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 http://www.eboard.com/ and type lhsgamble. Then type englishiv.  Click on Handouts, and then select Major Works Data Sheet, or may it be downloaded as a document using the link in Section III.  Classwork will focus on this novel during the first two weeks of school.   Study Guide http://community.middlebury.edu/~beyer/courses/previous/ru351/novels/cp/CPstudy.shtml   Discussion Questions http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides2/crime_and_punishment.asp   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. http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/actbank/tdia.htm   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 Didion - The Year of Magical Thinking http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides3/year_of_magical_thinking1.asp 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 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://bestsellers.about.com/od/bookclubquestions/a/thousand_suns_q.htm 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 http://us.penguingroup.com/static/rguides/us/ghost_map.html Kidd - Secret Life of Bees http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides3/secret_life_of_bees1.asp 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 http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides3/devil_white_city1.asp 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 http://www.litlovers.com/guide_beloved.html Oates - We Were the Mulvaneys 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 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/05/30/a-totally-unauthorized-reading-group-guide-to-%E2%80%98the-last-lecture%E2%80%99-by-randy-pausch/ Picoult - Harvesting the Heart http://www.jodipicoult.com/harvesting-the-heart.html Picoult - Change of Heart Advisory - Mature subject matter http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides_C/change_of_heart1.asp Quindlen - One True Thing http://www.litlovers.com/guide_one_true_thing.html Schlosser - Fast Food Nation http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides3/fast_food_nation1.asp 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 http://www.litlovers.com/guide_backwhenwe.html Tyler - Digging to America http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307263940&view=rg 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 13 selections from the list, and you might like to get a head start by selecting one now.  Go to http://www.eboard.com/ and type lhsgamble.  Then type englishiv.  Click on Handouts, and then click Open Question Titles 1971 to Present to view the list of titles,  or you may download the list as a document - see the link below. 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 or may it be downloaded as a document with the link below.   Major Works Data Sheet AP Novel Titles (1971-Present)