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PART I of your A.P. Comp. Required Summer Assignment:

Novel Project

INTRODUCTION – Please Read

The book you choose to complete this summer is your introduction to the world of different ideas and questions. It is a perfect foundation to begin a school year filled with great pieces of writing and engaging ideas.

Work on your chosen assignment as you read. Trying to read the entire book first and then doing the assignment will end in disaster, I assure you. Please take my advice and work as you read. Keep a reading journal - if you like - to try to help yourself sort out ideas and keep your questions handy for answering as you read. Have discussions with your future classmates who are reading the same novel to help distill your thinking.

Some of these novels (and, yes, you are limited to this list of choices) can be difficult to understand too much of in one sitting. Allow yourself several weeks to read and complete your assignments. If you prefer to finish during the early summer, rather than putting it off until the end, please review the book and the assignment just prior to the first day of school in order to refresh your memory.

All assignments – regardless of choice - should be:

word-processed

using one-inch margins,

double spaced,

10, 11, or 12-point font (Arial or Times New Roman),

and no less than two complete pages, no longer than four complete pages.

While it is not required that you annotate the texts you read, it is highly recommended that you do so. Should you need assistance in text annotation, see Instructions for Annotating a Text .

Instructions on parenthetical citation and MLA format can be found at http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/mla/#. An essential tool for any writer is the MLA Handbook, 6^th edition -- available at Amazon.com or any bookstore.

You should not hesitate to utilize the talents, skills, and abilities possessed by your classmates in the field of literature. Each of you has already had such amazing training at interpreting literature that, I know, with a little “hashing-out-of-ideas,” you will surely reach amazingly insightful conclusions. Your upcoming class will be based, primarily, on group discussion and learning to benefit from other ideas and perspectives. I, therefore, have no problem with you starting that process with this project.

NOVEL Related Project ~ Part I of Summer ASSIGNMENT (Project Directions)

Novel Choices for Your Chosen Project (you are required to complete the novel assignment using one of the provided choices)

Dialectical Journal: The Project to be completed in conjunction with your chosen novel

Optional Extra-Credit Add-Ons, Visual Creativity:

Create any of the project choices listed below in which you focus primarily on (awarded points will be based on effort and thoughtfulness):

(1) the time period of your chosen novel,

(2) the major themes of the novel,

(3) the setting,

(4) the main characters,

all while (and this is the very important part – the part that your extra points will largely be based upon) symbolically (through your own creativity) depicting at least one literary element within the overall concept of each project.

· a web site

· a movie poster

· a menu from a restaurant

· a front section of a newspaper

· a web blog (although not REALLY on the WWW)

YOU WILL BE SUMMARIZING THE BASIC PLOT and LITERARY ELEMENTS OF YOUR CHOSEN NOVELS ON THE VERY FIRST DAY OF CLASS – PLEASE BE PREPARED, AS THIS IS PART OF YOUR GRADE!