NAME: ______________________________________
SCORE: ____ / 52
ENGLISH II HONORS PreAP SUMMER READING
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by Patricia McCormick
SUMMER READING for HONORS:
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FIRST: Complete all the assignments for English II class. THEN...
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FLASHCARDS: Complete flashcards for the additional ​
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vocabulary
below.
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READ: Read ​
Sold​
.
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SOCRATIC SEMINAR: Collect evidence and write commentary for the
additional Socratic Seminar questions below.
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QUESTIONS? ​
Ms. Summers: S
​[email protected]​
;
Mr. Carver:
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[email protected]
Socratic Seminar Preparation
Answer each question below in d
​ialectical journal​
form with at least 5 pieces of supporting text
evidence. Use the same format as you use with the Socratic Seminar questions for English II, o
​r
whatever method works best for your preparation.
HONORS Question 1:
Do parents make the right decisions for their their children?
HONORS Question 2:
Who is the worst person in ​
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? Why?
VOCAB:
1. vulnerable
2. ownership
3. possession
4. ambiguous
5. submissive/submission
6. stereotype
7. gender roles
8. emotional rollercoaster
9. auspicious/inauspicious
10. naive
11. delusional
12. rock bottom
Summer Reading for English II / Class of 2019
SCORE: ____ / 100
ENGLISH II PreAP SUMMER READING
A Thousand Splendid Suns ​
by Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns​
is at once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history
and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation to be found in love.
Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila
are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss and by fate. As they endure the
ever escalating dangers around them-in their home as well as in the streets of Kabul-they
come to form a bond that makes them both sisters and mother-daughter to each other, and
that will ultimately alter the course not just of their own lives but of the next generation. With
heart-wrenching power and suspense, Hosseini shows how a woman's love for her family can
move her to shocking and heroic acts of self-sacrifice, and that in the end it is love, or even the
memory of love, that is often the key to survival.
A stunning accomplishment, ​
A Thousand Splendid Suns​
is a haunting, heartbreaking,
compelling story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship, and an indestructible love. (​
barnesandnoble.com) OR
A Long Way Gone​
by Ishmael Beah
​
A Long Way Gone is ​
a gripping story of a child’s journey through hell and back.
There may be as many as 300,000 child soldiers, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s, in
more than fifty conflicts around the world. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. He is one
of the first to tell his story in his own words.
In A LONG WAY GONE, Beah, now twenty-six years old, tells a riveting story. At the age of
twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence.
By thirteen, he’d been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy,
found that he was capable of truly terrible acts. Eventually released by the army and sent to
a UNICEF rehabilitation center, he struggled to regain his humanity and to reenter the world
of civilians, who viewed him with fear and suspicion. This is, at last, a story of redemption
and hope.
SUMMER READING TO DO LIST:
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FLASHCARDS: Complete your flashcards for the MAGIC 32 on paper or online.
--If created online, share with ​
[email protected]​
and ​
[email protected]​
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READ: Read your selected book.
SOCRATIC SEMINAR: Collect evidence and write commentary for both Socratic Seminar questions.
ESSAY: Go over the rubric for your essay before you begin to draft and utilize the graphic organizer if
needed. Type your essay on Google Drive and share with ​
[email protected]​
and
[email protected]​
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WRITING PROMPT:​
In both ​
A Long Way Gone​
and A
​Thousand Splendid Suns,​
the biographical
nature of the memoir lets the reader explore growing up in challenging surroundings. In a well
developed, multi-paragraph essay d
​iscuss how surroundings impact a person’s coming of age.​
Use ​
at least 3 pieces of text evidence.
Summer Reading for English II / Class of 2019
SCORE: ____ / 100
Socratic Seminar Preparation​
(2 points per box)
Question 1:
A​
domino effect​
is the idea that one thing starts a string of consequences. Without the first
domino, the series of events that follows would not have occurred. What is the first domino in
the troubles of Mariam and Laila? Trace their troubles back to their roots.
Find text evidence to defend your answer, and explain why you chose that evidence in the
dialectical journal​
below.
Text Evidence
1.
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3.
4.
5.
Commentary
Summer Reading for English II / Class of 2019
SCORE: ____ / 100
Question 2:
We often read books about characters from other times and places. In what ways is this book
about you and/or your world?
(Hint: Think in terms of being a teenager, peer pressure, family issues, poverty, violence, and
oppression. Consider that your world is your room, your house, your street, your neighborhood, your
city, your state, your country.)
Find text evidence to defend your answer, and explain why you chose that evidence in ​
dialectal
journal​
below.
Text Evidence
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Commentary
Summer Reading for English II / Class of 2019
SCORE: ____ / 100
Bonus Question:
What wars are worth fighting? How do wars dehumanize?
Text Evidence
1.
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3.
4.
5.
Commentary
Summer Reading for English II / Class of 2019
SCORE: ____ / 100
MAGIC’S 32
Did you know Magic Johnson loves to read? You MUST know MAGIC’S 32 when you come into
English II. You can study these by making paper flashcards or using Quizlet at h
​ttp://quizlet.com​
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Each flashcard MUST INCLUDE the ​
term​
and a ​
definition​
that you understand. Provide an example
from the text if you find one.
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Allegory
Alliteration
Allusion (not Illusion)
Ambiguous
Analogy
Anecdote
Author’s Purpose
Contradiction
Dialect
Dialogue vs. Inner Dialogue
Elements of Poetry: Epic, Sonnet, Ballad, Free Verse
Epigram
Epiphany
Euphemism
Flashback
Foreshadow
Hamartia
Hubris
Hyperbole
Idiom
Imagery
Irony (Verbal, Situational, Dramatic)
Juxtaposition
Memoir
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Oxymoron
Personification
Pun
Sarcasm
Symbol
Tone