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Upper School Summer Reading
School Year 2007-2008
| Students: |
| Check the grade you will enter in August 2007. Do the readings for your appropriate English class. All paperbacks may be purchased in the Upper School Office. Books should also be available at bookstores. All readings must be completed by the first day of school . There will be testing on the first or second day of school. The due date for students new to Heritage who enroll after August 3,2007, will be determined on an individual basis with the teacher. |
| The purpose of writing this analysis is to have you review what you have read, to have you think about what you have read, and to have you learn what is important in your reading. Prior to any class discussion, there will be a test on each of the books. The analyses will help you prepare for these tests. The analysis will not be given a grade; it will, however, be worth up to 10 points to be added to whatever grade you receive on the test for that book. An analysis which is partially or fully plagiarized from any source or from the work of another student will receive 0 points. |
Summer Reading/English Classes
| Grade 7 | Grade 8 | Grade 9 |
| **Literature 7/Transitional English
T. Strasser The Wave C.S. Lewis The Lion,the Witch and the Wardrobe |
**Literature 8
M. Albom Tuesdays with Morrie P. Zindel The Pigman |
**English
A. Na A Step from Heaven D. GlancyStone Heart: a Novel of Sacajawea |
| **Honors Literature 7
M. Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer B. Cleaver Where the Lillies Bloom |
**Honors Literature 8
R. Cormier I Am the Cheese A. Doyle The Hound of the Baskervilles |
**Honors English I
A. St. Exupery The Little Prince AND (choose one below) G. Orwell Nineteen Eighty-Four E. Brontë Wuthering Heights |
| Grade 10 | Grade 11 | Grade 12 |
| **English II
C. Potok The Chosen S. Pearl Buck The Good Earth |
**English III/Transitional English III/IV J. Grisham A Painted House A. Miller Death of a Salesman |
**English IV C. Dickens A Tale of Two Cities AND (choose one below) C. Bronte Jane Eyre OR |
| **Honors English II
A. Tan The Joy Luck Club J. Austen Pride and Prejudice |
**Honors English III/AP English III M. Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn W. Cather My Antonia E. Wharton Ethan Frome |
**Honors English IV M. Shelley Frankenstein J. Swift Gulliver’s Travels J. Fowles The French Lieutenant's Woman **AP English IV L. Hellman The Children’s Hour A. Walker The Color Purple A. Solzhenitsyn One Day in the Life of Iva Denisovich |
| Acting IV *Analysis not needed |
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Everyman Anonymous Trojan Women Euripides (any translation) Rumors Neil Simon Real Woman Have Curves Josefina Lopez Piece of My Heart Shirley Lauro To Kill a Mockingbird (play) Christopher Sergel |
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11th and 12th grade AP and Honors English do not need to write the analysis
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| Instructions: Write your answers IN YOUR OWN WORDS and IN COMPLETE SENTENCES. This will give the teacher her first impression of your writing ability. Submit them FOR BOTH BOOKS the FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL. |
| 1. Title and author of book. |
| 2. PLOT: Make a plot line by LISTING what happened in the story first, then second, and so on (from beginning to end). LIST 10-20 major incidents. |
| 3. CHARACTERS: List characters in order of importance to the plot and, for each, write a three sentence description concerning who he is and how he is related to the story. |
| 4. SETTING: Be sure to include both time and place. |
| 5. CONFLICT: What difficulty does the main character face? |
| 6. POINT OF VIEW: Who is telling the story? |
| 7. THEME(S): List at least three themes (underlying lessons or meanings) of this novel. Be sure to tell how you arrived at these ideas (suggested by actions or words of characters, subject matter of the story itself, directly stated by the author, etc.) |
| 8. TECHNIQUES: List and explain any techniques used by the author to capture your attention. (Ex. flashback, humor, vivid description, change in point of view, unexpected twists, etc.) |
| 9. VOCABULARY: As you read, make note of all words which are unfamiliar to you, and which you cannot figure out from their use in the story. You MUST list at least ten (10) challenging words and, for each one, write a definition which fits its use in the story. |