HIT: SEC: AP English Novels

[Jennifer Smith <SMIJE@PDC.K12.WI.US>]

Thank you to everyone who provided me with information=20
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Sorry it took so long to post a hit.
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Jennifer
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Here is the AP reading list, including in-class books and
read-this-over-the-summer-before-class-begins books.
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Anna Karenina /Tolstoy, Leo
Awakening, The /Chopin, Kate
Beloved /Morrison, Toni
Color purple, The /Walker, Alice
Death of a salesman /Miller, Arthur
Doll's house, A /Ibsen, Henrik
Dubliners, The /Joyce, James
Heart of darkness /Conrad, Joseph
MacBeth /Shakespeare, William
Metamorphosis, The /Kafka, Franz
One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich /Solzhenitsyn,Alexandr
Plague, The /Camus, Albert
Stranger, The /Camus, Albert
Sula /Morrison, Toni
Tess of the d'Urbervilles /Hardy, Thomas
Their eyes were watching god /Hurston, Zora Neale
Woman warrior
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In support, I have the Greenhaven Press series 'Readings
on...' and many of the Twayne (U.S. / British / world)
Author series. Other support materials as they become
available. Series include Magill's US and English author sets,
Literary Lifelines.
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I draft a 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles Survival Kit' (or
whichever novel they're beginning) and deliver it to the
class. It includes a bibliography of available books, articles,
and websites. I point them right to the literary analyses,
summaries, and so on. I figure they deserve the best
information available from me, even if it forces teachers to
create higher-thinking test questions, which they are being
asked to do anyway.
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They have summer readings that are to be completed by the first day of
school in the fall.
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They also have two outside reading of their choice each semester.  The =
books
that they choose must meet specific requirements.  (length, subject, etc.)
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During the school year they are reading in class:  The Glass Menagerie,
Hamlet, The Book of Job (The Bible), The Crucible, and Crime and Punishment=
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My daughter is in AP and so far her class has read the
following:
Bless me, Ultima
Frankenstein (Mary Shelly)
Odyseuss
Beloved (Toni Morrison)
Great Expectations
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We have several sections of AP and each teacher does something different,
but here are some of the titles:
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Jane Eyre
The Madwoman in the Attic
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Invisible Man
Various Shakespeare plays (Macbeth, Hamlet, Richard II)
Various Charles Dickens novels
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There are many more but I can't think of them at this time.
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We have the Twayne's and Scribner's series online (published by Gale =
Group)
and in book form for many of the books for literary criticism. Many of the
teachers seem to handle their own literary criticism, but we keep it on
hand just in case.
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http://www.tandemfs.org/readtandem.html=20
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Jennifer M. Smith
Library Media Specialist
Prairie du Chien High School
Prairie du Chien, WI
(608)326-8437; ext. 4125
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