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AP Language Summer Homework

Welcome to the AP Language Summer Homework Website.

Working Gnome

Read the following

Summer Letter and Homework Instructions

Complete the Second Book Selection Form and Turn in before the end of this school year.

How to Annotate a Text

SOAPS Model Annotation

Read and annotate the following articles:

14 Years of Double Speak

The End of Privacy

GPS Cell Phones May Cost Privacy

Audit: FBI’s Patriot Act Snooping Broke Rules

FBI Tracked King’s Every Move

Read 1984 and complete a Fiction Data Sheet

1984 Data Sheet–Download

Read a second nonfiction book and complete a data sheet

Non-fiction Data Sheet–Download

Familiarize Yourself with Rhetorical Terms

Rhetorical Terms–Download

If you enjoyed 1984 check out these other works:

V for Vendetta and Watchmen by Alan Moore (also films)

A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradburry

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood