For Your Summer Reading, You Must Readtwo of the Following Books

9 Honors SUMMER READING – 2012-2013

Mrs. Freeman

For your summer reading, you must readTWO of the following books:

The girl with the pearl earring by Tracy Chevalier

the secret life of bees by sue monk kidd

a raisin in the sun by lorraine hansberry

great expectations by charles dickens

We will be re-reading the secret life of bees and a raisin in the sun during the school year.

These works will be available to you at Barnes & Noble at Virginia Center Commons as well as at other book stores. The public libraries should have them, too. However, you are strongly encouraged to purchase these novels.

Henrico County Public Schools strongly encourages parents/guardians to work with their children as they choose their summer reading books.

In order for you to receive the maximum experience from reading your books, you need to allow yourself time to carefully complete this assignment. Using a website or film, however, as a shortcut will only defeat the purpose of your registering for a 9 honorsenglish class.

Written assignment due on Monday, September 10, 2012 - As you read these powerful works, you are to keep a SQUID dialectical journal of 10 quotations. Please follow the directions below and note the rubric on the back.

Select a compelling quotation or passage and complete the following for each one:

a)What is the quotation’s relevance to the section of the work and the work as a whole? (You will need to go back when you finish the book to answer this second question.)

b)Note the context of the quotation. What is happening in and around the quotation?

c)What makes this quotation important?

You MUST include with your journal the publisher and edition of your copy of this work, and you MUST include the page number with each quotation.Your journal must be typed and will merely be a listing of the quotes with required bits of information (A-C above).

Each journal will count as a test grade. Please see the scoring guide on the back.

9 Honors Summer Scoring Guide

Points will be determined by the quality of the quotation and the comments. Each one has the potential to earn 10 points.

Each question below is worth 3.3 points.

a) What is the quotation’s relevance to the section of the work and the work as a whole? (You will need to go back when you finish the book to answer this second question.)

b) Note the context of the quotation. What is happening in and around the quotation?

c)What makes this quotation important?