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Directions: Students enrolling in 11th grade English 3 for the 2010-2011 school year. NOTE: Part II of the assignment - Reading Journal - is due Friday, September 3, 2010.
| I. | Read "The Narrative of the Captivity and the Restration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson 1682." An online copy of the narrative can be viewed and read. You are to print out a copy of this narrrative, which can be found either at the City University of New York site, or on the CHHS Library site. | ||
| A. | Annotate the narrative as you read the narrative. | ||
| B. | Prepare to demonstrate your understanding of the Mrs. Mary Rowlandson's narrative during the first two weeks of the 2010-2011 school year (August 31 - September 10). | ||
| II. | Select ONE of the following books to read. Click here for descriptions of each book. | ||
| A. | Read the book that you have selected to read. | ||
| B. | Complete a Reader's Response Journal for the book that you have selected. Instructions for the Reader's Response Journal can be found following the list of titles. The Journal will be collected on Friday, September 3, 2010. | ||
| Fiction | Non-Fiction | ||
| Audrey, Wait! | Ain’t Nothing But a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry | ||
| Becoming Billie Holiday | American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China | ||
| Black Box | Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life | ||
| The Brothers Torres | Dressed: A Century of Hollywood Costume Design | ||
| Caramelo | Eagle Blue: A Team, a Tribe, and a High School Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska | ||
| A Curse Dark as Gold | Far From Home: Latino Baseball Players in America | ||
| The Fortunes of Indigo Skye | Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art | ||
| Graceling | John Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth | ||
| Keeping Corner | I Am Scout: The Biography of Harper Lee | ||
| Kendra | It’s Complicated: The American Teenager | ||
| Little Brother | Our Movie Heritage | ||
| Mexican WhiteBoy | Photography: An Illustrated History | ||
| Shift | The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation | ||
| Waiting for Norm | She’s Got Next: A Story of Getting In, Staying Open, and Taking a Shot | ||
| What I Saw and How I Lie | Shooting Under Fire: The World of the War Photographer | ||
| War Is . . . Soldiers, Survivors, and Storytellers Talk about War | |||
| What It Is | |||
| III. | Complete all of the assignments | |||||
| A. | Read with purpose. Read for detail. Read for meaning. Read for clarity. Be able to describe the characters. Be able to relate the specific sequence of events that transpire in the book you choose. Be ready to share your attitudes, opinions, and input surrounding issues that are discussed in the book. | |||||
| B. | Remember to annotate as you read Mrs. Mary Rowlandson's narrative. | |||||
| C. | Complete
the Reader's Response Journal for the book that you have read this summer.
For the
book you read this summer, you will select two of the following prompts.
Each response should be at least one page long. This assignment
will be collected Friday, September 3, 2010 Click here for a Word document of these instructions. |
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Choice One - Make connections to your own experience. Describe an event or a character from the book that reminds you of a situation from your personal life. Explain the similarities between the event or person from the novel and your personal example. Choice Two - Identify the author’s tone, his or her attitude toward what he or she is saying. Copy the passage and explain how the words written indicate a specific attitude. Choice Three - Make connections with other texts or concepts or events. Do you see any similarities between this material and other books that you have read? Does it bring to mind other issues or incidents or people or descriptions that are somehow related? Choice Four - Identify at least two possible themes the book addresses. What issues does the book raise? Are there struggles the characters grapple with that can be viewed as universal? Choice Five - Can you identify a specific message the author seems to convey through any of the characters or through the story itself? Can you make any links between the author himself and his choices he has made as a writer writing the book you read? |
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| D. | Prepare for the culminating activities. | |||||
| 1. | Be prepared to use your reader response writings to become involved in a panel discussion, to conduct a small group meeting, and/or to present to the class. | |||||
| 2. | Be prepared for an individual or small group presentation that highlights the most insightful aspects of your reader response journals. | |||||
| 3. | Be prepared to discuss your understanding and your annotation of the Mary Rowlandson narrative. | |||||
| III. | Understand the importance of completing the summer reading assignments according to the instructions. | |||||
| A. | Evaluation | |||||
| 1. | Summer reading will be averaged into the first marking period grade. | |||||
