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CCS Summer Reading 2016
Grade
Assigned Text
Annotate the text for the
following literary element
7th
Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes (provided)
Setting and theme (below)
9th
Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes
by Edith Hamilton ISBN 978-0-446-57475-4
Character (below)
8th
10th
11 AP
11 Hon
12 AP
12 Hon
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom (some available)
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott (provided)
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Office of Assertion: An Art of Rhetoric for the Academic Essay
by Scott Crider (provided)
Plot-Conflict (below)
Setting and theme (below)
Read and annotate
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Office of Assertion: An Art of Rhetoric for the Academic Essay
by Scott Crider (provided)
Read and annotate
1984 by George Orwell
See linked document. Complete
reading assignment.
1984 by George Orwell
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
THIRD book of choice
See linked documents.
Complete reading assignments.
Senior assignment link:
https://docs.google.com/a/christcs.org/document/d/1W43lcoEdzUWdAaN09MUffmDe2cYbY7ZtgO8HF
FAWFyo/edit?usp=sharing
AP third book options:
https://docs.google.com/a/christcs.org/document/d/1AW19VvCGkvgwtRSbfRJtwzNSgP1IR4TuEgAzptHEq0/edit?usp=sharing
PURCHASE OR BORROW:
Please purchase or borrow the original version of the book, not a retold or an adapted version. You
will need to bring your copy of the book with your notes to school in August. Please note that four
of our titles are available for checkout in the upper school. Office hours are Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday from 9 am to noon most weeks. Call ahead. We have limited copies of The Hiding
Place and Crider’s Office.
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ANNOTATION:
To annotate is to take notes while you read. Annotating forces you to think while you are reading.
Whenever you pick up your book to read, make sure you have something to write with. If you own
the book, you can write your notes in it. If you are borrowing the book, you may want to use sticky
notes to add notes to pages.
While annotating, pay attention to what you understand and what you don’t understand. You can
mark any words you don’t know and write questions when you don’t understand a sentence or why
a character makes a decision, etc. You can mark your favorite parts also.
Also, take notes on the literary element assigned to your book in the chart above and consult the
details for your element below. For AP, annotate as you see fit. Take notes that will help you when
you write about the texts in August.
9th grade
Mythology
Character
CHARACTER:
Authors use six techniques to help us get to know characters. (1) Authors give us details directly.
(2) Authors describe the character’s appearance, (3) actions and (4) thoughts. (5) Authors include
what the character says and (6) what other characters say about the character.
In Edith Hamilton’s Mythology, you will read about a plethora of characters and will follow them
through a variety of adventures. Focus on three distinct character traits like courage, integrity and
aggression, for example. For each of your three traits, evaluate and explain the degree to which five
characters demonstrate the characteristics. Provide at least one textual example that supports your
assessment for each character. In all, you will have fifteen entries, each with an example.
7th grade Johnny Tremain
10th grade Ivanhoe
Setting and theme
SETTING AND THEME:
As you read, take note of the author’s use of word choice, imagery and figurative language to
develop the setting. Choose selections from the text which best show the author’s technique in
presenting the time, place and culture of the novel.
For each chapter, determine what you think is the theme or most important idea presented by the
author. The theme will be a main idea demonstrated through the characters and their actions.
While you could read about the books online, I would rather that you decide for yourself what the
main idea is in each chapter.
When you have finished the book, write a few sentences about how the overall theme of the book is
related to its setting.
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8th grade
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
Plot-Conflict
PLOT AND CONFLICT:
The plot is the series of events in the story, usually told in the order they happen. A typical plot has
a few main parts: the beginning, the rising action, the crisis, and the falling action. In the beginning,
the author describes the setting, characters, and culture. Once a problem, conflict, or complication
is introduced, we have a problem to solve or an obstacle to overcome. This is the rising action.
Often, the situation gets worse before it gets better. We reach the crisis when the problem is at its
worst and the tension is high. Once a decision or action resolves the conflict, the story is ending, the
tension is falling, and the story gets resolved.
As you read The Hiding Place, look for and take notes on the problems, conflicts and obstacles that
the characters encounter. Try to find the point in the story when you think everything is at its
worst.