Here is a song that I dedicate to all of you that I had this year. Have a safe and restful summer!
Summer Reading for regular and honors (students going into 11th grade):
11th Grade
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
Into the Wild
by Jon Krakauer
Regular and Honors English –
All work due on or before August 31st, 2016
Option #1
Write a one page “pitch” to a producer explaining why
the story would or would not make a great movie. Use evidence by citing or quoting interesting
parts of the story. One page per book.
Double space.
OR
Option #2
Create a timeline of events for both books you read.
Each timeline must have 10 divisions. Be sure the divisions of the timeline
reflect the time period in the plot. Use drawings or magazine cutouts along
with words/phrases to illustrate events along the timeline.
OR
Option #3
Draw an empty head
and inside of draw any symbols, words or images that are bouncing around in the
mind of the character in the story.
AP 11th grade English
1. Select one of the following books to
read –
a. Freakonomics by Stephen J. Dubner and Steven
Levitt
b. Thank you for Arguing by Jay Heinrichs
2. Essays to read –
a. “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For”
by Henry David Thoreau (Compare/Contrast)
b. “Learning to Read and Write” by
Frederick Douglass (Process)
c. “On Compassion” by Barbara Lazear
Ascher (Example)
d. “Listening” by Eudora Welty
(Description)
Assignments
to complete:
After
selecting one of the books to read, you need to annotate the text by
underlining or highlighting the following items in the text (per chapter):
1. Claim(s)
2. Counterclaim(s)
3. Literary Devices (example: simile,
metaphor, personification, tone, symbols, imagery, etc.)
4. Main ideas
Complete a
SOAPStone chart for each essay. (See attached form)
Links to the
essays:
1. “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For”
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=cnN1NS5vcmd8c3RpdmVycy1lbmdsaXNofGd4OjUzZTA2ZGJmMjlmMWQ4Y2U
2. “Learning to Read and Write”
http://www.pasadena.edu/files/syllabi/dlbronstein_29682.pdf
3. “On Compassion”
http://dsapresents.org/staff/michael-thornton/files/2011/08/On-Compassion-by-Ascher.pdf
