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AP English Language and Composition Ms. Nicole Mendenhall
Summer Enrichment
SY 2017-2018 Congratulations ___________________________________________________ ! You are currently scheduled to take AP English Language and Composition in the fall. It is essential to your success to properly prepare yourself for this intense and rigorous course. You must be an active participant in your learning! This course will require you to be self-motivated ! Please read this packet very carefully. In this packet you will find the following items :
1. Our Summer Edmodo Page - Ms. Mendenhall’s AP Language and Composition Summer Page ( Sign-up ASAP )
EDMODO CODE : ytwgst
○ Here you will find : ■ Helpful handouts ■ Summer enrichment ideas & support ■ Informative video links ■ Relevant newspaper articles ■ Templates for summer assignments (These will make your job a lot
easier! Coming in June!) ■ Books! I have many PDF files of the books on your book list! ■ Reading Recommendations ■ College Board Updates ■ Polls ■ Scholarships ■ Community Service Opportunities
2. Course Overview 3. Thank You for Arguing by Jay Heinrichs 2013 Edition Assignment* ( must be thoroughly and thoughtfully
completed by the second Friday of the school year- August 25th ) 4. Essay Assignment* ( must be thoroughly and thoughtfully completed by the second Friday of the school year- August 25th ) 5. Book Read/Review Assignment* ( must be thoroughly and thoughtfully completed by the second Friday of the school
year- August 25th ) 6. Book List
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Ms. Sonara or me over the summer at:
Ms. Mendenhall @ [email protected] Ms. Sonara @ [email protected]
See you in August!
Dear ___________________________________________________,
Welcome to AP English Language and Composition! I am very glad that you chose to take this course! So you may
be wondering what AP English Language and Composition is all about. Here is an overview based on the AP English Language
and Composition Course Description on the College Board website. 1
Students choosing AP English Language and Composition should be interested in :
● Studying and writing various kinds of analytic and persuasive essays . ● Studying literature of various periods and genres and using this wide reading knowledge in discussions of
literary topics.
The core skill of this course is the ability to read well . You must be able to answer four fundamental questions when reading another writer’s work .
● What is being said?
● To whom is it being said?
● How is it being said?
● Why is it being said?
If you are already familiar with SOAPSTone , you are ahead of the game! Do you want to know more about SOAPSTone? 2
Please visit the link in the footnote.
You will develop your writing craft . In this way, you will not only be writing short and extended responses but also three very different types of essays .
● Synthesis (similar to the FSA style of writing except there may be 6 to 8 sources): Requires you to read multiple
perspectives in response to a common question and to discern patterns of agreement and disagreement among
these sources.
● Rhetorical Analysis : Requires you to attend to the practical and stylistic choices writers make to achieve their
purposes with particular audiences, or the effects these choices might have on multiple, even unintended, audiences.
● Argument : Requires you to articulate clear claims and to provide appropriate evidence and convincing justification,
with the goal of convincing a reader to agree or take a course of action.
You will also develop your close reading and timed test taking skills . Are you going to take the SAT or the ACT?
Yes? Well the good news is that the multiple choice practice in this
course will help you develop and refine those essential skills.
● Multiple Choice Assessments : Includes excerpts
from nonfiction texts. Usually 52-55 multiple choice
questions.
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Thank You For Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us
About the Art of Persuasion
by Jay Heinrichs
*MAKE CERTAIN YOU HAVE THE 2013 EDITION*
I recommend purchasing a new or used copy
(Amazon/Barnes & Noble/used books sites)
It is also available at your public library. Don’t delay! This
is a popular book!
❏ Read the book, one section at a time.
● There are four major sections and a short introduction.
❏ For each of the four sections (combine the introduction with Part I)-
❏ Write a short summary, which addresses the main points in the section, and integrates
important terminology.
❏ The terms listed on the next page are required in your summaries; in addition, you should pick
at least five more—so each of your section summaries should have a minimum of ten terms in
the summary; please bold the terms in the summary. Each section summary should be
500-700 words.
❏ This must be word processed.
❏ Please use MLA format.
❏ Want to get ahead? Create flashcards for the vocabulary words as well. (not required)
Thank You For Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of
Persuasion
by Jay Heinrichs
*MAKE CERTAIN YOU HAVE THE 2013 EDITION*
I recommend purchasing a new or used copy (Amazon/Barnes & Noble/used books
sites)
It is also available at your public library.
Required Terminology : Use the spaces below to jot down your five additional words for each section.
o Section Title: Intro/Offense ❏ Ethos
❏ Pathos
❏ Logos
❏ Inductive Logic
❏ Deductive Logic
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o Section Title: Defense ❏ False analogy
❏ Hasty generalization
❏ Tautology
❏ Red herring
❏ Phronesis
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o Section Title: Advanced Offense ❏ Idiom
❏ Synecdoche
❏ Antithesis
❏ Irony
❏ Kairos
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o Section Title: Advanced Agreement ❏ Introduction
❏ Narration
❏ Division
❏ Proof
❏ Refutation
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Essay Assignment (page 1)
Expectations :
❏ Read several essays (from the author’s in the list below ). You may also use famous presidential speeches .
