Incoming 11th Grade AP/IB English

Incoming 11th Grade IB & AP English Required Summer Reading 2013 Bellaire High School

Incoming 11th Grade IB English (total required reading: 3 books)

All incoming IB students must read: The Complete Persepolis by Mariane Satrapi Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

In addition to the 3 required books, incoming IB students should read: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

If 11th Grade IB students do not read Brave New World over the summer, they will be required to read it before the end of the fall semester. 11th Grade IB students are strongly encouraged to take advantage of the opportunity that summer offers to get ahead on the IB program's demanding curriculum. Please note that the IB summer reading requirements exceed those of HISD's Millionaire Club. Please see the information on the next page about HISD's Millionaire Club. In addition to the required and recommended books listed above, IB students are encouraged to read additional books from the AP list of suggested readings or from their own choice, as long as the works have the same literary merit of those listed below. Students need to keep a theme journal of all readings (see assignment on next page).

Incoming 11th Grade AP English (total required reading: 2 books)

All AP students must read: The Complete Persepolis by Mariane Satrapi

All AP students must also choose one of the following: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

All BHS required summer reading books are readily available at most major bookstores and on-line booksellers.

ASSIGNMENT

During the first week of school, all 11th Grade IB and AP students will write an essay about Persepolis. All 11TH Grade IB and AP students also should expect a test or graded discussion over Wuthering Heights and/or The Return of the Native during the first week of school. Students will also be asked to record and present salient details regarding their three additional chosen books at the beginning of the school year as an in-class assignment.

As students read their selected books, they should underline and take notes on key passages in the texts. In addition, IB students are to maintain a Theme Journal (one for each book) that includes the following elements: (The theme journal is mandatory for IB students and optional for AP students).

? TITLE ? AUTHOR ? GENRE (PLAY, NOVEL / NOVELLA, SHORT STORY) ? THEMES / MOTIFS / SYMBOLS ? NARRATIVE TECHNIQUES ? CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER, FLASHBACKS, STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS, FRAME

STORY, POINT OF VIEW(S) ? CHARACTER LIST--INCLUDE A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF EACH. ALSO INCLUDE

SUCH ITEMS AS AN INSIDER / OUTSIDER, OBSERVER / PARTICIPANT, FOIL, FLAT, ROUND. ? PHYSICAL SETTING / ENVIRONMENT ? TIME PERIOD OF EVENTS ? TIME PERIOD WORK WAS WRITTEN ? TYPE(S) OF DICTION ? HIGH, MEDIUM, LOW/VERNACULAR

Students are welcome to contact Ms. Saucier (esaucier@), Ms. Quaite (cquaite@), or Dr. Waller (jwaller@) with any questions about the assignment.

Join the Millionaire Club!

As part of HISD's Millionaire Club, all students will read at least five (5) books this summer. The Bellaire High School English Department requires students to read certain books as part of the school's curriculum (see information above). In addition to those required summer reading books, students will choose additional books to read on their own for HISD's Millionaire Club. Required summer reading for other courses will also count towards the five (5) books for the Millionaire Club. The self-selected books beyond Bellaire High School's required summer reading books are entirely up to the students to choose. Record the books you read this summer on the back of the Millionaire Club Certificate, then have your certificate signed by a parent, guardian, or librarian. Then return the certificate to your librarian or English teacher. Every student who reads five (5) books and turns in a certificate will receive a free ticket to the Rice Owls' opening game.

In addition to the two required books noted above, AP students must read 3 additional books for HISD's Millionaire Club. Please see the information on the next page about HISD's Millionaire Club. Students may select their 3 additional Millionaire Club books from the following list of suggested readings or choose their own books, as long as the chosen books are of equal merit to the selections listed below.

