AP Eng Lit 2011: A Wheel of Fire for Witty Fools: Supplemental Readings

Short stories to accompany the study of "bildungsromans"
(assignments forthcoming)

~~"The Yellow Wallpaper," Charlotte Perkins Gilman~~
~~http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/yellowwallpaper.pdf~~

"Because My Father Always Said He Was the Only Indian to See Jimi Hendrix Play "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Woodstock," Sherman Alexie
http://www.chss.montclair.edu/~lorenzj/unisinos/alexie-jimi.pdf

"Sonny's Blues," James Baldwin

http://www.scribd.com/doc/7086554/Sonnys-Blues-by-James-Baldwin

“Good Country People,” Flannery O’Connor

http://faculty.weber.edu/jyoung/English%206710/Good%20Country%20People.pdf

“Through the Tunnel,” Doris Lessing
http://fictiondaze.blogspot.com/2004/05/through-tunnel.html

“Paul’s Case,” Willa Cather

http://www.shsu.edu/~eng_wpf/authors/Cather/Pauls-Case.htm

http://www.enotes.com/pauls-case-willa-cather-text/

“Young Goodman Brown,” Nathaniel Hawthorne

http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/HawYoun.html [click on “story”]

Readings to accompany discussion of Reinhart in Invisible Man

(assignment forthcoming)

Miscellaneous, Fernando Pessoa (and his heteronyms) Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis and Álvaro de Campos)

http://portugal.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=7096 (Pessoa’s Heteronyms)

http://portugal.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=7051 (Overview & poems by Pessoa, Caeiro, Reis, and de Campos)

http://www.disquiet.com/pessoa.html (Many versions of “autopsicografia” & three versions of a passage from the "Tudo quanto" ( Livro do Desassossego (Book of Disquiet)

Readings to accompany Invisible Cities

(Respond to one story or poem in the July 6 comment box by the end of the day July 12.)

“Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius,” Jorge Luis Borges

http://www.coldbacon.com/writing/borges-tlon.html

“The Library of Babel,” Jorge Luis Borges (translation James E. Irby)

http://jubal.westnet.com/hyperdiscordia/library_of_babel.html#footnote1b

“The Continuity of Parks,” Julio Cortazar

http://www.continuityofparks.com/by-cortazar/

http://www.literatura.org/Cortazar/Continuidad.html [in the original Spanish]

“Ithaka,” “The City,” “Waiting for the Barbarians,” C.P. Cavafy

http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=74&cat=1 (Ithaka)

http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=58&cat=1 (The City)

http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=119&cat=1 (Waiting for the Barbarians)

For Your Consideration

Jessica Hovey, a middle school teacher in Kobe, Japan, posted this on Facebook:

I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. "Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." MLK Jr.

Here is a column explaining how the Facebook posting got disseminated across the internet without the quotation marks that distinguish between what Hovey wrote and what Martin Luther King Jr. wrote. (The excerpt is from a book called Strength to Love.) Have any of you seen the quotation posted on Facebook by friends?

The quotation and its dissemination are important for two reasons. I think at this moment Hovey's post is important to consider and I think we can learn something about how inaccurate information can spread quickly on the internet.

Summer Schedule

ASSIGNMENTS

Here's a list of all the summer work:

1. Invisible Cities quotation response journal (due July 6)
2. Invisible Cities "quotation" essay (due July 19)
3. Response to choice of AP Summer Anthology readings for Invisible Cities (due in the 7/6 comment box by July 12)

4. Invisible Man (Prologue through chapter 11) quotation response journal (due July 19)
5. Invisible Man (Prologue through chapter 11) part to the whole essay (due in the 7/19 comment box by August 2 if you did not attend session 2 or 3)
6. Invisible Man (chapter 12 through Epilogue) quotation response journal (due August 2)
7. Invisible Man Parts to Whole Web (due first day of class August 31)

8. Wide Sargasso Sea quotation response journal^ (due at or by session #4 August 16)
9. Five statements insightfully comparing and/or contrasting Invisible Man and Wide Sargasso Sea (due by Thursday, September 2)

10. Quotation response journal on something else you read this summer (due by Thursday, September 2)

^ Directions for the quotation response journal:

You are required to have at least ten (10) passages quoted from the book with corresponding responses.
Be sure the ten passages are representative of the entire book. In other words, ten passages taken only from the first few chapters or even the last few chapters will not be acceptable. As you read the book you have chosen, identify certain passages that cause you to stop and respond to what you are reading.
The goal of this assignment is to be actively engaged in the reading process and to make inferences rather than summarize.
Students should divide their paper into two columns.

Find a rubric and partial example here. (Side note: according to the rubric the example responses would fall in the "B" range.)

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