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Summer Reading English Department 2014-2015 Introduction Summer is a time for alarm-free mornings, beach days, and relaxation. None of us wants you to miss out on your hard-earned break. However, summer is an opportune time to continue building upon the knowledge and skills acquired during the academic school year. This can be accomplished through independent reading. Furthermore, independent reading is of paramount importance if you are to develop into a life-long learner of enduring courage, passionate purpose, and deep connection to the world around you. Since we care about your ability to maintain and advance the intellectual skills honed over the school year as well as your development into a person of thought and character, here is your Summer Reading Assignment. Assignments Part 1: The Texts Summer reading assignments are leveled among AP, Honors, College Prep, and Standard according to grade and academic skill ability. Students are expected to read the assigned readings in their entirety in preparation for the coming academic year. Course Required Readings AP Literature (12) and AP Language (11) Two from the list, one of your choice Honors Two from the list, one of your choice College Prep One from the list, one of your choice Standard One of your choice *When choosing a book of your choice, carefully choose a book tailored to your literary tastes. If you are unsure of what to read, any English teacher would eagerly help you find a book you will enjoy. The summer reading pieces will function as a foundation for the reading program that will be conducted during the academic school year. It is essential for students to go beyond a cursory reading of the texts; students should use analytical and critical thinking skills while reading. Part 2: Writing Piece AP, Honors, and College Prep After reading the assigned texts, students will write a compare-contrast essay focusing on the ways in which certain things or ideas are similar and/or different from one another. This type of writing encourages you to make connections between texts or ideas, engage in critical thinking, and go beyond mere description or summary to generate compelling analysis; when you reflect on similarities and differences, you gain a deeper understanding of the items you are comparing, their relationship to each other, and what is most important about them. All of the books read must be discussed in the essay.
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Summer Reading English Department
2014-2015
Introduction Summer is a time for alarm-free mornings, beach days, and relaxation. None of us wants
you to miss out on your hard-earned break. However, summer is an opportune time to continue building upon the knowledge and skills acquired during the academic school year. This can be accomplished through independent reading. Furthermore, independent reading is of paramount importance if you are to develop into a life-long learner of enduring courage, passionate purpose, and deep connection to the world around you. Since we care about your ability to maintain and advance the intellectual skills honed over the school year as well as your development into a person of thought and character, here is your Summer Reading Assignment.
Assignments Part 1: The Texts
Summer reading assignments are leveled among AP, Honors, College Prep, and Standard according to grade and academic skill ability. Students are expected to read the assigned readings in their entirety in preparation for the coming academic year.
Course Required Readings
AP Literature (12) and AP Language (11) Two from the list, one of your choice
Honors Two from the list, one of your choice
College Prep One from the list, one of your choice
Standard One of your choice
*When choosing a book of your choice, carefully choose a book tailored to your literary tastes. If you are unsure of what to read, any English teacher would eagerly help you find a book you will enjoy.
The summer reading pieces will function as a foundation for the reading program that will be conducted during the academic school year. It is essential for students to go beyond a cursory reading of the texts; students should use analytical and critical thinking skills while reading. Part 2: Writing Piece AP, Honors, and College Prep
After reading the assigned texts, students will write a compare-contrast essay focusing on the ways in which certain things or ideas are similar and/or different from one another. This type of writing encourages you to make connections between texts or ideas, engage in critical thinking, and go beyond mere description or summary to generate compelling analysis; when you reflect on similarities and differences, you gain a deeper understanding of the items you are comparing, their relationship to each other, and what is most important about them. All of the books read must be discussed in the essay.
The attached handout will support your understanding of this assignment. The writing piece should be typed and in-text citations made in proper MLA format.
All work will be turned in at student orientation on August 14th. For students enrolling after July 28, the summer reading assignment will be assigned in addition to the school year independent reading program and will be due at the end of quarter 1, no exceptions. Writing Piece for Standard English
After reading the book of your choice, write a compare-contrast essay connecting one or two ESLRs to your book. This essay should not merely recount the plot but should focus on the ways in which certain ideas are similar or different to the characteristics linked with the ESLRs. This type of writing encourages you to make connections between texts or ideas, engage in critical thinking, and go beyond mere description or summary to generate compelling analysis: when you reflect on similarities and differences, you gain a deeper understanding of the items you are comparing, their relationship to each other, and what is most important about them.
The attached handout will support your understanding of this assignment. The writing piece should be typed and in-text citations made in proper MLA format.
