我在「網誌頻瓶頸期」待得夠久了，已經有人懷疑我是不是不玩了。 (怎麼會呢?!至少昨天就放了一篇真有AAADD這名稱嗎？)

小女兒最後決定上加州大學柏克萊分校，這也是有人看了跳躍的音符想知道的。目前已入學三週，正在經歷「文化震盪」(Culture Shock)。

就從這件小事可窺一二：
她上課的班級，人數最多的一班800人，最少的也有400人。雖說這些課程都是共同必修課，但，人數實在多得不可思議。
她可是從「迷你高中」畢業的，全校只有400人左右！
難怪老爸說她是小熊進了大動物園，可別走丟了。

這次貼文，主要是惦著答應過最愛小提琴，要將小女兒AP英文課的指定讀本列給她。現在還了債，輕鬆多了。
貼在網上，也許其他人也想知道北美某些高中進深英文課指定讀物是什麼，我就偷個懶，一併解決也。
好啦，最愛小提琴，我就藉網上還債囉！

／瀟碧 9. 12. 2007
／背景圖：yenn 提供網路素材
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ADVANCED PLACEMENT ENGLISH
Instructor's Major Sources and Reference Materials:
Adler. Mortimer J. and Charles Van Doren. How To Read a Book
Advanced Placement English, "Appendix: Tips on Taking the AP Test"
Baker. Sheridan. The Complete Stylist.
Barnet. Sylvan. A Short Guide To Writing about Literature.
Hutchens, Eleanor Newman. Writing To Be Read Ommanney, Katharine Anne. The Stage and the School. Pauk, Walter. How To Study in College
Shaw, Harry. Writing and Rewriting.

Assignments
Drama: Greek…Sophocles, Oedipus Rex.
English Renaissance…Shakespeare, Hamlet and The Merchant of Venice.
19th c. (1884)…Ibsen. Henrik. The Wild Duck. (Norwegian) Modern…Miller, Arthur. The Crucible. (American)

Fiction:
Short Stories...Varied samplings, British and American Novella or Nouvelle...James, Henry. The Turn of the Screw. (19th c. 1898, British)

Novels:
Swift. Jonathan...Gulliver's Travels. (1726. British)
Hardy. Thomas...Return of the Native, The. (1878. British) Twain. Mark (pen name of Samuel Clemens)…The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. (19th c. 1884, American)

Non-fiction: Biography/essay
Essayists:
Montaigne…16th c., French
Bacon, Sir Francis...Elizabethan
Swift, Jonathan…18th c., British
Lamb, Charles…The Romantic Age (1800-1837), British Emerson, Ralph Waldo... 19th c.. American
Huxley. Aldous…Modern. British

Poetry:
Donne, John and metaphysical poets; Shakespeare. Elizabethan
Keats, John and Shelley. Percy Bysshe...Romantic Age, British
Browning, Robert..."My Last Duchess"; Victorian Age (1837-1900). British
Atwood, Margaret: Bishop. Elizabeth; Eliot, T.S.; Frost. Robert: Milton, John with other miscellaneous samplings.

NOTE
Necessary to understand allusions…The Bible; mythology (see Robert Graves); also, Bulfinch's the Age of Fable. Also vital is a working recognition of the major characteristics of historical periods and literary movements. Students will study Aristotle's The Poetics, provided by the instructor for class use.