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 * Summer Reading List-AP Language and Composition Grade 11 Foster**


 * Fiction (Choose 1)**

//The Natural// Bernard Malamud //A Lesson before Dying// Ernest Gaines //The Secret Life of Bees// Sue Monk Kidd //Big Fish// Daniel Wallace //Life of Pi //Yann Martel

You will do a set of book cards for the book that you read. The instructions for the book cards are found at the end of the list. **Please note that some books on this list may contain subject matter that is for a more mature reader; the book may include offensive language, violence, or graphic/explicit scenes. Please choose a book that suits not only your interest, but also one that your parents agree is acceptable for you to read.**
 * Fiction selection:**


 * Memoir/Autobiography (Choose 1)**

//I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings// Maya Angelou //The Glass Castle// Jeanette Walls //This Boy’s Life // Tobias Wolff //An American Childhood// Annie Dillard //All Over but the Shoutin'// Rick Bragg


 * Memoir/ Autobiography Selection:**
 * For this book selection you will do a SoapsTone assignment and 5 Wikispace postings. Directions for both will be posted.**


 * All selections:**

In addition to the written assignments, you will also participate in roundtable discussions, book talks, other oral activities for each of these books. (All are very informal!)
 * Written assignments for all selections will be due on the first day of school. The Wikispace entries should all be completed prior to the first day of school.**

In addition to summer reading, you will also have a **Christmas reading assignment**//. //We will discuss the assignment for that book after school starts.


 * Nonfiction (Choose 1)---You will read this selection for Christmas reading**

//Seabiscuit // Laura Hillebrand //Fast Food Nation // Eric Scholosser //Friday Night Lights// H.G. Bissinger //There Are No Children Here// Alex Kotlowitz

//Their Eyes Were Watching God// Zora Neal Hurston //The Great Gatsby// F. Scott Fitzgerald //In Cold Blood// Truman Capote
 * During the school year we will also read the following books as class assignments:**

If you have any questions about your assignment at all, please email me during the summer. My email address is mfoster4350@charter.net or afoster@jefoed.com. I will try to respond to your messages in a timely fashion. Please start reading at the beginning of the summer. It might be good, for instance, to allow yourself three (3) weeks per book. That way you would be able to pace yourself and not have a huge amount of work to do right before school starts.

If you ever lose this assignment page, you may go to the Wikispace and find the assignments posted there.

Have a wonderful summer. Mrs. Foster