry is to be approximately one and a half to two pages single-spaced handwritten or two pages or more typed (double-spaced). Section II- Unfamiliar or Archaic Vocabulary During your reading you are to write down twenty unknown (to you!) vocabulary words you find in the text; some of them may be archaic. One of your tasks, then, of course, is to learn what is meant by archaic and to see how archaic and/or unknown terms impede your reading. You must first write down the sentence in which the word is found, along with the page number, then a brief definition of it, and then explain in writing what you at first thought it meant, write how it was used in the novel, and then explain how its new meaning changed the text for you. This sounds like a difficult and time-consuming job, but it really isn’t; I expect that you will encounter at least 20 terms within the first twenty or thirty pages of the work. Each entry should only take a few minutes. Note: the words you think are archaic may not actually be archaic, they may simply be words you don’t know. To tell the truth, that’s the whole point of this section---- learning new vocabulary and seeing how they work in the context of your reading. Section III- Characterization In most fictional work there is a protagonist and usually an antagonist. There are many other characters, of course, some carrying more novelistic weight than others. In this section, you will concentrate on what you feel are the two main characters. I also want you to view Nature as a third character. By this, I mean that authors usually view Nature or Life or the Universe (maybe even Fate or Fortune) as a character, interacting and influencing the other characters and the story’s outcome in some major or minor way. Your task, then is this: within the novel, no matter in what section, find five instances that give some insight into that character, whether it’s how he/she feels about himself/herself, the world, love, whatever. This will be fairly easy for the two main characters; it will be a bit more difficult regarding Nature or Life. Anywhere the author reflects on how the world operates, or how fate or nature controls life, etc., then that’s a characterization of Nature. You are to write down the insight (quote it), then give the page number, and then write your own commentary concerning it, whether that commentary regards the character, that situation in the fictional piece, or life in general. Section IV- Themes Once you have read the work, write a one to one and a half page, single-spaced (or two pages typed and double-spaced) analysis of what you think the theme/themes are. I don’t want some polished cut and paste piece from the Internet or something you copied from Cliff Notes; I want an insightful explanation of what you think this work is telling us about an event or occurrence in particular, or people in general, or about life, or responsibility---- whatever you see its major view or statement to be. Be clear, be concise. Section V- Your Assessment In one to one and a half pages, tell us why you would or would not recommend this book as part of an AP English Language and Composition reading list. Be sure to be specific and explain yourself thoroughly. You might also want to reference various literary critics or other readers, like your parents or your friends. Explain in detail why this novel should be or not be required reading for all AP English students. You may connect it to a particular genre, literary movement, historical event, or personal benchmark as a reader. At some point, explain why, in your estimation, it is included in so many anthologies and lists of great works. Whatever you do, give specific reasons and sound evidence, not emotionally overwrought generalities or fluffy platitudes. ASSIGNMENT #2- NONFICTION WORK Choose any one of the nonfiction works from any of the nonfiction works listed. Do the same type of investigation of these as you did with the fictional works. What have you heard about the piece? What’s its main thrust, its subject matter? Is it philosophical, political, religious? When was it written, what were the prevailing attitudes of the day---- does this work agree or disagree with them? Is there a hidden agenda behind the work? Ask any number of questions regarding the work, and again, do the research. This will be an entirely different type of reading than that experienced in the novel (and there is no order to which one you read first; it’s your work), and you must read it with a different “eye.” There are four major components to this assignment and each must be done thoroughly with intelligence. It goes without saying that I want to see you in this work, not some cut and paste sound bites from the Internet or your brother’s college study guides or one of my former student’s work. Section I- Reading Journals Divide your chosen work into five sections just as you did with the reading of the novel. I want you to write the same type of personal reading reflections and reactions as you did with the fictional piece. Make sense of the writing through your journaling. Ask questions, make connections. Engage the text through your own writings and musings about the text. Some of the suggested response questions might work well with these, too. Think about how the text reflects the thinking of that particular time in history. How does it mirror the hopes and