English 9 and 10 Pre-AP Summer Reading List 2015
S U M M E R 2 0 1 5 Bulldogs’ Summer Reading Batesville High School Contacting a Teacher To help students with their Summer Reading tasks, the English teachers will conduct help sessions in the BHS Media Center. The exact dates and times are listed below. However, if you are in need of help (and you can’t attend the help sessions) please contact your classroom BHS teacher through email and they will be sure to respond. AP Lit. and Comp- Mrs. Lacey A summer of beaches, BBQs and books! Batesville High School holds high expectations for its young people; thus, all Pre-AP students in grades 9-10 and AP Literature and Composition are required to read selected texts during the summer. According to the Indiana Department of Education, “Research indicates that the demands that college, careers, and citizenship place on readers have either held steady or increased over roughly the last fifty years.” In Batesville, the community considers the task of helping our students excel and meeting those reading demands, seriously. Since many students in our community read throughout their summer break, we want to ensure the selected reading material challenges and improves their appreciation and comprehension of quality literature. The BHS English Department strives to improve their Summer Reading program, seeking best practices to aide in our students’ reading development. Please read the expectations carefully and, as always, we are available to help! Save the Date with an English Teacher! Students should enter BHS through the main doors and signs will guide them to the Media Center. Please bring your book(s) and notes. July 6th July 20th [6:00-8:00 pm] Mrs. Schory [6:00-8:00 pm] Mrs. Lowery July 14th July 28th [6:00-8:00 pm] Mrs. Grimsley [6:00-8:00 pm] Mrs. Lacey rlacey@batesville.k12.in.us Pre AP 10- Mrs. Schory or Mrs. Lacey eschory@batesville.k12.in.us Pre AP 9- Mrs. Lowery jlowery@batesville.k12.in.us BATESVILLE HIGH SCHOOL SUMMER READING 2015 Expectations Our expectations require students to explore themes developed through texts. The act of analyzing the author’s message provides practice with the Indiana Standards. All students will create a formal outline and from that present a formal speech. No essay is required. Objectives: Pre AP 9: Theme of Power • Learn to read more carefully and critically. • Become engaged with the subject matter – question it, agree with it, disagree with it, compare it to other issues, make connections. • Come to see reading and writing as a way of exploring and learning about a subject, rather than just a product to be judged. • Move from merely summarizing material into analyzing, interpreting, and evaluating literature. • Make meaning for yourself rather than look to teachers for the “right answers.” • Become a more effective reader and thinker. Students are expected to read one required text and one choice from the list provided. Students will create a formal outline and present their findings in a formal speech focusing on the theme of control. We will spend a day at the beginning of the year editing outlines and discussing formal speeches. For the first day, teachers will check outlines and award 15 points for perfect MLA outlines and Works Cited. 10 points for formal outline and 40 points for formal speech. Total 50 points possible. Points will be deducted for reading directly from notecards. Required Reading: The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd, 840 Lexile 1 Choice- Choose from the list provided Pre AP 10: Theme of Tolerance Students are expected to read one required text and one choice from the list provided. Students will create a formal outline and present their findings in a formal speech focusing on the theme of tolerance. We will spend a day at the beginning of the year editing outlines and discussing formal speeches. For the first day, teachers will check outlines and award 15 points for perfect MLA outlines and Works Cited. 10 points for formal outline and 40 points for formal speech. Total 50 points possible. Points will be deducted from reading directly from notecards. Required Reading: Cold Sassy Tree, Olive Ann Burns, 930 Lexile Choice- Choose from the list provided AP Literature and Composition Students are expected to read one required text, and one choice from the list provided. Students will create a formal outline and CompoComposition present their findings in a formal speech. We will spend a day at the beginning of the year editing outlines and discussing formal speeches. For the first day, teachers will check outlines and award 15 points for perfect MLA outlines and Works Cited. 15 points for formal outline and 55 points for formal speech. Total 70 points possible. Points will be deducted for reading directly from notecards. Required Reading: How To Read Literature Like a Professor, Thomas C. Foster, 1290 Lexile Required Reading: Poetry, A Case Study (see choices below) Read a minimum of 10 poems and choose 2 for speech. 1 Choice- Choose from the list provided 2 BATESVILLE HIGH SCHOOL SUMMER READING 2015 Literary Terminology Focus by Grade Pre-AP 9 antagonist autobiography biography *characterization climax *conflict dialogue exposition falling action *foreshadowing *metaphor narrator oxymoron protagonist resolution rising action setting *simile tone Pre-AP 10 AP 11 alliteration atmosphere/mood connotation diction *dramatic irony flashback foil imagery personification point of view symbol tone *dynamic character *static character flat character round character *verbal irony *archetype * paradox *allusion * allegory anecdote assonance aphorism colloquialisms consonance dialect figurative language free verse idioms *parody rhetoric rhetorical question *satire verbal irony *situational irony *synecdoche voice *hubris *hamartia Freshmen should choose from the 9th grade list. Choosing a literary term with an *asterisk will be required to earn an A on this element. Pre AP 9: Theme of Power Reading Selections Title The Storyteller Copper Sun Things Fall Apart Ender's Game The Color Purple Crucible Speak It’s Not About The