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English 10 Honors Summer Assignments 2015
General Overview: Carefully read and follow the directions on the pages indicated for allfive of theseassignments.
- Choose one of the three prompts below to answer in a well-developed, typedargument essay.The essay will demonstrate your ability to write clearly and concisely on a selected topic and will show how you distinguish your voice. Choose the option where you have the most to say and respond in a composition of no more than 650 words. Remember, quantity is not quality. Use the SAUSD Rubric and the Common Core Argument Rubric(link provided) to guide you:
- Complete and study the FlashcardAssignment (page 3), basing your answers on I Am Malala.
- Complete theSchool-wide Summer Review Chart (page 4), basing your answers on I Am Malala.
- Create and complete the Text Connections Chart(page 5), basing your answers on I Am Malala.
- Complete the Research Assignmentthat connects to your Text Connections and create a Works Cited (page 6).
On the day you return to school, you will hand your instructor hard copies of this work. Be prepared for a test on all of the above when you return. (Note: These are all individual assignments and not “partner work.” All assignments should be saved and submitted to Turnitin.com once the school year begins--your teacher will give you directions for that.) Contact Information: Ms. Parga and Ms. Heaney are here to help you over the summer. If you have a question this summer, please e-mail Ms. Parga at (if your last name begins with A-M) or Ms. Heaney at (if your last name begins with N-Z).
Guidelinesto Making a Good First Impression:
Do your own work! Show your original insights. No act of plagiarism will be tolerated, so it is best not to show your paper to any other student. There have been cases when a student claims he just “showed” his paper to another student and did not know that student would copy his ideas and words. Giving your paper to another student is as bad as copying from another student, so please do not engage in this risky behavior. Anyone caught plagiarizing another source or another person will earn a zero and a Saturday school at the very least. Anyone caught showing his or her work to be plagiarized will earn a zero and a Saturday school at the very least. Though you will turn in a hard copy of your work on the first day of school, your work will be submitted to Turnitin.com during the first week of school.
Type! Type your work. You will be submitting your files to Turnitin.com (one per assignment) when you return.
Save! Always save your work at least two places that only you can access: a flash drive, email text, email attachment, cloud storage, etc. Do not share flash drives. This is the time to learn about options like Google.docs and Dropbox. The technology gods are fickle. Be warned.
Be creative and correct! Not only will we be looking at your amazing analysis and insights, but we will also be assessing your writing ability. Proofread what you type and use grammar and spell check carefully. These take a long time for us to grade, so we want to be reading your best work.
Flashcard Assignment—Not Typed
Step 1. Make flashcards for the included list of terms used to discuss literature. Write the word on one side of the card. On the other side write the literary definition. It will help you to use a dictionary of literary terms (such as the Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms) since some words have a definition other than that for literature. Look for online help with icons that you can click on and hear how the word is pronounced.
Step 2. After/While reading I Am Malala, on the side of the flashcard with the definition, explain how each of the following terms does or does not apply to…
…the novel’s genre.
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Adventure
Allegory
Autobiography
Biography
Comedy
Drama
Excerpt
Fiction
Folk tale
Legend
Moral
Monologue
Narrative
Parable
Passage
Poetry
Prose
Summary
Soliloquy
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…characters.
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Antagonist
Direct characterization
Dynamic character
Flat character
Foil
Indirect characterization
Protagonist
Round character
Static character
Stock character
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…the narrator and style.
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Abstract details
Ambiguity
Atmosphere
Attitude
Bias
Concrete details
Diction
Formal
Informal
Objectivity
Omniscient
1st person point of view
2nd person point of view
3rd person point of view
Primary source
Tone
Purpose
Secondary source
Slang
Syntax
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…plot.
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Chronological order
Context
Climax
Complications
Denouement
Exposition
External conflict
Falling action
Flashback
Flash-forward
Foreshadow
Internal conflict
Logical order
Motivation
Natural order
Narrative Hook
Resolution
Rising Action
Setting
Subplot
Subject
Suspense
Theme
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…literary devices.
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Allusion
Ambiguity
Analogy
Cliché
Connotation
Contradictions
Figurative/Literal
Idiom
Incongruities
Irony (situational, verbal, dramatic)
Metaphor
Parallelism
Personification
Pun
Simile
Symbolism
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I am Malala (Young Readers Edition) School-wide Assignment--Type
Since we will be working with this book at the beginning of the year, please use this assignment to keep track of your thoughts and analyses.Freshmen may turn in a handwritten or typed assignment on the first day of school.*Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors, are expected to turn in a typed, completed, and printed assignment to their English teacher on the first day of school and will submit this to Turnitin.com during the first week of school. Make sure your words and ideas are your own. This is an individual assignment.
Use one of the links below (also on the school website) to create the template to type directly into the chart. For Google Docs:
For Microsoft Word:
Author: / Publishing Year:Themes:A theme is a message; it is a comment by the author about society, people’s behavior, or the human condition. A theme is a complete idea. It is a sentence; it is not just a word. After reading the novel, what two themes could you find?
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______/ Evidence for one theme: Write and cite a line from the book that supports one of your themes. After you have done that, highlight or circle the theme you have selected.
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Figurative Language:Figurative language refers to similes, metaphors, personification, or hyperbole that should not be taken literally. Please quote your favorite example of figurative language and write if it is a simile, metaphor, personification, or hyperbole.
