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| Date: Fri 09/5/08 12:01PM
From: Katie
Message: LAST NIGHT'S HOMEWORK... if you didn't do it:
World Lit: Finish vocabulary for Macbeth - either flash cards or a flip sheet; also do paradox/equivocation worksheet
American Lit: Make vocabulary flash cards or flip sheet for Crucible, pg 163
Any late compare/contrast essays will lose points each day it is not turned in |
| Date: Tue 09/2/08 11:19AM
From: Katie
Message: World Lit (10): None
American Lit (11 and 12): Compare and Contrast essay due Thursday (9/4) |
| Date: Thu 06/26/08 11:28AM
From: Katie
Message: American Lit Summer Reading!
New England Academy
Summer Reading
2008
American Literature - Choose One
Please note: Some of these books may contain adult language or situations. Please involve your parents in this decision. Choose wisely. Also, do not pick a book your read last summer.
1. Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Tom Wolfe) Tom Wolfe's famed non-fiction novel chronicles the tale of novelist Ken Kesey (author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) and his band of Merry Pranksters. In the 1960s, Kesey led a group of psychedelic sympathizers around the country in a painted bus, presiding over LSD-induced "acid tests" all along the way. Long considered one of the greatest books about the history of the hippies, Wolfe's ability to research like a reporter and simultaneously evoke the hallucinogenic indulgence of the era ensures that this book, written in 1967, will live long in the counter-culture canon of American literature.
2. The Color Purple (Alice Walker) The Color Purple is foremost the story of Celie, a poor, barely literate Southern black woman who struggles to escape the brutality and degradation of her treatment by men. The tale is told primarily through her own letters, which, out of isolation and despair, she initially addresses to God. During the course of the novel, which begins in the early 1900's and ends in the mid-1940's, Celie frees herself from her husband's repressive control.
3. The Catcher in the Rye (JD Salinger) Since his debut in 1951, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent." Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. His constant wry observations about what he encounters, from teachers to phonies, capture the essence of the eternal teenage experience of alienation.
4. All the Pretty Horses (Cormac McCarthy) From the author of No Country for Old Men, this beautifully crafted novel won the National Book Award in 1992. John Grady Cole, a 16-year-old dispossessed Texan, crosses the Rio Grande into Mexico in 1949, accompanied by his pal Lacey Rawlins. The two precocious horsemen pick up a sidekick--a laughable but deadly marksman named Jimmy Blevins--encounter various adventures on their way south and finally arrive at a paradisiacal hacienda where Cole falls into an ill-fated romance.
5. Fast Food Nation (Eric Schlosser) Fast food is so ubiquitous that it now seems as American, and harmless, as apple pie. But the industry's drive for consolidation, homogenization, and speed has radically transformed America's diet, landscape, economy, and workforce, often in insidiously destructive ways. Schlosser opens his ambitious and ultimately devastating exposé with an introduction to the iconoclasts and high school dropouts, such as the McDonald brothers, who first applied the principles of a factory assembly line to a commercial kitchen. Quickly, however, he moves behind the counter with the overworked and underpaid teenage workers, onto the factory farms, and into the slaughterhouses run by giant meatpacking corporations.
6. Feed (M.T. Anderson) This brilliantly ironic satire is set in a future world where television and computers are connected directly into people's brains when they are babies. The result is a chillingly recognizable consumer society where empty-headed kids are driven by fashion and shopping and the avid pursuit of silly entertainment--even on trips to Mars and the moon--and by constant customized murmurs in their brains of encouragement to buy, buy, buy.
American Literature
Summer Reading Assignment
You must choose one of the books from the front of this list. After reading, answer the following questions. This does not need to be in essay form; you may number your responses as they are listed here. However, they should be in sophisticated, full sentence responses, at least a paragraph each.
1.What book did you read? Please give a summary of the plot.
2.What would you consider as especially “American” about the characters, setting, and themes of your book? (Try to think beyond, “It took place in America, the characters were American, the theme was typically American”. Examine what it means for something to “be American”.)
3.What moral issues are raised in the book, and how are those issues dealt with?
4.What event in the book moved or touched you, and why?
5.Can you relate to any of the characters or events in the book? Why/how?
6.What quote from the book did you find particularly thought-provoking and why?
7.Give a critique of the book. What aspect of the book did you like the best? The least? Would you recommend it to others?
Total length of this assignment should be no shorter than 2 pages.
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| Date: Thu 06/26/08 11:26AM
From: Katie
Message: World Literature Summer Reading!
