12th+Grade+List-Non+AP

June 2015

Dear Student:

Congratulations, you’ve made it to senior year! We’re 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 twelfth grader must read at least three books this summer. **You must read __The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde__ by Robert Louis Stevenson**. **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 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—Twelfth Grade ** Brittain, Vera. __Testament of Youth __
 * Biography/History **

Christie, Agatha. __Murder on the Orient Express __ Collins, Wilkie. __The Moonstone__ Doyle, Arthur Conan. __A Study in Scarlet__ or __Tales of Sherlock Holmes__, choose three Huxley, Aldous. __Brave New World__ Orwell, George. __1984__ Stoker, Bram. __Dracula__ Wilde, Oscar. __The Picture of Dorian Gray__
 * Mystery/Science Fiction **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.5;">Austen, Jane. __<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.5;">Northanger Abbey __ <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Barnes, Julian. __Arthur and George__ <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Dickens, Charles. __A Tale of Two Cities__ <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Eliot, George. __Silas Marner__ <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Forster, E. M. __A Room with a View__ <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Haddon, Mark. __The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time__ <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Sutcliff, Rosemary. __The Light Beyond the Forest__ <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Walsh, Jill Patton. __A Parcel of Patterns__
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Realistic Fiction/Historical Fiction **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Bolt, Robert. __A Man for all Seasons__ <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Shakespeare, William. __Twelfth Night__ <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Wilde, Oscar. __The Importance of Being Earnest__
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Drama **

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