aspirations, fears and anxieties, bias and prejudices of the people of that era? Do we see evidence of it in our daily lives today? Section II- Archaic or Unknown Vocabulary/Allusions/Concepts During your reading you are to write down twenty archaic or unknown vocabulary words, unknown allusions, or unfamiliar concepts you find in the text. Your task, of course, is to learn what is meant by the terms archaic, allusion, and concept and to see how your lack of general background knowledge impedes your understanding of the text and its subject matter. You must first write down the sentence in which the word/allusion/concept is found, along with the page number, then a brief definition of it, and then explain in writing what you at first thought it meant, write how it was used in the work/essays, and then explain how its new meaning changed the text for you. Section III- Critical Analysis After having read the nonfiction work and having written your response journals, visit the Internet or the local library (the USM library is even better; the JSTOR database provides a wealth of sources; you may also want to use Academic Search Premier from our school library, listed under Magnolia. Our school passwords are magn0719 or magn0879. Find three critiques or analyses of that particular book or essays. Print out and read at least three of these. Mark them up, take notes, make the connections. I want you to then write a précis of these critiques. For the second part of this section, I want you to then write a page and a half to two page commentary where you either defend, oppose, or qualify the stances taken by these critics regarding the work in question (the nonfictional work you chose and read). Section IV- Your Assessment In one to one and a half pages, tell us why you would or would not recommend this nonfiction work as part of an AP English Language and Composition reading list. Be sure to be specific and explain yourself thoroughly. You might also want to quote various literary critics or other readers, like your parents or your friends. Explain in detail why this piece should be or not be required reading for all AP English students. You may connect it to a particular genre, philosophical movement, historical event, or personal benchmark as a reader. At some point, explain why, in your estimation, it is included in so many anthologies and lists of great works. Whatever you do, give specific reasons and sound evidence, not emotionally overwrought generalities or fluffy platitudes. ASSIGNMENT #3- EXTRA CREDIT (POETRY) Choose one of the poets listed and read his or her works. The collection you choose must contain at least ten poems; the more the better (with more, you will be able to gain more insights into that poet and/or see changes in the work and in writing/attitudes over the years). Choose ten of your favorite poems, then write a one and half to two page journal for each one. These journals should reflect your reactions to the poems, any questions that arise from them, and any patterns you see in the use of figurative language or the manipulation of language. You might talk about the use of various symbols, or alliteration, the cacophony or euphony of the words chosen. In other words, fully engage with the poems as a reader and a thinker. Again, I don’t want summaries; I read poetry as well, and I’d like to see how you interact with poetry. If you rather, you may take one poem from ten of the various poets listed and write your journals. In this way you are introduced to the works of more poets. Again, if the first two assignments aren’t done according to the instructions, nor is this extra credit completed according to the explicit directions, then no extra credit will be given. These two assignments, and the extra credit if you choose to do it, are due the very first day of the 2014-2015 school year, whether you have AP English first semester or second semester. NO WORK WILL BE ACCEPTED AFTER 3:00 P. M. OF THAT DAY. By hook or by crook, your work must be turned in on time. The manner in which you complete this work, and your completing of it, will tell me a great deal about you as a reader, writer, thinker, and student. Make sure my first impression of your work ethic is a positive one. If you have any questions regarding the assignment, or the works, feel free to email me at bill.kirby@petalschools.com. I will be in and out of town this summer, but I will call or email you back as soon as possible if I miss your call or email. Have a great summer; I’m looking forward to some great responses and to a great school year. Take care. P.S. If you finish this early and can get it to me on or before July 31, 2014, then I'll check it in and give you an additional 30 extra credit test points. Trust me, you'll be able to use them later. You can email me at bill.kirby@petalschools.com to make arrangements. Mr. Kirby AP ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND COMPOSITION SUMMER ASSIGNMENT READING LIST KIRBY Although this is a long and fairly dense list, it will be less intimidating if you look at as analogous to a Chinese menu: you simply pick an item from Column A and an item from Column B. If you desire dessert (extra credit), you may choose an item from Column C as well. Simple as that! Seriously, your summer reading assignment is relatively straightforward. You choose a fictional work from the list of fiction