AP Literature & Composition 2011

Books:

Foster, Thomas C. How to Read Literature Like a Professor. In this practical and amusing guide to literature, Thomas C. Foster shows how easy and gratifying it is to unlock those hidden truths and to discover a world where a road leads to a quest; a shared meal may signify a communion; and rain, whether cleansing or destructive, is never just rain. Ranging from major themes to literary models, narrative devices, and form, How to Read Literature Like a Professor is the perfect companion for making your reading experience more enriching, satisfying, and fun.  ***Important Note: Make sure you read the correct book; Foster also wrote a  book called How to Read a Novel Like a Professor, so make sure you do NOT read that one by mistake.

Kingsolver, Barbara.  The Poisonwood Bible. The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it -- from garden seeds to Scripture -- is calamitously transformed on African soil. What follows is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in postcolonial Africa.

**Download the file AP Lit Summer Reading 2011 for the specific assignments to be completed for these books by the first day of class**