New England Academy
Summer Reading
2008
World Literature - Choose One
Please note: Some of these books may contain adult language or situations. Please involve your parents in this decision. Choose wisely.
1.The Alchemist (Paulo Coehlo) Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy, sets out from his home in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of buried treasure, but through his encounters with a Gypsy woman, a man who calls himself a king, and an Alchemist, he learns the value of the treasures he finds within himself.
2.Kaffir Boy (Mark Mathabane) In this autobiography, Mathabane describes his life growing up in a nonwhite ghetto outside Johannesburg--and how he escaped its horrors. Hard work and faith in education played key roles, and Mathabane eventually won a tennis scholarship to an American university. This is not, needless to say, an opportunity afforded to many of the poor blacks who make up most of South Africa's population. And yet Mathabane reveals their troubled world on these pages in a way that only someone who has lived this life can.
3.The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini) The Kite Runner follows the story of Amir, the privileged son of a wealthy businessman in Kabul, and Hassan, the son of Amir's father's servant. As children in the relatively stable Afghanistan of the early 1970s, the boys are inseparable. They spend idyllic days running kites and telling stories of mystical places and powerful warriors until an unspeakable event changes the nature of their relationship forever, and eventually cements their bond in ways neither boy could have ever predicted.
4.The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy) The God of Small Things is supposedly the story of young twins Rahel and Estha and the rest of their family, but the book feels like a million stories spinning out indefinitely; it is the product of a genius child-mind that takes everything in and transforms it in an alchemy of poetry. The God of Small Things is at once exotic and familiar to the Western reader, written in an English that's completely new and invigorated by the Asian Indian influences of culture and language.
5.Anthem (Ayn Rand) A classic tale of a dark future age of the great "We"—a world that deprives individuals of name, independence, and values. This dystopian novel depicts a man who seeks escape from a society in which individuality has been utterly destroyed.
Summer Reading Projects
These are due the first week of school and will be part of your 1st quarter grade! You must do a project for each book you read.
Main Idea Collage: Use standard poster board for your background. Be sure to use images or objects large enough to be easily seen. Use a minimum of 10 images or objects to represent all or several elements of the book.
Poem: Write a poem about the book or a character. Your poem should be at least 100 words long.
Pack a Project: Find a container that represents something unique about the book (don’t pick just a regular Tupperware container – unless there’s Tupperware in the book, of course). Fill the container with at least 10 objects that represent something about the character or story. You may not use pictures, drawings, or words (objects only).
Book Jacket: Fold good quality paper to create a book jacket that has a front, spine, back, and flaps. The front cover should contain artwork that represents the book, the title, and author. Place the title, author, and publishing company on the spine. On the back cover, write a summary of the book (using your own words). On the inside front flap, write something about the author. You may look at professionally designed book jackets, but do not copy.
Face Mask: Start with a simple oval shape with eye holes. Use color to say something about the character. Add textures and objects to illustrate the way the character acts and thinks.
Interview: Imagine that you are interviewing one of the characters in the novel. Create a transcript of at least 10 questions and answers.
Diorama: Use a small box (shoebox size) to create a 3-dimensional miniature scene in which characters, animals, and objects are arranged in a setting pertaining to the book.
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| Date: Thu 06/26/08 11:25AM
From: Katie
Message: Ninth Grade Summer Reading!
New England Academy
Summer Reading
2008
Grade 9 – Introduction to Literature - Choose One
1. Curious Incident of the Dog at Nighttime (Mark Haddon) – A murder mystery of sorts--one told by a fifteen-year-old autistic boy who is mathematically gifted and socially hopeless, raised in a working-class home by parents who can barely cope with their child's quirks. He takes everything that he sees (or is told) at face value, and is unable to sort out the strange behavior of his elders and peers.
2. Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd) 14-year-old Lily Owen, neglected by her father and isolated on their Georgia peach farm, spends hours imagining a blissful infancy when she was loved and nurtured by her mother, Deborah, whom she barely remembers. When Lily's beloved nanny, Rosaleen, manages to insult a group of angry white men on her way to register to vote and has to skip town, Lily takes the opportunity to go with her, determined to find out more about her dead mother.
3.Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom) Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher. Someone older who understood you when you were young and searching, who helped you see the world as a more profound place, and gave you advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago.
4.My Sister’s Keeper (Jodi Picoult) 13 year old Anna was conceived specifically to provide blood and bone marrow for her sister Kate, who was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia at the age of two, decides to sue her parents for control of her body when her mother wants her to donate a kidney to Kate.
