AP Literature / Composition 2011 Required Summer Reading Program North Star’s Advanced Placement program, like other excellent ones, knows summer reading maintains skills, increases literary repertoire, and builds confidence. Nothing helps you grow intellectually and personally more than wide, responsive reading of challenging literature. Any of these books will be a wonderful addition to your own collection of great literature. We encourage you to actively read: make your own responses in margins, highlight passages you feel stunned by as beautiful, true, strange, puzzling, controversial, deepening and cool. Use post-it notes to mark and/or make comments. BRING your marked up or post-it-noted novel with you to our first APLC class in August . This summer reading is a course requirement. We will be writing a paper during the first week of class , so it is imperative you get your reading done . All of these titles are adult renderings of human experience. We do not consider them “young adult literature.” Rather, they are college level texts. If you find yourself offended or overwhelmed, feel free to choose any other book from our list. Researching and accepting and rejecting titles are legitimate, important reading tasks. CHOOSE ONE TEXT FROM THIS LIST: Invisible Man Beloved Ralph Ellison Toni Morrison Jane Eyre The Kite Runner Charlotte Bronte Khaled Hosseini Frankenstein Reservation Blues Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Sherman Alexie 1984 Obasan George Orwell Joy Kogawa Rabbit Run Little Bee John Updike Chris Cleave We expect your summer will be enriched and even more fun with these readings. (You are welcome to read more than one novel from that list!) If you feel burdened or not the least bit excited about reading this summer, reconsider taking APLC. If you have any questions, you can contact Ms. Farber (mfarber@lps.org ). Enjoy your reading. I look forward to seeing you in August! ADMINISTRATION OFFICE Dr. Nancy Becker Principal Lincoln Public Schools [email protected] North Star High School 5801 North 33 rd Street Lincoln, NE 68504 402.436.1305 phone 402.436.1054 fax http://lns.lps.org

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AP Literature/Composition 2011 Required Summer Reading Program

North Star’s Advanced Placement program, like other excellent ones, knows summer reading maintains skills, increases literary repertoire, and builds confidence. Nothing helps you grow intellectually and personally more than wide, responsive reading of challenging literature. Any of these books will be a wonderful addition to your own collection of great literature. We encourage you to actively read: make your own responses in margins, highlight passages you feel stunned by as beautiful, true, strange, puzzling, controversial, deepening and cool. Use post-it notes to mark and/or make comments. BRING your marked up or post-it-noted novel with you to our first APLC class in August . This summer reading is a course requirement. We will be writing a paper during the first week of class , so it is imperative you get your reading done . All of these titles are adult renderings of human experience. We do not consider them “young adult literature.” Rather, they are college level texts. If you find yourself offended or overwhelmed, feel free to choose any other book from our list. Researching and accepting and rejecting titles are legitimate, important reading tasks. CHOOSE ONE TEXT FROM THIS LIST: Invisible Man Beloved Ralph Ellison Toni Morrison Jane Eyre The Kite Runner Charlotte Bronte Khaled Hosseini Frankenstein Reservation Blues Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Sherman Alexie 1984 Obasan George Orwell Joy Kogawa Rabbit Run Little Bee John Updike Chris Cleave We expect your summer will be enriched and even more fun with these readings. (You are welcome to read more than one novel from that list!) If you feel burdened or not the least bit excited about reading this summer, reconsider taking APLC. If you have any questions, you can contact Ms. Farber ([email protected]). Enjoy your reading. I look forward to seeing you in August!

ADMINISTRATION OFFICE

Dr. Nancy Becker Principal

Lincoln Public Schools

[email protected]

North Star High School 5801 North 33rd Street Lincoln, NE 68504 402.436.1305 phone 402.436.1054 fax http://lns.lps.org