Summer Reading Enrichment

English – 2008-2009

Dear Parents and Students,

 

All students are expected to participate in our summer enrichment program.  All of the books can be accessed at public, school, or college libraries, as well as purchased online or local book stores.

 

DIRECTIONS FOR STUDENTS:

A.                 Read the book for the grade you will be in for the 2008-2009 school year.

B.                 For your respective grade level reading: Make a dialectical journal using 5 quotes to support each of the following: characterization, setting, plot development, and theme. PLEASE NOTE: This assignment will be collected during your first meeting session with your English teacher and be graded as part of your first quarter grade (See example below).

Grade 9                      To Kill a Mockingbird                                       Harper Lee

 

Grade 10                               Night                                                                      Elie Wiesel

                                                                                               

Grade 11                            Their Eyes Were Watching God                        Zora Neale Hurston

The Stranger (IB11)*                                             Albert Camus

The Color of Water (AP11)                                    James McBride

 

Grade 12                               Pride and Prejudice                                            Jane Austen                                                                                                                         

                                    Maus I and MausII (AP12)*                             Art Spiegelman

                                                The Canterbury Tales (IB 12)                           Geoffrey Chaucer

*(This is the required reading for IB and AP students)

 

EXAMPLE OF SETTING UP A DIALECTICAL JOURNAL

Quotation

Page

Why do I find this interesting or important to the development of the plot?

 

 

 

 

 

If you have any questions about this assignment, please email me at dpowell2@bcps.org or the respective team leaders:

  9th grade-       bnorton@bcps.org

10th grade-       tlong@bcps.org

11th grade -      kworth@bcps.org

12th grade -      lburkley@bcps.org

 

Sincerely,

Donna Powell, English Department Chairperson

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