and you choose a nonfiction work from any of those listed; you then read each book and complete the sections assigned for each type of work. You cannot deviate from this list: if you complete your assignments using any book NOT on this list, then you will NOT receive credit for the work, resulting in a zero for a grade. For extra credit, you may then choose one of the poetry selections. Of course, extra credit is just that--- no extra credit is given if you don’t first complete the two required portions of the summer assignment. *** NO MATTER WHAT WORKS YOU CHOOSE, THEY MUST BE UNABRIDGED VERSIONS!!! NO SHORTENED OR DUMBED-DOWN VERSIONS WILL DO! **** These works are from European and World Literatures; there is no pattern in their listing according to genre, gender, race, time period, or country of origin. They are simply scattered like seeds to the wind. There are simply too many to worry about attempting to place them in some kind of order. You do the research and enjoy the reading! Authors and Works (Non-American) Fiction Dante- The Divine Comedy James Joyce- Ulysses, Dubliners, Finnegan's Wake, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Aldous Huxley- Brave New World, Eyeless in Gaza Samuel Butler- The Way of All Flesh Beowulf- Anonymous (the Rebsamen edition is the highly recommended one!) Seamus Heaney’s translation is not bad, either! Chinua Achebe- Things Fall Apart Honore De Balzac- Cousin Bette, Eugenie Grandet, Le Pere Goriot, Lost Illusions Charlotte Bronte- Jane Eyre, Villette Emily Bronte- Wuthering Heights Geoffrey Chaucer- The Canterbury Tales Miguel de Cervantes- Don Quixote Arthur Koestler- Darkness at Noon Italo Calvini- The Baron in the Trees, The Path to the Nest of Spiders, The Nonexistent Knight, Invisible Cities, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, The Cloven Viscount Anton Chekhov- The Cherry Orchard, The Sea-Gull, Uncle Vanya, The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories Wilkie Collins- The Woman in White, The Moonstone, Armadale, No Name Bram Stoker- Dracula Mary Shelley- Frankenstein George Eliot- Middlemarch, Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Daniel Deronda Ford Madox Ford- The Good Soldier E. M. Forster- A Passage to India, Howards End, A Room with a Vie, Where Angels Fear to Tread Joseph Conrad- Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Heart of Darkness, Almayer's Folly, Nostromo, Under Western Eyes Albert Camus- The Stranger, The Plague, The Fall Daniel Defoe- Robinson Crusoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, Moll Flanders Charles Dickens- Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, The Pickwick Papers, Nicholas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity Shop, Bleak House, Little Dorrit Fyodor Dostoevsky- Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Possessed, The Double, Notes from Underground, The Gambler, The Brothers Karamazov Gunter Grass- The Tin Drum Euripides- Medea Graham Greene- The Ministry of Fear, Our Man in Havana, Loser Takes All, Brighton Rock, The Heart of the Matte, The End of The Affair, The Quiet America, A Gun for Sale Thomas Hardy- Far From the Maddening Crowd, The Return of the Native, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the d-Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure Franz Kafka- The Trial, The Castle,The Metaphorphosis and Other Stories Jaroslav Hasek- The Good Soldier Svejk Ivan Goncharov- Oblomov, A Common Story James Hogg- The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner Homer- Iliad, Odyssey Jane Austen- Mansfield Park, Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility
Mikhail Bulgakov- The Heart of a Dog, The Master and Margarita, The White Guard Samuel Beckett- Waiting for Godot, Endgame Evelyn Waugh- A Handful of Dust, Decline and Fall, Brideshead Revisited Jorge Luis Borges- Ficciones (collection of short stories; 1956 edition probably the best to read) Rudyard Kipling- Kim, The Jungle Book, Just So Stories, The Phantom Ricksaw and Other Eerie Tales, Captains Courageous Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa- The Leopard Thomas Mann- The Magic Mountain, Buddenbrooks Gabriel Garcia Marquez- Love in the Time of Cholera, Chronicle of a Death Foretold Matthew Lewis- The Monk Sir Thomas More- Utopia V. S. Naipaul- A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River George Orwell- Nineteen Eighty-four, Animal Farm Boris Pasternak- Doctor Zhivago Alexander Pushkin- Eugene Onegin, Boris Godunov Joseph Roth- Job, The Radetzky March, The Emperor’s Tomb, Three Novellas:The Legend of the HolyDrinker, Fallmerayer the Stationmaster, and the Bust of the EmperorSalman Rushdie- Midnight's Children, The Satanic Verses, The Moor's Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Shalimar the Clown, The Enchantress of Florence Sir Walter Scott- Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, Kenilworth, The Pirate, The Heart of Midlothian Alexander Solzhenitsyn- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, The First Circle, Cancer Ward Sophocles- Oedipus Rex, Antigone Christina Stead- The Man Who Loved Children Stendhal- The Red and the Black, The Charterhouse of Parma Laurence Sterne- Tristram Shandy Robert Louis Stevenson- Treasure Island, Kidnapped, The Black Arrow Jonathan Swift- Gulliver's Travels William Makepeace Thackeray- Vanity Fair, The History of