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AP Language and Composition and IB Language and Literature 11
Rising Juniors, Class of 2025: The Glass Castle Summer Reading Assignment
All rising AP Language and Composition students, as well as IB Language and Literature 11 students are charged with purchasing a physical copy of Jeannette Walls memoir, The Glass Castle. As you read, please annotate the text with your thoughts, questions, reactions, and analysis. Your teacher will be checking in your annotations and the following work, divided by the text’s sections, when we return to school in the Fall. Before you begin reading, please review this note about mature content.
Part I: Woman on the Street
Additional read: Read the four critical theory lenses here
Writing task: Click here and answer all questions
Language Study: Click here and complete this chart as you read each section.
Part II: The Desert
Additional read: Review the four critical theory lenses here
Writing task: Click here and complete both pages of the assignment
Language Study: Click here and continue to complete this chart as you read each section.
Part III: Welch
Additional read: Review the four critical theory lenses here
Writing task: Click here and complete both pages of the assignment
Language Study: Click here and continue to complete this chart as you read each section.
Part IV: New York City
Additional read:Review the four critical theory lenses here
Writing task: Click here and complete both pages of the assignment
Language Study: Click here and continue to complete this chart as you read each section.
Part V: Thanksgiving
Additional reads: Writing theme statements: read this and see a list of thematic ideas here
Writing Task: Click here and complete the assignment
Language Study: Click here and continue to complete this chart as you read each section.
