In addition to the 3 summer reading texts, the following works will comprise our AP "bookshelf" for the coming year.  I encourage students to purchase their own copies whenever possible since this allows them to highlight and make marginal notes that can then be used to review before tests and in April and May to review for the AP Exam.  Since we select works which are also used in college literature classes, the students may meet these texts again and find the highlighting and comments valuable.  In addition to the texts listed below, we will be spending much time on poetry from the seventeenth century to the present.  These are contained in the DiYanni text.

Works with * before them are in the text used in class, Literature; Reading Fiction, Poetry, Drama and the Essay by Robert DiYanni.

Semester I
* A Doll's House                         Henrik Ibsen
* Oedipus the King                     Sophocles
Macbeth                                      Shakespeare   (Those who have read this will select Hamlet or King Lear at teachers's discretion instead)
Billy Budd                            Herman Mellville                                      
The Return of the Native            Thomas Hardy
Catch 22                                      Joseph Heller

Semester II
The Color Purple                        Alice Walker
As I Lay Dying                            William Faulkner
The Sun Also Rises                      Ernest Hemingway
* Death of a Salesman                 Arthur Miller

??? Final selection before exam depending on time remaining and group needs

  The Hero's Journey

  Oedipus the King
 

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