Over the next few days, I will be developing this space as the portal page for my course blogs for the upcoming school year. Students and parents will be re-directed to specific blogs pertaining either to British and Western Literature or to AP Literature and Composition. Both are senior English courses.
If you enrolled in British and Western Lit, there is no specific reading preparation to complete prior to the start of school. Come September 4, however, we will be off to a busy and productive year. I look forward to meeting you!
If you are enrolled in AP Lit and Comp, you should have received a flyer from your junior English teacher concerning the required summer reading. The novel is Tess of the D'Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy. I hope you've started it, but if you haven't, you don't need to panic just yet--but you DO need to get it ASAP and plunge into Hardy's fictional world of Wessex. You should plan to have this book completed by the time school starts. There will be a few days' grace as we plow through the inevitable nuts-and-bolts of the first several class days, but on Thursday, Sept. 11, there will be an initial assessment on this text.
There is no specific required edition, but you need to have a print copy of this book that you can keep for the whole year. We will use it heavily during early September and we will turn to it again for intensive passage analysis during April.
