English 10-Peekskill High School Summer Literacy Assignment

English 10-Peekskill High School
Summer Literacy Assignment

Welcome to tenth grade! We are excited about the year ahead of us and look forward to meeting you in September. Over the summer, you must complete the Summer Literacy Assignment. This work will count towards your first quarter grade. The first two parts of the assignment must be completed. The third part is extra credit. Make sure to leave adequate time and work on this assignment throughout the summer. Leaving all of the work until the last minute will lead to low-quality work and heavy stress.

Part 1: Read five non-fiction articles from different genres and complete a typed article summary for each article.

Step One: Select one non-fiction news article from the following genres for a total of five articles:

o  International News

o  National News

o  Sports

m  Local News

m  Editorial

Step Two: Your articles must come from the following news sources:

o  TIME.corn, Newsweek.com, Lohud.com, Sportsdlustrated.corn, CNN.corn, or Foxnews.corn

Step Three: Answer the following for each article. Your responses must be typed in a size twelve font and double spaced.

A. Title of article, author, and source.

B. In your own words, state the author's thesis/claim/opinion?

a.  Evidence/Direct Quotation (include author and page number) and type of evidence (factual, emotional, or ethical).

b.  Explanation of Evidence

c.  Evidence/Direct Quotation (include author and page number) and type of evidence (factual, emotional, or ethical).

d.  Explanation of Evidence

e.  Evidence/Direct Quotation (include author and page number) and type of evidence (factual, emotional, or ethical).

f.  Explanation of Evidence

C. How well does the author prove their thesis/claim/opinion?

D. Is the author's argument balanced? Is their evidence one sided? Explain.

E. Is the author's argument convincing? Do you agree with their point of view? Explain.

Questions a, c, and e ask what type of evidence is being used. Base your answers on the definitions below:

There are three different types of evidence a speaker or writer uses to appeal to his or her audience: 1) logic or facts 2) emotion and/or 3) ethics and morals.

o  Factual: by appealing to an audience's sense of reason and logic, the speaker or writer intends to make the audience think clearly about the sensible and/or obvious answer to a problem

s Emotional: by appealing to the audience's emotions, the speaker or writer can make the audiencefeel

sorrow, shame, sympathy, embarrassment, anger, excitement, and/or fear

s Ethical: the overall appeal of the speaker or writer himself or herself; it is important that this person have impressive credentials, a notable knowledge of the subject, and/or appear to be a likeable and moral

Part Two: Read read Barack Obama and Martin Luther King Jr's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speeches and for each, identify at least three arguments that Barack Obama and Martin Luther King Jr make during their speeches. Also, identify the support President Obama and Dr. King uses to support their claims.

Step One: Read Barack Obama and Martin Luther King Jr's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speeches. The speeches can be found on Mr. Goess and Mrs. Telesco's class pages. Use the school website to access them http://www.peekskillcsd.org/Domain/12.

Step Two: Identify at least three arguments made by President Obama and Dr. King in their respective

speeches. Identify the support used to support their claims. Use a table like this to complete the assignment. Be sure that your work is typed in a size twelve font.

President Obama's Speech

Dr. King's Speech

***This work will be used for an in class assessment n September

Extra Credit-English 10 Book List

Non Fiction:

Extra Credit Assignment: Quotes and Notes"

Choose a book from the titles above. Respond to a book from this list through "Quotes and Notes" journal entries. Record five crucial passages and then develop your own response explaining why the passage is

important. You will receive up to 100 points for completing this assignment. These points can be used towards improving assignment scores throughout the first three quarters.

Choose the passages based on the following guidelines:

a.  Discuss one passages that describe the main character;

b.  Discuss one passages that reveal the setting and establish the mood; e. Discuss one passages that develop the plot (exposition, conflict, climax, resolution);

d.  Discuss one passages that communicate the theme;

e.  Discuss one passages in order to develop a Text-to Self, Text-to-Text, and/or Text-to-World Connections