AP Language

Summer Reading 2016 Mrs. Maytum

For your Summer Reading requirement for AP Language (AP English III) next year, choose a book-length (approximately 200 pages), non-fiction work from the following list of suggestions, another non-fiction work by an author on this list, or a college-level non-fiction work of comparable literary merit. It is recommended that you purchase your own copy (paperback or e-book, new or used), as you will need this book during the first nine weeks and periodically throughout the year. YOU MUST HAVE TEACHER APPROVAL TO READ A BOOK OR AUTHOR NOT ON THIS LIST. YOU MAY CONTACT ME DURING THE SUMMER AT amy.maytum@lvisd.org. Please remember that I am not endorsing any of the views contained in these books. For this assignment, I ask that you challenge yourself to read a book you have not read before. Night by Elie Wiesel, A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah, and Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt are works you may have already studied in your pre-AP coursework at LVHS, therefore those selections will not be approved for this assignment. Advanced Placement English Language and Composition is a college-level course focused on engaging students in becoming skilled readers of prose written in a variety of periods, disciplines, and rhetorical contexts and in becoming skilled writers who compose for a variety of purposes. Your summer reading is the foundation work for this process. Read the book you have chosen closely, at least twice—once to get the basic idea the author is trying to get across, and a second time to examine the author’s prose style. Highlight passages and make notes about what you notice, what you understand, and what you do not understand. Read with a dictionary (print or online) to assist you with unfamiliar words. DO NOT read discussions of the book in Cliff’s Notes, Wikipedia, Sparknotes.com, or any other source. Read and think for yourself! If you feel tempted to use a “study aide” or to take shortcuts like watching a video instead of reading, ask yourself why. If you are not a strong reader, writer or thinker, or if you do not like reading and writing, perhaps AP is not for you. If you decide to accept the challenges of college-level work, then you accept the challenge of reading this summer.

In addition to the reading of your selected non-fiction book, locate, print out, and actively read and annotate two online current (written in 2015 or 2016) news or editorial articles/essays that address a topic related to your nonfiction book. Please do not copy/paste into a Word document; please print directly from the source. Choose your readings from any of the following sources***: Periodicals (Magazines) The American Scholar (theamericanscholar.org) The Atlantic (www.theatlantic.com) Boston Review (bostonreview.net) The Economist (www.economist.com) Harper's Magazine (www.harpers.org) The Nation (www.thenation.com) National Review (www.nationalreview.com) The New Republic (www.tnr.com) The New Yorker (www.newyorker.com) Newsweek (www.newsweek.com) Popular Science (www.popsci.com) Salon (www.salon.com) Scientific American (www.scientificamerican.com) Slate (www.slate.com) Time (www.time.com) Newspapers The Christian Science Monitor (www.csmonitor.com) The Los Angeles Times (www.latimes.com) The New York Times (www.nytimes.com) The Washington Post (www.washingtonpost.com) The Wall Street Journal (online.wsj.com) ***DO NOT SELECT READINGS FROM ANY OTHER ONLINE SOURCES! *** Complete all reading and annotating by Monday, August 29. Bring the annotated book and the articles with you, and be prepared to complete several written assignments about your reading, including an analysis of the author’s argument and style.

Education Leon Bottstein, Jefferson’s Children and the Promise of American Culture Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman, Nurture Shock: New

Thinking about Children Esme Raji Codell, Educating Esme Pat Conroy, The Water Is Wide Annie Dillard, An American Childhood Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen), Out of Africa John Hope Franklin, Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin John Taylor Gatto, A Different Kind of Teacher:

Reflections on the Bitter Lessons of American Schooling

John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

Edward Humes, Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America’s Soul Eric Jensen, Teaching with Poverty in Mind: What Being Poor Does to Kids’ Brains and What Schools Can Do about It Salman Khan, The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined Jay Mathews, Work Hard, Be Nice: How Two Inspired Teachers Created the Most Promising Schools in America Deborah Meier, Many Children Left Behind: How the No Child Left Behind Act Is Damaging Our Children and Our Schools Kyoko Mori, Polite Lies: On Being a Woman Caught between Cultures Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in

