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The goal of our summer work is to help you cultivate these habits for success.
Reading
Our general expectation is that AP Lang students complete a minimum of 2 hours of reading per week during the school year. We want you to work up to that this summer if it's not already a habit. Part of that regular weekly reading should be at least 2 full-length non-narrative (not memoirs or biographies) nonfiction books of sufficient difficulty* for the project described to the right. This will broaden your Contextual Pool and improve your reading speed and fluency. As your situation allows, we encourage you to move beyond that, as the more you do now, the better prepared you will be for the rigors of AP English and the exam next spring.
The College Board expects that students coming into the course can read a variety of texts at the college level. Your goal this summer is to begin to bridge the gap of where your current reading comfort zone is and where we ultimately need to be by the end of the next school year. This means that you need to think beyond the easier books many of you might normally pick up for choice reading. While they absolutely have their place in a rich reading life, we have a lot of work to do to build up your reading stamina and comprehension to prepare you for the exam next spring.
Exploration
For each of the 10 weeks of summer, we would like you to engage with something and write about it in a journal log. That something is going to be a mix of things you Read, Watch, Listen to, or Experience. See the tabs at the top of this page for ideas for each.
These are meant to be completed weekly (although obviously you should chip away at the two longer texts throughout the summer), not all crammed into the end of the summer! You can complete them in any order you want.
Critical Thinking Through Writing
As you complete each week's engagement activity of your choice, you will fill out a one page journal log on it. All 10 logs should be together on one Google Document. The Doc will include:
Your Name
Mrs. Palazzo/Ms. Yellin
AP English Language
30 August 2022
Submissions & Questions
You will submit these three components in one Google Doc into Schoology on the first day of school. You should also be prepared to share and discuss your readings and findings through other activities & assignments at the beginning of the school year.
Questions? Reach out to Mrs. Palazzo and Ms. Yellin and one of us will respond as we are able to.