Assignments due Monday, August 14 IB Senior English

2017-18 Summer Reading Assignments

“Black writing has to carry Assignment #1: that burden of other people’s desires, not artistic desires 1) Read Beloved by Toni Morrison. but social desires; it’s always perceived as working out 2) Research the history of the Middle Passage, somebody else’s agenda. No Fugitive Slave Act, Underground Railroad, other literature has that Trail of Tears, and the weight.” significance of the Ohio River. Use academic (Brown, Cecil. resources only. Print “Interview with Toni Morrison.” any information you find and bring it to class. It Massachusetts Review. is required to be kept in Vol. 36. 1995). your binder.

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You will need to procure Assignment #2: Archetypes and Symbolism Google Slide Presentation (7 slides, due by August 18, 2017) the novels The God of 3) Using one literary Choose five characters a definitive symbol and Small Things and Purple from Beloved to classify how it becomes an Hibiscus for later in the year. as specific archetypes. extension of the Create a Google Slide character’s archetype. Barnes and Nobles, Presentation. Each Use textual support. slide should contain Include at least 15 IB Amazon, or other online analysis of each vocabulary words providers are suggested. character to prove how within the analysis (3 he or she fulfills the per slide). Highlight archetypal role. Also, the words. Include title explain the association and Works Cited slides. each character has with

2 IB Senior English Summer Reading Assignments

(use academic sources only) Assignment #3: Irish History 1. Read at least 10 of to be kept in your Bloody Sunday

the Seamus Heaney binder all year. poems. Annotate, Suggested topics Unionists highlight, color mark include: Loyalists every poem. Identify the themes as well Act of Union Nationalists as other major poetic Fenians elements. Michael Collins

Sinn Fein The Troubles 2. Research the allusions. Print IRA Royal Ulster information for each. Easter Rising Constabulary These are required Gerry Adams

Assignment #4: Identity and Sense of Place

Explore the themes of MLA format is required (proper identity or sense of place in at heading, title placement, size 12 least two of Seamus Heaney’s Times New Roman font, internal poems. How does the poet parenthetical documentation, and convey identity or sense of place Works Cited page.) Submission to within these poems? turnitin.com will be required the

first week of school. In a two-three page essay,

write a comparison/contrast of the poems based on one of these

concepts. Use textual evidence.

Non-negotiable All written assignments ALL of these ANY evidence of should be typed in MLA assignments are due the plagiarism will result in

format (appropriate first day of school zero credit and parent heading in left hand 8/14/17. Late contact in accordance corner, double-spaced, assignments may be with the IB Honor Code Times New Roman, size turned in the next day Policy. 12 font, internal for half credit. Any time parenthetical after that, no credit will documentation, and be given.

works cited).

IB Senior English Summer Reading 3

Heaney Poems Digging Ancestral Photograph

Death of a Naturalist Personal Helicon

Act of Union The Wife’s Tale

Mid-Term Break Follower

The Plantation From the Frontier of Writing

Bye-Child Punishment

A Dog Was Crying Tonight in Wicklow Also

From the Republic of Conscience

Archetypes Hero/tragic hero Magician Mistress/Other Woman

Philanderer Dreamer Trickster

Country Bumpkin Villain Corrupt Church Official Neighborhood Busy Body Femme Fatale Underdog

Town Drunk Airhead Silent Thinker

Hunted Man Damsel in Distress

Wayward Son Protective Sibling

Seeker Parental Figure Caregiver Abusive Parent Sage Christ Figure

IB Vocabulary Vocabulary Quizzes are imminent! You are expected to incorporate these words (as well as other elevated diction- such as Mrs. Philpot’s words) within your writing and speech!

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