East Greenwich School District Summer Work: AP English Literature and Composition
Summer Reading Requirements for Course: AP English Literature and Composition
Summer Work Required in AP English Literature and Composition
Overview: In order to prepare thoroughly for your May 2023 exam in Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition, you must accomplish significant reading over this summer. We simply do not have time to do all of this reading during the school year while we are also working on writing. Accordingly, summer reading will include reading AND an additional assignment regarding the following works:
Fiction Titles and Assignments (see descriptions below):
- A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, and A Streetcar Named Desire prompts.
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky and Crime and Punishment prompts.
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens OR any title from the following list of books that have been suggested by The College Board on the AP Literature and Composition Exam.
Assessment of Summer Reading: Your grade for these summer readings will be based on notoriously difficult multiple choice plot tests (50%) and your outlines or annotations (50%). There will also be several Socratics on each work.
Questions? Email Mrs. Izzo at kizzo@egsd.net
Required Summer Reading Book #1
Required Reading #1. A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams.
- You may want to gather a group to watch the Marlon Brando black and white movie version after everyone’s read it.
- In addition to the reading, you must create sentence outlines responding to two of the following questions: A Streetcar Named Desire Prompts (link to prompts below).
- Streetcar Named Desire Question Prompts
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A Streetcar Named Desire by Blanche DuBois, a haggard and fragile southern beauty finds her pathetic last grasp at happiness cruelly destroyed in large part by her brother-in-law Stanley Kowalski.
*45 print copies available at state public libraries. Call or stop by your public library to pick up a copy.
Required Summer Reading Book #2
Required Reading #2. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- This is a dense, dense text. Even for people who love literature and read quickly, it's not an easy book to get through, so don't try to plow through it in the three days before school starts. You'll ruin the end of your summer. I leave it here because it becomes a favorite book of all time for some students.
- In addition to the reading, you must create sentence outlines responding to two of the following questions: Crime and Punishment Prompts.
- Crime and Punishment Question PromptsIn order to access this document, you must be logged in with your school-provided EGHS account. Please log in to your EGHS account and click on the link above.
Crime and Punishment by Raskolnikov, an impoverished Russian student, murders a despicable old pawnbroker, reasoning that his evil act is outweighed by humanitarian good, but he discovers the fault in his theory when he is plagued by horror and guilt over his actions.
eBook available available through our school library. To access the eBook, click on the book title above and enter the following:
Username: Your five digit lunch ID
Password: EGR
*Portable media player, eBook, audiobook and 50 print copies available at state public libraries. Call or stop by your public library to pick up a copy.
Required Summer Reading Book #4
Required Reading #4. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens OR any title from the following list of books that have been suggested by The College Board on the AP Literature and Composition Exam (see link below).
You needn’t complete any assignment for this selection. Please just read and enjoy.
- AP Literature TitlesThis is a list of every single piece of literature that has been referenced on the AP Literature Exams since 1971. You must be signed in to your EGSD account to access this link.
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Great Expectations by Pip, a poor orphan being raised by a cruel sister, does not have much in the way of great expectations--until he is inexplicably elevated to wealth by an anonymous benefactor.
*75 print copies and eBooks available at state public libraries. Call or stop by your public library to pick up a copy.