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Each journal will be due by the 2nd day of school. Journals should be between 15-20 pages for
each text read. Please use three ring binder.
Summer reading list **AP Language and Composition students only
1. AP must choose two non-fiction texts(room 210 only)20-30 novel notes for each text.
100 Great Essays work sheet 5 essays or use http://tetw.org/ (see worksheet at end
of this document)
AP will write 10 one pagers 5 open-5 on current event
2. Honor’s 11 text 20+ pages of novel notes for each text choose one from list below
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck**
1984 by George Orwell**
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Native Son by Richard Wright**
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson**(nonfiction)
What we talk about when we talk about love by Raymond Carver
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers ** (nonfiction)
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J.Gaines
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
Cat's cradle; God bless you, Mr. Rosewater; Slaughter House Five by Kurt Vonnegut
A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut** (nonfiction)
Slouching towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion** (nonfiction)
You can't be neutral on a moving train: a personal history of our times by Howard Zinn**
(nonfiction)
Freakonomics: a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything by Steven
D.Levitt (nonfiction)
Superfreakonomics see above (nonfiction)
One flew Over the Cuckoo's nest by Ken Kesey
A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving
Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut** (nonfiction)
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson** (nonfiction)
Eli the Good by Silas House
The way of ignorance: and other essays by Wendell Berry** (nonfiction)
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Into Thin Air; Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (nonfiction)
For 100 Great essays
Persuasive Essay Analysis 100 great essays
Identify the text
Author/title
Page numbers
What is the issue/argument?
How did the writer (author) present their argument? (What kinds of persuasive strategies,
appeals and language did they use to present the argument?)
What is the author's purpose? How do they accomplish the purpose(s)?
Who is the intended audience?
How effective were they in persuading their intended audience?
Favorite quote
What is the significance of the title?
Style in writing is simply how the voice of the writer comes out on the page. What style did the
author write in? Why did they choose this style?
Tone is implied through style. Tone is the feeling the reader obtains as they read and what they
are left thinking when they finish reading the essay. What tone (mood) where they trying to get
the reader to feel from reading.
What significant supporting detail did they include in their essay? What supporting detail had to
be in the essay for it to work? Why did they choose one detail over another?
Why would unity and organization be important in a published essay? Do you feel the writer
accomplished this through their writing process? Explain
Idea- simply put do you feel the rhetoric made the reader think or envision a new idea? Did the
writer teach the reader anything (offer insight)? Were they original in approach? Explain
Mr. Isaac: English 11CP; Honor’s 11; English 12 CP; AP Language and Composition (12)