Ali, Ayaan Hirsi ? Infidel Carson, Rachel, Silent Spring Conway, Jill Ker, The Road From Corrain Delaney Sisters ? Having Our Say Dillard, Annie ? Pilgrim on Tinker Creek Dinesen, Isak ? Out of Africa Eggers, Dave ? What is the What Ehrenreich, Barbara ? This Land is Their Land Eire, Carlos ? Waiting for Snow in Havana Eliot, T. S. ? Murder in the Cathedral Foer, Jonathan Safran ? Eating Animals Friedman, Thomas ? The World is Flat Gladwell, Malcolm - Outliers Grandin, Temple ? Thinking in Pictures Hickam, Homer ? Rocket Boys Hurston, Zora Neale ? Dust Tracks on a Road Kidder, Tracy ? Strength in What Remains Kingston, Maxine Hong ? Woman Warrior Krakauer, Jon ? Into the Wild Krakauer, Jon ? Into Thin Air Jal, Emmanuel ? War Child Levitt, Steven - Freakonomics Mandela, Nelson ? The Long Walk to Freedom Markham, Beryl ? West with the Night Marlowe, Christopher ? Doctor Faustus McBride, James - The Color of Water Pirsig, Robert ? Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Pollan, Michael ? The Omnivore's Dilemma Reed, John ? Ten Days That Shook the World Rodriguez, Richard ? Hunger of Memory Sacks, Oliver ? An Anthropologist on Mars Sartre, Jean-Paul -- No Exit Schosser, Eric ? Fast Food Nation Shaw, Bernard -- Pygmalion Shelley, Mary -- Frankenstein Terkel, Studs ? American Dreams Thoreau, Henry David - Walden Woods, Donald - Biko

ABOUT the BOOKS:

The Complete Persepolis by Mariane Satrapi

Persepolis is the story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution; of the contradictions between private life and public life in a country plagued by political upheaval; of her high school years in Vienna facing the trials of adolescence far from her family; of her homecoming--both sweet and terrible; and, finally, of her self-imposed exile from her beloved homeland. It is the chronicle of a girlhood and adolescence at once outrageous and familiar, a young life entwined with the history of her country yet filled with the universal trials and joys of growing up.

Edgy, searingly observant, and candid, often heartbreaking but threaded throughout with raw humor and hardearned wisdom--Persepolis is a stunning work from one of the most highly regarded, singularly talented graphic artists at work today. (from )

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Wuthering Heights, first published in 1847, the year before the author's death at the age of thirty, endures today as perhaps the most powerful and intensely original novel in the English language. The epic story of Catherine and Heathcliff plays out against the dramatic backdrop of the wild English moors, and presents an astonishing metaphysical vision of fate and obsession, passion and revenge. "Only Emily Bront?," V. S. Pritchett said, "exposes her imagination to the dark spirit." And Virginia Woolf wrote, "Hers...is the rarest of all powers. She could free life from its dependence on facts...by speaking of the moor make the wind blow and the thunder roar." (from )

The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

One of Thomas Hardy's most powerful works, The Return of the Native centers famously on Egdon Heath, the wild, haunted Wessex moor that D. H. Lawrence called "the real stuff of tragedy." The heath's changing face mirrors the fortunes of the farmers, inn-keepers, sons, mothers, and lovers who populate the novel. The "native" is Clym Yeobright, who comes home from a cosmopolitan life in Paris. He; his cousin Thomasin; her fianc?, Damon Wildeve; and the willful Eustacia Vye are the protagonists in a tale of doomed love, passion, alienation, and melancholy as Hardy brilliantly explores that theme so familiar throughout his fiction: the diabolical role of chance in determining the course of a life. (from )

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley's tour de force, Brave New World is a darkly satiric vision of a "utopian" future--where humans are genetically bred and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively serve a ruling order. A powerful work of speculative fiction that has enthralled and terrified readers for generations, it remains remarkably relevant to this day as both a warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as thought-provoking, satisfying entertainment.

 ................
................

In order to avoid copyright disputes, this page is only a partial summary.

Google Online Preview   Download