10th+Grade+List

June 2015

Dear Student:

Congratulations on the successful completion of your first year at St. Jean’s. We are sure you are looking forward to an exciting summer. To help keep your reading skills moving forward and to help provide some of that excitement, the enclosed list offers a wide variety of summer reading selections. Each sophomore must read at least three books this summer**. You must read __The Color of Water__ by James McBride.** **Choose the other two titles from the list below.** You must choose from two separate categories.

You are to take thorough notes on each selection. To guide you as you read, you will find an outline and a character chart accompanying the list of literary works. To acquire a deeper understanding of the literary works, carefully complete an outline for each selection. You may use these notes during the first week of school when you will be required to write, in class, a textual analysis of your selections. Since this written response will provide your first grade of the quarter, it is essential that you take good notes and that you have these preparatory materials with you during the first week of school in September.

By the first week of class in September, you should be ready to discuss the literary works. Bring your completed outlines in with you during that first week. There will also be a test on the required selection during the first week of school; however, you will not be allowed to use your notes for this test.

Start enjoying these wonderful books now. Once you start, you might decide to read more than what is required. It is a great idea to read a little more in preparation for the eleventh grade Common Core Regents Examination and for college.

Have a wonderful summer! We look forward to seeing you in September. God bless you and all your loved ones.

Sincerely,

The English Department

**St. Jean **** Baptiste High School ** **Summer Reading List--Tenth Grade ** Delaney, Sarah and Elizabeth. __Having Our Say __ Klein, Gerda Weissman. __All But My Life__ Ten Boom, Corrie. __The Hiding Place__ Weisel, Elie. __Night__
 * Biography/Autobiography **

Christie, Agatha. __Who Killed Roger Ackroyd? __ Coelho, Paul. __The Alchemist__ Marsh, Ngaio. __A Night at the Vulcan__ Paolini, Christopher. __Eragon__ Smith, Alexander McCall. __The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency__
 * Mystery/ Science Fiction **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.5;">Allende Isabel. __<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.5;">The Stories of Eva Luna __<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.5;"> (choose 5) <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Alvarez, Julia. __How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent__ <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Diamant, Anita __The Red Tent__ <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Erdich, Louise. __Love Medicine__ <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Halter, Marek. __Sarah__ <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Halter, Marek. __Zipporah, Wife of Moses__ <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Lawrence and Lee. __Inherit the Wind__ <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Potok, Chaim. __My Name is Asher Lev__
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Realistic Fiction/ Historical Fiction **

**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">St. Jean Baptiste High School ** **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Summer Reading Selections **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Use the following outline to take notes on the books you have read.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">I. General information. List the title, author, and genre of the work. Punctuate titles correctly.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">II. Introduction: Explain the setting (time and place) and the conflict the characters face. Identify the characters’ roles in the plot as briefly as possible to make the conflict clear. Note whether the setting has any impact on the plot.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">III. Characters: For any major character, discuss that character’s appearance, personality traits (with evidence from the story to support these traits). Note how the main characters’ actions affect other characters, whether there are changes in the characters, what provokes these changes, generally, how the characters develop throughout the story. Support your points wit specific details from the selections.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">IV. Plot/Theme: List the parts of plot, and identify that part in the literary work. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.5;">Initiating incident (plus any other background information necessary) Developing action (identify important events that lead to the climax) Climax (defend you answer) Denouement Conclusion Theme: State the theme of the literary work in a few sentences. Use specific events and examples from the story to indicate how the theme emerges. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">V. Style/Literary devices: VI. Identify any literary devices or stylistic elements used by the author. These should include, but not be limited to <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.5;">tone, mood, point of view, irony, foreshadowing, satire, flashback, allusion, etc. any figures of speech or sound devices that impact the reader

Identify the element, place it in the context of the story, explain how the author relates it to theme, why it is appropriate at that particular point of the work.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.5;">The Summer Reading Character Chart can be downloaded here. Please fill one out for each book read.