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English IV - Advanced Placement  -  2 books required
I. Book One 
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky   
Use the following links as guides as you read one of the novels that appears most frequently on the AP Literature Exam. Take notes as you read and complete a Major Works Data Sheet to be turned in on the first day of school. For a copy of the form, you may download the document from the link at the bottom of the page or go to www.eboard.com and type lhsgamble. Then type englishiv.  Click on the Summer Reading tab and then select Major Works Data Sheet. Classwork will focus on this novel during the first two weeks of school. 
Study Guide
Discussion Questions
II.   Book Two 
Browse the websites to select a book that interests you.  Each link provides a set of discussion questions that should guide your reading.  Document quotes and personal reactions in your dialectical journals as you read your selection. These dialectical journals (see the first link below) will be turned in the first week of school.  Additionally, you will participate in reading group discussions of the books you read.
Advisory to students and parents: in an attempt to prepare these talented young people for their senior year and for college, we have chosen contemporary ADULT titles because they are more challenging while at the same time entertaining.  With that priority, we must advise you that as in most contemporary literature, some of these books have mature content.   Please research your choices carefully. 
Dialectical Journal
Use the format shown in the link below to respond to your book in a dialectical journal of at least 20 documented entries taken from throughout the entire book.
Atwood – Alias Grace
Advisory – Mature subject matter

http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides_A/alias_grace1.asp

Atwood – Handmaid’s Tale
Advisory – Mature subject matter

http://www.randomhouse.com/resources/bookgroup/handmaidstale_bgc.html

Austen – Persuasion

http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides3/persuasion1.asp

Bradley - Mists of Avalon
Advisory – Mature subject matter

http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides3/mists_avalon1.asp

Carson - Gifted Hands

http://academic.pg.cc.md.us/bookbridge/ghquest.htm

Coelho - The Fifth Mountain

http://www.harpercollins.com/author/authorExtra.aspx?authorID=1858&isbn13=9780060930134&displayType=readingGuide

Coelho – Zahir
Advisory – Mature subject matter

http://www.harpercollins.com/author/authorExtra.aspx?authorID=1858&isbn13=9780060825218&displayType=readingGuide

Couric - The Best Advice I Ever Got

http://books.simonandschuster.com/Best-Friends-Forever/Jennifer-Weiner/9780743294294/reading_group_guide

Didion – The Year of Magical Thinking

http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides3/year_of_magical_thinking1.asp

Duncan – From Bags to Riches

Hardy – Tess of the d’Ubervilles

http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/jgarret/446-F05/sq-tess.htm

Garcia – Dreaming in Cuban
Advisory – Mature subject matter

http://www.randomhouse.com/rhpg/rc/library/display.pperl?isbn=9780345381439&view=rg

Gladwell - Blink

http://www.bookbrowse.com/reading_guides/detail/index.cfm?book_number=1521

http://www.litlovers.com/guide_blink.html

Gladwell - The Tipping Point

http://www.litlovers.com/guide_tipping_point.html

Guterson - Snow Falling on Cedars

Advisory – Mature subject matter

http://www.state.lib.de.us/Center_For_The_Book/DE_Reads/Discussion_Questions/Snow_Falling_on_Cedars.shtml

http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/read/snow/

http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides/snow_falling_on_cedars.asp

Guterson  - East of the Mountains
Advisory – Mature subject matter

http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides_m/the_mountain_between_us1.asp

Hesse - Siddhartha

http://us.penguingroup.com/static/rguides/us/siddhartha.html

Hosseini – Thousand Splendid Suns

http://us.penguingroup.com/static/rguides/us/thousand_splendid_suns.html

http://www.mahalo.com/A_Thousand_Splendid_Suns

Irving - A Prayer for Owen Meany

http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides/prayer_for_owen_meany.asp

http://www.randomhouse.com/rhpg/rc/library/display.pperl?isbn=9780345417978&view=rg

Jacobs - The Year of Living Biblically

http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides_Y/year_living_biblically1.asp

Johnson - The Ghost Map

Kidd - Secret Life of Bees

Kingsolver - The Bean Trees

http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides/bean_trees.asp

http://www.ket.org/bookclub/books/2001_may/questions.htm

Kingsolver - Pigs in Heaven (sequel to The Bean Trees)

http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides_P/pigs_in_heaven1.asp

Lahiri - The Namesake

Advisory – Mature subject matter

http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/readers_guides/lahiri_namesake.shtml

http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides3/namesake1.asp

Larsen - Devil in the White City

Advisory – Mature subject matter

Lemmon - The Dressmaker of Khair Khana

http://www.harpercollins.com/author/authorExtra.aspx?isbn13=9780061732379&displayType=readingGuide

McBride - The Color of Water

http://us.penguingroup.com/static/rguides/us/color_of_water.html

McCarthy – Cities of the Plain

http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides_C/cities_of_the_plain1.asp

Mcewan – Saturday

Advisory – Mature subject matter

http://www.randomhouse.com/doubleday/saturday/mcewan_saturday_rgg.php

Morrison – Beloved
Advisory – Mature subject matter
Norris - The Grace of Silence 

http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307378767&view=rg

Oates – We Were the Mulvaneys
Advisory – Mature subject matter

http://us.penguingroup.com/static/rguides/us/we_were_the_mulvaneys.html

http://www.usfca.edu/~southerr/works/novels/mulvaneys.html

O’Brien - In the Lake of the Woods

http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides_L/lake_of_the_woods1.asp

O’Brien - Going after Cacciato

http://www.randomhouse.com/resources/bookgroup/goingaftercacciato_bgc.html

Paton - Cry the Beloved Country

http://www.litlovers.com/guide_cry_beloved_country.html

Pausch - The Last Lecture

http://www.thelastlecture.com/pdf/LastLecture_EdGuide.pdf

Picoult - House Rules 

http://www.jodipicoult.com/house-rules.html

Picoult - Harvesting the Heart

http://www.jodipicoult.com/harvesting-the-heart.html

Picoult - Change of Heart

Advisory – Mature subject matter

Portis - True Grit 

http://www.overlookpress.com/rg/truegrit.pdf

Quindlen – One True Thing

Schlosser - Fast Food Nation

Stockett - The Help  

Tan - Hundred Secret Senses

http://www.angelfire.com/mn2/APS/asianamerican/story2.html

http://www.ywca.org/atf/cf/%7BAC4038C4-BCCA-4F24-B55C-F41063EDF6FE%7D/Discussion%20Points%20for%20The%20Hundred%20Secret%20Senses.doc

Tyler – Back When We Were Grownups
Tyler – Digging to America
Walker - The Color Purple
Advisory – Mature subject matter

http://www.litlovers.com/guide_colorpurple.html

 

 

   III.  OPTIONAL Book Three 

The third selection is optional.  I strongly urge selection of one of the many works which have frequently appeared on the AP Test.  During the year, we will be reading at least 10 selections from the list, and you might like to get a head start by selecting one now.  Go to www.eboard.com and type lhsgamble.  Then type englishiv.  Click on the Summer Reading tab, and then click Open Question Titles 1971 to Present to view the list of titles. You must complete a Major Works Data Sheet for the novel that you choose and turn it in on the first day of class.  The Major Works Data Sheet Form is found on the same tab on the eboard.