IB/MYP English 2 Pre-IB Diploma Program Summer Reading Assignment

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1 IB/MYP English 2 Pre-IB Diploma Program Summer Reading Assignment Your summer reading consists of three required assignments. All of these assignments are due the first day of school for the school year. Total points possible=150 pts. The number of points you earn divided by the total points possible will give you your percentage for the formative assessment. When you return to school, you will be given a required summative assessment in the form of a written literary analysis essay. 1. The first assignment will be will be a Literary Terms Worksheet. You will look up the terms using one of the two websites listed and define them. This will be a helpful resource for the second assignment, as well as throughout the year. (30 pts., 20%) Directions for Assignment 1: Look up the literary terms on one of the two websites listed and define them: or (Handout with terms follows.) 2. The second assignment is to read Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson and complete a Literary Device Journal. The work for this novel will be a major part of your English grade and we will continue to work with this novel in class throughout Quarter 1 so it is imperative that you have read the novel and completed the assignment. It is best if you have your own personal print copy of the novel. (90 pts., 60%) See detailed explanation below. This novel will also be the subject of a literary analysis essay to be written in class the first week of school for a summative assessment. You will be able to use this Literary Device Journal as a resource for the in class writing so it would behoove you to complete an in depth journal. 3. The third assignment is to choose two books from the Florida Teens Read list to read and prepare to discuss orally the first day of school. You should be able to write an objective summary as well as a personal review of the texts. The list is provided. (30 pts., 20%) ****Explicit Directions for Assignment 2 Literary Device Journal: (90 points): This will be graded based upon your deeper insights on how literary/rhetorical devices as well as excerpted evidence add meaning to the text. Use the Literary Terms worksheet completed in Assignment 1 to help you with this journal. Surface level interpretations as well as those found on websites such as Sparknotes are not considered A level work. You will be rewarded for your own thoughts and ideas. Complete sentences with correct grammar and spelling are mandatory. Please use notebook paper for this assignment (not a notebook or composition book) and the title for your heading is English Journal. Assignments should be neatly handwritten, no typing, please. Write on front and back of the page. Text: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson Publisher: Penguin Group/Signet Classics Genre: Classic Literature ISBN: Average cost: $4.95 a. Close read the novella: 30 entries, equally distributed over the entire novella, about 3 entries per chapter. Organize each entry in the following manner: Chapter #, Entry # A. place in text B. quotation C. label (literary/rhetorical device) D. explain writer s intended effect on reader and how it adds meaning. The following is a sample entry: Chapter 1, Entry 1 A. Page 48 B. His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest; his affections, like ivy, were the growth of time C. simile D. The author uses the literary device of simile to show the reader that the character needs relationships that are well established and it takes him time to feel comfortable with someone. By comparing the relationships to ivy, you can imagine that as ivy grows over time it flourishes and develops and climbs over everything it touches. In the same way, his relationships take time to nurture and develop into strong bonds. This gives us a descriptive sense of this character s personality.

2 b. Close reading should follow your first reading of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Ideally you will understand the story to some degree before you tackle this. c. You will have a minimum of 30 entries (approximately three entries per chapter, 3 pts. per entry for 90 pts.). d. You may use the sample sentence starters below, or feel free to create your own. e. Be sure to take textual evidence from the ENTIRE novel (beginning, middle, and end). You want to show your English teacher that you have a deep understanding of the character s development/theme/symbolism/etc. throughout the ENTIRE novel. f. Plagiarism will result in an automatic zero and parent/teacher conference. All ideas and thoughts should be original. There is a difference between helping your friend and letting them copy your work. Sentence Starters for Literary Device with text connection The author is using this to show theme by The character is developing This symbolizes The conflict propels the characters. The author has created a mood by... The tone of this passage is and is exemplified by The author uses the literary device of (metaphor, simile, imagery, diction, etc.) to Helpful Hints for Summer Reading Theme vs. Thematic Concepts A thematic concept is the generalized idea from which we can derive a theme. For many years you may have thought that these concepts were actually themes, but in reality they are not. We have all seen them. We search Sparknotes for important themes and are given items such as love or chaos vs. order. These are in fact thematic concepts and need to be referred to as such. Themes are derived from thematic concepts. If one sees ideas of death or corruption, he or she may say the thematic concept is death or corruption. Now, we must go one step further to understand the actual theme. What is the piece saying about death? What is it saying about corruption? Theme examples: 1. Death is inevitable. 2. It is human nature to fear death. A theme must: 1. Be a complete sentence 4. Never be a moral 2. Be universal 5. Never be a cliché 3. Be about life or human nature Possible Thematic Concepts to consider in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. 1. Reason v. the Supernatural 2. Limits of Scientific Experimentation 3. The Effects of Society on the Individual 4. Dual Nature or Split Personality

3 Literary Terms Worksheet Name Look up the following literary terms on one of the two websites listed below and define them: Literary Term Allegory Definition Alliteration Allusion Analogy Archetype Aside Characterization Conflict Connotation Denotation Dialogue Diction Dramatic Irony Dynamic Character Foreshadowing Hubris Hyperbole

4 Idiom Imagery Inference Irony Metaphor Mood Motif Onomatopoeia Personification Point of View Pun Rhetoric Simile Situational Irony Static Character Symbol Syntax Theme Tone Verbal Irony

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