The summer reading books are the same as regular. The following is the summer assignment for Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Instructions: As you read, find 5 quotes/passages dealing with characterization (identify the character who is developed through your choice), 5 dealing with plot development, and 5 dealing with theme. For each quote/passage, you need to identify speaker, spoken to, and significance to the novel.
Assessment: You will need to be prepared to take a short content quiz and objective quiz and an essay on a writing prompt on Tuesday, August 12, 2008. *
Follow the instruction above for the second book.
Books to be read throughout the school year
1st quarter
Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad - This is a novella about a new young captain assigned to a ship that becomes involved in a complex murder situation. Conrad’s typical theme of a solitary character challenged both internally and externally is shown in this work
St Joan, a play by Irishman George Bernard Shaw, is the story of the life and trial of Joan of Arc after the Roman Catholic Church canonized her. This play is credited for Shaw’s 1925 Nobel Prize for literature.
2nd quarter
The Lion in Winter by James Goldman - Keenly self-aware and motivated as much by spite as by any sense of duty, Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine maneuver against each other to position their favorite son in line for succession.
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte - Bronte’s only novel written under her pseudonym Ellis Bell is the story of a haunting, all encompassing, passionate love affair that never comes to fruition. This love affair eventually destroys themselves and others around them.
3rd quarter
Inspirational book
Short story unit - some from our literature book as well as some pulled from other sources / online
4th quarter
A Man for All Seasons - a play by Robert Bolt - This is the true story of Sir Thomas More who refuses to endorse Henry VIII’s desire to divorce his wife Catherine of Aragon because of her incapacity to give him a son in order to marry Anne Boleyn. More is portrayed as a man of strong principle who is loved by both his family and the common people.
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe - Published in 1958, its most striking feature is to create a complex and sympathetic portrait of a traditional village culture in Africa. Achebe is trying to inform the outside world his own people about Ibo cultural traditions.
RUBRIC FOR SUMMER WRITING IN RESPONSE TO READING : Download Rubric 