Eastern Regional High School s Summer Reading/Independent Reading Program

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1 Eastern Regional High School s Summer Reading/Independent Reading Program Eastern Camden County Regional School District is committed to helping its students develop a lifelong love of reading and learning in order to prepare them for an increasingly competitive workforce. Research shows that students from schools worldwide that foster independent reading programs as part of their established curricula perform better on standardized testing and enjoy more success in degree programs and in careers. An independent summer reading program is an integral part of a school's instructional repertoire. In an effort to remain at the cutting edge of scholarship in this arena, Eastern proudly publishes its Summer Reading Program. Questions: Mrs. Yashanta Holloway-Taluy, Vice Principal, Supervisor of English (856) (ext. 1168) FOR THE FOLLOWING COURSE: ENGLISH III ADVANCED PLACEMENT LANGUAGE AND COMPOSITION Read three novels this summer. We will review the novels as well as assess your understanding of the novels in the month of September. You will be leading and teaching the class on reading #3. 1. Read Mark Twain s unabridged edition The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Become familiar with the Enrichment Terms listed in Appendix A. 2. Read John Steinbeck s The Grapes of Wrath (unabridged). Become familiar with the Enrichment Terms listed in Appendix A. 3. Select an American novel from the supplied list in Appendix B.

2 1. Metaphor 2. Mixed metaphor 3. Repetition for effect 4. Point of View (POV) 5. Oxymoron 6. Personification 7. Epiphora: also called epistrophe. 8. Euphemism 9. Analogy 10. Anti-climax 11. Bildungsroman Appendix A Huckleberry Finn Enrichment Terms 12. Picaresque novel 13. Protagonist 14. Fiction 15. Episodic novel 16. satire 17. parody 18. lampoon 19. travesty 20. mock epic 21. burlesque 22. bombast 23. wit 24. sarcasm 25. comic relief 26. comedy 27. farce 28. humor 29. wit 30. aphorism 31. stereotype 32. doggerel 33. archetype 34. colloquial language 35. dialect Grapes of Wrath Enrichment Terms Be familiar with the following: 1. The Dust Bowl 2. The Great Depression 3. Bank foreclosures 4. The Red Scare 5. Genesis (Noah and the Flood) 6. Noah s Ark (jalopy) 7. Genesis: Exodus 8. Israel (Promised Land)/ Eden 9. Archetypes 10. Hoovervilles 11. Route Intercalary chapters 13. Allegory 14. Jim Casey. Jesus Christ/ John the Baptist 15. Tom Joad/ Saviour 16. Rose of Sharon/ baby: Moses/ Virgin Mary 17. Banks, tractors, California as symbols 18. Modes of Discourse: A. Narration B. Expository C. Persuasive D. Descriptive

3 Appendix B AUTHOR Agee, James Atwood, Margaret Banks, Russell Bellow, Saul. Carey, Peter Cather, Willa Chabon, Michael Cisneros, Sandra de Rosnay, Tatiana Diaz, Junot Dinesen, Isak Dreiser, Theodore Ellison, Ralph Erdrich, Louise Eugenides, Jeffrey Faulkner, William. Fitzgerald, F. Scott Foer, Jonathan Safran TITLE A Death in the Family Cat s Eye Alias Grace The Handmaid s Tale The Sweet Hereafter The Adventures of Augie March Mr. Sammler s Planet Parrot and Olivier in America My Antonia Death Comes for the Archbishop Wonder Boys Caramelo Sarah s Key The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Out of Africa An American Tragedy Sister Carrie Invisible Man The Bingo Palace The Painted Drum The Round House The Virgin Suicides Middlesex As I Lay Dying Light in August The Sound and the Fury Tender is the Night This Side of Paradise Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

4 Heller, Joseph Hemingway, Ernest Hicks, Robert Hosseini, Khaled Hurston, Zora Neale Irving, John James, Henry Kerouac, Jack Kesey, Ken Kingsolver, Barbara Kostova, Elizabeth Lee, Harper Lewis, Sinclair Malamud, Bernard McCarthy, Cormac McCullers, Carson Melville, Herman Mitchell, Margaret Morrison, Toni Catch- 22 The Sun Also Rises A Farewell To Arms For Whom the Bell Tolls The Widow of the South The Kite Runner Their Eyes Were Watching God A Prayer for Owen Meaney The World According to Garp The Cider House Rules The Portrait of a Lady Washington Square On the Road One Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest The Poisonwood Bible The Historian To Kill a Mockingbird Main Street Dodsworth It Can t Happen Here The Assistant The Natural The Road All the Pretty Horses No Country for Old Men The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Moby- Dick Gone With the Wind Beloved

5 Nabokov, Vladimir Niffeneger, Audrey Oates, Joyce Carol O Brien, Tim O'Hara, John Packer, Ann Plath, Sylvia Powers, Kevin Robinson, Marilyn Roth, Philip Rushdie, Salman Russo, Richard Smiley, Jane Smith, Betty Steinbeck, John Strout, Elizabeth Styron, William Tan, Amy Vonnegut, Kurt Walker, Alice Ward, Jesmyn Wright, Richard Lolita The Time Traveler s Wife We Were the Mulvaneys Foxfire Going After Cacciato Appointment in Samarra Butterfield 8 The Dive from Clausen s Pier The Bell Jar The Yellow Birds Gilead Portnoy s Complaint The Plot Against America The Human Stain Midnight s Children Empire Falls A Thousand Acres A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. The Grapes of Wrath East of Eden Olive Kitteridge Sophie s Choice Saving Fish from Drowning Slaughterhouse- Five The Color Purple Salvage the Bones Native Son Black Boy