Henry Edmond Leo Tolstoy- War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Hadji Murad Ivan Turgenev- Fathers and Sons, A Month in the Country Anthony Trollope- The Warden, Barchester Towers Voltaire- Candide Oscar Wilde- The Importance of Being Earnest, The Picture of Dorian Gray Virginia Woolf- Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, The Voyage Out, Jacob's Room, Orlando, The Waves, Night and Day Emile Zola- Therese Raquin, The Human Comedy J. M. Coetzee- Waiting for the Barbarians, Life and Times of Michael K, Age of Iron William Golding- Lord of the Flies Anthony Burgess- A Clockwork Orange, Napoleon Symphony: A Novel in Four Movements Arundhati Roy- The God of Small Things Marjane Satrapi- Persepolis Nadine Gordimer- The Conservationist Virgil-Aeneid Italo Svevo- Confessions of Zeno Daphne du Maurier- Rebecca, Jamaica Inn Juan Rulfo- Pedro Paramo Vladimir Nabokov- Invitation to a Beheading, Lolita, Pale Fire, Pnin, Despair Antoine de Saint- Exupery- The Little Prince Markus Zusak- The Book Thief Jhumpa Lakiri- The Namesake Joy Kogawa- Obasan Ha Jin- Waiting Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie- Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun, Americanah, The Thing Around Your
Sir Thomas Malory- Le Morte d'Arthur David Malouf- Ransom Michael Ondaatje- The English Patient, The Cat’s Table, Running in the Family, Anil’s Ghost: a Novel, Coming Through Slaughter, In the Skin of a Lion, Divisadero Yiyun Li- The Vagrants Louis-Ferdinand Celine- Journey to the End of Night Alfred Doblin- Berlin Alexanderplatz Joao Guimaraes Rosa- The Devil to Pay in the Backlands Knut Hamsun- Hunger Nikos Kazantzakis- Zorba The Greek Dai Sijie- Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Once on a Moonless Night Kamala Markandaya- Nectar in a Sieve Anthony Powell- A Dance to the Music of Time- 12 volume series; I would recommend reading the first novel in the series but it's your call! Milan Kundera- The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Immortality, The Joke, Ignorance Nikolai Gogol- Dead Souls, Taras Bulba Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Faust, The Sorrows of Young Werther Murasaki Shikibu- The Tale of Genji Epic of Gilgamesh- Anonymous Herman Hesse- Siddhartha, Steppenwolf, Magister Ludi, Klingsor's Last Summer Carlos Fuentes- The Most Transparent Region, The Old Gringo, The Good Conscience Victor Hugo- The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Miserables Kobo Abe- The Woman in the Dunes, The Ruined Map Aharon Appelfeld- To the Land of the Cattails, Iron Tracks, Badenheim 1939 Alan Paton- Cry, The Beloved Country Erich Maria Remarque- All Quiet on the Western Front Laura Esquivel- Like Water for Chocolate Margaret Atwood- The Edible Woman, The Handmaiden's Tale, Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, The Blind Assassin, Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood Isabel Allende- The House of the Spirits, Island Beneath the Sea: a Novel, Eva Luna Jean Rhys- The Wide Sargasso Sea Malcolm Lowry- Under the Volcano Julio Cortazar- Blow-up and Other Stories (short story collection) Mario Vargas Llosa-Conversation in the Cathedral, The Time of the Her, The War of the End of the World, The Feast of the Goat Yasunari Kawabata- The Sound of the Mountain John Fowles- The Collector, The Magus, The French Lieutenant's Woman Nevil Shute- A Town Like Alice, On the Beach W. Somerset Maugham- Of Human Bondage, The Moon and Sixpence, Cakes and Ale, The Razor’s Edge Muriel Sparks- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Driver’s Seat Aphra Behn- Oroonko: or The Royal Slave Iris Murdoch- Under the Net Tolkien- The Hobbit, The Silmarillion Jose Saramago- Blindness Fernando Pessoa- The Book of Disquiet A. S. Byatt- Possession, The Children's Book Daniel Mason- The Piano Tuner Kate Morton- The House at Riverton Mark Haddon- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time Irene Nemirovsky- Suite Francaise Ian McEwan- Atonement Halldor Laxness- Independent People Elsa Morante- History Christa Wolf- Cassandra Yvonne Vera- Nehanda Vassilis Vassilikos- Z Mehmed Uzun- In the Shadow of a Lost Love Jean-Phiippe Toussaint- Monsieur Pramoedya Ananta Toer- All That is Gone, This Earth of Mankind, The Girl from the Coast Fouad al-Tikerly- The Long Way Back Julian Barnes- Flaubert's Parrot Andre Brink- A Dry White Season Kingsley Amis- Lucky Jim Mary Renault- The King Must Die Robert Graves- I, Claudius; Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina Susan Hill- The Woman in Black Kazuo Ishiguro- Never Let Me Go Peter Ackroyd- The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein P. D. James- Death Comes toPemberley, The Children of Men Naguib Mahfouz- The Thief and the Dog, Midaq Alley Aristophanes- Birds and Other Plays Alain-Fournier- The Wanderer Peter Mayle- A Year in Provence