Bike The House of the Scorpion Tiger Woods A Girl Named Zippy The Oath Catching Fire Thirteen Reasons Why The Pretties The Outsiders Uglies 1984 The Tipping Point How Starbucks Saved My Life The Giver Lord of the Flies Chains The Joy Luck Club Author Jodi Picoult Sharon M. Draper Chinua Achebe Orson Scott Card Alice Walker Arthur Miller Laurie Halse Anderson Lance Armstrong Nancy Farmer Bill Guman Haven Kimmel Stephen Robert Stein Suzanne Collins Jay Asher Scott Westerfeld S.E. Hinton Scott Westerfeld George Orwell Malcolm Gladwell Michael Gates Gill Lois Lowry William Golding Laurie Halse Anderson Amy Tan 3 Lexile Score NA 820 890 780 670 1320 690 890 660 930 1010 820 550 860 750 770 1090 1160 760 770 780 930 BATESVILLE HIGH SCHOOL SUMMER READING 2015 Pre AP 10: Theme of Tolerance Reading Title Snow Falling on Cedars The Kite Runner Ender’s Game Brave New World The Help The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Secret Life of Bees Forgotten Fire The Color Purple The Boy Who Dared A Thousand Splendid Suns A Lesson Before Dying The Grapes of Wrath The Knife of Never Letting Go Autobiography of My Dead Brother Generation Dead Incantation A Raisin in the Sun Jackie Robinson: Race, Sports, and the American Dream Outcasts United: A Refuge Team, and American Town Forrest Gump Running Loose Farewell to Manzanar Author David Guterson Khaled Hosseini Orson Scott Card Aldous Huxley Kathryn Stockett Mark Twain 1080 840 780 870 730 990 Sue Monk Kidd Adam Bagdasarian Alice Walker Susan Campbell Khaled Hosseini Ernest J. Geaines John Steinbeck Patrick Ness Walter Dean Myers 840 1050 670 760 830 750 680 860 830 Daniel Waters Alice Hoffman Lorraine Hansberry Josephy Dorinson and Joram Warmund Warren St. John 820 730 970 1210 870 1040 Schooled Winston Groom Chris Crutcher Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston Gordan Koman My Name is Not Easy Debby Dahl Edwardson 830 Ask Me No Questions Marina Budhos 790 Wonder RJ Palacio 790 4 Lexile Score 740 BATESVILLE HIGH SCHOOL SUMMER READING 2015 AP 11: Literature and Composition Reading Selections Title Beloved Never Let Me Go Snow Falling on Cedars The Kite Runner Memoirs of a Geisha A Clockwork Orange A Thousand Splendid Suns Slaughterhouse Five East of Eden A Prayer for Owen Meany Wuthering Heights The Road Girl With a Pearl Earring Jane Eyre The Adventures of Huckelberry Finn All the Pretty Horses 1984 Catch 22 Tess of the D’Uberbilles The Count of Monte Cristo In Cold Blood A Raisin in the Sun The Crucible Macbeth Oedipus the King Death of a Salesman The Glass Castle On the Road The Basketball Diaries Author Toni Morrison Kazuo Ishiguro David Guterson Khaled Hosseini Arthure Golden Anthony Burgess Khaled Hosseini Kurt Vonnegut John Steinbeck John Irving Emily Bronte Cormac McCarthy Tracy Chevalier Charlotte Bronte Mark Twain Cormac McCarthy George Orwell Josephy Heller Thomas Hardy Alexander Dumas Truman Capote Lorraine Hansberry Arthur Miller William Shakespeare Sophocles Arthur Miller Jeanette Walls Jack Kerouac Jim Carroll Lexile Score 870 1080 840 1000 1310 830 850 700 1050 880 670 770 890 990 940 1090 1140 1110 930 1040 970 1320 1390 1070 1320 1010 930 Required Reading: Poetry, A Case Study: Choose ONE author: Emily Dickinson Langston Hughes Robert Frost Edgar Allan Poe Walt Whitman William Wordsworth Maya Angelou ** You will find a collection of these poets’ poems at http://www.poemhunter.com/ ** Read at least 10 poems and choose 2 for speech. 5 BATESVILLE HIGH SCHOOL SUMMER READING 2015 Overview— Summer Reading Analytical Speech (Required novel & choice novel) Complete the analytical speech for the required novel and the novel of your choice. As you read, annotate and take notes, which will be beneficial as you write your speech outline and choose your significant passages. Write complete sentences for your outline. In addition, all outlines must follow the Modern Language Association (MLA) guidelines. Incorporate ALL of the following aspects in your speech: I. Introduction A. Attention Getter B. The thesis should be written as a sentence with a claim. 1. Correct: Friendship can help an individual through many difficult situations. 2. Incorrect: Friendship. This example is wrong because it is a topic, not a thesis. II. Thematic similarities. A. Discuss similarities of the theme in each text. B. Discuss a literary term from the list that relates to the theme using both texts: e.g. symbol(s), conflict(s)--internal/external (Choosing a higher-level literary term with an *asterisk will be required to earn an A on this element.) Highlight and underline the term. C. Oral Reading required from first text and needs to emphasize the theme: the Required novel or the novel of your choice (See more details below) III. Thematic differences. A. Discuss differences of the theme in each text B. Discuss a literary term from the list that relates to the theme using both texts: e.g. symbol(s), conflict(s)--internal/external (Choosing a higher-level literary term with an *asterisk will be required to earn an A on this element.) Highlight and underline the term. C. Oral Reading required from second text needs to emphasize the theme: the Required novel or the novel of your choice (See more details below) IV. Conclusion ***You are required to submit a MLA Works Cited with your outline. Additional requirements/information: (updated May 2015) 1. Oral Reading: A specific passage from each novel should be read to support your example (s) and connection (s). After reading the passages, explain the significance and impact. Students must identify the author and the page number where the oral reading passage is located in the text. Students are expected to have a copy of their novels (hard copy or electronic). 2. Typed Outline: Due the first day of school. We will review the outlines and formal speech guidelines the first day of school. 3. Time limit: (9th 4-6 min.; 10th 4-6 min.; 11th 5-7 min.) 4. Presentation Skills: Eye contact, voice & variety, body language, prepared & organized, does not read directly from notes, and engages audience 6
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