Books Bruce Nussbaum, Creative Intelligence: Harnessing the Power to Create, Connect, and Inspire Steve Olson, Count Down: Six Kids Vie for Glory at the

World’s Toughest Math Competition Jennifer Ouellette, The Calculus Diaries: How Math Can Help You Lose Weight, Win in Vegas, and Survive a Zombie Apocalypse Diane Ravitch, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education Richard Restak, Mozart’s Brain and the Fighter Pilot: Unleashing Your Brain’s Potential Richard Rodriguez, Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez Mike Rose, Lives on the Boundary: A Moving Account of the Struggles and Achievements of America’s Educationally Underprepared Mike Rose, Why School?: Reclaiming Education for All of Us Bruce Schechter, My Brain Is Open: The Mathematical Journeys of Paul Erdõs Tavis Smiley, What I Know for Sure: My Story of Growing Up in America Jacques Steinberg, The Gatekeepers: Inside the Admissions Process of a Premier College Paul Tough, Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada’s Quest to Change Harlem and America

Education (continued) Victor Villaseñor, Burro Genius: A Memoir Tony Wagner, The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don’t Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need—And What We Can Do about It Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery Karl Weber, Waiting for “Superman”: How We Can Save America’s Failing Public Schools Richard Wright, Black Boy Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban Gender Halima Bashir, Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur Louann Brizendine, The Female Brain Louann Brizendine, The Male Brain: A Breakthrough Understanding of How Men and Boys Think Gerald N. Callahan, Between XX and XY: Intersexuality and the Myth of Two Sexes Julie Des Jardins, The Madame Curie Complex: The Hidden History of Women in Science Susan Faludi, The Terror Dream: Myth and Misogyny in an Insecure America Warren Farrell, The Myth of Male Power Anne Fausto-Sterling, Myths of Gender: Biological Theories about Women and Men Cordelia Fine, Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference Stephen S. Hall, Size Matters: How Height Affects the Health, Happiness, and Success of Boys—and the Men They Become Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior Mara Hvistendahl, Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men Nicholas D. Kristoff and Sheryl WuDunn, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide George Lakoff, Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind Catharine MacKinnon, Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law Harvey Mansfield, Manliness Beryl Markham, West with the Night Elizabeth Meyer, Gender, Harassment, and Bullying: Strategies to End Sexism and Homophobia in Schools Kyoko Mori, Polite Lies: On Being a Woman Caught between Cultures Lisa Mundy, The Richer Sex: How the New Majority of Female Breadwinners Is Transforming Sex, Love, and Family Peggy Orenstein, Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture Susan Pinker, The Sexual Paradox: Men, Women, and the Real Gender Gap

Gender (continued) Lynn Povich, The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued Their Bosses and Changed the Workplace Maythee Rojas, Women of Color and Feminism Hanna Rosin, The End of Men and the Rise of Women Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead Leonard Sax, Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Science of Sex Differences Deborah Tannen, You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation Paco Underhill, What Women Want: The Global Marketplace Turns Female Friendly Norah Vincent, Self-Made Man: One Woman’s Journey into Manhood and Back Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used against Women Alice Walker and Pratibha Parmar, Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban Language Michael H. Agar, Language Shock: Understanding the Culture of Conversation Emanuel Alvarez-Sandoval, The Importance of Learning a Foreign Language in a Changing Society Naomi Baron, Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World Roy Blount, Jr., Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof. . . Edmund Blair Bolles, Babel’s Dawn: A Natural History of the Origins of Speech Kate Burridge, Blooming English: Observations on the Roots, Cultivation, and Hybrids of the English Language Bill Bryson, The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way Cathy Crimmins, Where Is the Mango Princess?: A Journey Back from Brain Injury Gary Deutscher, Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages Annie Dillard, The Writing Life Daniel J. Everett, Language: The Cultural Tool Deborah Fallows, Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, and Language Ellen Gilchrist, The Writing Life Jonathan Gottschal, The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human Temple Grandin, Thinking in Pictures: My Life with