C. S. Lewis- The Chronicles of Narnia (at least one of the books, depending on whether you've read any of them or not), The Great Divorce, Till We Have Faces, The Screwtape Letters, Perelandra Frank O'Connor- Collected Stories (or any other collection of his short stories) Arturo Perez-Reverte- The Painter of Battles, Captain Alatriste, The Fencing Master G. K. Chesterton- The Napoleon of Notting Hill, The Man Who Was Thursday, Manalive Agatha Christie- Any of her novels Arthur Conan Doyle- Any collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard, the White Company Alan Sillitoe- Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner Ivan Bunin- The Gentleman from San Francisco(Collection of short stories) Umberto Eco- The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, Baudolino, The Prague Cemetery, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana Tobias Smollett- The Expedition of Humphry Clinker William Godwin- The Adventures of Caleb Williams T. H. White- The Once and Future King Louis de Bernieres- Corelli's Mandolin Kenneth Grahame- The Wind in the Willows Joyce Cary-The Horse's Mouth Giovanni Boccaccio- The Decameron Nonfiction Antoine de Saint-Exupery- Wind, Sand and Stars Edward Gibbon- The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Volume One only) James Boswell- The Life of Samuel Johnson Saint Augustine- The Confessions, City of God Carl Von Clausewitz- On War Herodotus- The Histories (any one of the nine books ) Soren Kierkegaard- Discourse (any of them), Fear and Trembling, The Concept of Anxiety, Christian Discourses, Stages on Life's Way, The Sickness Unto Death Marcus Aurelius- Meditations Simone De Beauvoir- The Second Sex Lao Tzu- Tao-te Ching Sun Tzu- The Art of War Niccolo Machiavelli- The Prince John Stuart Mill- On Liberty, The Subjection of Women, Principles of Political Economy, A System of
Plato- The Dialogues Jean-Jacques Rousseau- Discourses on Political Economy, Emile: or, on Education, The Social Contract,
Adam Smith- The Wealth of Nations, The Theory of Moral Sentiments Alexis de Tocqueville- Democracy in America, The Old Regime and the Revolution
Mary Wollstonecraft- Vindication of the Rights of Men, Vindication of the Rights of Woman Wole Soyinka- Ake: The Years of Childhood, The Man Died Loung Ung- First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers Isak Dinesen- Out of Africa Ji-li Jiang- Red Scarf Girl Ann Frank- The Diary of a Young Girl Azar Nafisi- Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books Charles Darwin- They Voyage of the Beagle, The Descent of Man, The Expression of the Emotions in Man
Michel de Montaigne- Essays Thomas Aquinas- Summa Theologica Eve Curie- Madame Curie Mark Mathabane- Kaffir Boy: the True Story of a Black Youth’s Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa Karl Marx- The Communist Manifesto, Capital Michel de Montaigne- Essays Rene Descartes- Compendium Musicae, The World, Man, Discourse on the Method, Meditations on First Philosophy, Principles of Philosophy Friedrich Nietzsche- Thus Spoke Zarathustra, The Birth of Tragedy, Untimely Meditations, Beyond Good and Evil, Twilight of the Idols, Ecce Homo Aristotle- Metaphysics, Poetics, Politics Xenophon- The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates Plato- The Dialogues(especially Apology) William Manchester- The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932; The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-1940; The Last Lion: Winston Spencer
Samuel Pepys- The Diaries of Samuel Pepys Lytton Strachey- Eminent Victorians Robert Graves- Goodbye to All That Edward Said- Orientalism James Lovelock- The Revenge of Gaia Hannah Arendt- Eichmann in Jerusalem Thomas Babington Macaulay- The History of England Ryszard Kapuscinski- Shah of Shahs Philip Gourevitch- We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families Tony Judt- Postwar Chinua Achebe- An Image of Africa Bruno Bettelheim- The Uses of Enchantment T. E. Lawrence- The Seven Pillars of Wisdom Mahatma Gandhi- The Story of My Experiments with Truth George Orwell- Homage to Catalonia Primo Levi- The Periodic Table Lorna Sage- Bad Blood Sigmund Freud- The Interpretation of Dreams Immanuel Kant- Critique of Pure Reason Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel- Phenomenology of Mind Thomas Hobbes- Leviathan James George Frazer- The Golden Bough Christine de Pisan- The Book of the City of Ladies Erasmus- Praise of Folly Voltaire- Letters Concerning the English Nation Virginia Woolf- A Room of One's Own Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn- The Gulag Archipelago Michel Foucault- Discipline and Punish Gabriel Garcia Marquez- News of a Kidnapping Ibn Battuta- The Travels of Ibn Battuta Rebecca West- Black Lamb and Grey Falcon Jan Morris- Venice Patrick Leigh Fermor- A Time of Gifts Claudio Magris- Danube Cao Jinqing- China Along the Yellow River W. G. Sebald- The Rings of Saturn Mario Vargas Llosa- Letters to a Young Novelist Jean-Paul Sartre- Being and Nothingness, The Transcendence of the Ego C. S. Lewis- God in the Dock, Mere Christianity, Surprised by Joy, The World's Last Night and Other Essays, A Grief Observed, The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses Saint Bede The Venerable - An Ecclesiastical History of the English People Boethius- Consolation of Philosophy Dietrich Bonhoeffer- The Cost of Discipleship Thomas a' Kempis- The Imitation of Christ Thomas Browne-Religio Medici Bernal Diaz del Castillo- the Conquest of New Spain Duc de Saint-Simon- Memoirs Fernand Braudel- The Structures of Everyday Life, The Wheels of Commerce, The Perspective of the World Kwame Anthony Appiah- Cosmopolitanism William Godwin- An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
