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Summer Reading Assignment Honors English 3

There are two assignments for the summer of 2011.

1. Select and read a book from the attached “Book List for Advanced/Honors/ A.P. Students” list. Prepare a presentation about the book, according to the attached rubric. You will present your project during the first week of class.

2. Read the novel , by . Answer the attached reading questions, answering each question in depth appropriate to the question (generally 2-3 sentences). You will hand in your answers to Mr. Clark on the first day of school.

Students may borrow The Grapes of Wrath from Mr. Clark, or you may buy your own editions of these books.

If you have questions about any of these assignments, you may email Mr. Clark at [email protected]. Be aware that a reply may not be immediate, as I will not always have Internet access when I’m traveling.

Extra Credit Reading Presentation Rubric Category 6 3 1 0 Themes Student fully Student discusses Student discusses Student does not discusses at least 2 two themes & one or two discuss a theme of themes & shows shows how these themes, but the the book. how these themes themes are explanation is are represented in represented in the unclear. Student the novel, using novel, but lacks does not examples from the text examples or a demonstrate that text and offering complete he/she understood full explanations. discussion. the reading. Characterization Student thoroughly Student discusses Student discusses Student does not discusses the the characteri- one or two discuss the author’s portrayal zation of two characters in the characters in the of at least two characters in the novel, but the book. major characters— novel, but does discussion is shaky particularly the not do so or unclear. character’s person- thoroughly, or Student does not ality—using does not include demonstrate that examples/quotes sufficient he/she understood from the author’s examples to the reading. narration, the support the character’s actions, discussion. and the character’s words. Symbolism Student thoroughly Student discusses Student discusses Student does not discusses the the author’s use of one or two discuss the author’s use of at two symbols, but symbols in the symbolism of the least two symbols the relationship of novel, but the book. within the text the symbols to the discussion is shaky (with examples), overall book is not or unclear. and offers insight clearly stated. Student does not into the meaning & demonstrate that importance of those he/she understood symbols to the the reading. overall novel. Text Student brings in Student brings in Student brings the Student does not the book on the book on book in on bring in the book presentation day presentation day presentation day on presentation and has one and has one and has very few day OR has no annotation for each annotation for annotations; OR or very few chapter (or every most chapters (or annotations lack annotations. 10 pages) with every 15 pages) explanations. explanations for with explanations each. for each. Review Student gives a Student gives a Student’s sum- Student does not brief summary of brief summary of mary of the plot is summarize the the novel’s plot and the novel’s plot too long or too novel’s plot and/or a brief review of and brief, short; student’s offer a review of the book’s overall unsupported review is not the book’s overall quality, including review of the supported by quality. specific likes & book’s quality. specific likes & dislikes. dislikes THE GRAPES OF WRATH HONORS ENGLISH 3 SUMMER READING

CHAPTERS 1-11 THE LAND 1. What does the setting of the opening scene suggest about the rest of the novel? 2. How do the tractors operate? 3. What power do the small farmers have against the banks and the tractors? 4. Chapters 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10 tell the narrative about Tom Joad and the way novels usually do. What is the function of the other short chapters (1, 3, 5, etc.)? What does Chapter 7 imply about used-car salesmen? 5. What are the most important characteristics of Ma and Pa and of the grandparents? 6. What does Ma’s burning of the old stationary box illustrate?

CHAPTERS 12-18 THE MIGRATION 1. What is the first unpleasant event that occurs on the Joads’ journey? What does that event portend about what lies ahead? 2. Of what significance is Grampa Joad’s death? What is the value of Casy’s prayer? 3. When the car breaks down, what is significant about Ma’s reaction? How does the mechanical difficulty affect the relationship between Tom and Al? 4. What effect does the nightly camping have on the people heading for California? How does it give them strength and power? 5. What is the Joads’ first view of California? What impressions of California do the two men from the Panhandle provide? 6. Why does Noah leave? What is Ma’s response? 7. Of what symbolic value is the desert? Does California look the way the characters thought it would?

CHAPTERS 19-30 THE PROMISED LAND 1. How has farming changed according to Chapter 19? Why do the local people fear the migrants? 2. What are the “three great facts of history,” and what do they imply about the outcome of the events in this novel? 3. What does Ma Joad mean when she says “Why, we’re the people–we go on”? 4. In what ways does Mr. Thomas represent the dilemma of the small farmer? 5. Why do the Joads leave the government camp at Weedpatch? How is life at the Hooper ranch different? How is it typical of the lives of migrants? What does Ma’s encounter in show about the plight of migrant workers? 6. In hiding, what decision does Tom make? How does Ma feel about that? What conclusion does Ma reach about the family? What keeps them all from giving up? 7. What impact does the stillbirth of Rose of Sharon’s baby have? What does Uncle John do with the dead baby, and what does this act signal about him and the other migrants? 8. Why is Rose of Sharon’s feeding the starving man an appropriate ending for this novel? Why is she smiling “mysteriously”?

DIGGING DEEPER 1. In the beginning, each character has personal reasons for wanting to go to California. In what ways does each individual’s goal change? Which people grow to see a larger purpose in life? What factors contribute to their changes? 2. According to statements made in this novel, of what importance is anger in overcoming fear? What must be done with anger in order to make it productive? Do you agree or disagree with that philosophy as expressed in this novel? 3. What is the effect of the chapters which come between the narrative about the Joads? How would the elimination of those chapters affect the meaning and impact of the novel? 4. Steinbeck wrote to his editor about this novel: “I’ve done my damndest to rip a reader’s nerves to rags, I don’t want him satisfied.” Did he succeed in doing that to you? If so, how did he accomplish it? If not, why weren’t you affected in that way?

Book List for Advanced/Honors/A.P. Students Students signed up for Advanced English 1, Advanced English 2, Honors English 3, A.P. English Language or A.P. English Literature must select a book from the list below to complete their Summer Reading Assignment. This list, adapted from an original list compiled by Norma K. Wilkerson, includes novels referred to on recent A.P. Literature exams. (The specific years the book was mentioned on the A.P. Literature test are listed in the parentheses.) Students intending to complete the Advanced English program are encouraged to draw their recreational reading from this list.

