Dear Advanced Placement Student,

 Here is your summer reading list and assignment.  I suggest buying the texts for your own library; however, you may wish to borrow the texts from a library or read them online.

 Nineteen Eighty-four, George Orwell            themes - science/technology, utopian/dystopian societies, what it means to live life well

http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/1984/

 Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley           themes - nature, science/technology, utopian/dystopian societies, what it means to live life well

http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/english016/franken/franken.htm

 Nature – Ralph Waldo Emerson         themes - nature, what it means to live life well

http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/emerson/nature-contents.html

If you have trouble with the links to the texts, you can always use www.dogpile.com to search for the texts online.  IE Nature Emerson online text

Read each of the texts.  Keep a double entry journal of related quotes.  Keep a list of questions about the readings.  Keep a list of vocabulary words with definitions. 

Here are some links on double entry journals:  

                http://pirate.shu.edu/~jonesedm/0150Fall1999/DoubleEntryJournal.htm This page has examples of the type of entries you will be making.

http://www.husd.k12.ca.us/hayward/english/journalnotes.html 

http://www.turningpts.org/pdf/Double_Entry_Journal.doc

Some additional ideas on what you should write in your double Entry Journal:

Author, title, genre, date of publication, date you read the text.

Quotes dealing with: nature, science/technology, utopian/dystopian society, the meaning of life, that which is valued in life, or what it means to live life well.  

Literary elements: setting, characterization, theme (message the author is sending to the reader), tone (author's attitude towards the subject), mood (reader's feeling to the way the text is written), etc.

Literary techniques: Simile, metaphor, apostrophe, parataxis, etc.  

Vocabulary:  If you are not positive you know the definition of a word, look it up!  One word can change the entire meaning of what you are reading!  Make a list of vocabulary words, their definitions, and the example from the text.  (You will have vocabulary tests after each reading!)

Visuals:  Draw a picture of the images you see while reading the texts.

Questions:  About the text, about why the author used a certain word/phrase, any question.  

Entries should be made whenever relevant!  There is no set order!  There is no set number!  The idea is to engage the text as much as possible!

This project is due the first week of class and is a project grade (50% of grade).  Budget your time wisely!

 Mr. Sullivan

 Email –    MrSullivansClass@hotmail.com