William Bradford- Of Plymouth Plantation Thomas Morton- The New English Canaan William Byrd- Histories of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia: and North Carolina Ben Franklin- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Thomas Paine- The Crisis (all 16), The Rights of Man, The Age of Reason Cotton Mather- Magnalia Christi Americana J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur- Letters From an American Farmer Mary Rowlandson- The History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mary Rowlandson Olaudah Equiano- The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African Romantic Period-Fiction Washington Irving- Diedrich Knickerbocker's History of New York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, The Sketch Book ( a collection of short stories, including “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”) James Fenimore Cooper- Any novel from the Leatherstocking Tales (Last of the Mohicans, The Deerslayer, etc.) Edgar Allan Poe- The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym Harriet Beecher Stowe- Uncle Tom’s Cabin Louisa May Alcott- Little Women or Little Men Herman Melville- Moby-Dick, Billy Budd ( I would suggest the Penguin Classic edition of Billy Budd with an introduction by Fredrick Busch), Red Jacket, Typee, Omoo, The Confidence-Man, Mardi, Pierre Hugh Henry Brackenridge- Modern Chivalry Containing the Adventures of Captain John Farrago and Teague O'Reagan, His Servant William Hill Brown- The Power of Sympathy (considered the first American novel by many) Charles Brockden Brown- Wieland; or The Transformation; Edgar Huntly, Arthur
William Wells Brown- Clotel; or the President’s Daughter Richard Henry Dana- Two Years Before the Mast Nathaniel Hawthorne- The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, The Bithedale Romance, The Marble Faun Romantic Period-Nonfiction The Federalist Papers Thomas Paine- The Rights of Man or The Age of Reason Alexis (Charles Henri Maurice Clerel) de Tocqueville- Democracy in America Ralph Waldo Emerson- His essays- must include these: “Self-Reliance,” “Nature, “The American Scholar,” “The Divinity School Address,” “The Over-Soul,” and “The Transcendentalist” (I would recommend Penguin Classics Nature and Selected Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson with an introduction by Larzer Ziff) Henry David Thoreau- Walden; or Life in the Woods Margaret Fuller- Woman in the Nineteenth Century James Russell Lowell- The Writings of James Russell Lowell Fredrick Douglass- Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass Sojourner Truth- The Narrative of Sojourner Truth Oliver Wendell Holmes- The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table Realism/Naturalism/Regionalism Period-Fiction George Washington Cable- The Grandissimes, Old Creole Days: A Story of Creole Life (a collection of short stories) Bret Harte- any collection of his short stories William Dean Howells- The Rise of Silas Lapham Theodore Dreiser- An American Tragedy Henry James-The American, Daisy Miller, The Europeans, Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, The Turn of the Screw, The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl Stephen Crane- The Red Badge of Courage or any collection of short stories Sarah Orne Jewett- The Country of the Pointed Firs (actually a collection of connected short stories) Mark Twain- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, The Prince and the Pauper, The Gilded Age, The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson Jack London- The Call of the Wild, The Sea-Wolf, White Fang, Martin Eden, The Iron Heel Frank Norris- McTeague, The Octopus, The Pit Charlotte Perkins Gilman- Herland Kate Chopin- At Fault, The Awakening Hamlin Garland- Main-Traveled Roads (a collection of short stories) Edith Wharton- The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth Ambrose Bierce- any collection of short stories by Bierce Sherwood Anderson- Winesburg, Ohio Upton Sinclair- The Jungle Willa Cather- My Antonia or O Pioneers!
Black Elk- Black Elk Speaks W.E.B. Du Bois- The Souls of Black Folk Ida Tarbell- The History of the Standard Oil Company Booker T. Washington- Up From Slavery, An Autobiography Marcus Garvey- any work by Garvey Charlotte Perkins Gilman- Women and Economics
Ernest Hemingway- The Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea, A Farewell to Arms, Across the River and into the Trees, In Our Time F. Scott Fitzgerald- The Great Gatsby, Beautiful and Damned, Tender is the Night, This Side of Paradise William Faulkner- Light in August, Intruder in the Dust, As I Lay Dying, The Unvanquished, Sanctuary,
Eudora Welty- The Robber Bridegroom, Delta Wedding, The Ponder Heart, Losing Battles, The Optimist’s Daughter, A Curtain of Green and Other Stories,The Collected Short Stories of Eudora Welty John Steinbeck- Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath, The Red Pony, Cannery Row, The Moon is Down, East of Eden, The Pearl, The Short Reign of Pippin IV, In Dubious Battle, Tortilla Flat, The Winter of Our Discontent Zora Neal Hurston- Their Eyes Were Watching God John Dos Passos- Three Soldiers, Manhattan Transfer Sinclair Lewis- Main Street, It Can’t Happen Here, Arrowsmith, Babbitt, Elmer Gantry, Dodsworth Sherwood Anderson- Winesburg, Ohio (A Collection of short stories but with a common thread running through it--- in your journals relate to it as if it were a novel) Pearl S. Buck- The Good Earth, Dragon Seed, Peony Willa Cather- My Antonia, Death Comes for the