Outside Reading Assignment - Auburn School District



Honors Outside Reading Assignment

Quarter FOUR – DUE Monday June 13th

1. For Quarter FOUR you will read any book on the recommended reading list (see reverse).

2. Find 10 examples from the text which illustrate the theme and include 2-3 sentences of commentary after the quote explaining how the examples support the theme.

a) You must use direct quotations and you must include a correctly cited page number.

b) You must have a minimum of 10 example quotes from each book.

c) You must include examples from the beginning, middle, and end of the book.

3. Begin your assignment with a theme statement that will act as your thesis for your assignment. This should be a complete sentence and written at the top of the page. Your theme statement will be comprised of a topic + what you learn about that topic. You may not use first or second person in the theme statement.

4. Introduce your quotes with a transition and link to contextualize your quote

a) This is known as TLQ = Transition + Link + Quote.

b) You must use a different transition for each quote.

B) Your link must put the quote in context and should be NO more than two sentences long.

THEME: Choose a topic to start your theme. Then turn that topic into a theme statement. When writing out your THEME STATEMENT, please CAPITALIZE your TOPIC and then lower case your statement about that topic.

Examples: TOPIC + WHAT YOU LEARN ABOUT THE TOPIC = THEME STATEMENT

* LOVE is not always a positive emotion.

* DEATH is not an end but a beginning.

* HOPE can guide a person through difficult times.

* PERSISTANCE leads to excellence.

* ADVENTURE is good for the soul.

FORMAT: * Please include the following typed at the top of each report:

* Your name

* Title and author of book

* Number of pages in book

* All reports must be typed.

* Identify the theme statement at the top of the page

* The theme statement, links, and analysis should be in present tense.

* The theme statement, links, and analysis should not use first or second person.

* Use a transition and provide context before each quote

* Format Quotes as follows: “Quote” (12). OR “Quote?/!” (12).

* “double quotes at beginning and end of quote only”

* ‘ single quotes around dialogue/conversation within double quotes’

Please look over the following example closely. Use it as a model when doing your own assignment.

FAHRENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury xxx pages

Theme: It takes COURAGE to do the right thing.

* For instance, when speaking to Mildred and expressing his desire to deal with his guilt, Montag asks,

“ ‘Mildred, how would it be if, well, maybe, I quit my job for awhile?’ ‘You want to give up everything?’” (51). Montag needs courage when responding to his guilt. He shows courage by doing the right thing which was to give up his job because he no longer believes in what he is doing. This is courageous because it demonstrates his courage to stand up for what he believes in.

* Continue until you have 10 examples. Remember to put them in chronological order. And PRESENT tense!

HLA9 Recommended Reading List

The following books are recommended books. There are others not on this list (mostly “classics”) that may qualify. Please check with me before you begin reading if you wish to find out if a book qualifies for this assignment. * You may not read a book you have already read.

|Adams, Richard. Watership Down |Keyes, Daniel. Flowers for Algernon |

|Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women |Kidd, Sue Monk The Secret Life of Bees |

|Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice |Knowles, John. A Separate Peace |

|Bonham, Frank. Durango Street |Marshall, Catherine. Christy |

|Borland, Hal. When Legends Die |Martell, Yann Life of Pi |

|Bradbury, Ray. The Martian Chronicles |Melville, Herman. Moby Dick |

|Bridgers, Sue Ellen. Home Before Dark |Mitchell, Margaret. Gone With the Wind |

|Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre |Morgenstern, Erin. Night Circus |

|Buck, Pearl. The Good Earth |Niffenegger, Audrey The Time Traveler’s Wife |

|Burgess, Anthony. A Clockwork Orange |Patchett, Ann. Bel Canto |

|Cather, Willa. My Antonia |Picoult, Jodi. My Sister’s Keeper |

|Christie, Agatha. Murder on the Orient Express |Picoult, Jodi. House Rules |

|Christie, Agatha. And Then There Were None |Salinger, J.D. Catcher in the Rye |

|DeFoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe |See, Lisa Snowflower & The Secret Fan |

|Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities |Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. |

|Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |Smith, Betty. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |

|Fast, Howard. April Morning |Stein, Garth. The Art of Racing in the Rain |

|Forbes, Ester. Johnny Tremain |Stevenson, Robert Louis. Treasure Island |

|Gaines, Ernest J. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman |Stockett, Kathryn. The Help |

| |Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver’s Travels |

|Golding, William Lord of the Flies |Taylor, Mildred. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry |

|Greenburg, Johanna. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden |Thurber, James. The Thurber Carnival. |

|Guest, Judith. Ordinary People |Tolkien, J.R.R. The Lord of the Rings, (A trilogy) |

|Haddon, Mark The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night- |Tolkien, J.R.R.The Hobbit |

|Time |Twain, Mark. Tom Sawyer |

| |Twain, Mark The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |

|Hemmingway, Ernset The Sun Also Rises |Verne, Jules. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea |

|Hemmingway, Ernest For Whom the Bell Tolls |Voight, Cynthia. Homecoming |

|Hosseini, Khaled The Kite Runner |Wallace, Lew. Ben-Hur |

|Hosseini, Khaled A Thousand Splendid Suns |Wells, H.G. The Invisible Man |

|Hugo, Victor. Les Miserables |Wells, H.G. War of the Worlds |

|Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God. |White, Robb. Deathwatch |

|Irving, Washington. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow |Wilder, Thornton. Our Town |

|Kerr, Jean. Please Don’t Eat the Daisies |Williams, Tennessee. The Glass Menagerie. |

|Kessey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cukoo’s Nest | |

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