AP Reading List Link

There are several links to recommended books for AP. Below are a couple. The first link also tells you the years that book was referenced or used on an AP test:

http://www.eaprep.org/UserFiles/Servers/Server_132773/File/APLitBookList.pdf

file:///C:/Users/Trisha/Downloads/AP%20Suggested%20Reading%20List%20(2).pdf

Since I've been teaching here, students in my various classes have read several of these books: Into the Wild, Jane Eyre, In Cold Blood, The Narrative of Frederick Douglass, Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, The Great Gatsby, Angela's Ashes, The Odyssey, Of Mice and Men, The Crucible and more.

We will also read Brave New World this year, and you are encouraged to read Wide Sargasso Sea.

Reading is FUN!!!

Synthesis Essay Due Tuesday...

Using the two articles I gave you in class, construct a well-written essay defending, challenging or qualifying the following prompt: The insanity plea is a necessary and valid component of the justice system.

Your essay must have a thesis statement, clear arguments and analysis, and you must cite your sources.

Literary Devices Link

http://literarydevices.net/

This is a great source for studying literary devices and their meaning.

Writing for Jane Eyre: Money Matters and Flirtation

Example:

      Her nails dug into the flesh of her palms as her hands lay clenched at her waist. Jane, braided chestnut hair wrapped tightly around her head, stood proudly at her master’s feet.  Rochester’s eyes flitted to the one slight strand of hair that tickled her cheek, clenched his jaw and inhaled, then returned Jane’s stoic gaze. The breeze that once carelessly fluttered through the room, ceased to flow, leaving the air heavy; hovering at the very surface of the words they spoke.

      Though larger in both stature and height, Rochester and Jane appeared equals in this moment, and as Jane raised her chin, it became difficult to distinguish who employed whom.

     “What do you mean you’ll be leaving? Why? What do you owe these people who cast you out and left you to rot?”

     Jane’s brow furrowed, and her chin raised higher. “Her son is dead, sir, he ruined himself, and his mother is drowning in sorrow. She is my aunt, and I must tend to her.”

     Rochester’s shoulders abruptly turned away in aggravation, but his head and stormy eyes remained fixed on Jane; their darkness looming into the pearlescent light of hers. “How long will you be gone?”

    “Two weeks, sir.”

     The words had barely escaped her lips, before lines of outrage and something else… desperation, perhaps… creased Rochester’s reddened face as he growled, “Unacceptable! No! I forbid it. You mustn’t stay gone so long.”

      It was the last sentence that betrayed his anger. You mustn’t stay gone so long. It was not a demand, no, it was a plea, and its intensity struck Jane to her very core. Her hands wrung around themselves as she struggled to maintain her composure; sure the manic beating of her heart could be felt pulsating throughout the stagnant air.