Northwest High School
2014 Incoming 11th Grade Students
Summer Reading Assignment
(Instructions & Reading Response Chart are posted on the NWHS website for downloading)
Instructions for 11 On-Level and 11 Honors: Choose 2 current event articles. These could be from the newspaper or on-line. Each article must be at least 600 words and should be about a topic of your choice (no sports, fashion, or entertainment). For each article, complete an Interrogating an Article capture sheet. Additionally, you need to research a potential college of interest and complete the college profile. The entire summer reading assignment is due by the second day of school and will be submitted to your English teacher. The summer reading assignment will not be accepted after the 2nd day of class (Tuesday, August 26, 2014).
Included is also a list of suggested reading that is entirely optional.
Suggested Reading List for Incoming 11th Grade Students / Optional
The Help by Kathryn StockettOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
The Road byCormac McCarth
Roots byAlex Haley
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
The Autobiography of Malcolm X byAlex Haley
A Hope in the Unseen by Ron Suskind
Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez
The Pine Barrens byJohn McPhee
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
byMark Twain
American Chica by Maria Arana
Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science
by AtulGawande
Donald Duk by Frank Chin
Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama.
Extremely Loud and IncrediblyClose
by Jonathan SafranFoer / House Made of Dawn byN. Scott Momaday
March by Geraldine Brooks
Song Yet Sung by James McBride
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston
East of Eden byJohn Steinbeck
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
We Were the Mulvaneys
by Joyce Carol Oates
All My Sons by Arthur Miller
Glass Menagerie byTennessee Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennessee Williams
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
byEdward Albee
College Profile / Incoming 11th Grade Students
Directions: Choose any college in which you might be interested and complete the following activities.Remember, Family Connections and the college’s website are great sources of information.
a.Your Name –c. Possible Major –
b.Name of College/University – d.Location of College -
2.Other Majors – List 5 other majors you can study at this college
3.List 8-10 courses you need to take to complete the major you chose
4.List at least 4 electives you would like to take by course name (electives are courses that interest you that are not courses you would take for your major) and the reason that you chose those electives.
5.Extracurricular Activities – Make a list of at least 5 extracurricular activities, clubs, and sports that you can do in your spare time at the college
6. Dorms (choose one dorm in which freshman can live)
a. Name of dorm -
b. How many students are in each dorm room or suite?
c. Are the dorms co-ed or single sex?
7. Costs -Get the cost of a full-time, on-campus student for one year and provide theinformation in the table below.
TuitionRoom (dorm) and Board (food)
Books (estimate)
Student Fees (if any)
Other Fees (if any)
Total Cost
8. Financial Aid
a. What is the average amount of financial aid that a student receives at yourcollege?
b. What percent of all of the students receive at least some financial aid?
NAME:______11th Grade Summer Reading Interrogating an Article Capture Sheet
Complete 2 charts, one for each article.
Author’s Perspective / Your PerspectiveWhat is the subject?
/ What do you know about subject?What is
theauthor’s opinion (claim)
about the subject?
/ What is your opinion about the subject?Who is the intended audience? / Why are you reading this?
Why is this important to the author? / How is this important to you?
What are three pieces of evidence that support the author’s opinion
(claim)? / Quote
1.
2.
3. / Paraphrase
Source Information for Article Capture Sheet
Gather necessary information for bibliographical fields:
Author: Last name:______First Name:______
Article title:______
Title of Source (magazine, newspaper, journal, etc…):______
Title of Database/Website:______
Publisher of Website/Database: ______
Date published:______page #: ______issue or section?______
Most recent date of access:______Website address:______
Now, put the above information into MLA format:
Last name, First. “Title of article.” Title of Newspaper or Website or Journal (original source). Original date published: section or issue. page number.Title of Database. Publisher. Web/Print. Date of access. (example: 20 Sept. 2011= format).
______
______
Parenthetical Citation: ______
Example: ( Last Name Page #)
Adapted by Catherine Elliott, Instructional Technology Specialist, OCTO, MCPS
Adapted from Brazilian Rain Forest. Permission granted from The Critical Thinking Consortium for use by Alberta teachers.(REVISED On Level Team 3.25.2014)