AP English IV

Summer Reading Assignment 2008

 

Directions: Read Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, The Little Foxes by Hellman, and the selected poems by Auden indicated below.  Complete a Novel Form for Jane Eyre, a Drama Form for The Little Foxes, and one TPCASTT form per poem by Keats.  All work is due on the first day of school.  A test will be given covering these works on the first day of school.

 

Options for purchasing the works being studied:

 

Locally: Goodwill, Half Price Books, any major bookstore chain or checking the titles out of the local library

 

Online at:

FICTION

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

http://www.amazon.com/

 

POETRY

Selections by W. H. Auden in The Mentor Book of Major American Poets, Oscar Williams, and Edwin Honig, eds.

Signet. Paperback. ISBN 0-451-62791-1.

 

Penguin Group USA List price $8.99. web: us.penguingroup.com

 

TEP, Inc. (Texas Educational Paperbacks) List price: $5.84 4433 Mint Way, Dallas, TX 75236.

Toll free: 800-443-2078 Fax: 800.437.7070 web: www.tepbooks.com

 

Auden Poems To Be Studied

Musée des Beaux Arts

The Unknown Citizen

Petition

The Composer

In Memory of W. B. Yeats

Herman Melville

Something Is Bound to Happen

The Diaspora

The Novelist

The Climbers

Another Time

Who’s Who

Macao

O What Is That Sound

O Where Are You Going

Mundus et Infans

The Chimeras

Words

Epitaph on a Tyrant

Narrator

 

 

DRAMA

The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman

 

Any unabridged version of the play will be appropriate for the competition. To find anthologies in which the play appears, check Plays in Print in the reference section of a large library.

 

Dramatists Play Service. Paperback. ISBN: 978-0-8222-0677-4. List price: $7.50. 440 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10016. web: www.dramatists.com

 

TEP, Inc. (Texas Educational Paperbacks) List price: $4.88 4433 Mint Way, Dallas, TX 75236.

Toll free: 800-443-2078 Fax: 800.437.7070 web: www.tepbooks.com

 


Novel Reading Form

Title:

Author:

Date Written:

Genre:

Basic Setting:

Point of View:

 

BRIEF Plot Summary:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Major characters with BRIEF description:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Symbols/Predominant motifs with BRIEF description:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BRIEF description of the Central Idea or Theme:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Quotes:  Provide quotes from the novel that relate to the below literary elements.  Include a BRIEF explanation of how the quote relates to each literary element.

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Drama Reading Form

Title:

Author:

Date Written:

Genre:

Basic Setting:

Point of View:

 

BRIEF Plot Summary:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Major characters with BRIEF description:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Symbols/Predominant motifs with BRIEF description:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BRIEF description of the Central Idea or Theme:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Quotes:  Provide quotes from the novel that relate to the below literary elements.  Include a BRIEF explanation of how the quote relates to each literary element.

Setting:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Character:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Plot:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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TPCASTT Chart

 

Poem Analysis Method:  TPCASTT

Title, Paraphrase, Connotation, Attitude, Shift(s), Title revisited, and Theme

Title
of poem means

 

Paraphrase
parts of the poem

 

Connotation
of some of the words – changing literal meaning to implied or associated values

 

Attitude
What is the attitude of the author, characters or yourself?

 

Shift
At first we think or feel one way – then there is a shift:  identify the shifts and explain them

 

Title revisited
Any new insights on meaning or significance of title?

 

Theme