Phoenix I GT Pre-AP/IB English
Phoenix I Summer Reading 2017-18
Welcome to Phoenix at Lowery Freshman Center! Over the summer please read the following short stories.
Buy the book if possible, so you will have it to complete your assignment. Please contact Angela Leigh or
Suzanne Cunningham at Lowery if you need further information.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it:
 Purchase the book, Great American Short Stories, edited by Wallace and Mary Stegner
(red, white and blue cover) ISBN 0-440-33060-2
**Feel free to check used bookstores or online sources.
 Read the first three selections and your choice of any three others to read (6 total).
 Annotate two specified stories (see below).
You need to read:
1. "Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving
2. "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
3. "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe
4. Your choice
5. Your choice
6. Your choice
Be ready to boldly go where Hawthorne and Poe have gone before in terms of word
choice and sentence structure:
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From both “Young Goodman Brown” and “The Fall of the House of Usher,” annotate 5 (five)
literary elements such as character, tone, and theme, and then comment on the author’s purpose
or the effect on the reader for each point annotated – 10 total notes for both stories.
To annotate means “to mark,” and you may choose several ways to do this:
o Write annotations in a journal or on sticky notes
o Make notes directly in the margins of your book
o Highlight or underline sentences or passages in your book
We will assign and discuss the written analysis during the first week of school, so
bring your annotated copy of the stories to our first day of class.
Have a great summer!