English Department
Summer Curriculum
Tenth Grade
Students may be required to submit their summer reading assignment on Turnitin.com
within the first few weeks of school.
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of institutions. Students submit their work online and the system checks papers against
an in-house database of previously submitted student work, as well as internet sources.
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tool for teachers in their instruction of writing, and for students to review their work,
revise where necessary, and use proper citations. For more information about the
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Department summer assignment. I also acknowledge and understand that the SBHS integrity
policy and procedure, as found in the Student Handbook, concerning plagiarism and other
issues of academic honesty apply to this assignment:
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English IIB
RL.9-10.10: Read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems proficiently, with scaffolding as
needed at the high end of the range.
Objective: Read developmentally appropriate materials at an independent level in order to practice and apply personal
reading strategies that were most effective in previous learning.
W.9-10.9: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Objective: To apply the grades 9-12 reading standards to literature and literary non-fiction in order to draw evidence
from the reading as preparation to support an analysis essay on the text.
Reading Task: Read Scribbler of Dreams by Mary E. Pearson in order to complete the task that follows.
Task: Complete the chart on the following pages. This assignment is worth 12 points.
Throughout literature, characters come face-to-face with many conflicts and are forced to change as an
individual. While some conflicts they face may be external (character vs. character, character vs. society, or
character vs. nature) some of the more intriguing changes come from the internal conflicts (character vs. self)
they encounter.
Select one of the novels from the English II Summer Reading list. While reading the novel, identify ten
times in the novel where a character is faced with a conflict. In 2-3 sentences, explain whether the conflict is
internal or external AND how it influences them throughout the novel. List the page number(s) where the
conflict occurs. Your evidence should come from throughout the novel.
Example: The following are examples from the play A Raisin in the Sun. The first is an example of how a
character experiences an external conflict, and the second is an example of how a character experiences an
internal conflict. Use these as models for your own responses:
Evidence of the Conflict the Character Faces
Page(s)
1. Walter Younger faces an external conflict with his mother when she refuses to give him the money to invest in a
liquor store. To Walter, this investment is the only way he can hope to realize his dream to become wealthy, but Mama
doesn’t feel that a good Christian should sell liquor. This conflict leads Walter to become more and more angry and
isolated.
2. At the end of the play, Walter faces an internal conflict when he must decide whether to accept Mr. Lindner’s offer
to buy back the house Mama purchased. Mr. Lindner represents the white families in the community who do not want
to have African-American neighbors. If Walter accepts the offer, he will have the money he so desperately needs, but
he will lose his pride. He had to decide which is more important to him.
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Name:
English IIB Summer Assignment
Novel:
Author:
Evidence of the Conflict the Character Faces
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Page(s)
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English II
RL.9-10.10: Read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems proficiently, with scaffolding as
needed at the high end of the range.
Objective: Read developmentally appropriate materials at an independent level in order to practice and apply personal
reading strategies that were most effective in previous learning.
W.9-10.9: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Objective: To apply the grades 9-12 reading standards to literature and literary non-fiction in order to draw evidence
from the reading as preparation to support an analysis essay on the text.
Reading Task: Read ONE book from the following list in order to complete the writing task that follows:
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children – Ransom Riggs
Runner – Carl Deuker
Saving Zoe – Alyson Nöel
Unwind – Neal Shusterman
Whale Talk – Chris Crutcher
What Happened to Goodbye – Sarah Dessen
Task: Complete the chart on the following pages. This assignment is worth 10 points.
Throughout literature, characters come face-to-face with many conflicts and are forced to change as an
individual. While some conflicts they face may be external (character vs. character, character vs. society, or
character vs. nature) some of the more intriguing changes come from the internal conflicts (character vs. self)
they encounter.
Select one of the novels from the English II Summer Reading list. While reading the novel, identify ten
times in the novel where a character is faced with a conflict. In 2-3 sentences, explain whether the conflict is
internal or external AND how it influences them throughout the novel. List the page number(s) where the
conflict occurs. Your evidence should come from throughout the novel.
Example: The following are examples from the play A Raisin in the Sun. The first is an example of how a
character experiences an external conflict, and the second is an example of how a character experiences an
internal conflict. Use these as models for your own responses:
Evidence of the Conflict the Character Faces
Page(s)
1. Walter Younger faces an external conflict with his mother when she refuses to give him the money to invest in a
liquor store. To Walter, this investment is the only way he can hope to realize his dream to become wealthy, but Mama
doesn’t feel that a good Christian should sell liquor. This conflict leads Walter to become more and more angry and
isolated.
2. At the end of the play, Walter faces an internal conflict when he must decide whether to accept Mr. Lindner’s offer
to buy back the house Mama purchased. Mr. Lindner represents the white families in the community who do not want
to have African-American neighbors. If Walter accepts the offer, he will have the money he so desperately needs, but
he will lose his pride. He had to decide which is more important to him.