Archbishop, O Pioneers! Edgar Rice Burroughs- Tarzan of the Apes, Pellucidar, A Princess of Mars, The Land That Time Forgot William Saroyan- The Human Comedy Nathanael West- Miss Lonelyhearts, The Day of the Locust Thomas Wolfe- Look Homeward, Angel; Of Time and the River, You Can’t Go Home Again Richard Wright- Native Son, The Outsider H. P. Lovecraft- The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, At the Mountains of Madness Ring Lardner- You Know Me, Al James T. Farrell- Studs Lonigan (a series, and perhaps too long for a summer read; I would read Young Lonigan if nothing else) Ellen Glasgow- The Romantic Comedian, They Stooped to Folly, The Sheltered Life, The Deliverance, Virginia, Life and Gabriella, Barren Ground Erskine Caldwell- Tobacco Road, God’s Little Acre Katherine Ann Porter- Noon Wine, Old Mortality; Pale Horse, Pale Rider; Ship of Fools, The Collected
Robert Penn Warren- All the King’s Men Anzia Yezierska- Bread Givers Oliver LaFarge- Laughing Boy MacKinlay Kantor- Andersonville
Sherman Alexie- Reservation Blues, Indian Killer James Baldwin- Go Tell It on the Mountain John Barth- The Sot-Weed Factor, Giles Goat-Boy Donald Barthelme- Snow White, The Dead Father, The King, City Life Saul Bellow- Henderson the Rain King, The Adventures of Augie March, Seize the Day, Humboldt’s Gift, Herzog, Mr. Sammler’s Planet Paul Bowles- The Sheltering Sky Ray Bradbury- Fahrenheit 451, Dandelion Wine, The Martian Chronicles, Something Wicked This Way
Richard Brautigan- Trout Fishing in America, A Confederate General from Big Sur Raymond Carver- Cathedral, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Raymond Chandler- The Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely John Cheever- The Wapshot Chronicles, Falconer Sandra Cisneros- The House on Mango Street, Caramelo Don Delillo- White Noise, Libra, End Zone, Underworld, Mao II: a Novel, The Names, The Body Artist James Dickey- Alnilam, To the White Sea Joan Didion- Play It As It Lays, A Book of Common Prayer E. L. Doctorow- Ragtime, Loon Lake, The Book of Daniel, Billy Bathgate Ralph Ellison- Invisible Man Louise Erdrich- Love Medicine, The Bingo Palace, The Beet Queen, The Master Butcher’s Singing Club, The Plague of Doves Joseph Heller- Catch 22, God Knows John Hersey- A Bell for Adano Gish Jen- Typical American, Mona in the Promised Land, The Love Wife Jack Kerouac- On the Road Ken Kesey- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Sometimes a Great Notion Barbara Kingsolver- The Bean Trees, The Poisonwood Bible, Pigs in Heaven, Flight Behavior Maxine Hong Kingston- Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book Harper Lee- To Kill a Mockingbird Ursula K. Le Guin- any of her novels Norman Mailer- The Naked and the Dead, Harlot’s Ghost Bernard Malamud- The Natural, The Assistant, The Fixer, The Magic Barrel Cormac McCarthy- All the Pretty Horses, The Road, No Country for Old Men, Child of God,
Carson McCullers- The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The Member of the Wedding, The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories N. Scott Momaday- House Made of Dawn Toni Morrison- The Bluest Eye, Sula, Tar Baby, Beloved, Song of Solomon Tim O’Brien- Going After Cacciato, In the Lake of the Wood, The Things They Carried (actually a collection) Flannery O’Connor- Wise Blood, The Violent Bear It Away, A Good Man is Hard to Find, The Complete Short Stories of Flannery O’Connor John Gardner- Grendel, Mickelsson’s Ghost, Nickel Mountains John O’Hara- Appointment in Samarra, Butterfield 8 Cynthia Ozick- The Puttermesser Papers Ann Petry- The Street, The Narrows Thomas Pynchon- Gravity’s Rainbow, Vineland Ayn Rand- Anthem, Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, We, the Living J. D. Salinger- The Catcher in the Rye Leslie Marmon Silko- Ceremony, Almanac of the Dead Wallace Stegner- Angel of Repose, The Spectator Bird William Styron- The Confessions of Nat Turner, Sophie’s Choice, The Long March Amy Tan- The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God’s Wife, Saving Fish from Drowning Walker Percy- The Moviegoer, The Last Gentleman, The Second Coming, Love in the Ruins, The Thanatos Syndrome,
John Kennedy Toole- A Confederacy of Dunces John Updike- any of his novels Gore Vidal- Burr Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.- Slaughterhouse Five, Player Piano, Cat’s Cradle, Deadeye Dick, Mother Night,
Alice Walker- The Color Purple, The Temple of My Familiar Margaret Walker- Jubilee Tom Wolfe- Bonfire of the Vanities David Foster Wallace- Infinite Jest Richard Yates- Revolutionary Road James Jones- From Here to Eternity Isaac Bashevis Singer- Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories Tillie Olsen- Tell Me A Riddle Jean Stafford- Collected Stories of Jean Stafford Richard Ford- The Sportswriter, Independence Day, Rock Springs (a collection of short stories) John Pipkin- Woodsburner David Benioff- City of Thieves Marilynne Robinson- Housekeeping, Gilead, Home Jonathan Franzen- Freedom: a Novel, The Corrections John Irving- A Prayer for Owen Meany, Cider House Rules, The Hotel New Hampshire, The World According to Garp Annie Proulx- The Shipping News Paul Theroux- The Lower River, The Mosquito Coast, The Elephanta Suite, My Other Life, My Secret
