Hebron High School AP English IV Summer Reading 2015-2016 In preparation for the AP English IV course of studies, please read one novel from the following list of authors, whom CollegeBoard lists as “representative” authors. Select one author from the list and research his/her novel titles. Select one novel you have not previously read. You should read and annotate the novel before the first day of class. Fiction Authors: Chinua Achebe; Sherman Alexie; Isabel Allende; Rudolfo Anaya; Margaret Atwood; Jane Austen; James Baldwin; Saul Bellow; Charlotte Brontë; Emily Brontë; Raymond Carver; Willa Cather; John Cheever; Kate Chopin; Sandra Cisneros; Joseph Conrad; Edwidge Danticat; Daniel Defoe; Anita Desai; Charles Dickens; Fyodor Dostoevsky; George Eliot; Ralph Ellison; Louise Erdrich; William Faulkner; Henry Fielding; F. Scott Fitzgerald; E. M. Forster; Thomas Hardy; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Ernest Hemingway; Zora Neale Hurston; Kazuo Ishiguro; Henry James; Ha Jin; Edward P. Jones; James Joyce; Maxine Hong Kingston; Joy Kogawa; Jhumpa Lahiri; Margaret Laurence; D. H. Lawrence; Chang-rae Lee; Bernard Malamud; Gabriel García Márquez; Cormac McCarthy; Ian McEwan; Herman Melville; Toni Morrison; Bharati Mukherjee; Vladimir Nabokov; Flannery O’Connor; Orhan Pamuk; Katherine Anne Porter; Marilynne Robinson; Jonathan Swift; Mark Twain; John Updike; Alice Walker; Evelyn Waugh; Eudora Welty; Edith Wharton; John Edgar Wideman; Virginia Woolf; Richard Wright As you annotate the novel, keep the following questions/ideas in mind:  Diction: how do the author’s specific choice of words contribute to the development of character, setting, plot, conflict, etc. Underline/mark significant words that help your understanding of each part of the novel’s development. Also, use your reading as an opportunity to expand your vocabulary – search for definitions for words you do not know and add them to your vocabulary.  Imagery: what are the significant images the author conveys? How do the images shape character, setting, plot, etc.? Do any images repeat within the literary work? What is the overall effect?  Tone: how does the author treat his/her subjects? What is the author’s attitude toward certain characters (setting is sometimes a character, too), plot developments, conflicts, etc.? How are you able to make these determinations about the author?  Language: what is the effect of the author’s use of figurative language? Underline/mark particularly insightful uses of metaphor, simile, personification, repetition, irony, etc. Consider how the author’s use of such language aids your understanding of the parts and the whole of the novel.  Syntax: identify any of the author’s significant sentence patterns. Consider any patterns that you already know (periodic, loose, balanced, parallelism, antithesis, etc.) and analyze the effect of the sentence patterns. Our department would like to comment on the language encountered in the study of literature. We recognize that many of the selections studied this year contain highly objectionable language. We want you to be clear about our department’s stance. Racial slurs, gender slurs, profanity and other like language is offensive, degrading and unacceptable and will not be read nor spoken aloud in the classroom under any circumstances. But language occurs in literature to reflect both the past and present attitudes and beliefs in our society. We want you to understand that the authors we study use such words for carefully reasoned purposes. They, and we, accept the words as appropriate within the context of the story. If you disagree, you may of course choose an alternate selection by another author from the provided list. All of the selections will be available at your local bookstore or online. Have a wonderful summer! Donna Friend English Department Chair