Standing Extra Credit for those students who are planning on entering the AP   Literature course next fall and wish to have a better chance on the AP test in the spring of 2010.

You may read as many of these as you wish. After you have read each one, you must come in and take an assessment. You must verify it will me before starting. Thirty points for each assignment completed.

Books:

James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain

Kate Chopin's The Awakening

Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage

Don Delillo's White Noise

Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man

William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying and The Sound and the Fury

Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scralet Letter

Joseph Heller's Catch-22

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

Henry James's The Turn of the Screw and The American

Herman Melville's Moby Dick and Billy Budd

Toni Morrison's Beloved and Song of Solomon

Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms and Long Day's Journey into Night

John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, Cannery Row, and Of Mice and Men

Amy Tan's The Kitchen of God's Wife

John Updike's Rabbit Run

Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five

Alice Walker's The Color Purple

Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome

Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire and The Glass Menagerie

Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse

Richard Wright's Native Son