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
• Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’urbervilles - - Theme worksheet

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

• Create 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 re-present the revised version in a puppet show.

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

For Northanger Abbey complete the attached “Novel Links” activity

For Tess of the D'urbervilles think theme. In the left hand column of your worksheet, list two themes. In the middle column provide at least two examples from the novel that support your themes. In the right hand column explain why you think the each passage proves your theme. Feel free to research themes in this novel. Do, however, choose your own passages. Following are useful sites:

• The Victorian Web
• "Thomas Hardy"
• Literature Resource Center, Gale group, accessible through Springfield-Greene Public Library
• Hardy's World
Some links not maintained but will provide a general background:
• The Thomas Hardy Association General background

Please not that not one domain is a .com, .net, etc. (Sparknotes, e-notes, etc.). As English 3 AP is a college level class, your sources should reflect those of a college level researcher.

Due the First Day of class:
• Three summer readings
• Attendant activities

Have a good summer!!

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