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June 2015 Dear Student: Congratulations on your promotion to junior 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 junior must read at least three books this summer. **You must read __Death Be Not Proud__ by John Gunther.** **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 will be able to 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—Eleventh Grade **

Angelou, Maya. ­ __I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings __ Douglass, Frederick. __The Narrative of the Life of Frederick__ __Douglass__ Hersey, John. __Hiroshima__
 * Biography/History **

 Bradbury, Ray. __Something Wicked This Way Comes__ Grafton, Sue. __A is for Alibi__ James, Henry. __The Turn of the Screw__
 *  M ****ystery/Science Fiction **

Doctorow, E.L. __Ragtime__ Fitzgerald, F. Scott. __The Great Gatsby__ Green, John. __The Fault is in Our Stars__ <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Irving, John. __The Fourth Hand__ <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Monk-Kidd, Sue. __The Secret Life of Bees__ <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Nixon, Joan Lowery. __Land of Hope__ <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Shaara, Michael __The Killer Angels__ <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Stockett, Kathryn. __The Help__ <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Twain, Mark. __Adventures of Tom Sawyer__ <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Wharton, Edith. __Summer__ <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Wright, Richard. __Native Son__ <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Zevin, Gabrielle. __Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac__
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> R ****<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">ealistic Fiction/ Historical Fiction **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.5;">Wilder, Thornton. __<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.5;">Our Town __ <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Williams, Tennessee. __The Glass Menagerie__ <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Wilson, August. __The Piano Lesson__
 * <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.