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ASSIGNMENTS

See assignments listed by month below. In many cases the books and/or stories are available by clicking on the link. If a link is not available, use your library card! Know the following elements of each novel: Plot, theme, setting, narrator (point of view), protagonist, antagonist, characters & descriptions, tone, conflict (see elements of novel below)

 

 

AUGUST
Author Profiles: One paragraph minimum on each author for your grade level, include time period, influences and works. 

 

SEPTEMBER
9 Animal Farm by George Orwell   
10 Booker T. Washington   Up From Slavery: An Autobiography (CHAPTER 17)
11 The Night by Elie Wiesel      
12 Wuthering Heights by Emily  Bronte        

 The Ant and the Chrysalis  Aesop's Fable

"I Hear American Singing"  by Walt Whitman

 Nature by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
She Walk in Beauty
by Lord Byron   

 

OCTOBER
9 The Odyssey by Homer
10 THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE by  by Edgar A. Poe 
11 Eric Hermannson's Soul  by Willa Cather  
12 Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Lewis Stevenson 

Douglas Malloch (handout)

The Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Christian Anderson

 

 

NOVEMBER
9 The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
10 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain   
11 Main Street by Sinclair Lewis     
12 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley  

Sonnet 18 by Shakespeare

Friendship  by Henry David Thoreau

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

To A Skylark by Percy Shelley

 

DECEMBER
9 "How the Camel Got Its Hump" by Kipling 
10 Ralph Waldo Emerson   Conduct of Life (1860)  Behavior
11 Chicago by Carl Sandburg 
12 If thou must love me, let it be for nought   by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

 

JANUARY
9   The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant
10 "Bartleby, the Scrivener" by Herman Melville  
11 William Faulkner    As I Lay Dying    
12 The Adventures of Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie   

To A Mouse by Robert Burns

 Battle Hymn of the Republic by Julia Ward Howe

Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King

Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Charge of the Light Brigade  

 

FEBRUARY
9  The Pearl by John Steinbeck 
10 Man Without a Country Edward Everett Hale
11 F. Scott Fitzgerald  The Great Gatsby (9)
12 The Time Machine by H.G. Wells   

Auld Lang Syne by Robert Burns  

Part 1: Life Are friends delight or pain by Emily Dickinson 

The Waste Land by T S Eliot 

Youth and Art  by Robert Browning

 

MARCH
9 The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien    
10 Washington Irving Rip Van Winkle & The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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The Jungle by Upton Sinclair 

Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9  Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Chapter 27 Chapter 28 Chapter 29 Chapter 30 Chapter 31

12 ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND   by Lewis Carroll   (12)
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (12 pages)

 

APRIL
RESEARCH PAPER
Solitude ( from Waldon) by Henry David Thoreau

 

 

APRIL & MAY
9 Beowulf & Grendel
10 The Call of the Wild by Jack London         
11 Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
12 Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet  
 

 

SUMMER READING FORM

Complete the form and bring to class the 1st day of class on August 17th

Name of Book _________________________

Author _______________________________

1. Setting (time & place)

2. Protagonist 

3. Antagonist

4. Plot

5. Theme/s

6. Point of view

7. Conflict

8. How did the story end

Describe the characters in detail (what they did in the story, what happened to them, physical characteristics)

9. Character 1

10. Character 2

11. Character 3

12. Character 4

13. Which character did you like? Why?

14. Which character did you not like? Why?

15. Did you like the book? Why/why not?

 

 

 

Summer Reading List

Read the book from your grade level for the fall.  Complete the Summer Reading Form (at end of May assignments) for the book and bring to the first day of class. If you make an A on the form, you will not have to take the book test.

9th GRADE

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

10th GRADE

 The Scarlet Letter  by Nathaniel Hawthorn 

11th GRADE

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

12thGRADE

Pride and Prejudice  by Jane Austin 

 

 

