“IT’S A GOOD WRITING WEDNESDAY!” AP Literature and Composition August 28, 2013 Mr. Houghteling

AGENDA  Vladimir Nabokov— “Good Readers and Good Writers”  Annotation and discussion.

“Good Readers and Good Writers”  Reading Nabokov  Annotate.  Track qualities of good readers (be/have/do) on the table.

1.The reader should belong to a book club. 2.The reader should identify himself or herself with the hero or heroine. 3.The reader should concentrate on the social-economic angle. 4.The reader should prefer a story with action and dialogue to one with none. 5.The reader should have seen the book in a movie. 6.The reader should be a budding author. 7.The reader should have imagination. 8.The reader should have memory. 9.The reader should have a dictionary. 10.The reader should have some artistic sense. Good readers should…

HOMEWORK Complete your reading of “Good Readers and Good Writers.” Complete the table as you finish the reading. Be prepared for a quickquiz on the reading tomorrow. Banned Books and The Catcher in the Rye.

Banned Books Literature Popular Fiction  To Kill a Mockingbird  Brave New World  The Catcher in the Rye  The Color Purple  The Chocolate War  I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings  Of Mice and Men  The Bluest Eye  The Handmaid’s Tale  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ttyl (series) Twilight (series) And Tango Makes Three The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian The Hunger Games (series) What My Mother Doesn’t Know The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things Harry Potter (series) Captain Underpants (series)

Vladimir Nabokov  Born to noble family in Russia.  Was trilingual at an early age.  After WWI, the Nabokovs fled Russia for England, then Berlin. After his father was murdered, Nabokov became a poet, fleeing Berlin in 1940 to U.S.  Wrote Lolita, ranked 4 on the Modern Library’s 100 Best Novels. Pale Fire was ranked 53 on that list.  Nabokov is noted for his complex plots, clever word play, and use of alliteration.