Welcome! 

This is the place--for now--where we will be discussing the summer reading text, The Emperor of All Maladies:  A Biography of Cancer.  You are not required to be here, but it may help you to more fully comprehend what you are reading and to integrate it into your schema.  In case you are wondering, your "schema" is defined in Reading for Understanding by authors Schoenbach, Greenleaf and Murphy as "a personal library of knowledge, --based on a lifetime of reading and experience" (234).  It is basically all of the stuff you have in your head to help you make sense of text and experience.  The more stuff you have in your schema, the better equipped you are to think critically and solve problems. 

It is going to be difficult for me to wait till June 27 to start, but I will do my best.  In the meantime, if there is anything else AP Lang related you'd like to discuss, post it as a comment here.