IB English HL, Grade 12 Summer Assignment This summer you will complete these assignments. 1. Read Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin 2. Pick 40-­‐50 lines from the novel and write a 2-­‐3 page commentary (typed, double spaced). This means t hat you will write an essay on these 40-­‐50 lines, explaining to me 1) how the author used multiple literary devices to get his point across and 2) how this passage relates to the rest of the novel, and how it is pivotal to the rest of the novel. You should have more about literary devices than about how the passage than about how it relates: this is the point of a commentary. 3. Write a 1-­‐2 page personal response to this question: What role does music play in this novel? What role does music play in my own life? What are the similarities and differences between the role of music in the novel and the role of music in my life? 4. Choose one book from “Books Every College Freshman Should Read” as your second summer reading assignment. Since you will be asked to make connections between your novel and Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin when you return in September, take notes as you read. These notes are part of your summer assignment and will be graded as such. This work is due the first day of school. Please bring it with you. Late work will not be accepted; these assignments represent the first grades you will receive in this class. If you have any questions, please email me at cross @shoreregional.org. Enjoy! From: Books Every College Freshman Should Read
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
British, 1813
Jane Eyre
British 1847
Emily Bronte
Wuthering Heights
British, 1847
Albert Camus
The Stranger
French, 1942
Lewis Carroll
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
British, 1865
Willa Cather
My Antonia
American, 1918
Miguel de Cervantes
Don Quixote
Spanish, 1605, 1617
Kate Chopin
The Awakening
American, 1899
Stephen Crane
The Red Badge of Courage
American, 1895
Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe
British, 1719
Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man
American, 1947
William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury
American, 1929
Henry Fielding
Tom Jones
British, 1749
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
American, 1925
Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary
French, 1857
E.M. Forster
A Passage to India
British, 1924
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Columbian, 1967
William Golding
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Lord of the Flies
The Scarlet Letter
British, 1954
American, 1850
Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms
American, 1929
Zora Neale Hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching God
American, 1937
Aldous Huxley
Brave New World
British, 1932
Henry James
The Turn of the Screw
American, 1898
James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Irish, 1916
Franz Kafka
The Trial
Czechoslovakian, 1925
George Orwell
Animal Farm
British, 1945
Alan Paton
Cry, the Beloved Country
South African, 1948
Edgar Allan Poe
J.D. Salinger
Sir Walter Scott
Great Tales and Poems
The Catcher in the Rye
American, 1839-45
American, 1951
Ivanhoe
British, 1820
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein
John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath
British, 1818
American, 1939
Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels
British, 1726
Charlotte Bronte
Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace
Russian, 1865-69
Ivan Turgenev
Fathers and Sons
Russian, 1862
Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
American, 1886
Voltaire
Candide
French, 1759
Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse Five
American, 1969
Alice Walker
The Color Purple
American, 1982
Anton Chekov
The Cherry Orchard
Russian, 1904
Christopher Marlowe
Doctor Faustus
British, 1604
Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman
American, 1949
George Bernard Shaw
Pygmalion
British, 1913
Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest
British, 1895
Thornton Wilder
Our Town
American, 1938
Tennessee Williams
The Glass Menagerie
American, 1945
Charles Darwin
Origin of the Species
British, 1859
Senior IB/Honors Summer Blog Assignment
In addition to the aforementioned assignments, you must also participate in the
following activity.
Summer Blog
In order to prepare you for the requirements of this class and future college classes, I
have set up a blog that you will be required to comment on throughout the summer.
The blog can be accessed from my school website under IB/Honors Summer Blog.
Throughout the course of the summer, I will be posting three separate questions on
the works you will be reading. It is your responsibility to post a comment related to
each of these posts before the time limit expires. You will also be required to comment
on one other comment posted on the site. This will be counted as one test grade and
you will be graded on the quality of your responses. (I am looking for insight and
originality). The due dates for each post are as follows:
Post One:
All posts due by July 8.
Post Two:
All posts due by August 3.
Post Three:
All posts due by September 2.
You can also access the blog by going directly to this URL:
http://ibsummerblog.blogspot.com/