AUTHORS

9th Grade Authors

1.Pearl Buck

2.George Orwell

3.Rudyard Kipling

4.JRR Toilkin
5.Arthur Conan Doyle

6.Homer

7.William Golding

8.Harper Lee

9.Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

10.Remarque

11.Alexander Dumas

12.Sir Walter Scott

13.Williamn Shakespeare

14.John Knoles

15.William Dampier

16.Robert Lewis Stevenson

17.Aldous Huxley 

18.Jean M. Auel 

19.Bram Stoker 

20.Chaim Potok

21.Daphne Du Maurier

22.Miguel Cervantes

23.Henrik Ibsen

24.Franz Kafka

24. John Steinbeck

10th Grade Authors

1.Benjamin Franklin

2.Washington Irving

3.Frances Scott Key

4.William Cullen Bryant

5.James Fennimore Cooper

6.Edgar Allen Poe

7.Ralph Waldo Emerson

8.Nathaniel Hawthorne

9.Henry David Thoreau

10.Frederick Douglas

11.Herman Melville

12.Harriet Beecher Stowe

13.Henry Longfellow

14.Oliver Wendell Holmes

15.Rebecca Harding Davis

16.Louisa May Alcott

17.Edward Everett Hale

18.Abraham Lincoln

19.Mark Twain

20.Walt Whitman

21.Bret Harte

22.Henry James

23.Joel Chandler Harris

22.Helen Hunt Jackson

23.Emily Dickinson

24.Ida Tarbell

25.Stephen Crane

26.Kate Chopin

27.Charlotte Perkins Gilman  

11th Grade Authors

I1.da Tarbell

2.Henry James

3.W.E.B. Dubois

4.Jack London

5.Mary Austin

6.Edith Wharton

7.Mark Twain

8.Upton Sinclair

9.Gertrude Stein

10.Jane Addams

11.Theodore Dreiser

12.Robert Frost

13.Rachel Lindsay

14.Sinclair Lewis

14.T.S. Eliot

15.Willa Cather

16.Edgar Lee Masters

17.Carl Sandburg

18.Edna St. Vincent Millay,

19.F. Scott Fitzgerald

20.Ezra Pound

21.Eugene O’Neill

22.James Joyce

23.Ernest Hemingway

24.Edna Ferber

25.William Faulkner

26.Langston Hughes

27.Martin Luther King  

12th Grade Authors

1.William Shakespeare

2.John Milton

3.Henry Fielding

4.Charles Lamb

5.William Wordsworth

6.Percy Shelley

7.Richard Brinsley Sheridan

8.Charles Dickens

9.Jane Austin

10.Robert Browning

11.D. H. Lawrence

12.Lewis Carroll

13.Lord Byron

14.Agatha Christie

15.Robert Lewis Stevenson

16.William Thackery

17.H. G. Wells

18.John Keats

19.Daphne Du Maurier

20.Charlotte Bronte

21.Mary Shelley

22.J. R. R. Tolkien

23.T.S. Elliott

24.Oscar Wilde

25.Thomas Hardy

26.Henrik Ibsen

27.Christopher Marlowe 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ELEMENTS OF NOVEL

 Plot:  sequence of events in a literary work.  It involves both characters and a central conflict.

                The plot can be explained using Freytag's Pyramid, which is made up of exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. 

A)  Exposition-  the part of the work that introduces the characters, the setting, and the basic situation. the part of the work that introduces the characters, the setting, and the basic situation.

B)  Rising Action- the events leading up to the climax  

C)  Climax- the high point of interest or suspense he high point of interest or suspense he high point of interest or suspense he high point of interest or suspense he high point of interest or suspense

D)  Falling Action- the events following the climax

E)  Resolution- the end of the central conflict he end of the central conflict he end of the central conflict he end of the central conflict he end of the central conflict he end of the central conflict

Theme:  a central message or insight into life revealed through a literary work.  The theme may be stated or implied.

Setting:  the time and place of a literary work.  Time can include not only the historical period- past, present, or future- but also a specific year, a season, or time of day.  Place may involve not only the geographical place- a region, country, state, or town- but also the social, economic, or cultural environment. 

Conflict:  a struggle between two opposing forces.  A story may have more than one conflict.   Conflict may in external or internal.

     external-a character struggles with an outside force

      internal-a character struggles with himself or herself ( man v/s man; man v/s self;                   man v/s nature)

Narrator: the speaker or character that tells a story.  The narrator may be either a character in the story or an outside observer.  The writer's choice of the narrator determines the point of view.

Point of View:  The two most common are 1st person and 3rd person.

    1st person point of view occurs when a character in the story narrates the story.  The reader sees only what this character sees. The 1st person narrator may or may not be reliable.

    3rd person point of view occurs when a voice outside the story narrates the story.  The two approaches to 3rd person point of view are omniscient and limited.  Omniscient-  means "all knowing."  This type of narrator can tell readers what any character thinks and feels. Limited-  This type of narrator can see the world through one character's eyes and reveals only that character's thoughts and feelings.

Characterization- the act of creating and developing a character.  Character:  the person or animal who takes part in the action in a literary work.    There are four types of characters:

                round-the reader sees many different traits (faults and virtues)  in the character

                flat-the reader sees only one trait (only seen one way) in the character

                dynamic-the character develops and grows throughout the literary work the character develops and grows throughout the literary work

                static- the character does not change throughout the literary work the character does not change throughout the literary work

               *Antagonist-a character or force in conflict with a main character

                *Protagonist-the main character

Personification:  The act of giving a nonhuman subject human characteristics.

Tone:  The writer's attitude toward his or her subject and audience.  Ex)  formal, informal, serious, playful, bitter, sarcastic, etc