Autism Robert Lane Greene, You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity

Language (continued) Ralph Keyes, Euphemania: Our Love Affair with Euphemisms John Locke, Why We Don’t Talk to Each Other Anymore: The De-Voicing of Society Frank I. Luntz, Words That Work: It’s Not What You Say, It’s What People Hear Robert MacNeil and William Cran, Do You Speak American? Robert McCrum, Globish: How the English Language Became the World’s Language Marilyn Chandler McEntyre, Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies John McWhorter, The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language John McWhorter, What Language Is (and What It Isn’t and What It Could Be) Geoffrey Nunberg, Going Nucular: Language, Politics, and Culture in Confrontational Times Geoffrey Nunberg, The Years of Living Dangerously Patricia T. O’Connor and Stewart Kellerman, Origins of the Specious: Myths and Misconceptions of the English Language James W. Pennebaker, The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say about Us Steven Pinker, The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature Richard Rodriquez, Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez Susan Schaller, A Man without Words Deborah Tannen, Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk among Friends Deborah Tannen, That’s Not What I Meant!: How Conversational Style Makes or Breaks Relationships Eudora Welty, One Writer’s Beginnings Maryanne Wolf, Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

Nature Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire Edward Abbey, Down the River William Alexander, The $64 Tomato: How One Man Nearly Lost His Sanity, Spent a Fortune, and Endured an Existential Crisis in the Quest for the Perfect Garden John M. Barry, The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History Richard E. Byrd, Alone Rachel Carson, Silent Spring Greg Child, Over the Edge: The True Story of Four American Climbers’ Kidnap and Escape in the Mountains of Central Asia Jacques Cousteau and Susan Schiefelbein, The Human, the Orchid, and the Octopus

Nature (continued) Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Gretel Ehrlich, The Solace of Open Spaces Jeff Ferrell, Empire of Scrounge: Inside the Urban Underground of Dumpster Diving, Trash Picking, and Street Scavenging Thomas Friedman, Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution and How It Can Renew America David George Haskell, The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature Stephen Hawking, The Grand Design Daniel Hays, On Whale Island: Notes from a Place I Never Meant to Leave Edward Humes, Eco Barons: The Dreamers, Schemers, and Millionaires Who Are Saving Our Planet Barbara Kingsolver, High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never Verlyn Klinkenborg, The Rural Life Alfred Lansing, Endurance William Least Heat-Moon, Blue Highways: A Journey into America Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder Daniel Mabey, Weeds: In Defense of Nature’s Most Unloved Plants Debra Marquart, The Horizontal World: Growing Up Wild in the Middle of Nowhere Patricia McCairen, Canyon Solitude: A Woman’s Solo River Journey through the Grand Canyon Libby McDonald, The Toxic Sandbox: The Truth about Environmental Toxins and Our Children’s Health Bill McKibben, The End of Nature Patrick F. McManus, They Shoot Canoes, Don’t They? John McPhee, Annals of the Former World John McPhee, Coming into the Country N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain Mary Oliver, Blue Pastures John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra Slavomir Rawicz, The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom Lee Sandlin, The Wicked River: The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild Bill Streever, Cold: Adventures in the World’s Frozen Places Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail Henry David Thoreau, Walden: or, Life in the Woods James Watson, The Double Helix Alan Weisman, The World without Us Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge: A Unnatural History of Family and Place Edward O. Wilson, The Future of Life Edward O. Wilson, The Social Conquest of Earth Marie Winn, Central Park in the Dark Marie Winn, Red-Tails in Love: A Wildlife Drama in Central Park Carol Kaesuk Yoon, Naming Nature: The Class between Instinct and Science

Politics Mark Bowden, Guests of the Ayatollah: The Iran

Hostage Crisis George W. Bush, Decision Points Ben Carson, America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Makes This Nation Great Hillary Clinton, Living History Dinesh D’Souza, Illiberal Education Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies W.E.B. Dubois, The Souls of Black Folk Michael Eric Dyson, Is Bill Cosby Right? Or Has the

Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind? Barbara Ehrenreich, This Land Is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation Thomas Friedman, The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century Thomas Friedman, Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution and How It Can Renew America Thomas Friedman and Michael Manelbaum, That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back Henry Louis Gates, Colored People Henry Louis Gates, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a

Black Man Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson, The Spirit of Compromise: Why Governing Demands It and Campaigning Undermines It John Heileman and Mark Halperin, Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime Adam Hochschild, King’s Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa Chris Hodges, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning David Horowitz, Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and

the American Left David Howard, Lost Rights: The Misadventures of a Stolen American Relic Michael Ignatieff, Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism Sasha Issenberg, The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns Steven Johnson, Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age Joe Klein, Politics Lost from RFK to W: How and Why Politicians Have Become Less Courageous and More Interested in Keeping Power than in Doing What’s Right for America William Kristol, The War Over Iraq: Tyranny and

America’s Mission William Kristol, The Neoconservative Imagination George Lakoff, Moral Politics Lewis Lapham, Waiting for the Barbarians Mark Levin, Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America Mark Levin, Liberty and Tyranny

Politics (continued) Mike Loftgren, The Party Is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted Frank I. Luntz, What Americans Really Want. . . Really: The Truth about Our Hopes, Dreams, and Fears Catharine MacKinnon, Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom Ralph Nader, Unstoppable: The Emergin Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in

Books Jay Nordlinger, Here, There, and Everywhere Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope Rick Perry, Fed Up!: Our Fight to Save America from Washington Norman Podhoretz, World War IV Fareed Zakaria, The Post-American World, Release 2.0 Samuel Popkin, The Candidate: What It Takes to Win— and Hold—the White House Richard Rodriguez, Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father Jeffrey Rosen, The Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries that Defined America Tavis Smiley, What I Know for Sure: My Story of

Growing Up in America Hedrick Smith, Who Stole the American Dream? Thomas Sowell, Black Rednecks and White Liberals Andrew Sullivan, The Conservative Soul: How We

Lost It, How to Get it Back Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery Juan Williams, Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Cultural Failure that Are

Undermining Black America—and What We Can Do about It

Bob Woodward, State of Denial Popular Culture Stewart Lee Allen, The Devil’s Cup: A History of the World According to Coffee Rod Beckstrom, The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations David Brooks, Bobos [Bourgeois Bohemians] in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There

Popular Culture (continued) David Brooks, The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement Truman Capote, In Cold Blood Greg Critser, Fat Land James Cuno, Who Owns Antiquity: Museums and the Battle over Our Ancient Heritage Joan Didion, The White Album Annie Dillard, The Writing Life Barbara Ehrenreich, This Land Is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation Lars Eighner, Travels with Lizbeth: Three Years on the Road and on the Streets Neil Gabler, Life the Movie: How Entertainment

Conquered Reality Malcom Gladwell, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference Malcom Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success Taras Grescoe, Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood Ben Hewitt, The Town That Food Saved: How One Community Found Vitality in Local Food Steven Johnson, Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today’s Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter Pauline Kael, I Lost It at the Movies Pauline Kael, Raising Kane and Other Essays Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life David Kirkpatrick, The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the CompanyThat Is Connecting the World Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto Andrew Lih, The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World’s Greatest Encyclopedia Norman Mailer, Armies of the Night Norman Mailer, The Fight Peter McGraw and Joel Warner, The Humor Code: A Global Search for What Makes Things Funny Michael Medved, Hollywood vs. America Robert O’Harrow, Jr., No Place to Hide Peggy Orenstein, Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture Charles P. Pierce, Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free Daniel Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us Daniel Pink, A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future George Plimpton, Paper Lion Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals William Powers, Hamlet’s Blackberry: A Practical

Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age

Popular Culture (continued) Elizabeth Royte, Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash Elizabeth Royte, Bottlemania: Big Business, Local Springs, and the Battle over America’s Drinking Water Elizabeth Royte, Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash Scott Russell Sanders, Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World Donald Sassoon, Becoming Mona Lisa: The Making of a Global Icon Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal Eric Schlosser, Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market Susan Sontag, On Photography Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation Mark Taibbi, Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America James Villas, Stalking the Green Fairy: And Other Fantastic Adventures in Food and Drink Tom Wolfe, Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak

Catchers Tom Wolfe, The Right Stuff Science and Technology S

Diane Ackerman, An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain Jim Al-Khalili, Paradox: The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics Lori Alvord, The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing Mark Bowden, Worm: The First Digital World War Mike Brown, How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming Deborah Cadbury, The Lost King of France: How DNA Solved the Mystery of the Murdered Son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette Scott Camey, The Red Market: On the Trail of the World’s Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers, and Child Traffickers Nicholas Carr, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains Jennifer Lee Carrell, The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox Calvin C. Clawson, Mathematical Mysteries: The Beauty and Magic of Numbers K. C. Cole, The Universe and the Teacup: The Mathematics of Truth and Beauty Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw, Why Does E=mc2?: (And Why Should We Care?)

Science and Technology (continued) Cathy Crimmins, Where Is the Mango Princess?: A Journey Back from Brain Injury Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Philip Dray, Stealing God’s Thunder: Benjamin Franklin’s Lightning Rod and the Invention of America Michael S. Gazzaniga, Human: The Science behind What Makes Us Unique Temple Grandin, The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum Temple Grandin, Thinking in Pictures: My Life with

Autism David Grann, The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly

Obsession in the Amazon David Grinspoon, Lonely Planets: The Natural Philosophy of Alien Life Jerome Groopman, How Doctors Think Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes Stephen Hawking, The Grand Design Bill Hayes, The Anatomist: A True Story of Gray’s

Anatomy Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World Michio Kaku, Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100 Michio Kaku, Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel Sam Kean, The Disappearing Spoon and Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements Kevin Kelly, What Technology Wants Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest

of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World

Ray Kurzwell, How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed Daniel Levitin, This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession Joseph Mazur, Euclid in the Rainforest Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer Jennifer Ouellette, The Calculus Diaries: How Math Can Help You Lose Weight, Win in Vegas, and Survive a Zombie Apocalypse Richard Preston, The Hot Zone Richard Restak, Mozart’s Brain and the Fighter Pilot: Unleashing Your Brain’s Potential Richard Restak, Think Smart: A Neuroscientist’s Prescription for Improving Your Brain’s Performance Nick Rosen, Off the Grid: Inside the Movement for More Space, Less Government, and True Independence in Modern America Mary Roach, Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void

Science and Technology (continued) Ken Silverstein, The Radioactive Boy Scout: The Frightening True Story of a Whiz Kid and His Homemade Nuclear Reactor Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Stott, Darwin and the Barnacle: The Story of One Tiny Creature and History’s Most Spectacular Scientific Breakthrough Barbara Strauch, The Secret Life of the Grown-Up Brain:

The Surprising Talents of the Middle-Aged Mind

Matthew Syed, Bounce: Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Beckham, and the Science of Success Daniel Tammet, Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant The Dalai Lama, The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Technology Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other Tom Vanderbilt, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says about Us) Elizabeth Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration Maryanne Wolf, Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain Work

Rod Beckstrom, The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations Alex Bellos, Here’s Looking at Euclid: A Surprising Excursion through the Astonishing World of Math Paula Caligiuri, Get a Life, Not a Job: Do What You Love and Let Your Talents Work for You Jim Clifton, The Coming Jobs War K. C. Cole, The Universe and the Teacup: The Mathematics of Truth and Beauty Matthew B. Crawford, Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work John Derbyshire, Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics Monica Dickens, One Pair of Hands Annie Dillard, The Writing Life Barbara Ehrenreich, Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America Richard Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class— Revisited Atul Gawande, Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance

Work (continued) Atul Gawande, Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science Robert Green, Mastery Jerome Groopman, How Doctors Think Sanjay Gupta, Cheating Death: The Doctors and Medical Miracles That Are Saving Lives against All Odds Tim Harford, The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest

of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World

Jerome Groopman, How Doctors Think Sanjay Gupta, Cheating Death: The Doctors and Medical Miracles That Are Saving Lives against All Odds Tim Harford, The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World Jean Harper, Rose City: A Memoir of Work Marjorie Hart, Summer at Tiffany Salman Khan, The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined Enrico Moretti, The New Geography of Jobs: Who Wins, Who Loses in the New Innovation Economy Bruce Nussbaum, Creative Intelligence: Harnessing the Power to Create, Connect, and Inspire Jennifer Ouellette, The Calculus Diaries: How Math Can Help You Lose Weight, Win in Vegas, and Survive a Zombie Apocalypse Jennifer Ouellette, Me, Myself, and Why: Searching for the Science of Self Mike Rose, The Mind at Work: Valuing the Intelligence of the American Worker Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead Richard Selzer, Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery Matthew Syed, Bounce: Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Beckham, and the Science of Success Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi Abraham Verghese, My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being Carl Zimmer, E. Coli and the New Science of Life “Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they are written.”

-–Henry David Thoreau

How to Annotate a Text

Underline, star, highlight, box, or circle whichever words, phrases, or sentences catch your attention. Write brief comments in the margins. Remember, these are your notes: abbreviate, be messy (if you wish), and be thorough. CONNECT to the text! Good Annotations Are: q Observations about what is being said or done q What you are reminded of (people, feelings, places, moods) q Questions you have about the text q Ideas that occur to you as you read q Things you agree or disagree with q ☺Any connections you are making q Summary comments q Identify themes in the text q Identify literary and rhetorical devices

FOR FICTION, LOOK AT: q Characterization q Plot q Conflicts q Themes q Symbols and motifs q Literary and rhetorical devices

o Sarcasm, irony, stage directions, dialogue, simile, metaphor, etc. o Also includes vocabulary you are unfamiliar with.

FOR NON-FICTION, CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING: q Summarize and evaluate what happens q What is the author’s purpose?

o Why did they write what they wrote? o Is the purpose to persuade, explain, warn, compare, etc.?

q What is the author’s tone (attitude)? q How does the author get across his or her point?

o Rhetorical devices o Ethos, Pathos, Logos

Example:

Use sticky notes, flags, colored pens, pencil, highlighters, etc., to

accomplish this task. Do what you can live with and

what you can make sense of. ☺

NAME: _____________________________________

AP Language Summer Assignment Rubric

BOOK: ___________________________________________________________________________________

BOOK ANNOTATIONS (50 total points)

Excellent: Consistent, thoughtful, insightful, evidence of analysis and connections

50

Proficient: Sporadic, reasonable insight, surface analysis with some deeper analysis, and some connections 35

Adequate: Brief/Incomplete, some surface analysis, inconsistent or no connections

20

Missing: No annotations included in text

0

Points Awarded for This Section 50 35 20 0

ARTICLE #1 (25 total points)

Logical Connection to Book: Article mentions book OR is on same subject

25

Little Or No Connection to Book: Article is not related to the subject or to the book

12.5

Article Not Included: No article submitted.

0

Points Awarded for This Section 25 12.5 0

ARTICLE #2 (25 total points)

Logical Connection to Book: Article mentions book OR is on same subject

25

Little Or No Connection to Book: Article is not related to the subject or to the book

12.5

Article Not Included: No article submitted.

