For junior and senior year, be sure to
find the appropriate level for texts and assessment information.
If you are going into 11th
grade:
English III Standard
·Extra credit
opportunity for standard students
·Complete a
journal on each book read for credit.See back page for information on journals.
The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan
Fences – August Wilson
Strength to Love – Martin Luther King Jr.
English III Honors
·Watch the movies Last
of the Mohicans and Age of Innocence; be prepared to answer short
essay questions.Students who read the
books and can tell the difference between the book and the movie will receive
an extra grade.The film choices in book
form are available on LibriVox.org which is a public audio website and can be
heard or downloaded.
·Read The
Scarlet Letter; be prepared for a test.
English III AP Literature and Composition
·Watch the movies Last
of the Mohicans and Age of Innocence; be prepared to answer short
essay questions.Students who read the
books and can tell the difference between the book and the movie will receive
an extra grade.The film choices in book
form are available on LibriVox.org which is a public audio website and can be
heard or downloaded.
·Read The Scarlet
Letter; be prepared for a test
·AP Language – read
a book (one that you have not read or presented at school) that was published
by an American author after WW II. Be prepared for a one-on-one discussion with
your teacher.
English III IB
·Three books required
Read the following and
complete journals for the first two.See
back page for journal
information.
►Poisonwood
Bible by Barbara
Kingsolver orWalking Across Egypt by Clyde Edgerton
►Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
►Then, choose one
biography or autobiography of any person of your choice.Make sure that your parents approve your
choice.Create an informational handout
about this person including important events in his or her life,
accomplishments, quotes by or about the person, and what we can learn from this
person.Be prepared to give a
presentation on your person during the first week of school.
If you are going into 12th
grade:
English IV Standard and
Honors
·2 books
required for honors students
·Extra credit opportunity for standard students
·Students will
answer the journal questions below.
Book Options
The Metamorphosis -Franz Kafka
Maus a Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History-ArtSpiegelman
And Then There Were None-Agatha Christie
The Last Lecture- Randy Pausch
Three Cups of Tea- Greg Mortensen & David Oliver Relin
English IV IB
·2 books required
from number 1
1. A Farewell to Arms- Hemingway orJohnny
Got His Gun- Trumbo
or
Catch 22- Heller orSlaughter House Five-
Vonnegut orThe Things they Carried- O’Brien (Fiction)
2. Annotated Bibliography for
Extended Essay must be typed and turned in on the second day of school.
Students are responsible for 10 sources. Annotated bibliography should explain
how the source is useful for your investigation and how you plan to use it.
This is for a grade. For extra credit in History of the Americas an
annotated bibliography for the historical investigation may be turned in on the
same day. Ten sources required for HI as well.
AP English IV Literature
& Composition
·Three books
required
1. All AP English IV Students
Must Read
How to Read Literature Like a
Professor by
Thomas C. Foster
2. Choose one from below and complete a journal.See below for journal information.
The Picture of Dorian Gray -Oscar
Wilde
The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
1984 – George
Orwell
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
3. Then, choose one biography or autobiography
of any person of your choice.Make sure that your parents approve your
choice.Create an informational handout
about this person including important events in his or her life,
accomplishments, quotes by or about the person, and what we can learn from this
person.Be prepared to give a
presentation on your person during the first week of school.
JOURNAL INFORMATION FORAP Literature / English IV Honors
/ Junior and Senior IB classes ONLY.Other grades will take tests in August:
These questions
will help to focus reading and will provide a guideline to help better
understand the text. All answers, except those that specifically call for
lists, should be in paragraph form (minimum 5 complete sentences). The
answers do not have to be typed, although they should be readable, and they
should also be numbered. Journals are due on Monday, August 24th.
AP Language will have assessments in lieu of journals on that same
day.If a teacher suspects that a
student has not read the book, a test may be given.
& Title, author, and number of pages
read
& What is the setting of the
text? Is it significant? Why or why not?
& What are the turning points?
(such as shifts in point of view, plot, character development, mood or tone)
& Decide who the main
character is and then trace his/her development through the novel. You
should be sure to note specific instances in the text where character traits
are revealed or events in the plot cause a change in the character.
& List five of the
major literary elements in the novel and describe how they are used to develop
the plot. (Literary elements could include, but are not limited to, the
following: metaphor, simile, personification, irony, tone, diction,
foreshadowing, imagery, parallelism, and satire.)
& What symbols and
images are developed in the text? Explain through which types of literary
devices these symbols and images are developed.
& What conflicts are present in the
book? Describe them.
& Give your response to the ending of
the text.
& What is the author’s message or theme, and
what relevance does it have for contemporary society?
& Choose one significant passage (6-12 sentences) and
copy on the left half of a page. On the right side, respond to the
passage. Why did you view it as significant? Did it cause you to
recall a memory? Another book? Etc.