A The Bluest Eye by (95, 08) Absalom, Absalom by (76, 00) Bone: A Novel by Fae M. Ng (03) Adam Bede by George Eliot (06) The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan (06, 07, The Aeneid by Virgil (06) 11) Agnes of God by John Pielmeier (00) The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevski by (97, 02, (90, 08) 03, 08) Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood (00, 04, 08) C All the King's Men by (00, Candide by Voltaire (80, 86, 87, 91, 95, 96, 04, 02, 04, 07, 08, 11) 06) All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (95, The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (06) 96, 06, 07, 08, 11) Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (82, 85, 87, 89, 94, America is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan (95) 01, 03, 04, 05, 07, 08) An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (81, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams 82, 95, 03) (00) The American by Henry James (05, 07, 10) Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood (94, 08, 09) by (10) Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko (94, 96, 97, Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (80, 91, 99, 03, 99, 01, 03, 05, 06, 07) 04, 06, 08) The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov (71, 77, Another Country by James Baldwin (95, 10) 06, 07, 09) Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai The Chosen by Chaim Potok (08) Richler (94) Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (06, 08) As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (78, 89, 90, by (92, 94, 95, 94, 01, 04, 06, 07, 09) 96, 97, 05, 08, 09) As You Like It by William Shakespeare (92, 05, Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje 06, 10) (01) Atonement by Ian McEwan (07, 11) Cry, The Country by Alan Paton (85, Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James 87, 91, 95, 96, 07) Weldon Johnson (02, 05) Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevski The Awakening by Kate Chopin (87, 88, 91, 92, (76, 79, 80, 82, 88, 96, 99, 00, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 95, 97, 99, 02, 04, 07, 09) 09, 10, 11) The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy (09) B Beloved by Toni Morrison (90, 99, 01, 03, 05, D 07, 09, 11) Daisy Miller by Henry James (97, 03) A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul (03) Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel (01) Billy Budd by Herman Melville (79, 81, 82, 83, David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (78, 83, 85, 99, 02, 04, 05, 07, 08) 06) The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter (89, 97) Delta Wedding by (97) Black Boy by Richard Wright (06, 08) Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Bleak House by Charles Dickens (94, 00, 04, 09) Tyler (97) Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya (94, 96, 97, The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (06) 99, 04, 05, 06, 08) The Diviners by Margaret Laurence (95) The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (07, 11) Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe (79, 86, 99, 04) Henry V by William Shakespeare (02) Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (10) A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes (08) A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen (71, 83, 87, 88, by N Scott Momaday (95, 95, 05, 09) 06) Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (01, 04, The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (04, 07) 06, 08) Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia (03) I Dutchman by Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones (03, 06) The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (06) E In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien (00) by John Steinbeck (06) In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez (05) Emma by Jane Austen (96, 08) An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen (76, 80, J 87, 99, 01, 07) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (78, 79, 80, 88, Equus by Peter Shaffer (92, 99, 00, 01, 08, 09) 91, 94, 95, 96, 97, 99, 00, 05, 07, 08, 10) Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (80, 85, 03, 05, Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee (99, 10) 06, 07) Joe Turner's Come and Gone by August Wilson The Eumenides by Aeschylus (in The Orestia) (00, 04) (96) The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (97, 03) Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy (71, 76, 80, F 85, 87, 95, 04, 09, 10) A Farewell to Arms by (99, by (77, 78, 82, 88, 89, 04, 09) 90, 96) The Father by August Strindberg (01) Faust by Johann Goethe (02, 03) K Fences by August Wilson (02, 03, 05, 09) Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (08) A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry (03) King Lear by William Shakespeare (77, 78, 82, Fifth Business by Robertson Davis (00, 07) 88, 89, 90, 96, 01, 03, 04, 05, 06, 08, 10, 11) by (07) by Ernest Hemingway L (03, 06) Lady Windermere’s Fan (09) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (89, 00, 03, 06, A Lesson before Dying by Ernest Gaines (99, 11) 08) Light in August by William Faulkner (71, 79, 81, 82, 83, 85, 95, 99, 03, 06, 11) G The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman (10) A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest Gaines (00, Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (08) 11) Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene A Gesture Life by Chang-Rae Lee (04, 05) O'Neill (90, 03, 07) Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen (00, 04) Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (77, 78, 82, 86, 00, The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy (11) 03, 07) Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien (01, 06) Love Medicine by (95) The Golden Bowl by Henry James (09) The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford (00) M Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin Macbeth by William Shakespeare (83, 99, 03, (83, 88, 90, 05) 05, 09) Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (87, 89, 01, Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (80, 85, 04, 06) 04, 05, 06, 09, 10) Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw (79, H 96, 04, 07) The Hairy Ape by Eugene O'Neill (89, 09) Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (03, 06) The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (03) Master Harold...and the Boys by Athol Fugard Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen (79, 92, 00, 02, (03, 08) 03, 05) The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy Henry IV, Parts I and II by William Shakespeare (94, 99, 00, 02, 07, 10) (80, 90, 08) M. Butterfly by David Henry Wang (95) Medea by Euripides (82, 92, 95, 01, 03, 11) (01) The Member of the Wedding by Carson O Pioneers! by (06) McCullers (97, 08) The Orestia by Aeschylus (90) The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf (04) Edwards (09) Othello by William Shakespeare (79, 85, 88, 92, The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare 95, 03. 