Captain Shreve High School
English III - Advanced Placement English Language and Composition
M. Barclay, AP Instructor
Email: [email protected]
English III – AP Summer 2016 Assignments
Budget time over a several weeks to read the book and complete the assignments. Waiting until the week before
school begins is ill-advised. Assignments are due on the first day of school. Turn in hard copies and save
electronic copies to submit on Turnitin.com. You will need hard copies of this book for our daily classwork. No
E-books in class! These texts are available on Amazon.com and at the public library. Though the local book
store may have copies for sale, I do not recommend ordering through the local book stores. In the past, they
have not fulfilled orders in a timely way.
School Wide Summer Reading:
1. Listen to the Serial Season 1 podcast. Our first days of school will confront the mystery presented in the
podcast. Enjoy listening to this intriguing story! ☺See the flyer and informational video on
CaptainShreve.com for details and directions.
AP English Language and Composition – Course Reading and Research Assignment
1. Read Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura
Hillenbrand and complete the reading guide assignment. Purchase your copy ASAP. The book is
available at Barnes and Noble. Amazon.com offers fast and free shipping. Shreve Memorial Library has
many copies. Do not watch the film. The film varies from the detailed, factual account in the print text.
Students who watch the film may be confused about facts and details that will appear on the test.
You will need to purchase your own copy of Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. This is a documented account
of 1936 Olympian Louis Zamperini and who was later drafted into WWII. In the midst of the war in the Pacific,
Zamperini and the rest of his B-24 crew crashed; Zamperini and two other crewmen survived and drifted as sea
for over a month before being captured by the Japanese. Hillenbrand carefully recounts details of the war,
“telling an unforgettable story of a man’s journey into extremity… Unbroken is a testament to the resilience of
the human mind, body, and spirit.”
Since most of you are also enrolled in the American history course this fall, the people and events will
be helpful to your knowledge of the historical context as well. This assignment is due the first day of school.
On annotating the print text for reading and research: Write notes in your copy of the book. Use stickie
notes for library books. E-books are not permitted for our class. They do not support the close reading strategies
you need to develop for our course. Annotations include defining words you do not know, literary and historical
allusions, margin notes, writing commentary or reactions of your own, and summarizing ideas at the end of a
chapter. Underlining and highlighting is meaningless without annotation.
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Reading and Research Assignment:
• Read Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
and complete the assignment included here.
• This assignment is due the first day of school.
• Use the downloadable version on CaptainShreve.com web to type your answers. Turn in hard copies
and save electronic copies to submit on Turnitin.com.
• This assignment is to be completed without consulting any other person, book, or source. Dictionaries
may be used to define vocabulary terms.
I. Vocabulary: Define the word and write the sentence where it appears in the text. Use MLA format for
parenthetical citations to cite the page number.
Preface Chapter 28
1. winnowed
Chapter 1
2. insurgency
3. avuncular
Chapter 2
4. incipient
Chapter 3
5. pundits
Chapter 4
6. troika
7. Tuetonica
Chapter 5
8. anodyne
9. pleurisy
Chapter 6
10. bonhomie
11. crucible
Chapter 10
12. torpor
Chapter 16
13. doldrums
Chapter 28
14. expiation
15. insidious
II. Identification: Write a complete sentence that describes or identifies these people, items, places, or events.
Use the index to guide your research.
16. Glenn Cunningham
17. Torrence Tornado
18. Joseph Goebbels
19. The banner outside Reich Chancellery
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20. Jimmie Saski
21. 1940 Olympics
22. Russell Allen Phillips
23. Superman
24. Zeros
25. Mae West life vest
26. Art Reading and Everett Almond
27. Sharks and the Canton Airmen
28. 594 holes
29. Harry Brooks
30. Stinking Six
31. Green Hornet
32. Francis McNamara
33. Kwajalein
34. Yokohama
35. Ofuna
36. William Harris
37. Ashio
38. Kill-all order
39. Omori
40. Corporal Matsuhiro Watanabe
41. University of Theivery
42. Postman Calls
43. Tokyo Rose
44. Palawan Camp
45. Naoetsu
46. Camp Mitsushima
47. Cynthia Applewhite
48. Billy Graham
49. CBS, Draggan Mihailovich, Bob Simon
50. The Olympic torch
III. Answer the following questions in complete sentences. Use MLA format for parenthetical citations to cite
the page numbers.
51. Describe 3 reasons for non-combat casualties as described in chapter 8.
52. How many AAF men were killed in combat in WWII? Refer to chapter 8.
53. List the items which remained in the rafts with Phil, Louis, and Mac.
54. List food the men ate during their time on the rafts.
55. Refer to chapter 20: List methods the men used to defy the guards.
56. Refer to chapter 30: Describe the pamphlets dropped from U.S. planes before the bombing of
Hiroshima. What happened to these pamphlets?
57. What is the significance of the body discovered in chapter 36?
58. Describe Louis’s 1950 return to Japan.
IV. Dates: Why is each important? Use complete sentences.
59. August 7, 1936
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60. December 7, 1941
61. December 23, 1942
62. April 17, 1942
63. May 27, 1943
64. November 1, 1944
65. March 1, 1945
66. August 22, 1945 (describe two very different points of significance)
67. September 2, 1945
68. September 5, 1945
69. May 25, 1946
70. October 1, 1948
V.
Modeling Style:
Model these paragraphs by imitating the author’s sentences. You may choose any subject, but use the same
type of sentences as the author. Write the same number of sentences.
71. On page 57, chapter 5, the paragraph which begins “If he had a boiling point…”
72. On page 89, chapter 8, the paragraph which begins “For airmen, the risks…”
73. On page 114, chapter 11, the sentence which begins “After breakfast…”
VII. Notes: On page 407, Laura Hillenbrand explains how she researched the book and her abbreviations.
Read this, then answer the questions about her notes:
74. What does HIA mean?
75. What does SCAP mean?
76. In the note for page 107 “like animals crying” what does Ibid mean? Use a dictionary to find the
meaning of this term if needed.
77. In the note for page 277, what does [sic] mean? Use a dictionary OR GOOGLE to find the meaning of
this term if needed.
78. Who wrote the sources used in page 22, “Compton Open preparation”?
For these items, what type of source is each (book, newspaper, magazine, email, website, or phone interview?)
Use the bibliography in the text to complete these items. For number 79, you will list multiple types of sources
because there are 3 endnotes from page 19.
79. #19
80. #24 “made a wreck of me”
81. #63 “B-24 names”
82. #67 “Beer fight”
83. #183 “I was literally”
84. #327 “Louie loses beloved shirt”
85. #376 “Louie at park”
This assignment is due the first day of school. Use the downloadable version on CaptainShreve.com to
type your answers.
Turn in hard copies and save electronic copies to submit on Turnitin.com.
This assignment is to be completed without consulting any other person, book, or source.
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