Summer Assignment
for Mr. Phillips and Mrs. Price
READING and ANNOTATING
The best preparation for AP English III is to spend the summer
reading and annotating as much as possible.
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Pleasure reading improves your fluency and speed as a reader, and reading more thought- provoking texts develops critical thinking skills.
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This sample annotated poem - from thejoyofteachingblog - is meant to illustrate the sort of annotations you should generate.
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Annotating is also a very important skill that students will use every day in AP Language and in their work beyond the AP classroom. It is an essential skill for academic success.
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Everyone must select ONE book from the following list to read...
Prior to selecting your book...
You should determine if the book is right for you, it is important that you learn about the book’s subject matter (through reading online reviews, consulting your teachers, or speaking to a librarian) before selecting it.
Each title below is a link to support you as you begin the process of selection.
The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett
March, Geraldine Brooks,
Flight Behavior, Barbara Kingsolver,
Behold the Dreamers, Imbolo Mbue,
Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jesmyn Ward
You Don't Have to Say you Love Me: A Memoir*, Sherman Alexie
The Prince of Los Cocuyos*, Richard Blanco
Crazy Brave*, Joy Harjo
In the Shadow of Statues*, Mitch Landrieu
Born a Crime*, Trevor Noah, OR
Hillbilly Elegy*, J. D. Vance
* denotes non-fiction
This list is currently being updated on June 9, 2021 (other titles may appear later in June 2021)
and is applicable for any semester of study after that date.
After selecting your book...Students are also encouraged to read & annotate the choice texts. We may collect your choice books to determine the extent to which students have annotated their books, the practice of annotating is strenuously encouraged and will become a practiced skill during the AP course. |
This tutorial video will illustrate & explain the annotation process.
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DUE DATES
Independent Book Choice: Students should complete their summer choice book before the conclusion of the first ten days of the fall semester. |
EVALUATION
Independent Book Project: Students will complete a creative/critical project assigned after the first ten days. This project will be completed during the semester - not during the summer break. |
Your group has been tasked with answering a complex question -
HOW DOES OUR CHOICE BOOK'S STYLE SERVE OUR BOOK'S APPARENT PURPOSE?
- and creating a visual & textual answer to that question
in the form of a website presentation.
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Your group's response to this task should probably follow the recursive pathway described in this video. The observations occurred while annotating, the ideation occurs during your planning phase for website building, the prototyping can happen as you build the site or prior to building, and finally you should test your product on users (peer and otherwise) without explaining your design objectives. Ideally, the site should speak for itself. |
Sample Group Projects for Choice Books
If you should have any questions about the assignment, please e-mail
Mr. Phillips at [email protected] or
Mrs. Price at [email protected]
Mr. Phillips at [email protected] or
Mrs. Price at [email protected]
These sample projects were completed by students taking AP Language & Composition with Mr. Phillips and are meant to illustrate the sort of work students will complete for their choice book.
Group Project: Sample Screenshots - Fall 2019
The summer assignment is something students will complete once the fall semester begins.
Students ARE NOT EXPECTED to complete this task during the summer break.
Students ARE NOT EXPECTED to complete this task during the summer break.
These anonymous screenshots are meant to illustrate how students managed the design and thinking challenges from last fall's summer assignment work. Students used Google Sites to complete this task.
This is the homepage. Three students worked on this project, but this is the work of only two of those students.
Student #1 focused on the protagonist, Marie Laure.
Student #1's personal connection is with the protagonist.
All three students contributed to the Works Cited page. Some citations are in MLA style while others citations are not.
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Student #2 focused on a major supporting character, Werner.
Student #2's personal connection is with the character she evaluated.
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Group Project Samples - BEFORE Fall 2019
The samples below are for projects from several years ago, made on Weebly & shared with the permission of those students.
