SUMMER READING VISTA RIDGE HIGH SCHOOL

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1 SUMMER READING VISTA RIDGE HIGH SCHOOL Page 1 Dear Parents and Students: Vista Ridge is pleased to continue a summer reading program for all of our students. It is our hope that students will enjoy a book and learn that reading can be a wonderful part of leisure time. It can also be an opportunity for a shared activity with all members of the family. Below, please find the summer 2014 book selection list. Students will be required to read and be prepared for discussion the first day of school and an assessment the first week. If you have any questions please contact: Michelle Fenicle Bruce Grose English Department Chair VR Principal mfenicle@d49.org bgrose@d49.org ext ext Pre-AP English 1 Complete the Dialectical Journal page 2-3 Peter Pan by James M. Barrie English 2 - Complete the Dialectical Journal page 2-3 Choose ONE book from the following authors: John Greene, William Golding, or Jay Asher Pre-AP English 2 * Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, or The Chosen by Chaim Potok English III - Complete the Dialectical Journal page 2-3 Choose a book from any American author. American Literature - Complete the Dialectical Journal page 2-3 Choose ONE book from the following authors: Rainbow Rowell, Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, or Cassandra Clare AP Language and Composition* NEED to see Mr. Dimit or Ms. Taylor for the assignment. This is a requirement. English IV Complete the Dialectical Journal page 2-3 Choose a book from any American author. British Literature Complete the Dialectical Journal page 2-3 Choose ONE book from the following authors: Graham Greene, George Orwell, or Virginia Woolf AP Literature and Composition* NEED to see Ms. Henderson for the assignment. This is a requirement. *Students enrolled in these classes are not required to complete the Summer Reading Dialectical Journal. The PreAPII assignment can be found on page 4. The AP Language assignment see Mr. Dimit H214 or Ms. Taylor H212 (whoever is on your schedule.) The AP Literature assignments Ms. Henderson H211

2 Page 2 Summer Reading Dialectical Journal Requirements Instructions: Write your answers IN YOUR WORDS and IN COMPLETE SENTENCES. Complete the following dialectical journal for your summer reading. You need a total of ten entries. Please bring a printed copy of your journal to English class on the first day of school. Include the title and author of the book. An Example Dialectical Journal is on page 5. Title of Book Author Quotes from the Book Pg. My Notes

3 Quotes from the Book Pg. My Notes Page 3

4 Summer Reading Activity Page 4 Pre-AP English II-Mrs. Schell Choose ONE of the books listed below. Read that novel and answer as many of these questions as you can. This document will be considered a work in progress that we will continue to amend as we learn more of these ideas in class. -Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan {This novel focuses on the lives of four Chinese American immigrant families. It is told from the perspectives of four daughters and three mothers (one mother dies before the novel begins). Each person tells her story in the form of a vignette.} -Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya {This novel is about a young boy, Antonio Márez y Luna, who tells the story of his coming-of-age with the guidance of his mentor and protector, Ultima.} -Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston {This novel follows its protagonist, Janie Crawford, as she grows from a vibrant and voiceless teenager to a woman in charge of her own life. -The Chosen by Chaim Potok {This novel focuses on the lives of two Jewish families and the struggles that they encounter on a daily basis in Brooklyn, NY. The story is told mostly through the lives of two young boys and how their lives intertwine, even though they are practicing Jews of different sects.} Answer as many of the following questions as you can and bring those with you to class. We will discuss these ideas and allow time for revision during the first three weeks. You will complete a project on your book in which you will address the following: 1. What is the overall tone of the work? Provide at least three quotes that support this identification. 2. Write at least two theme statements about the work. Provide at least three quotes that support this identification. 3. What intangibles about the novel make a significant difference in the work? In other words, what makes it special? 4. What biographical information contributes to the understanding of the novel? 5. What historical information contributes to the understanding of the work? 6. Which character most affects you? Why? How? 7. Choose one significant scene in the work. Analyze, line by line, what the author does to make it memorable. 8. Tell something about the story that you think is significant but has not been asked. 9.Why did you choose this work? 10. Research information about the author. Why did they write this book? What world events influenced their writing? Other pertinent information about the author, such as education, etc.

5 Page 5 Exemplary Sample Dialectical Journal Entries (Quotes and Notes) Student Name: Bea Smart Book Title/Author: Hatchet, Gary Paulsen Date: July 2014 Total pages: 195 (Quotes) From Text Pg # (Notes) From Me Thanks. It s really nice. But the words sounded hollow, even to Brian. p.8 Why does Brian feel that way about getting a hatchet from his Mom? If the words sound hollow to Brian, he must not mean it. Why is he mad at his Mom? (Asking questions) No roads, no trails, no clearings. Just the p.23 I can t imagine keeping my cool in a lakes, and it came to him that he would situation like this. I d be on my cell have to use a lake for landing. If he went phone, freaking out & he s trying down into the trees he was certain to die. land the plane! I guess it s important to keep your cool in a crisis. (Reaction to text) Now, with the thought of the burger, the p.48 It s weird how Brian s stomach emptiness roared at him. He could not is like a character now, driving believe the hunger, had never felt this his behavior. I ve been hungry before, way. The lake water had filled his stomach, but never like that. Is he going to but left it hungry, and not it demanded food, start eating things that are poison screamed for food., because he is so hungry? (Observation of author craft and connections) 7 additional entries would continue on for a minimum of 10 entries. Page numbers will indicate selections from beginning, middle and end of book. An Exemplary Double-Entry Journal Contains The Following: Total number of entries are 10 or more for the entire book. Each From Text entry is 1 or more complete sentence. From Text entries are from the entire book (beginning, middle and end). This is indicated by page numbers. Each From Text entry contains zero (0) spelling errors. All From Me entries have 2 or more complete sentences and demonstrate fully developed thoughts or connections about the text.

6 Inadequate Sample Dialectical Journal Entries (Quotes and Notes) Page 6 Student Name: Bea Smart Book Book Title/Author: Hatchet, Gary Paulsen Date: July 2014 Total pages: 195 (Quotes) From Text pg. # (Notes) From Me It kept coming back to that. He had nothing. I know how that feels. I have nothing too. (No page number indicated.) (This connection is rather shallow. It needs more elaboration.) Things wer bad, he thout, but maybe not that bad. (This text excerpt has 2 mis-spellings and does not include a page number.) I feel that way sometimes too. (Again, this connection does not appear to have any thought behind it, just a hasty response to complete the task.) Journals with less than 10 entries are not considered exemplary. An Inadequate Double Entry Journal Contains: Fewer than 10 entries from the book. Quotations from the text contain many mis-spelled words. From Text entries indicate the entire book may not have been read. From Me entries demonstrate incomplete thoughts or connections and seem hastily written. Entries lack elaboration.