South Texas ISD Science Academy
Language department
ENGLISH III
Advanced Placement
The great gatsby (AP course only)
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
(Link to PDF: The Great Gatsby)
Set in the Age of Jazz, the roaring 20s, this story is about a man with a single focus: the love of his life. “. . . Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.”
Read the entire book and take notes in preparation for the beginning of the year activities and discussions.
Death of a salesman (AP course only)
by Arthur Miller
(Link to PDF: Death of a Salesman)
From the back cover: In the spring of 1948 Arthur Miller retreated to a log cabin in Connecticut with the first two lines of a new play already fixed in his mind. He emerged six weeks later with the final script of Death of a Salesman--a painful examination of American life and consumerism. . . . Miller's extraordinary masterpiece changed the course of modern theater. In creating Willy Loman, his destructively insecure anti-hero, Miller himself defined his aim as being 'to set forth what happens when a man does not have a grip on the forces of life'.
Read the entire book and take notes in preparation for the beginning of the year activities and discussions.
Rhetorical Terms (AP course only)
Study and be aware of the rhetorical terms linked below as they will be used and referred to often over this course.
ENGLISH III
College Prep
Catcher in the Rye (CP course only)
by J.D. Salinger
"In an unnamed sanatorium, talking to a silent psychiatrist, Holden Caulfield retells the events of the few days just before Christmas vacation from his preparatory school . . .. As he recalls the events leading up to the physical and mental collapse that has brought him to the sanatorium, Caulfield selects certain details that . . . draw a picture of bleak indifference, stupidity, and general "phonies" on the part of everyone with whom he has come in contact." --Thomas J. Taylor
Read the entire book and take notes in preparation for the beginning of the year activities and discussions.
Literary Terms (CP course only)
Study and be aware of the literary terms linked below as they will be used and referred to often over this course.