| 2. | Teachers will be provided with the following rubric with which they may choose to evaluate the summer reading work: | |||||
| 3. | Each facet of the written work may be assigned point valued based upon the following criteria: | |||||
| a. | Accuracy | |||||
| (1) | Does the writing adhere to the rules of Standard English? | |||||
| (2) | Is the writing free from repetitive grammatical or syntactical errors that impede comprehension? | |||||
| (3) | Is the work written using MLA guidelines if sources are cited? | |||||
| (4) | Does the work correctly address the questions raised in the prompt? | |||||
| b. | Completeness | |||||
| (1) | Does each response meet the minimum length requirement? | |||||
| (2) | Does each response fully answer questions raised in the prompt? Do they go beyond mechanical “yes” “no” answers? In other words, did the writer create commentary? | |||||
| (3) | Have all the prompts been attempted? | |||||
| (4) | Are the paragraphs fully developed? Do they each contain a specific topic sentence and adequate support? | |||||
| (5) | Do any concluding paragraphs exhibit an appropriate sense of closure? | |||||
| c. | Imagery | |||||
| (1) | Does the writing include sensory imagery? | |||||
| (2) | Has the writer used enough proper nouns, and proper adjectives to convey a clear image in the mind of the reader? | |||||
| (3) | Has the writer used specific quoted material taken directly from the novel to support his or her opinions about what he or she has read? | |||||
| (4) | Does the writing avoid using clichéd expressions and informal or ambiguous language that prevents the reader from forming a specific impression? | |||||
| B. | General Directions (Use the Modern Language Association format - MLA.) Click the link for an instruction sheet on How to Set Up Your Paper in MLA format. | |||||
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English
3 Summer 2010 Summer Reading Lists
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Fiction
Selections - Descriptions
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Audrey,
Wait! Benway, Robin. Audrey's ex-boyfriend
records a hit song about their breakup, and suddenly all eyes (and
cameras) are on Audrey. Fans, Facebook, and tabloids - it's all too
much for Audrey. Becoming Billie Holiday. Weatherford, Carole Boston. Before the legend of Billie Holliday, there was a girl named Eleanora. Eleanora's journey into legend took her through pain, poverty and run-ins with the law. By the time she was fifteen, she knew she possessed something that could change her life - a voice. Eleanora could sing! In a series of free-verse poems and bluesy lyrics, headed by song titles, Weatherford retraces Holiday’s childhood and early career in the renowned jazz singer’s own voice. Black Box. Schumacher, Julie. Fourteen-year-old Elena struggles to hold steady ground and help her sister Dora, who has been admitted to a psychiatric ward after swallowing an entire bottle of antidepressants. The Brothers Torres. Voorhees, Coert. Frankie Torres (or Towers depending which side his heritage is viewed) narrates his coming-of-age story of falling for a girl as his idolized brother runs with a group of cholos. Caramelo. Cisneros, Sandra. LaLa learns the stories of her awful grandmother and weavesthem into a colorful family history. The “caramelo,” a striped shawl begun by her great-grandmother, symbolizes their traditions A Curse Dark as Gold. Bunce, Elizabeth. When young Charlotte Miller takes over the family's woolen mill after her father's death, she is faced with unexpected debts, catastrophes, and a hidden curse that threatens her family's future. The Fortunes of Indigo Skye. Caletti, Deb. At eighteen, Indigo wants no more out of life than to be a waitress and give people food, until a customer gives her $2,500,000. Can she stand the changes? Graceling. Cashore, Kristin. Katsa was born with the ability to kill men with her bare hands, but can she find moral courage to stand up to evil rulers and fight for what is right? Keeping Corner. Sheth, Kashmira. In India during World War I, twelve-year-old Leela's husband dies, and she is forced to shave her head and keep corner, staying inside her family's house for a year. Kendra. Booth, Coe. Kendra is thrilled her mom, Renee, has completed her Ph.D. program—now they can finally be a real family. But is Renee excited for their future together, too? Little Brother. Doctorow, Cory. There's been another major terrorist attack and the Department of Homeland Security has clamped down big time. It's up to Marcus, computer geek, to save everyone from this police state. Mexican WhiteBoy. de la Pena, Matt. Half white, half Mexican and 100% confused, Danny struggles with baseball, his absent father and first love while spending the summer with his familia in San Diego. Shift. Bradbury, Jennifer. Chris and Win take a bicycle trip across America after graduation, but only one returns and that person is pressured to reveal what happened. Waiting for Normal. Conner, Leslie. Left to live in an old trailer under the overhead train track with Mommers, Addie is the child that has to learn to take care of herself. She almost succeeds. What I Saw and How I Lied. Blundell, Judy. When Evie’s father returns from the war, she expects life to return to normal but a mysterious trip to Florida, secrets, deceptions, and a first forbidden love complicates things. |