71-75
147-148
Name:
English II Summer Assignment
Novel:
Author:
Evidence of the Conflict the Character Faces
1.
2.
3.
4.
Page(s)
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
Academic English II
RL.9-10.10: Read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems proficiently, with scaffolding as
needed at the high end of the range.
Objective: Read developmentally appropriate materials at an independent level in order to practice and apply personal
reading strategies that were most effective in previous learning.
W.9-10.9: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Objective: To apply the grades 9-12 reading standards to literature and literary non-fiction in order to draw evidence
from the reading as preparation to support an analysis essay on the text.
Reading Task: Read any TWO books from the following list in order to complete the writing task that
follows:
American Born Chinese – Gene Luen Yang
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
The Good Earth – Pearl Buck
The Moon is Down – John Steinbeck
A Northern Light – Jennifer Donnelly
The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd
The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
We Have Always Lived in the Castle – Shirley Jackson
Task: Complete the charts on the following pages. This assignment is worth 20 points.
Throughout literature, characters come face-to-face with many conflicts and are forced to change as an
individual. While some conflicts they face may be external (character vs. character, character vs. society, or
character vs. nature) some of the more intriguing changes come from the internal conflicts (character vs. self)
they encounter.
Select two novels from the Academic English II Summer Reading list. For each novel, complete a doublesided journal by identifying ten properly cited quotations that show how conflicts have impacted a character.
In 2-3 sentences, explain what the quotation reveals about the conflict and the character. Your evidence
should come from throughout the novel.
Example: The following is an example from the play A Raisin in the Sun. Use this as a model for your own
responses:
Evidence of the Conflict a Character Faces
Analysis of Quotations
1. “You can just sit there and drink and listen to them
three men play and you realize that don’t nothing matter
worth a damn, but just being there--” (Hansberry 106).
Walter Younger experiences an external conflict with his mother
because she refuses to give him the money to invest in a liquor store.
Walter believes that his whole future depends on this investment. As
a result of her refusal, Walter gives up hope in the future and stops
going to work. In this quotation, he describes how he feels sitting at
a bar day after day. He no longer believes that anything in his life
matters. This demonstrates the importance of this dream to Walter,
and this revelation influences Mama to changes her mind and give
Walter some of the money he needs.
Name:
Academic English II Summer Assignment
Novel 1:
Author:
Evidence of the Conflict a Character Faces
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Analysis of Quotations
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Novel 2:
Author:
Evidence of the Conflict a Character Faces
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Analysis of Quotations
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Honors English II
RL.9-10.10: Read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems proficiently, with scaffolding as
needed at the high end of the range.
Objective: Read developmentally appropriate materials at an independent level in order to practice and apply personal
reading strategies that were most effective in previous learning.
W.9-10.9: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Objective: To apply the grades 9-12 reading standards to literature and literary non-fiction in order to draw evidence from
the reading as preparation to support an analysis essay on the text.
Reading Task: Read My Antonia by Willa Cather and at least one of the following novels:
A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
The Good Earth – Pearl Buck
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter – Carson McCullers
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Light in the Forest – Conrad Richter
Washington Square – Henry James
The Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
Task: Complete literary analysis journals for each work. This assignment is worth 20 points.
In literature, characters encounter various conflicts and often develop positively or negatively as a result of
this. While some conflicts may be external, such as character vs. character, character vs. society, or character
vs. nature, some of the more intriguing changes come from the internal conflicts of the character with
himself.
As you read each novel, complete ten literary analysis journal entries which focus primarily on how the
conflicts encountered by the character lead to an overall development of him or her. It is important to note
that literary analysis involves more than just summarizing the plot or offering a personal observation about
the character. Analysis involves a close reading of how the author uses language to create meaning.
Each journal entry should be at least a paragraph in length, must be typed, must be written in third person,
and must include properly embedded and cited textual evidence that supports your analysis of how the
conflicts encountered develop character. The paragraph must also address specifically how and why this
analysis leads to a more complex understanding of the novel.
Example: The following is an example from the novel The Grapes of Wrath. Use this as a model for your
own responses:
“first time this fella opens his mouth[the police] grab ‘im an’ stick ‘im in jail” (Steinbeck 247).
As the quotation suggests from The Grapes of Wrath, the migrants are reluctant to oppose the authorities in fear of being caught
and thrown in jail, ultimately injuring not only themselves but their family as well. By adhering to the authorities’ demands, the
migrants sustain a miserable, yet unscathed life. At this point in the migrants’ lives, the preservation of one’s family is far greater
than the security of the community, and thus, many migrants acquiesce to the rules the authorities set for them.