❏ This assignment must be typed and printed .
❏ You must bring a hard copy of the essays/speeches to class on
August 25th .
❏ Select the essay/speech that you enjoyed the most .
❏ Complete a SOAPSTone (see Essay Assignment page 2/template
will be on Ms. Mendenhall’s AP Language and Composition
Summer Page).
❏ Formulate and execute one thorough and thoughtful paragraph explaining why you enjoyed this essay/speech.
Need some ideas? Check out the table of contents of 50 Essays: A Portable Anthology by Samuel Cohen
Sherman Alexie Maya Angelou
Gloria Anzaldúa Barbara Lazear Ascher
James Baldwin Dave Barry
William F. Buckley Rachel Carson
Judith Ortiz Cofer Jared Diamond
Joan Didion Annie Dillard
Frederick Douglass Barbara Ehrenreich
Lars Eighner Stephanie Ericsson Stephen Jay Gould Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston Thomas Jefferson
Steven Johnson Martin Luther King Jr. Maxine Hong Kingston
Verlyn Klinkenborg Audre Lorde
Nancy Mairs Malcolm X
Bill McKibben N. Scott Momaday Bharati Mukherjee
George Orwell Plato
Michael Pollan Richard Rodriguez
Mike Rose Scott Russell Sanders
Eric Schlosser David Sedaris Susan Sontag
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Brent Staples
Jonathan Swift Amy Tan
Henry David Thoreau Sojourner Truth
Sarah Vowell Alice Walker
E.B. White Marie Winn
Virginia Woolf
Essay Assignment (page 2)
SOAPSTone
Reading Strategy 3
Subject
The subject is the general topic. The general topic tends to be broad and not super specific.
What are the general topic, content, and ideas contained in the text? You should be able to state the subject in a few words or a phrase. How do you know this is the topic? How does the author present the subject? Is it introduced immediately (right away) or delayed (later in the text)? Is the subject hidden, do you have to infer what the meaning is in the poem? Is there more than one subject?
Occasion
There is the larger occasion : an environment of ideas and emotions that swirl around a broad (big) issue. Then there is the immediate occasion : an event or situation that catches the writer’s attention and triggers a response.
What prompted the author to write this piece? What event led to the publication or development? What is the time of the piece that encouraged the writing to happen? This can be a time period or a time of life (stage of life). Is it a memory, a description, an observation, an elegy, a declaration, a critique, a journal entry or…?
Audience
The audience may be one person, a small group, or a large group; it may be a certain person or a certain people.
Who is the audience – the (group) of readers to whom this piece is directed? Does the speaker identify an audience? What assumptions exist about the intended audience?
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Purpose
The purpose should state the message of the speaker.
Why was this text written? You should ask yourself, “What does the speaker want the audience to think or do as a result of reading this text?” How is this message conveyed? What is the message? How does the speaker try to spark a reaction in the audience? What techniques are used to achieve a purpose? How does the text make the audience feel? What is its intended effect? Consider the purpose of the text in order to examine the argument and its logic.
Speaker
Who is the voice that speaks the text? Is someone identified as the speaker? What assumptions can be made about the speaker? What age, gender, class, emotional state, education, or…? In nonfiction, how does the speaker’s background shape his/her point of view?
Tone
If the author read aloud the passage, describe the likely tone of that voice.
How is the author perceived by the audience? What is the author’s mood? What is the author’s point of view? What emotion or feeling is in the piece? How does the diction point to tone? How do the author’s diction, imagery, language, and sentence structure (syntax) convey his or her feelings? Are there shifts in the tone of the piece?
Book Read and Review Assignment
❏ Read no less than two books from the book list provided. Some recommendations have been highlighted for you.
❏ Choose two of the following (no repeats).
❏ Personal reflection #1 : Why do you like this book? Why are you glad you read it? What rhetorical strategies are
effective?
❏ Personal reflection #2 : Why do you dislike this book? What was the book lacking? What suggestions do you
have for the author? What rhetorical strategies need to be developed?
❏ Recommendation : Choose a person you know, and write an email to him or her giving your recommendation. If
this person is another student in our class, be sure to share your book and recommendation with him/her.
❏ Personal growth : What did you learn about yourself as a reader? What did you learn from studying this book?
What would you like to research more? Be specific.
❏ Historical context : Literature often reflects the time period in which it is created. What have you learned or
did you already know about the period in which your work was written?
❏ Are you a creative thinker? Create your own : __________________________________________________________
❏ For any of these choices -
❏ Use 400-500 words.
❏ Cite the text in support of what you say.
❏ This must be word processed.
❏ Please use MLA format.