All work will be turned in at student orientation on August 14th. For students enrolling after July 28, the summer reading assignment will be assigned in addition to the school year independent reading program and will be due at the end of quarter 1, no exceptions.
ESLRs (Expected School-wide Learning Results) Literate Citizen
Defined as fluency and skilled ability with the written and spoken word as well as technology, math, science, media, history, the arts, and contemporary culture.
Responsible Community Leader
Defined as ethically sound participation in school functions, clubs, and committees as well as voluntary community service that contributes to the success of others.
Effective Communicator
Defined as effective communication in distinct situations, solution and results driven involvement in community service, and informed participation in the democratic process.
Self-Directed Learner Defined as informed and responsible decision making, successful integration of multiple uses of technology in various contexts, goal oriented personal pursuits, adaptive to a wide array of professional and cultural settings through exposure to events outside the immediate community. Values Conscious Thinker
Defined as the ability to analyze the accuracy and context of information and make decisions consistent with one’s analysis and values in order to successfully contribute to family, community (local, national, international), and career.
For any further questions, please contact the appropriate English teacher: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
Approved Reading List Grades 9-12
Grades 9–10 Text Exemplars
Genre Author Title Lexile
Story
Story
Story
Story
Story
Story
Story
Story
Story
Story
Story
Story
Story
Story
Story
Story
Story
Story
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Michael Shaara
John Steinbeck
Marcus Zusak
Harper Lee
Ray Bradbury
Potok Chaim
Richard Wright
John Steinbeck
Ernest Hemingway
Chinua Achebe
Julia Alvarez
Ivan Turgenez
Stephen Crane
Tim O’Brien
Voltaire
Ovid
Willa Cather
Franz Kafka
Sophocles
William Shakespeare
Henrik Ibsen
Tennessee Williams
Ionesco Eugene
The Killer Angels
The Grapes of Wrath
The Book Thief
To Kill a Mockingbird
Fahrenheit 451
My Name is Asher Lev
Native Son
East of Eden
The Son Also Rises
Things Fall Apart
In the Time of
Butterflies
Fathers and Sons
Red Badge of Courage
The Things They Carried
Candide or The Optimist
Metamorphoses
O Pioneers!
The Metamorphosis
Oedipus Rex
The Tragedy of Macbeth
A Doll’s House
The Glass Menagerie
Rhinoceros
610
680
730
870
890
640
600
700
610
890
910
980
900
880
1110
1180
930
1320
NP
NP
NP
NP
NP
NP= Non-Prose (no lexile level)
Grades 11-12 Text Exemplars
Genre Author Title Lexile
Story
Story
Story
Story
Story
Story
Story
Story
Story
Story
Story
Story
Story
Story
Story
Drama
Drama
Drama
Non-fiction
Non-fiction
Non-fiction
Non-Fiction
Geoffrey Chaucer
Miguel de Cervantes
Betty Smith
Charlotte Bronte
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Fyodor Dostoevsky
William Faulkner
Pat Conroy
Ernest Hemingway
Zora Neale Hurston
Saul Bellow
Toni Morrison
Cristina Garcia
Jhumpa Lahiri
Ernest Gaines
Jean-Baptiste
Moliere
Thornton Wilder
Lorraine Hansberry
Wole Soyinka
Malcolm Gladwell
Richard Wright
Krakauer, Jon
The Canterbury Tales
Don Quixote
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Jane Eyre
The Scarlet Letter
Crime and Punishment
As I Lay Dying
Lords of Discipline
A Farewell to Arms
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Adventures of Augie March
The Bluest Eye
Dreaming in Cuban
The Namesake
A Lesson Before Dying
Tartuffe
Our Town: A Play in Three Acts
A Raisin in the Sun
Death and the King’s Horseman: A Play
The Tipping Point
Black Boy
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
1290-1410
1480
819
890
1420
990
870
970
730
1080
1040
920
940
1210
750
NP
NP
NP
NP
1160
950
1320
NP= Non-Prose (no lexile level)
Consulted resources: http://writingcenter.unc.edu/handouts/comparing-and-contrasting/
http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/documents/finalelaccssstandards.pdf https://www.sbcc.edu/clrc/files/wl/downloads/WritingaCompareContrastEssay.pdf PDF Link to writing resource: https://www.sbcc.edu/clrc/files/wl/downloads/WritingaCompareContrastEssay.pdf