Ernest Hemingway- A Moveable Feast Black Elk- Black Elk Speaks Studs Terkel- Working Gertrude Stein- The Autobiography of Alices B. Toklas John Steinbeck- Travels With Charley in Search of America Richard Wright- Black Boy Maya Angelou- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings John Agee- Let Us Now Praise Famous Men Truman Capote- In Cold Blood John Hersey- Hiroshima Jack Kerouac- The Dharma Bums N. Scott Momaday- The Way to Rainy Mountain John Gardner- On Moral Fiction, On Becoming a Novelist Richard Rodriguez- Hunger of Memory Rachel Carson- Silent Spring Mike Rose- Lives on the Boundary, Possible Lives, Why School Tom Wolfe- Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, The Right Stuff, The Pumphouse Gang, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, From Bauhaus to Our House, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, Malcolm X (as told to Alex Haley)- The Autobiography of Malcolm XH. L. Mencken-The American Language William Carlos Williams- In the American Grain Joseph Campbell- The Hero with a Thousand Faces Annie Dillard- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Michael Herr- Dispatches M. F. K. Fisher- The Art of Eating Vine Deloria, Jr.- Custer Died for Your Sins bell hooks- Aint’ I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism Joan Didion- Slouching Toward Bethelem Maxine Hong Kingston- The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts Li-Young Lee- The Winged Seed: A Remembrance Gore Vidal- The United States: Essays 1952-1992 Ruth Reichl- Tender at the Bone Marilynne Robinson- Mother Country, The Death of Adam Dan Koeppel- Banana, To See Every Bird on Earth Paul Theroux- The Great Railway Bazaar, The Tao of Travel, Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China, The Old Patagonian Express, Sunrise with Seamonsters Walker Percy- Lost in the Cosmos, The Message in the Bottle, Signposts in a Strange Land
Katherine Boo- Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai UndercityAmerican Poets from the Various Literary Periods-For Extra Credit Anne Bradstreet- The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America or any collection of her poems
Phillis Wheatley- Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral or any complete collection of her poems Walt Whitman- Leaves of Grass or any collection John Greenleaf Whittier- any collection Emily Dickinson- The Poems of Emily Dickinson or any collection Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- any collection of his poems Sidney Lanier- any collection Paul Lawrence Dunbar- The Complete Poems or any collection Hart Crane- Collected Poems or White Buildings or The Bridge Edgar Allan Poe- any collection of his poetry William Cullen Bryant- any collection of his poetry (but must contain “Thanatopsis” and “To a Waterfowl”) Langston Hughes Amy Lowell Robert Frost Carl Sandburg Sylvia Plath Wallace Stevens William Carlos Williams Countee Cullen Ezra Pound H.D. Robinson Jeffers Robert Frost Marianne Moore Elizabeth Bishop Jean Toomer T. S. Eliot Edna St. Vincent Millay Louise Bogan Hart Crane Allen Tate John Berryman Randall Jarrell Gwendolyn Brooks Robert Lowell James Dickey Richard Wilbur Denise Levertov A. R. Ammons Allen Ginsberg W. S. Merwin James Wright Anne Sexton Adrienne Rich Amiri Baraka Wendy Rose Joy Harjo Rita Dove Cathy Song Billy Collins Ishmael Reed Simon Ortiz Maya Angelou e.e. cummings Gary Snyder Galway Kinnell Robert Bly Archibald MacLeish Dana Gioia Alan Dugan Stephen Vincent Benet Nikki Giovanni Charles Bukowski Robert Creeley William Stafford Theodore Roethke Lawrence Ferlinghetti Naomi Shihab NyeNON-AMERICAN POETS WHOSE WORKS YOU MAY CHOOSE FROM FOR EXTRA CREDIT (Read Prior Instructions Regarding This Very Closely) W. H. Auden Elizabeth Barrett Browning Li Po Lord Byron Milton William Butler Yeats Samuel Taylor Coleridge John Donne William Shakespeare
As you read your novel/essays/nonfiction, you will respond in your notebook with one and a half to two single-spaced pages. Here are some possible sentences that might help you to articulate your response. They are merely suggestions; you respond in the manner you think best, but remember, it is not a summary or a book report. It is you interacting with the text in an intelligent, thought-provoking way. Be sure to mark the page numbers in each response. I think . . . I wonder . . . This reminds me of . . . This scene (object, character) symbolizes . . . I feel uncomfortable . . . I wish . . . I sympathize with . . . I like (dislike) the part . . . I agree (disagree) . . . My attitude is different . . . I did not understand the part . . . I predict . . . I am afraid . . . This book is unusual because . . . This seems to foreshadow . . . This part is juxtaposed . . . I was impressed by the phrase (or line) [insert quote here], suggesting . . . The irony here is . . . The most important rule for you to remember is that there is no right or wrong answer as long as you back up your idea with the text Directory: cms -> lib03 -> MS01000823 -> Centricity -> Domain -> 438 Domain -> Ignorance, Brutality and poverty increased African slave trade 438 -> Literary analysis data sheet Domain -> The Star-Spangled Banner 438 -> Possible American Pieces for mla research Paper Colonial Period- nonfiction 438 -> Kirby's Reading Lists (so far!) American Authors and Works Colonial Period- nonfiction 438 -> Literary analysis data sheet Share with your friends:
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