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1 Name Summer Reading Assignments: Popp/Bond 1 Read Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell OR The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls Complete Definitions (Part I) Claim (Part II) Double Entry Journal (Part III) 3-paragraph Essay (Parts IV and V) MLA 8 Scavenger Hunt (Page 7) NoRedInk Unit Diagnostic (See last page. To be completed online.) The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls Choose one of the texts below to complete pages 2-4. The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette's brilliant and charismatic father captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn't want the responsibility of raising a family. The Walls children learned to take care of themselves. They fed, clothed, and protected one another, and eventually found their way to New York. Their parents followed them, choosing to be homeless even as their children prospered. The Glass Castle is truly astonishing--a memoir permeated by the intense love of a peculiar but loyal family. Outliers By Malcolm Gladwell In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers" the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band. Brilliant and entertaining, Outliers is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate. Book synopses obtained from goodreads.com

2 Popp/Bond 2 Name Complete Parts I and II BEFORE READING the text. Part I: Define the following terms: Sacrifice: Success: Part II: Before reading the text, create a claim that answers the Essential Question, Can one achieve success without struggle and/or sacrifice?

3 Name Summer Reading Assignments: Popp/Bond 3 Complete Part III DURING READING of the text. Part III: Complete the Double Entry Journal, citing five pieces of textual evidence (quotes). Evidence should provide or respond to insight regarding the Essential Question, Can one achieve success without struggle and/or sacrifice? Explain how the textual evidence you selected connects with the Essential Question. 1. Textual evidence (Quote) with MLA 8 formatted in-text citation Double Entry Journal Explanation: How does the textual evidence connect to the Essential Question?

4 Name Complete Parts IV & V AFTER READING the text. Popp/Bond 4 Part IV: Now that you have read the text, refer to the claim you created in Part II. Develop a NEW claim 1. that advances your evolved point of view and 2. is specific to the text you chose. For example, In The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls encounters disappointments yet overcomes various obstacles to reach success as an adult. (In the above claim, the focus of an essay will address Jeannette Walls specifically while describing her personal struggles and how she conquers them.) Part V: Literary Analysis: Write a 3-paragraph essay (introduction, body paragraph, conclusion), using the claim above. Integrate one of the quotes, from your Double Entry Journal, to support your claim.

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7 Popp/Bond 7 Name Click here to be directed to Purdue OWL Scavenger Hunt MLA8 Directions: Navigate the OWL at Purdue website to answer the following questions. 1. What does the acronym OWL mean? MLA8 format: 2a. What would one place on each of the lines of the heading on the first page of an MLA8 paper that does not require a title page? A. B. C. D. 2b. Write the heading using your name, my name, the course s name, and today s date. A. B. C. D. 3. Answer True or False. Unlike the entire paper, the heading should be single spaced. 4. What font type is used? 5. What font size is used?

8 Name Summer Reading Assignments: Popp/Bond 8 6. What are the margin widths? left right top bottom 7. Answer True or False. The title of a work should be centered, underlined, or appear in all capitals or larger font size. 8a. Using your name, what should the page numbers look like? 8b. Answer True or False. The page number is located in the lower right corner of each page. 9. Answer True or False. A short quotation is considered four or fewer typed lines of prose. 10. Answer True or False. A long quotation (greater than four lines) is treated like any paragraph, an indent and then flush to the left margin. 11. Answer True or False. Do you use an ellipsis... before and/or after a direct quotation? 12. What is the purpose of a pair of brackets within a direct quotation? 13. What does the abbreviation [sic] signify? Works Cited page: 14. Write the source entry (either provide the information or an example) for a book with one author. 15. Write the source entry (either provide the information or an example) for a book with more than one author.

9 Popp/Bond Write the source entry (either provide the information or an example) for an article in a reference book (e.g. encyclopedias, dictionaries). 17. Write the source entry (either provide the information or an example) for a book published before Write the source entry (either provide the information or an example) for an article from an online database. 19. Write the source entry (either provide the information or an example) for a digital file/pdf. 20. Using a source entry, demonstrate a hanging indent on a works cited page. 21. Answer True or False. When one paraphrases another writer s work, he/she does not need to cite. In-Text Citations: 22. Write the three in-text citations for author-page style. A. B. C. 23. Answer True or False. The citation is appropriate for an in-text citation. 24. Answer True or False. It is permissible to abbreviate an article s title to the first three words when inserting it into an in-text citation. For example, using ( Aging: Women Expect ) for the works cited entry below. "Aging: Women Expect to Care for Aging Parents but Seldom Prepare." Women's Health Weekly, 10 May 2007, p. 18.

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