SUMMER READING ASSIGNMENT – ENGLISH ONE PRE-ADVANCED PLACEMENT 2016/17 School Year

Dear Parents and Students:

English One Pre-advanced Placement (Pre-AP) classes are designed to develop complex reading, writing and thinking skills necessary for success in completion of both high school and college credit. In order to ensure that students enrolled in our Pre-AP classes are prepared for this advanced curriculum, they are expected to complete a Summer Reading Assignment. Summer assignments provide several advantages for students, such as ensuring that students maintain skills over the summer, fostering independent learning, creating an initial common framework for discussion and study, and promoting lifelong learning.

Students who are registered for Pre-AP courses will need to do the following:

  1. Buy a copy of To Kill a Mockingbirdby Harper Lee and ANNOTATE it.

Suggestions include highlighting or underlining names and information about each new character as they appear in the book, circling new or challenging vocabulary that you encounter, identifying examples of figurative language such as similes, metaphors, personifications, symbols, and hyperboles. In addition, write notes in the margins with your thoughts and questions as you read. Also, make note when the settings change. Your book should look "used" when you finish reading it. Be prepared to turn this in the FIRST day of school.

  1. Complete the AP Data Sheet(Please, print this document. It will be given back to you your senior year to help prepare you for your AP Literature Exam)

The AP Data sheet will be due on the first day of school, along with your annotated novel.

***There will be a multiple-choice test over the novel on the first day of school!

If you have any questions, please contact me at .

Have a great summer!

Thank You,

Terri Mauck

AP ENGLISH DATA SHEET

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Book Title ______Author______Publication Date______

Provide information about the when the novel was written. (literary, historical, philosophical, etc.) / Provide significant details about the author.
Provide plot points (use bullets or graphic organizer).
Identify 3 quotes in which the author uses a literary device.
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3. / Explain the significance and/or effect of each device.
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Select 3 significant quotes from the novel. (Does not have to be dialog)
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3. / Explain the significance of each quotation and explain how it relates to the work as a whole.
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Name of each significant character.
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10. / 3 adjectives that describe each character.
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10. / Purpose/function in story (flat, round, static, dynamic, etc.)
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Describe the setting(s) of the story and explain its significance to the work as a whole.
Identify the theme(s) of the work and explain how the characters and/or events of the story help to convey this idea.
Write at least 5 vocabulary words and the page number you found them on and define them.
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Write your opinion about the novel.