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AP English Language / English 4 List
 
 
This is a partial list of novels/nonfiction books
 we will read.
 
 

TEXT: The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction
Pub: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.

Cracking the AP English Language and Composition Exam 2012, The Princeton Review* Required practice exams all year long


First Semester/ 1st MP

Bradbury, Ray
Fahrenheit 451 summer
 
Sula, Toni Morrison  summer
 
Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez - summer
 
Salinger, J.D. , The Catcher in the Rye -first marking period
 
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years Sarah L. Delany, A. Elizabeth Delany- First Marking Period
 
Turkel, Studs, Hard Times, An Oral History of the Great Depression- Begin Marking Period/ finish Second Marking Period

First Semester/2nd MP

In Class: A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
 
Terkel, Studs, Hard times : an oral history of the Great Depression
 
Invisible Man
Pub: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

The Color Purple, Alice Walker- for Seniors ONLY who have not read it.

First Semster/ 3rd MP

Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt

A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
Pub: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The Color of Water, A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother, James McBride

Second Semester. 1st MP

Macbeth
Shakespeare
REQUIRED FOR GRADE 12

The Crucible - Arthur Miller

 

 

Second Semester. 2nd MP

The Autobiography of Malcom X

Beloved, Toni Morrison

Go tell it on the Mountain, James Baldwin

Book(s) of choice review for AP Exam
 AP reading circles and study groups

Kindred, Octavia Butler (close reading)

 
Second Semester. 3rd MP

Book(s) of choice review for AP Exam

Cracking the AP English Language and Composition Exam 2012, The Princeton Review
AP reading circles and study groups

Selected reading from Norton Reader, prose, poetry

 





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