5.You Shall Know Our Velocity (Dave Eggers) In his first novel, Eggers has written a moving a hilarious tale of two friends who fly around the world trying to give away a lot of money and free themselves from a profound loss.
6.19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East (Naomi Shihab Nye) This volume collects for the first time all of Nye's poems about the Middle East, peace, and being an Arab-American in the U.S.
7.Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter (Adeline Yen Mah) Yen Mah is only an infant when her father remarries after her mother's death. As the youngest of her five siblings, Wu Mei suffers the worst at the hands of her stepmother Niang.
8.Freedom`s Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories (Ellen Levine) Southern blacks who were young and involved in the Civil Rights movement during the 1950s and 1960s describe their experiences
9.Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Jared M. Diamond) Pulitzer
Diamond traces the development of primitive societies showing why some groups advanced more rapidly than others and how this progression explains why various populations stabilize at specific phases of development while others continue to evolve.
10.The House of the Scorpion (Nancy Farmer)
In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patron, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States.
11.A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Bill Bryson)
* or any Bill Bryson book
Bryson share his experiences hiking the Appalachian Trail with a childhood friend. The two encounter eccentric characters, a blizzard, getting lost, and rude yuppies along the way. A powerful voice for the environment told with a great deal of humor
12.The Once and Future King (T.H. White)
Tells the story of the youth and reign of King Arthur, the establishment of the Round Table, and the search for the Holy Grail.
13.Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman (Richard Feynman)
A series of anecdotes shouldn't by rights add up to an autobiography, but that's just one of the many pieces of received wisdom that Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman (1918-88) cheerfully ignores in his engagingly eccentric book, a bestseller ever since its initial publication in 1985.
Summer Reading Projects
These are due the first week of school and will be part of your 1st quarter grade! You must do a project for each book you read.
Main Idea Collage: Use standard poster board for your background. Be sure to use images or objects large enough to be easily seen. Use a minimum of 10 images or objects to represent all or several elements of the book.
Poem: Write a poem about the book or a character. Your poem should be at least 100 words long.
Pack a Project: Find a container that represents something unique about the book (don’t pick just a regular Tupperware container – unless there’s Tupperware in the book, of course). Fill the container with at least 10 objects that represent something about the character or story. You may not use pictures, drawings, or words (objects only).
Book Jacket: Fold good quality paper to create a book jacket that has a front, spine, back, and flaps. The front cover should contain artwork that represents the book, the title, and author. Place the title, author, and publishing company on the spine. On the back cover, write a summary of the book (using your own words). On the inside front flap, write something about the author. You may look at professionally designed book jackets, but do not copy.
Face Mask: Start with a simple oval shape with eye holes. Use color to say something about the character. Add textures and objects to illustrate the way the character acts and thinks.
Interview: Imagine that you are interviewing one of the characters in the novel. Create a transcript of at least 10 questions and answers.
Diorama: Use a small box (shoebox size) to create a 3-dimensional miniature scene in which characters, animals, and objects are arranged in a setting pertaining to the book.
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| Date: Wed 06/18/08 5:50PM
From: Katie
Message:
Group 1: Romeo and Juliet timeline project due Monday
Group 2/3: Research paper due Friday
Group 4: pg 1211, "Sunrise on the Veld", questions #1, 2, 3, 6
Group 5: Cara, Derek, Ryan D - powerpoints due by Monday |
| Date: Tue 06/17/08 6:03PM
From: Katie
Message:
Group 1: Timeline project due Monday
Group 2/3: School Violence research paper due Friday
Group 4: Read "At the Pitt-Rivers" pg 1199, #1-5
Group 5: Derek, Ryan D, Cara - powerpoint and handouts due by Monday |
| Date: Mon 06/16/08 5:52PM
From: Katie
Message:
Group 1: R&J Timeline Project due Monday
Group 2/3: School Violence research paper due Friday; extra credit for TFA rewrites
Group 4: nothing
Group 5: Read "The Mark on the Wall" handout; Modernism Presentations need to be finished this week |
| Date: Thu 06/12/08 8:12PM
From: Katie
Message:
Group 1: nothing
Group 2/3: last TFA paper and discussion tomorrow; TTC rewrite due tomorrow
Group 4: Read Huxley - pg 1145
Group 5: Read Auden - pg 1076 |
| Date: Wed 06/11/08 6:32PM
From: Katie
Message:
Group 1: Add to your timeline worksheet, including Act and scene numbers for each event
Group 2/3: Last TFA assignment due Friday; last discussion on Friday; TTC rewrite due Friday
Group 4: Read Orwell pg. 1167
Group 5: Read Auden pg. 1076 (two poems) |
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