D+Journals+(Lit+&+Lang)

AP ENGLISH DIALECTICAL JOURNALS & OUTSIDE READING

Each year, students taking AP English are asked to read several assigned works on their own outside of class; these works are in addition to the regular course of study. For these works, students will receive little background information from their teacher and they will be asked to create a dialectical journal of their own thoughts as they read. This additional outside reading is important because it prepares students to think critically on their own using tools they have already learned in their previous and current English classes. Critical reading, analysis, and literary criticism are important components of college level work and of the AP Exams available at the end of the year. The PROCESS of this reading is as important as the end PRODUCT. After reading and preparing a dialectical journal, students will write brief, but concise and intelligent, paragraphs proving their own literary assertions about the works they read.

More instructions will be given in class at the beginning of the year, but the deadlines for these assigned outside readings are listed in the course calendar as DJ, RDG DAY, and LIT LETTER. On these days, students will bring to class their dialectical journal (DJ), will spend five minutes reviewing notations in their journal (RDG DAY), and will write a succint paragraph (LIT LETTER) within an allotted time.

//Listed below are outside reading assignments (short stories) for the AP LANG class, and supplementary reading assignments (poems) for the AP LIT class. All outside readings come from the class supplementary book PERRINE'S LITERATURE: STRUCTURE, SOUND, AND SENSE (ninth edition) by Thomas R. Arp and Greg Johnson.//

__AP LANG OUTSIDE READINGS (DEADLINES LISTED)__ September 9, 2011 page 175 Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield September 22, 2011 page 539 American History by Judith Ortiz Cofer September 29, 2011 page 442 Evaline by James Joyce October 17, 2011 page 327 A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez November 1, 2011 page 299 Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne November 17, 2011 REVIEW & COMPARE December 1, 2011 page 268 Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway December 8, 2011 page 234 Paul's Case by Willa Cather February 3, 2012 page 546 The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky by Stephen Crane February 7, 2012 REVIEW & COMPARE February 9, 2012 page 202 Gooseberries by Anton Chekhov February 16, 2012 page 619 A & P by John Updike March 22, 2012 page 454 A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Conner (Part 1) March 29, 2012 page 454 A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Conner (Part 2) April 24, 2012 REVIEW & COMPARE April 25, 2012 REVIEW & COMPARE April 26, 2012 REVIEW & COMPARE

__AP LIT SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS (DEADLINES TO BE ANNOUNCED)__ Poetry: page 664 Poetry: I by Adrienne Rich page 665 Ars Poetica by Archibald MacLeish page 732 Introduction to Poetry by Billy Collins page 726 Metaphors by Sylvia Plath page 943 Siren Song by Margaret Atwood page 715 The Guitarist Tunes Up by Frances Crawford page 798 On the Sonnet by John Keats page 798 Sonnet by Billy Collins Life: page 680 The Clod and the Pebble by William Blake page 684 Storm Warnings by Adrienne Rich page 656 The Whipping by Robert Hayden page 739 Digging by Seamus Heaney page 997 My Papa's Waltz by Theodore Roethke page 948 Sign for My Father, Who Stressed the Bunt by David Bottoms page 967 My Son, My Executioner by Donald Hall page 1006 Telephone Conversation by Wole Soyinska page 831 We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks page 784 Hazel Tells LaVerne by Katharyn Howd Machan page 767 Sorting Laundry by Elisavietta Ritchie page 701 Meeting at Night by Robert Browning page 702 Meeting at Morning by Robert Browning War: page 651 Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen page 670 The Man He Killed by Thomas Hardy page 692 Naming of Parts by Henry Reed Time: page 749 Curiosity by Alistair Reid page 945 On Reading Poems to a Senior Class by D. C. Berry page 769 The History Teacher by Billy Collins page 759 Incident by Countee Cullen page 761 Barbie Doll by Marge Piercy page 833 Rite of Passage by Sharon Olds page 750 The Writer by Richard Wilbur page 859 Quinceanera by Judith Ortiz Cofer page 860 To a Daughter Leaving Home by Linda Pastan Death: page 975 Warning by Jenny Joseph page 894 The Story We Know by Martha Collins page 753 Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness by John Donne page 810 Crossing the Bar by Alfred, Lord Tennyson page 971 To an Athlete Dying Young by A. E. Housman page 889 Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas