Welcome to our classroom website. I hope that you find the resources here helpful. I am grateful for the opportunity to be a part of your child's educational journey – I hold this opportunity
as a sacred trust.
as a sacred trust.
General Information
Please feel free to navigate around my website, see what our classes are about, and keep up with assignments on the course webpages under Reminders/Advanced English 9 and New Reading/Advanced English 9 OR Reminders/AP English Lit and New Reading/AP English Lit.
For the AP English Literature and Composition course, you can also reference the "Reading and Assignment Syllabi" linked both below on this page and on the AP English Literature and Composition webpage.
Please review the course syllabi on the home webpage for an in-depth look at the procedures and policies of our classes.
I will be sharing an informative weekly e-newsletter with announcements, class reading expectations, assignments and activities which you can upload just below.
For the AP English Literature and Composition course, you can also reference the "Reading and Assignment Syllabi" linked both below on this page and on the AP English Literature and Composition webpage.
Please review the course syllabi on the home webpage for an in-depth look at the procedures and policies of our classes.
I will be sharing an informative weekly e-newsletter with announcements, class reading expectations, assignments and activities which you can upload just below.
Parent Newsletter:
If you have any questions, concerns or comments, feel free to email me
at: audinon@mhusd.org
at: audinon@mhusd.org
"Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world." – Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
AP English Literature
Reading and Assignment Syllabi |
For AP English Literature
Required Books
In this AP English Literature course, students should consider obtaining a personal copy of the various novels, plays, epics, poems, and short fiction used in the course. You may purchase copies from a local bookstore or from an online book source, such as Amazon.
All books are freely available to check out from the library, but having a personal copy that you can annotate, write notes in and highlight is highly recommended. There is a growing body of data* that shows that readers who annotate and write in their books will retain more information, be more analytical of what they read, and comprehend more of what they read. *Maryanne Wolf, Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain Stanislas Dehaene, Reading in the Brain: The New Science of How We Read Susan Greenfiled, Mind Change: How Digital Technologies are Leaving Their Mark on Our Brains Nicholas Carr, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains Naomi S. Baron, Words Onscreen: The Fate of Reading in a Digital World Rosenwald, Michael S. “Serious Reading Takes a Hit from Online Scanning and Skimming, Researchers Say.” Huffington Post. 6 April 2014. Online. Of course, most of the works we read and analyze to interpret can also be accessed free online via e-readers. On the course webpages, I have linked many of the works to online sites where they are readable extant, and am working to add more links this year. |