Pre-AP English 10 Summer Reading Assignments
William Byrd High School
Assignment #1: All students are to read Lord of the Flies, by William Golding. Please
check with your current English teacher if you need to borrow a book over the summer;
we do have copies available at WBHS.
a. You will need to complete triple entry journals for the entire novel (see page
2 and 3), keeping track of major events, characters, themes, motifs, and other
items listed at the bottom of this sheet. These notes will aid you with the inclass discussion of the novel after school begins. YOU ARE REQUIRED
TO HAVE A MINIMUM OF THREE ENTRIES FOR EACH
CHAPTER, EQUALING 36 TOTAL ENTRIES.
b. There will be an in-class test on this novel after the class discussion in the
first two weeks of school. This novel will be used in class in comparison to
other works, so it is important that you be very familiar with it.
Assignment #2: As well, all students are to read another work from the list below.
Novels may be bought or checked out from the public library, and the starred novels
may be borrowed from the school over the summer.
c. YOU ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE A TOTAL OF 20 TRIPLE ENTRY
JOURNAL ENTRIES for the novel you select from the following
list. Make sure you follow the example below on page 2 and 3. You should
spread your entries so that you are including quotations from throughout the
book. Devote the first five to the first quarter of the novel, the second
five to the second quarter of the novel, the third five to the third part of
the novel, and the last five to the final quarter of the novel.
Here is your list to choose from:
Dances with Wolves
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Pride and Prejudice
Invisible Man*
The Color Purple*
The Poisonwood Bible
Things Fall Apart*
Catch-22
Slaughterhouse Five
Little Women
The Bell Jar
Atonement
Michael Blake
John Irving
Jane Austen
Ralph Ellison
Alice Walker
Barbara Kingsolver
Chinua Achebe
Joseph Heller
Kurt Vonnegut
Louisa May Alcott
Silvia Plath
Ian McEwan
*DISCLAIMER* Pre-AP level reading materials may contain adult content, language
or themes. Please survey your child’s choice of book before he/she begins
TRIPLE ENTRY JOURNALS
The triple entry journal is a type of three-column double-entry note taking. It helps
readers construct meaning from a text, to personalize what they read, and to write down
the insights gained from the reading. This type of journal allows students to question,
elaborate, make connections, evaluate, reflect upon, make predictions, analyze, or interpret
what they have read.
To help, find key quotes that…
1. Contain a concrete literary device – character details, imagery, diction (specify), allusion,
symbolism, irony, foreshadowing, suspense, a motif (specify), conflict, flashback, syntax,
dialect, figurative language. – This is what is referred to as “on the line.”
AND
2. Demonstrate or point to something abstract – characterization, tone, the meaning of a
symbol, inference, or theme. – This is what is referred to as “between the line.”
After you have pasted in the quotation, provide a clear response to the quote. Why is it
important? What does it mean? How does it relate to key themes and literary elements in
the book? Do NOT summarize or merely explain the quote's content. Instead, explain
the importance of the quote, the impact on the audience, etc. For any literary work, your
triple entry journal must cover the entire scope of the book.
Here is an example – A TEMPLATE IS AVAILABLE FOR YOU TO DOWNLOAD AND FILL IN FROM
THE SCHOOL LIBRARY’S WEBPAGE.
Quotation with page number
and context sentence
List of any devices found
“The hallway smelt of boiled
cabbage and old rag mats. At one
end of it a colored poster, too
large for indoor display, had
been tacked to the wall: the face
of a man of about forty-five, with
a heavy black mustache and
ruggedly handsome features” (1).
Imagery; Symbolism
Possibly an allusion.
Context: This is the opening
description of Winston’s
apartment building.
Thorough Analysis
This is not a summary!
This imagery shows that the
people of this world live in
poverty (the smells of cabbage
cooking and dirt). Also, the
poster is overwhelming which
may be symbolic of how
overwhelming this person (the
face) is in their lives. It sounds
like a description of Stalin
(allusion?). The tone of this
description is very negative,
almost sad and broken down or
depressed.