Summer Reading 2014
Honors English 9: Students are required to read Bleachers by John Grisham.
They should then complete one of the assignments. This will be a graded assignment.
College Prep English 9: Students are encouraged
to read Bleachers by John Grisham.
They should then complete one of the assignments. This assignment will be graded for extra
credit.
Honors English 10: Students are required to read The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore. They should then complete one of the
assignments. This will be a graded
assignment.
College Prep English 10: Students are encouraged
to read The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore. They
should then complete one of the assignments.
This assignment will be graded for extra credit.
Honors English 11: Students are required to
read The Help by Kathryn Stockett. They should then complete
one of the assignments. This will be a
graded assignment.
College Prep English 11: Students are encouraged to read The Help by Kathryn Stockett. They should then complete one of the assignments. This assignment will be graded for extra
credit.
Honors English 12: Students are required to
read All Souls by Michael Patrick
MacDonald. Please see enclosed
assignment sheet with additional extra credit assignments.
College Prep English 12: Students are encouraged to read All Souls by Michael Patrick MacDonald. They should then
complete one of the assignments. This
assignment will be graded for extra credit.
Books are
available at the Hull and Hingham Public Libraries and are all available for
$13 or less on Amazon.com.
Summer Reading Assignments
ASSIGNMENT
#1
Create a soundtrack to the
book you read. Choose ten songs that you feel correspond with the themes of
your book. Explain four of the songs, why you chose them and how they relate to
the book. Please cite specific lyrics to
show evidence of this shared theme. Each
one of your four analyses should be a 1/2 page.
ASSIGNMENT
#2
Write a creative dialogue
between a character in your novel and a character from a different novel you
have read in one of your past English classes. You may want to choose a
character with similar viewpoints or a character foil (a character with
opposite attributes). In a concluding
paragraph explain why you chose the character you did and how he/she relates to
the character from your summer reading novel. Your written piece should be
approximately 2-3 pages.
ASSIGNMENT
#3
Find a current newspaper
article on-line that relates to an issue in your novel. Briefly summarize the article
and include it for your English teacher’s perusal. Explain how it is addressed in the novel as
well as your thoughts on the issue. Your
written piece should be approximately 2-3 pages.
