Complete one of the two writing assignments below for your selected secondary text. Your final product should include references to specific character actions, narrative events, and textual passages. Choose a character from your secondary book whom you like or dislike. Explain why. Your response should be a minimum of 400 words and contain at least two paragraphs. Write a letter to the author in which you express your opinion of their work and ask them to answer at least two questions you have about the text. Your letter should be a minimum of 400 words and contain at least two paragraphs. English 12: AP Literature Students entering AP Literature are required to read Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea. In addition, they are required to choose one of the poets below and read the five listed poems by that poet. Over the summer, students will complete several written assignments. Further details can be found below. Required: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys Poetry Reading Requirement: Choose a poet from the list below and read the five listed poems by him or her. William Wordsworth Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” Emily Dickinson “I Westminster Bridge” Is the Thing with Feathers” “On “Hope Seeing a Tuft of Snowdrops in a Storm” a Certain Slant of Light” “On “There’s World Is Too Much with Us” Never Saw a Moor” “The “I a Few Miles Above Tintern in Their Alabaster Chambers” “LinesComposed “Safe Abbey” Nights! Wild Nights” “Wild Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kahn” “Kubla Limetree Bower My Prison” “This at Midnight” “Frost The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” Robert Frost of a Hired Hand” “Death Apple Picking” John Keats “After on a Grecian Urn” Tuft od Flowers” “Ode “The Star” “Bright “Directive” on a Nightingale” Oven Bird” “Ode “The Autumn” “To Belle Dame Sans Merci” Langston Hughes “La Negro Speaks of Rivers” “The Walt Whitman Weary Blues” “The Brooklyn Sweeties” “Crossing “Harlem Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed” for English B” “When “Theme of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking” Bowl” “Out “Dust Noiseless Patient Spider” “A I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” Billy Collins “When
Complete one of the two writing assignments below for your selected secondary text. Your final product should include references to specific character actions, narrative events, and textual passages. Choose a character from your secondary book whom you like or dislike. Explain why. Your response should be a minimum of 400 words and contain at least two paragraphs. Write a letter to the author in which you express your opinion of their work and ask them to answer at least two questions you have about the text. Your letter should be a minimum of 400 words and contain at least two paragraphs. English 12: AP Literature Students entering AP Literature are required to read Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea. In addition, they are required to choose one of the poets below and read the five listed poems by that poet. Over the summer, students will complete several written assignments. Further details can be found below. Required: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys Poetry Reading Requirement: Choose a poet from the list below and read the five listed poems by him or her. William Wordsworth “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” “On Westminster Bridge” “On Seeing a Tuft of Snowdrops in a Storm” “The World Is Too Much with Us” “LinesComposed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” Samuel Taylor Coleridge “Kubla Kahn” “This Limetree Bower My Prison” “Frost at Midnight” The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” John Keats “Ode on a Grecian Urn” “Bright Star” “Ode on a Nightingale” “To Autumn” “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” Walt Whitman “Crossing Brooklyn “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed” “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking” “A Noiseless Patient Spider” “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” Emily Dickinson “Hope Is the Thing with Feathers” “There’s a Certain Slant of Light” “I Never Saw a Moor” “Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers” “Wild Nights! Wild Nights” Robert Frost “Death of a Hired Hand” “After Apple Picking” “The Tuft od Flowers” “Directive” “The Oven Bird” Langston Hughes “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” “The Weary Blues” “Harlem Sweeties” “Theme for English B” “Dust Bowl” Billy Collins
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