GREETINGS, AP JUNIORS ! ! !
(or SOON-TO-BE . . .)

In order to keep your brains in good working order, and in order to introduce you to AP English Literature, your English teacher (ME) has devised the following reading list for the summer.

• William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
  Folger’s Library edition ISBN-13: 9780743477543
• Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey
• Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist - - Reading Reflection worksheet

For A Midsummer Night’s Dream complete one of the following activities:

• Bottom is one of Shakespeare's most memorable characters. Propose a new TV series featuring the irrepressible weaver, and prepare a storyboard to sell the pilot episode.
• Make a graphic novel chapter of one scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream. You may cut some of the text; but the chapter should cover the entire scene, and Shakespeare's language should basically remain intact.
• In a picture book for children, retell the legend of Theseus and the Amazon queen Hippolyta (sometimes called Hippolyte, Antiope, or Melannipe), which provides the background story for A Midsummer Night's Dream.
• A Midsummer Night's Dream contains much rhymed verse. Select one scene that, in your opinion, would be better expressed in prose and present the revised version in a puppet show.
• Using clay or Play-Doh (think claymation), create a scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream featuring the "mechanicals" (the workmen).

The above activities adapted from “Shakespeare and A Midsummer Night’s Dream Projects”

For Northanger Abbey complete the attached “Novel Links” activity

For Oliver Twist think theme. In the right hand column of your worksheet, list at least two themes and cite the passages that support your themes.

Due the First Day of class:
• Three summer readings
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream Project
• Reading Reflection Worksheet
• Novel/Song Links
• 1984 by George Orwell*** (our first novel of the year)

Have a good summer!!

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