Non-fiction
Selections
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| Ain't Nothing
But a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry. Nelson, Scott
Reynolds. Historian Scott Reynolds Nelson chronicles his journeys, both
on land and in historical records, to find the truth about the man behind
the myth of "John Henry." American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China. Polly, Matthew. The author reflects on the childhood dream that led him, as an adult, to take a break from Princeton and travel to China’s famed Shaolin Temple to study martial arts for two years. Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life Martin, Steve.. In a memoir full of humor and candor, Martin shares his personal itinerary as he negotiates the maze of honing his profession and the pitfalls he avoided. Dressed: A Century of Hollywood Costume Design. Landis, Deborah Nadoolman. Landis showcases 100 years of Hollywood’s most memorable costumes and the characters they helped bring to life as she reveals a behind-the-scenes look at the evolution of the costume designer’s art. Eagle Blue: A Team, a Tribe, and a High School Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska. D’Orso, Michael. This true story explores the tiny village of Fort Yukon, Alaska, its vanishing cultural heritage, and its relationship with mainstream American culture through its high school basketball team. Far From Home: Latino Baseball Players in America. Wendel, Tim and Villegas, Jose Luis. The rich history of Latino baseball players is presented along with a feel of growing up in Latino communities passionate for the game. Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art. Greenberg, Jan. Can a painting speak? This collection of lyrical responses to famous American works of art provides answers. John Lennon: All I Want is the Truth. Partridge, Elizabeth. Partridge provides a wide-open view into the work and life of one of the most influential and complicated persons from the world’s musical heritage. I Am Scout: The Biography of Harper Lee. Shields, Charles J. Curious about Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird? Finally her story is told. You can learn about her childhood, success, seclusion and rejection of fame. It's Complicated: The American Teenager. Bowman, Robin. This random collection of black and white photographs of teenagers from across the country includes short testimonials about their lives. Our Movie Heritage. McGreevey, Tom and Joanne Yeck. This work provides over one hundred beautiful pictures of top stars, directors, and others in the film industry, but the focus is on film preservation and the race against time to salvage what is left of the large number of films that are currently deteriorating in our nation’s vaults, theaters, and private collections. Photography: An Illustrated History. Sandler, Martin. This work looks at photography as it evolved from daguerreotypes in the 1800’s to the respected art form that it is today. Numerous compelling black-and-white and color photographs document technological developments, the contributions of pioneers in the field, as well as the impact photography has had upon all aspects of society. The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation. Roberts, Gene and Hank Klibanoff. When Harry Reasoner thrust a microphone at an angry mob, and yelled "I don't care what you're going to do to me, but the whole world is going to know it!" he spoke for all the reporters and photographers, black and white, north and south, who played a critical role in bringing the reality of the Civil Rights movement into the living rooms and consciousness of the American public. She’s Got Next: A Story of Getting In, Staying Open, and Taking a Shot. King, Melissa. Through pick-up basketball games and the people she meets on the streets of Chicago, the author learns valuable life lessons. Shooting Under Fire: The World of the War Photographer. Howe, Peter. Ten leading combat photographers share their experiences of horror, humor, bravery, and daring while reporting from war-torn locations such as Vietnam, Haiti, Chechnya, El Salvador, Sarajevo, and Afghanistan. War Is...Soldiers, Survivors, and Storytellers Talk About War. Aronson, Marc and Campbell, Patty. A balanced collection of contemporary and historical writings including interviews, stories, memoirs, and a miliblog addresses the experience of enlisting, serving, and surviving war from a variety of perspectives. What It Is. Barry, Lynda. Questions, images, story, comic illustrations and workbook pages guide and push readers to break down barriers, experiment and grow through writing or drawing. |
Excerpts taken from
• Amazon. 2009. http://www.amazon.com/
• Alex Awards," American Library Association, July 24, 2006.
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/booklistsawards/alexawards/alexawards.cfm
(Accessed April 17, 2009)Document ID: 115125
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