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FIRST OF ALL...
WELCOME TO SOPHOMORE HONORS ENGLISH!!
***NEW***
Lots of questions about the response...this is merely a guideline, not mandatory directions. First off, summarize what is happening at the exact point of the quote. Secondly, 1-5 paragraphs--however many it takes for you to say what you need to say. You are a sophomore and we will be finally leaving behind the structured 5 paragraph essay... be concise and deliberate. Lastly, I want to know what you see, think, feel, or question. We are going to be fine tuning these this year; the most important think is your opinion and supporting it.
Required Summer Reading Assignment- Night by Elie Wiesel
This summer’s reading assignment will be to: Due: First DAY of CLASS!!
1. Read the book Night, by Elie Wiesel. We will discuss the book on the first day of class in August.
2. Annotate the book (100 points) Annotations will be graded. Please make approx. one annotation per page. There are 109 pages J It should look like your book was attacked by sticky notes!! Annotate= making notes directly onto a text such as a book, a handout, or another type of publication.
Some students read the book uninterrupted, then go back and annotate (make comments and observations).
3. Respond to three pre-selected quotes in typed MLA format.
4. Vocabulary (TIME CONSUMING!!)
Some students make comments about what they are reading in the book during the first reading. Students should mark any particular passages of historical significance, questions they have, vocabulary that is new to them. Any ideas, connections, annotations students can make concerning the book, will aid them in discussion.
1. Read
2. Annotating the book:
--Make brief comments regarding symbolism, cause and effect, conflict, turning point, theme, setting, culture in the margins (if the book is yours to keep or on sticky notes). Use any white space available: inside cover, random blank pages, etc. A pencil is better than a pen because you can make changes. Even geniuses make mistakes, temporary comments, and incomplete notes.
--While you read, use marginal notes to mark key material. Margin notes can include check marks, question marks, stars, arrows, brackets, and written words and phrases. Create your own system (color code, symbols, etc.) for marking what is important, interesting, quotable, questionable, and so forth.
--Imagine yourself having a conversation with the text. If you disagree/agree or question something said, write down your reaction on that page. If something surprises or moves you, write down your reaction. Note symbolism, metaphor, foreshadowing, injustice, inconsistencies, powerful connections you make with text.
--By annotating you can deliberately engage the author in conversation and questions, maybe stopping to argue, pay a compliment, or clarify an important issue—much like having a teacher or storyteller with you in the room. If and when you come back to the book, that initial interchange is recorded for you, making an excellent and entirely personal study tool.-The College Board
Especially identify areas dealing with: SPRITE-Social, Political, Religious, Intellectual, Technological, Economic:
Social- cultural, friendships, family relationships, prejudices, values, taboos, expectations, traditions, customs, celebrations
Political- government, judicial system, prisons, political parties, power, military, rules, laws, leaders, politicians, rulers, types of government
Religious- belief systems, meaning of life, faith, scripture, prayer, festivals, holidays, traditions, God, Christianity, Judaism, Islam…
Intellectual- scientific, education, reason, thought, philosophy
Technological-new ideas or inventions, medicine, physics, chemistry
Economic-to do with money, profit, production, manufacturing, trade
Use abbreviations or symbols – brackets, stars, exclamation points, question marks, numbers, etc.
Create your own code.
--Use small Post-It-Notes on which you will write your notations. Place these in your novel, just underneath the portion the annotation is noting.
--Title and underline each annotation
--Please note: Do not write questions for an annotation. If you do have a question, think about your possible response & write your response on the note instead of the question.
--Do not write plot summaries.
Sample Annotation for pg. 7
Moishe foreshadows a dire military situation rising. He tries to warn his village about his own deportation experience and no one listens to him. No one dares to believe that what he is warning them about could be true.
Sample Annotations for pg. 8.
Hope of Russians defeating Hitler and an end to the political power of the Nazis. Social: Elie’s village in denial about Nazi military and political power and their own fate.
Title and underline each annotation from the following:
· VOCABULARY – Place a note with definition beneath words with which you are unfamiliar.
DO NOT ONLY DO VOCAB!! (This is just an option if you can't find anything to note)
· AUTHOR’S EXPRESSION OF FEELINGS – Paraphrase in your own words how the author is feeling and what his/her reactions are to other characters, events, etc., in the book.
