Summer reading essay: You will divide into groups and share ideas from your papers with the class. Students who wrote on prompt 1 will summarize their essays with the group. Students writing on prompts 2 and 3 will do the same. Share at least three actual sentences from your paper. Generally discuss the novel. Yeah, this is a pretty loosey goosey assignment.
SUMMER READING: Choose One:
A. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeB. Cat's Cradle by Kurt VonnegutC. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest HemingwayD. Dandelion Wine by Ray BradburyE. Animal Dreams by Barbara KingsolverF. Cold Mountain by Charles FrasierG. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Once you have read and annotated the novel of your choice, choose one of the prompts below and write a focused, well-supported essay (using evidence properly cited from the novel) of 500-700 words:
1. In what ways is the novel you have studied concerned with gaining, maintaining, or losing a paradise of some kind? Refer closely to the text your read.
2. Discuss the roles of men and women in the novel, and what in each case these roles say about the society reflected in the novel.
3. Explore the author's presentation of morality or the lack of, as a driving force in the novel you have studied.
Poems to Start the Year
*Homework: Read Scarlet Letter to the end of chapter 7
*Homework Scarlet Letter vocab 11-20 for Friday
*Poem memorization, Friday
Work on memorizing poem
Scarlet Letter Vocabulary List
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