MAINLAND REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

SUMMER 2008 READING ASSIGNMENTS

 

Junior English

 

Required Reading for all College Prep students  (L303)

 

All College Prep English class students must read one book from the books listed below.  An in-class project on the book will be required during the first week of school. 

 

THE GOLDEN COMPASS by Philip Pullman

THE SECRET by Rhonda Byrne

I AM LEGEND by Richard Matheson

 

Required Reading for all Honors students (L403)

 

All Honors English students must read the following book.  A test/in-class writing assignment will be given on the book during the first week of school. 

 

THE GOLDEN COMPASS by Philip Pullman

 

There are two assignments that correspond with the reading:

 

1. Please look up any/all of the unfamiliar words that you come across as you read.  Keep a handwritten (yes, that says handwritten) list of those words and their definitions.

 

2. Please pay particular attention to the main character.  While you read, write a list of ten or twenty interesting words that describe Lyra throughout the book (what she looks like, how she behaves, how she reacts under certain circumstances, etc.) and select a series of quotes from the book that correspond with your words.  These notes may be handwritten or typed.

 

Please have both your vocabulary and the list of word/quotation pairs when school begins. 

 

*Students must complete the summer reading assignment to remain in Honors English.

 

Required Reading for Junior AP English in Language and Composition (L547)*

 

Students who have enrolled in the Advanced Placement level of Junior English must read the following two books:

 

STILL LIFE WITH RICE by Helie Lee

            Keep a detailed journal of your responses to the book.  The journal should record the events of the main character’s life and how that life reflects Korean culture.  The journal should be typed and saved for submission to Turnitin.com during the first week of school.

 

 

ON WRITING WELL (30th Anniversary Edition) by William K. Zinsser

Your response to this reading assignment has two parts. 

1) Process Journal/ Revision:

  1. Find a 2-3 page essay that is an example of your tenth grade writing.  The paper does not have to be from your English class.  It should be a paper you turned in and had graded from a class. 
  2. After reading the book, revise this paper with the new perspectives on writing you have gained.
  3. You will be writing a process journal as you complete your revision.  In this journal, you will identify the revisions you have made, explain why you made those choices, and then refer to the section or pages of On Writing Well that suggested those changes.
  4. Your new paper should be significantly different than the first.  Both papers must be turned in when you return to school in September.

2) Reading Journal:

  1. You will keep a separate reading journal for which you write entries for each separate chapter.  For each chapter, you will write a summary of what you have read.  Also, for each chapter, you need to identify three key ideas that you have learned.
  2. Each entry should be separated by the title of the chapter.  Each entry should be approximately one full paragraph, not to exceed one page per entry.

 

*Students who do not complete the summer reading will be dropped from the AP class.