TO: All Students enrolled in Advanced Placement English May, 2010

FROM: Mr. Hobbs & Mr. Zaunius, AP English Instructors

967-4581 ext 322 ext. 339

RE: Required Summer Reading for AP English and other Matters

Congratulations and thanks for your interest in the AP English program here at San
Marcos. This course is designed for people who already love to read and write about
literature, and who are ready to take on the challenge of college-level assignments and
expectations while still in high school. Santa Barbara School Board policy states that
all students who enroll in AP English are required to take the AP test in May, 2010.
Also, once you are enrolled and sign your contract agreement as an AP student, you
may not drop the course. See your counselor if this requirement is a problem.

You must also keep reading logs on the following two works assigned for summer
reading as part of the AP curriculum, along with one other book from the list (on back),
or of equal literary merit. The two required novels are :

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini 1984 by George Orwell

READING LOGS on the three books – MANDATORY - Your reading log will be your
best tool for review in preparation for the "open ended" essay question on the AP exam.
Here are some suggestions regarding what to record in your reading logs.

 • Only summarize what is essential for you to remember - key characters, events,
ideas, etc. Take thorough notes on WHAT'S HAPPENING To WHOM and WHY
as you read. Write AS YOU READ, not just at the end of the novel.

 • Spend most of your time writing about what the book or play brings to mind :
thoughts about issues, questions about characters or themes, ideas about author's
intentions, connections with other things you've read or experienced, predictions
about what will happen, and any other aspects of the book that you find
confusing, interesting or brilliant.

 Consider the author’s writing style: the point of view employed, the level of
vocabulary used, the way the characters are presented, figurative language, etc.

Bring your completed reading logs with you on the first day of class. If you don’t have
AP English until the spring, your logs are still due on August 24th, 2008, and must be
turned in to Mr. Hobbs in room D-5 or to Mr. Zaunius in room E-6.

Please let us know if you have any questions about the course, the AP Test, or the
required summer reading. (jhobbs@sbsdk12.org, or dzaunius@sbsdk12.org)
A.P. BOOK- PLAY LIST SEPARATE PEACE Fowles
SHOGUN Clavel
Required: A Thousand Splendid Suns OBASAN Kagawa
and 1984 plus one from this list: ETHAN FROMME Wharton
THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD Hurston
LES MISERABLES Hugo DEATH COMES TO THE ARCHBISHOP Cather
WALDEN POND Thoreau CRIME AND PUNISHMENT Dostoyevsky
PERSUASION Austen ANNA KARENINA
PRIDE & PREJUDICE ONE FLEW OVER THE Kesey
EMMA CUCKOO'S NEST
SENSE & SENSIBILITY COLD MOUNTAIN Frazier
BELOVED Morrison GULLIVER’S TRAVELS Swift
SULA THE THINGS THEY CARRIED O'Brien
SONG OF SOLOMON PORTRAIT OF A LADY James
RETURN of the NATIVE Hardy TURN OF THE SCREW
FAR FROM THE COLOR PURPLE Walker
MADDING CROWD JOY LUCK CLUB Tan
MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE ANGLE OF REPOSE Stegner
FRANKENSTEIN Shelly SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS Guterson
THE STRANGER Camus 100 YRS. OF SOLITUDE Garcia-Marquez
THE FALL LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA
WUTHERING HEIGHTS Brontes TENDER IS THE NIGHT Fitzgerald
JANE EYRE THE LAST TYCOON
OLIVER TWIST Dickens THE INFERNO Dante
DAVID COPPERFIELD ROBINSON CRUSOE Defoe
HARD TIMES GO TELL IT ON THE MT. Baldwin
INVISIBLE MAN Ellison THE TRIAL Kafka
PORTRAIT of the ARTIST Joyce THE CASTLE
MOBY DICK Melville TO THE LIGHTHOUSE Woolfe
SCARLET LETTER Hawthorne ORLANDO
AMERICAN TRAGEDY Dreiser AGE OF INNOCENCE Wharton
BROS. KARAMAZOV Dostoyevsky SONS & LOVERS Lawrence
MADAME BOVARY Flaubert PASSAGE TO INDIA Forrester
THE AWAKENING Chopin SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE Vonnegutt
CRY the BELOVED COUNTRYPaton LIFE OF PI Martel
WOMAN WARRIOR Hong Kingston BLACK BOY Wright
ILIAD & ODYSSEY Homer NATIVE SON
DON QUIXOTE Cervantes GRAPES OF WRATH Steinbeck
LIGHT IN AUGUST Faulkner EAST OF EDEN
THE SOUND & THE FURY POISONWOOD BIBLE Kingsolver
AS I LAY DYING TOM JONES Fielding
AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY Dreiser KITE RUNNER Hosseini
PARADISE LOST Milton
PASSAGE TO INDIA Forrester A.P. PLAY LIST
HOWARD'S END DR. FAUSTUS Marlowe
THE ROAD McCarthy ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE Chekov
LONESOME DOVE McMurtry CHERRY ORCHARD
CATCH 22 Heller THE WILD DUCK
INVISIBLE MAN Ellison INHERIT THE WIND Lawrence & Lee
ROBINSON CRUSOE Defoe ANY PLAY BY Shakespeare
SUN ALSO RISES Hemingway OEDIPUS REX Sophocles
A FARWELL TO ARMS ANTIGONE
RIVER OF GOLD Villaseñor MEDEA Euripides
GROWTH OF THE SOIL Hamsen ALL MY SONS Miller
PYGMALION G.B. Shaw
MAN & SUPERMAN
STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE Williams
GLASS MENAGERIE
OUR TOWN Wilder
LADY WINDERMERE’S FAN Wilde