· TIME NOTATIONS – Make note of events that mark the passage of time.
· CHARACTERS – Note descriptions, attitudes, reactions to events, how they see themselves and others, etc. and HOW the author develops the characters.
· FORESHADOWING – Note events that seem to point toward what might happen later on in the story.
· SYMBOLS – Note archetypal symbols (colors, etc.) as well as emblems, names of events or people, etc. Include in your notation HOW these things affect the characters and/or the overall story. Why are they symbolic? Of what are they symbolic?
· MOTIFS – Note references repeated images & why you think they are threaded throughout the book. (Night & eyes are both motifs in this book.)
· LITERARY ELEMENTS – Note other literary elements such as conflicts, climax, images, suspense, etc.
· READER’S RESPONSE – Note your own thoughts about the characters and events as you read.
3. Response: Choose 3 of the following quotes to write three (total) one-page responses to in MLA typed format (see website for response details).
1. "It was like a page from some story book, from some historical novel about the captivity of Babylon or the Spanish Inquisition." (Section 1)
2. "Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust." (Section 3)
3. "The student of the Talmud, the child that I was, had been consumed in the flames. There remained only a shape that looked like me. A dark flame had entered into my soul and devoured it." (Section 3)
4. "Long live liberty! A curse upon Germany!" (Section 4)
5. "That night the soup tasted of corpses." (Section 4)
6. "I've got more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He's the only one who's kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people." (Sect 5)
7. "The idea of dying, of no longer being, began to fascinate me. Not to exist any longer. Not to feel the horrible pains in my foot. Not to feel anything, neither weariness, nor cold, nor anything." (Section 6)
8. "I could hear only the violin, and it was as though Juliek's soul were the bow. He was playing his life. The whole of his life was gliding on the strings-his lost hopes, his charred past, his extinguished future. He played as if he would never play again." (Section 6)
9. "Here, every man has to fight for himself and not think of anyone else. Even of his father. Here, there are no fathers, no brothers, no friends. Everyone lives and dies for himself alone." (Section 8)
10. "From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me." (Section 9)
4. VOCABULARY: USE dictionary.com (this will take you the longest) (okay--choose 50)
Along with appropriately using the selected word in a sentence, you will need to use the assigned sentence structure--rotate through these ( simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex ). You must write a contextual sentence to demonstrate a clear understanding of the vocabulary word and given sentence structure. You will need to include the following information for each entry:
· Word
· Part of speech (abbreviations are fine)
· Definition (shorten to the one the book is using)
· Two related words (synonyms, antonyms, or simply related)
· One of the sample sentences or quotes from the book (use ... to shorten the quote) "...this is much easier..."
· An original sentence that contains the word and the appropriate sentence structure.
Here is a sample entry, using a compound sentence structure.
Word: Claptrap
Part of speech: Noun
Definition: pretentious but insincere or empty language: His speeches seem erudite but analysis reveals them to be mere claptrap; any artifice or expedient for winning applause or impressing the public.
Related words: drivel, nonsense
Sample sentence or quote: (Use the quote from the book--there are a lot of online tools you can use for this...here's one. You just have to know how to search...) "...it was on the whole an enormous piece of claptrap; the room, almost vacant when I entered, began to fill" (Brontë 33).
Original sentence: (This is a sentence that you make up using various types of sentences) The student thought he impressed the class with his speech, but the teacher found his comments to be claptrap.
Mrs. Janette Stevenson
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Internal Citations
Citation using a quote:
“Information from the source” (Smith 1).
Paraphrase (in your own words):
Stuff I learned from reading this source (Smith 1).
Source without an author:
Stuff I learned from reading the source (“Source” 2)
Citation using a quote:
“Information from the source” (Smith 1).
- notice how the citation is in parenthesis and includes the last name of the author and the page number in the source where the information can be found. You do not put “page,” or “p” with that number. In an internet source, you would simply leave the page number out if there are no page numbers. Notice also that the period is after the citation.
Paraphrase (in your own words):
Stuff I learned from reading this source (Smith 1).
- It’s the same, but you don’t need the quotation marks.
Source without an author:
Stuff I learned from reading the source (“Source” 2)
- Sometimes a source does not have an author. In that case, you would use the next part of the citation (from works cited), in this case, the article name.