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Type of Figurative Language: ______/ Figurative Language Analysis:Using your quoted example of figurative language from the left-hand side of this box, analyze (look at something closely in a methodical way) the language used. What effect does this type of figurative language have on characterization or theme? (Please answer using complete sentences.)
Purpose:The purpose of a text is the reason the text has been written. Consider the reasons why Yousafzai wrote this book. Based on your reading, select two purposes that you believe she had for creating this book. (Sample purposes: to entertain, to reflect, to describe, to evaluate, to inform, to argue, to persuade, to instruct). Using the sample purposes above, write two statements that are more specific that show two purposes Malala had. (Example: Malala wrote I am Malala in order to inform ______about ______so that they would ______.)
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2. / Foreshadowing: Foreshadowing is a literary device in which a writer gives the reader a hint about events to come in the story. Malala Yousafzai says, “I’d had a strange, gnawing feeling that something bad was going to happen.” (9) What does this foreshadow? Why does she foreshadow? (Please answer using complete sentences.)
Why do you think education is important to Malala? (Please answer using complete sentences.) / How does the author show that Malala is BOTH an ordinary teenager and an educational activist? (Please answer using complete sentences.)
Plot and Structure:The book is divided into five parts (see the table of contents). Please write a brief summary in your own words about each of the five sections. You may expand this box if you are typing (tenth, eleventh, and twelfth graders) or attach a separate sheet of paper (if you are an incoming ninth grader). Use complete sentences.
Response: Share your thoughts about the characters, their stories, your reactions, and more. You may expand this box if you are typing (tenth, eleventh, and twelfth graders) or attach a separate sheet of paper (if you are an incoming ninth grader). Use complete sentences.
One question derived from the reading you would like to discuss when we return: / One comment about the reading you would like to share when we return:
Text Connections—Not typed
Comprehension is “making meaning” of texts. Texts, for the purpose of this document, include printed,visual, auditory, digital and multi-media texts. Making Connections is a strategy that can assist in connections between…
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• Text and self
• Text and text
• Text and world
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Text-to-self connections are highly personal connections that a reader makes between a piece of reading material and the reader’s own experiences or life.
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What does this remind me of in my life?
What is this similar to in my life?
How is this different from my life?
How does this relate to my life?
What were my feelings when I read this? Has something like this ever happened to me?
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Sometimes when reading, readers are reminded of other things that they have read: other books, columns, blogs, editorials, essays, poems, memoirs, or whatnot by the same author, similar genres, or perhaps on the same topic. These types of connections are text-to-text connections. Readers gain insight during reading by thinking about how the information they are reading connects to other familiar text would be a text-to-text connection.
What does this remind me of in another book I’ve read?
How is this text similar to other things I’ve read?
How is this different from other books I’ve read?
Have I read about something like this before?
Text-to-world connections are the larger connections that a reader brings to a reading situation. We all have ideas about how the world works that goes far beyond our own personal experiences. We learn about things through news reports, discussions of current events, documentaries, and more that come from television, movies, magazines, experiences, and newspapers. Often it is the text-to-world connections that teachers are trying to enhance when they teach lessons in science, social studies, and literature.
What does this remind me of in the real world?
How is this text similar to things that happen in the real world?
How is this different from things that happen in the real world?
How did that part relate to the world around me?
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Assignment: For this you will be writing IN YOUR BOOK. At the end of each of the five sections of I Am Malala, make entries for the three types of connections. Use complete sentences and develop your answers clearly. A sample of each is provided below based on Romeo and Juliet.
Text Connections Entries
Text-to-self / Text-to-text / Text-to-worldMy mother wanted me to marry the guy who lived up the road, but we were just friends. Thank goodness I got to make the ultimate choice. / Romeo and Juliet’s love story seems parallel to that of Pyramus and Thisbe in that their forbidden love causes them to rebel (and die). / In many countries throughout the world, marriages are still arranged by parents. Love can also be forbidden between classes, culture, religions, etc.
Research Assignment with Works Cited--Typed
A synthesis composition is a written discussion that is the result of the collection of several different sources with differing views. This type of project requires that you examine a variety of sources and identify their relationship to your thesis. In order to practice this method before we write a research project, you will be collecting articles from the Internet and determining their value as responsible and appropriate for inclusion in an essay. Note: You are not yet writing the essay itself.
Here is your task:
1. Choose a relevant and contemporary topic (still pertaining to and affecting daily life) from I AM Malala about which you have something to say or great interest.
2. Use the Internet to research this topic. Type your topic into a search engine (Google, Yahoo, school library search site etc.). Read the brief description provided on the search engine. Click on the site to make sure you have picked an appropriate source that has the information you need to write a 2-3 page informational essay on the topic. Search at least 5 sites, and pick three that are the most credible and informative. Try to find sites that offer differing information or opinions on the topic. Old sources (ten years ago, for example) are often irrelevant.
4. Print information from 3 sites. Do not waste paper. Copy and paste onto a Word Document if necessary and shrink large font. Do not cut off source information. Print no more than 3 pages for each site. Be sure you keep the URL address for any site.
5. Staple each article together and highlight the information which you think will be useful for your informational essay.
6. Create a typed Works Cited page with your three Internet sites use MLA format. Tips and sites to help with Works Cited are on the Godinez library page and also found and widely throughout the Internet, such as…
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Important Warnings!
- You may not use Wikipedia or any other “encyclopedia” site for this project.
- Your site must be reputable, meaning articles you use must have an author or be from a college or university website.
- Use the knowledge you gain from this project in all your other classes. Teachers will be expecting
the same level of research from now on.
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