MATERIAL - INTERNATIONAL CLASSES school year: 2016/2017 LITERATURE & LANGUAGE: STATIONERY/SUPPLIES (classes of 6eme, 5eme, 4eme & 3eme) - Lever Arch File (2 hooks) - 50 punched clear pockets A4-300 papers for file - 5 coloured dividers - 1 packet of eyelets - 2 highlighters BOOKS (to order at Magrudy s, Borders or Kinokuniya) 6eme: Summer Reading - Obligatory: The Miracle Worker by William Gibson, Publisher: Scribner (ISBN 9781416590842) Summer reading assignment: (due during the first week of school) After reading the play, choose ONE of the following assignments: 1. Write a friendly letter to the author of your book. Your letter should include a brief introduction of yourself, your reason for writing the letter, and the book s title. You should also briefly describe what you liked best about the play using details from the play for support. Finally, you should include any other information about the book that will enhance your letter and thank the author for reading your letter. 2. Design a poster to advertise your book/ play to other readers. Use lots of colourful adjectives to capture reader s interest. Be sure to include the story elements such as the title, the author s name, the setting, the conflict, the goal and the resolution of the story. Finally, write a short summary of the book s main events/plot of the story. Wolf Brother, by Michelle Paver The Vacation, by Polly Horvath Heidi, by Johanna Spyri Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart, by Candace Fleming (nonfiction) The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet, by E. Dionne Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Story of My Life, by Helen Keller, Signet Classics (ISBN: 978 0451531568) The Red Pony, by John Steinbeck, Penguin Classics (ISBN: 978 0140187397) Al Capone Does My Shirts, by Gennifer Choldenko, Penguin, (ISBN: 978 0142403709) Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare, No fear Shakespeare by Sparknotes (ISBN: 978 1586638474) 5eme: Arthur and the Round Table, by Roger Lancelyn Green (ISBN 978-0141321011) Summer Reading Assignment: (due during the first week of school) After reading the book, choose ONE of the following assignments: 1. What do you think is the novel s theme? Explain your answer using more than three examples from the text. Compare and contrast the main character in the novel. How are they alike? How do they differ? Create your own illustration or Venn diagram of their similarities and differences. 2. Choose the ten most important events in the story and create a timeline sequencing these events and explain why each event is important to the story. Describe your favourite scene through an illustration and explanation. 3. Connect to my world. Which character do you think you are most similar to and explain how? If the setting changed to France in the present day, how would the novel s plot be changed? What current day, movie, song or TV show does this story remind you and how? If you could interview the author today, what 3 questions would you ask and how do you think the author would respond? Shakespeare on Toast, by Ben Crystal (nonfiction) The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd Down the Rabbit Hole, by Abrahams The Island, by Gary Paulsen Ship Breaker, by Paolo Bacigalupi Schooled, by Gordon korman A Midsummer Night s Dream by William Shakespeare, Barron s (ISBN 978 0812035841) The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, No fear (ISBN 978 1411426962) The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More by Roald Dahl, (ISBN 978 0375814235) The Giver by Lois Lowry, Random House Children s books (ISBN 978 0440237686)
4eme: The Pearl by John Steinbeck (any edition) Summer Reading Assignment: (due during the first week of school) After reading the book, choose ONE of the following assignments: 1. What do you think is the novel s theme? Explain your answer using more than three examples from the text. Compare and contrast the main character in the novel. How are they alike? How do they differ? Create your own illustration or Venn diagram of their similarities and differences. 2. Choose the ten most important events in the story and create a timeline sequencing these events and explain why each event is important to the story. Describe your favourite scene through an illustration and explanation. 3. Connect to my world. Which character do you think you are most similar to and explain how? If the setting changed to France in the present day, how would the novel s plot be changed? What current day, movie, song or TV show does this story remind you and how? If you could interview the author today, what 3 questions would you ask and how do you think the author would respond? Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Monster, by Walter Dean Myers Peak, by Roland Smith Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott Seraphina, by Rachel Hartman My Thirteenth Winter: A Memoir, by Samantha Abeel (non-fiction) Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Barron s (ISBN 978-0812035728) Global Tales, Longman imprint Books, (ISBN 978 0582289291) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (any edition) Study Guide: Literature Made Easy, To Kill a Mockingbird, Barron s, (ISBN 978 0764108228 Zeitoun by Dave Eggers, Penguin, (ISBN 978 0141046815) 3eme: Carefully read the following book over the summer. You will have a graded activity to complete in class during the first week of school. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (ISBN 978 0679734772 or any other edition)
Summer Reading - Optional: Things fall apart by Chinua Achebe Anna Karenina by Tolstoy After the Snow by S.D. Crockett The Best Short Stories of O. Henry by O. Henry Every Day by David Levithan Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, (ISBN 9781853260414) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Penguin, (ISBN 9780142437179) The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (ISBN 978-0375842207) The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (ISBN 9781533299369) What Have You Lost? by Naomi Shihab Nye, Harper Collins Publishers (ISBN 978 0380733071) 2nde: Carefully read the following book over the summer. You will have a graded activity to complete in class during the first week of school. The Things They Carried by Tim O brien (ISBN 978-0618706419) Please watch Movie: Surviving Progress The Lady with the Lapdog and Other Stories, by Anton Chekhov The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, by Aimee Bender David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Light in August by William Faulkner I ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson Room by Emma Donoghue The Old Man and The Sea, by Earnest Hemingway (any edition) The Glass Menagerie by Tennesse Williams (ISBN 978-0811214049) 1984 by George Orwell (ISBN 978-0451524935) One Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest (ISBN 978-0451163967) What Have You Lost? by Naomi Shihab Nye, Harper Collins Publishers (ISBN 978 0380733071)
1ere: Summer Reading/Assignment Obligatory: Complete BOTH assignments. 1- Essay: Read Irving s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and watch Tim Burton s 1999 film Sleepy Hollow. Write an argumentative essay supporting the opinion that the film is either: a) a successful adaptation of the story overall b) an unsatisfactory adaptation of Irving s story overall. Make sure to follow the structure of an argumentative essay and do not hesitate to qualify your thought (it is always acceptable to make concessions to the opposite viewpoint so as better to support your own). 2- Creative writing: Read Rip Van Winkle and the American Declaration of Independence (see online PDF for the text). Write either: a) A very short tale in which a character sleeps through a time of rapid historical change (choose any place, event and period of human history that you want) and awakes to find the world is no longer the same or b) A short declaration of Independence mimicking Jefferson s style (no plagiarism, however!), written from the point of view of humans who have broken free from outer-space Alien oppressors. You may type your homework. Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky A Room with a View or Howard s End, by E. M. Forster Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville Ceremony, by Leslie Marmon Silko The Opposite of Loneliness, by Marina Keegan Slaughterhouse 5, by Kurt Vonnegut (ISBN 9780099800200) Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne The Bluest Eye, bytoni Morisson (vintage. ISBN 9780307278449) Much Ado About Nothing, by W. Shakespeare (RSC, ISBN 139780230232105) The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger (Little Brown, ISBN: 9780316769488) HAPPY READING! See you in September.