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