0

Points Awarded for This Section 25 12.5 0

GRADE FOR THIS PROJECT

AP Language and Composition La Vernia High School 2016-2017 Before the school year ends, make sure you have set up a Google Drive account or have familiarized yourself with using Google Drive through LVHS. I also invite you to sign up for my class Remind so I can send you quick reminders about due dates, etc. Text @maytumap18 to 81010. Please do this ASAP. We will be utilizing the school-issued Google Drive accounts during the school year, and we will also use Google Classroom, but you may want to familiarize yourself with Google Drive through a personal account over the summer. Assignment #1 is to fill out the following Google Form: http://goo.gl/forms/x5MjUq3aPosmFZeA3 Please fill out the form AFTER you have selected your book for the summer reading assignment. You may only fill out the form one time, so make sure you are accurate. Your response is required, and it is your first quiz grade. This is due by midnight on July 31, 2016. If you need assistance, or if you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to see me in room 440 or email me at amy.maytum@lvisd.org. Over the summer, please also purchase the supplies you will need for the class. You will be expected to have them with you on the first day of school. You will need the following: q 2 College ruled Composition Notebooks (the black and white ones are great) q Blue or Black ink pens for assignments (pencils will only be used for AP Practice Tests) q 1 set of highlighters (at least 5 colors) q Sticky notes or flags q Glue Stick q 1 folder with pockets and brads (the plastic ones are more durable…) q College ruled loose leaf notebook paper q Miscellaneous items not required, but you may find useful:

o Page protectors o Colored pens (for annotating) o Map pencils

Checklist: q Google Drive set up and ready to use q Signed up for Remind q Non-fiction book selected q Non-fiction book read and annotated, ready to turn in

o Annotated book = 1 major grade on Monday, August 29, 2016 q 2 Articles printed and annotated, ready to turn in

o Annotated articles = 2nd major grade on Monday, August 29, 2016 q Google Form completed by midnight on July 31, 2016

o Quiz Grade q Supplies purchased and ready for the first day of school

o We will use these on the first day…be ready! q Enthusiasm and excitement for AP Language ☺

AP Language and Composition Acknowledgement Form

Student Name (please print): _______YOUR COPY________

Course Name: AP Language and Composition (AP English III) I completely understand that this course is part of a rigorous program designed to promote college level instruction at the high school level; for students to be fully successful, it is important they possess good time management skills and exceptional study habits. I am fully aware that because of the intense nature of the AP Program, coursework will be more demanding, and students will be challenged to think at a higher and more complex level; because of this, there will be more homework than in a general education English III class. I understand that in order to teach and assess the AP curriculum, outside reading will be required. The writers of the AP Exam expect students to be well-read in a wide variety of genres and forms, and be able to think critically about the works they read. In order to meet this demand, students will read and be assessed upon a variety of works. I know that failure to complete the summer homework by the due dates assigned or failure to return this form before the end of school this year could not only affect a student’s grades, but could seriously jeopardize a student’s enrollment in this program. Return This Form to Mrs. Maytum by: Friday, May 27, 2016 Summer Reading Homework Deadline: Monday, August 29, 2016 Parent / Guardian Name (please print): _________________________________________________ Parent Contact Information (required): ____________________ _______________________________________________________

phone number e-mail address Parent / Guardian Signature: __________________________________________________________ Student Signature: __________________________________________________________________

AP Language and Composition Acknowledgement Form

RETURN TO Mrs. Maytum in Room 440 by Friday, May 27, 2016

Student Name (please print): __________________________________________________________

Course Name: AP Language and Composition (AP English III) I completely understand that this course is part of a rigorous program designed to promote college level instruction at the high school level; for students to be fully successful, it is important they possess good time management skills and exceptional study habits. I am fully aware that because of the intense nature of the AP Program, coursework will be more demanding, and students will be challenged to think at a higher and more complex level; because of this, there will be more homework than in a general education English III class. I understand that in order to teach and assess the AP curriculum, outside reading will be required. The writers of the AP Exam expect students to be well-read in a wide variety of genres and forms, and be able to think critically about the works they read. In order to meet this demand, students will read and be assessed upon a variety of works. I know that failure to complete the summer homework by the due dates assigned or failure to return this form before the end of school this year could not only affect a student’s grades, but could seriously jeopardize a student’s enrollment in this program. Return This Form to Mrs. Maytum by: Friday, May 27, 2016 Summer Reading Homework Deadline: Monday, August 29, 2016 Parent / Guardian Name (please print): _________________________________________________ Parent Contact Information (required): ____________________ _______________________________________________________

phone number e-mail address Parent / Guardian Signature: __________________________________________________________ Student Signature: __________________________________________________________________