Summer Reading Assignment s5

Summer Reading Assignment Incoming Junior Honors English

Summer reading books: The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Frederick Douglass) The Joy Luck Club (Amy Tan)

Copies of the books will be made available to students through the San Leandro High School Library on a first-come, first-served basis. Additional copies of the books are available at the San Leandro Public Library, local bookstores, or at Amazon.com, Powells.com, and other on-line sources. It is recommended that students buy their own copies of the books to allow for in-text note-taking. The work you do on the books will be collected and graded.

There will be tests on all three books in September. Scores from the tests will be a significant part of your semester grade—approximately 10%.

IF you have YOUR OWN TEXT, MARK IT UP. Note significant passages, important words or phrases, confusing parts, places where you have questions, events that stand out.

The Catcher in the Rye Use the form of note-taking that works best for you. Some students like to write summaries, some like to keep character charts or event charts, and some like to develop timelines. SUGGESTED: Take notes on the situations that Holden Caulfield gets involved in. Also note the situations when he uses the word “phony”: list the people and things he applies that word to.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Use the form of note-taking that works best for you. SUGGESTED: Note the names of the main masters and mistresses he has and how he is treated by each one. Also note the situations where he gains support on his path to freedom.

The Joy Luck Club Use the form of note-taking that works best for you. SUGGESTED: Pay special attention to the list of the mothers and daughters on the page that directly follows the Table of Contents. Make a chart that lists the mother-daughter pairs. As you read, note the significant events of each character, and the stories associated with them. You might want to read the novel through once, then go back and look for the events associated with each character. There is a template below.

The Joy Luck Club Mothers and Daughters

Suyuan Woo Lindo Jong (Mother) (Mother)

Jing-mai (June) Woo Waverly Jong (Daughter) (Daughter) An-mei Hsu Ying-ying St. Clair (Mother) (Mother)

Rose Hsu Jordan Lena St. Clair (Daughter) (Daughter)