2025-2026
AP LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION SUMMER READING
Required Reading
• How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas Foster
• Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Assignment
• Annotate Huckleberry Finn, be sure to pay close attention to the role of settings, diction/syntax, symbols, and themes. Be prepared to write an AP style, open-ended essay upon the start of the course.
• Use Foster’s chapters to analyze your text. Be sure to pay special attention to Chapters 1, 5, 12, and 19 as these allude directly to Huckleberry Finn.
RESOURCES
Here is an electronic copy of How To Read Lit like a Professor
Here is an electronic copy of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Here is an audio version of Huck Finn.