#/A 1776 by David McCullough A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah A Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic’s Wild Ride to the Edge and Back by Kevin Hazzard Almost a Woman by Esmeralda Santiago Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation by Jonathan Kozol American Dreams, Lost and Found, Studs Terkel Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Had eld Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver B Ballad of the Whiskey Robber by Julian Rubinstein Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child by Elva Hart Beautiful Boy by David She Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates Between Two Worlds: My Life and Captivity in Iran by Roxana Saberi Black Boy by Richard Wright Black Like Me: The De nitive Gri n Estate Edition by John Howard Gri n Blackhawk Down by Mark Bowden Born to Run by Christopher McDougall Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich Bury My heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown C Catch Me If You Can by Frank Abagnale Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
Colors of the Mountain by Da Chen Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Un nished Civil War by Tony Horwitz D/E/F Dead Heat: Global Justice and Global Warming by Tom Athanasiou and Paul Baer Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris Escape by Michael Gates Gill Evita by Ricardo Blaustein, Emmanuel Yevene Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson Flags of Our Fathers, James Bradley Foreigners in Their Native Land: Historical Roots of the Mexican Americans by David Weber Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven Levitt Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights by Patricia Stevens Due and Tananarive Due Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Raymond Arsenault Frida Kahlo (Critical Lives) by Gannit Ankori Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas G/H/I Gorillas in the Mist by Dian Fossey Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America by Linda Tirado Harvest for Hope by Jane Goodall Hot Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution and How It Can Renew America by Thomas Friedman Hot Zone by Richard Preston How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization by Franklin Foer
How Starbucks Saved my Life by Michael Gill I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai I am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced by Nujood Ali In Trouble Again by Redmond O’Hanlon In Cold Blood, Truman Capote Into the Wild by John Krakauer Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer JKL Just Kids by Patti Smith Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez and Kristin Ohlson Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee and Walker Evans Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen Linked: How Everything is Connected to Everything Else and What it Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela Longitudes and Attitudes by Thomas Friedman M Maphead by Karl Jennings Mapping Human History by Steve Olson Maus I by Art Spiegelman Maus II by Art Spiegelman Migrant Daughter: Coming of Age as a Mexican American Woman by Frances Tywoniak and Mario Garcia Mountains Beyond Mountains: The quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, the man who would cure the world by Tracy Kidder My Life by Isadora Duncan My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story by Abraham Verghese N/O/P/Q/R No Logo by Naomi Klein Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan On Human Nature by E.O Wilson On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes by Alexandra Horowitz On the Road by Jack Kerouac Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids, Alexandra Robbins
Parasite Rex by Carl Zimmer Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Navisi Reason for Hope by Jane Goodall S Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlanski Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopald Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand Sel sh Gene by Richard Dawkins Sex, Drugs and Economics by Diane Coyle She Said Yes: The Unlikely Martyrdom of Cassie Bernall by Misty Bernall Silent Spring by Rachel Carson Small Wonder: Essays by Barbara Kingsolver So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War by Helen Thorpe Sti : The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach Survival of the Sickest: The Surprising Connections Between Disease and Longevity by Sharon Moalem T Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin The 7 Daughters of Eve: Mitochondrial DNA by Bryan Sykes The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives by Sasha Abramsky The Art of War by Niccolo Machiavelli The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and Alex Haley The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown The Coming Plague by Laurie Garrett The Dark Net: Inside the Digital Underworld by Jamie Bartlett
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee The Everglades: River of Grass by Marjory Stoneman Douglas The Fight by Norman Mailer The Forever War by Dexter Filkins The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls The Great In uenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John Barry The Immortal Life of Henrietta Locks, Rebecca Skloot The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King The In uence of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini The Innocent Anthropologist by Nigel Barley The Innocent Man by John Grisham The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks The Mismeasure of Man by Steven Jay Gould The New Geography of Jobs by Enrico Moretti The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore The Panic Virus: The True Story Behind the Vaccine-Autism Controversy by Seth Mnookin The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger The Perks of Being a Wall ower by Stephen Chbosky The Power of Place by Harm de Blij The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson The Red Market: On the Trail of the World's Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers, and Child Tra ckers by Scott Carney The Right Stu by Thomas Wolfe The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to our Brains, Nicholas Carr The Spirit Catches You by Anne Fadiman The Swamp by Michael Grunwald
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, Stephen Greenblatt The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond The Travels of A T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade by Pietra Rivoli The World According to Pimm by Stuart Pimm The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century by Thomas Friedman The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman There Are no Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky: A True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan by Judy Bernstein This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral — plus plenty of valet parking! — in America’s Gilded Capital by Mark Leibovich Tom’s River: A Story of Science and Salvation by Dan Fagin Trying Not to Try by Edward Slingerland U Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls, and the Consequences of a World full of Men, Mara Hvistendahl
V/ W/X/Y/Z Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases by Paul O t, M.D. Virus X by Frank Ryan Walden by Henry David Thoreau Why Geography Matters: Three Challenges Facing America: Climate Change, The Rise of China, and Global Terrorism by Harm de Blij Wild Trees by Richard Dawkins Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston Working by Studs Terkel Yellow Fever, Black Goddess by Christopher Wills Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
Please focus on non�ction texts.
Feel free to research the reviews written about the books.
https://www.goodreads.com