04, 07) (85, 91, 95, 02, 03, 11) The Other by David Guterson (10) Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (78, 89) Our Town by (86, 97, 09) Middlemarch by George Eliot (95, 04, 05, 07) Out of Africa by Isaak Dinesen (06) Middle Passage by V. S. Naipaul (06) A Midsummer Night's Dream by William P Shakespeare (06) Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (01) The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (90, 92, A Passage to India by E. M. Forster (71, 77, 78, 04) 88, 91, 92, 07) The Misanthrope by Moliere (08) Paradise Lost by John Milton (85, 86, 10) Moby Dick by Herman Melville (76, 77, 78, 79, Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen (06) 80, 89, 94, 96, 01, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 09) Père Goriot by Honore de Balzac (02) Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe (76, 77, 86, 87, Persuasion by Jane Austen (90, 05, 07) 95) Phaedre by Jean Racine (92, 03) Monkey Bridge by Lan Cao (00, 03) The Piano Lesson by August Wilson (96, 99, 07, The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie (07) 08) Mother Courage and Her Children by Berthold The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (02) Brecht (85, 87, 06) The Plague by Albert Camus (02, 09) Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (94, 97, 04, Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov (97) 05, 07) Pocho by Jose Antonio Villarreal (02, 08) Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver Shaw (87, 90, 95, 02) (10, 11) Much Ado About Nothing by William Portrait of a Lady by Henry James ( 88, 92, 96, Shakespeare (97) 03, 05, 07) Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot (76, 80, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James 85, 95, 07, 11) Joyce (76, 77, 80, 86, 88, 96, 99, 04, 05, 08, 09, My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok (03) 10) Praisesong for the Widow by Paule Marshall N (96) The Namesake by (09) A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (09) Native Son by Richard Wright (79, 82, 85, 87, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (83, 88, 92, 95, 01, 04, 11) 97, 08) Native Speaker by Chang-Rae Lee (99, 03, 05, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark 07, 08) (90, 08) 1984 by George Orwell (87, 94, 05, 09) Push by Sapphire (07) No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw (03, 05, 08) (11) R O Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow (03, 07) Obasan by Joy Kogawa (94, 95, 04, 05, 06, 07, The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane 10) (08) Oedipus Rex by Sophocles (77, 85, 88, 00, 03, The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (00, 04, 11) 03) by John Steinbeck (01) Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie (08, 09) Old School by Tobia Wolff (08) The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy (07) One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean Alexander Solzhenitsyn (05, 10) (08) One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel by Cormac McCarthy (10) Garcia Marquez (89, 04) Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Dafoe (10) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey A Room with a View by E. M. Forster (03) S The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (04) Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw (95) by (06) Sent for You Yesterday by John Edgar Wideman A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (03) (11) Set This House on Fire, by (11) To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (77, 86, 88, by E. (97) 08) Silas Marner by George Eliot (02) Tom Jones by Henry Fielding (90, 00, 06, 08) Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser (87, 02, 04, Tracks by Louise Erdrich (05) 10) The Trial by Franz Kafka (88, 89, 00, 11) Sister of My Heart by Chitra Divakaruni (10) Trifles by Susan Glaspell (00) Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut (91, 04) The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (92, 94, Snow by Orhan Pamuk (09) 00, 02, 04, 08) Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson (00, Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (85, 94, 10) 96) Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (81, 88, 96, Typical American by Gish Jen (02, 03, 05) 00, 04, 05, 06, 07) The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner V (77, 86, 97, 01, 07, 08) The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith (06) The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski (11) W The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence (96, 04) Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (77, 85, The Stranger by Albert Camus (79, 82, 86, 04, 86, 89, 94, 01, 09) 11) The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope (06) A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates Williams (91, 92, 01, 04, 07, 08, 09) (07) The Street by Ann Petry (07) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Sula by Toni Morrison (92, 97, 02, 04, 07, 08) Albee (88, 94, 00, 04, 07) Surfacing by Margaret Atwood (05) Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (89, 92, 05, 07, The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (85, 08) 91, 95, 96, 04, 05) Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare (82, 89, 95, 06) T Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor (82, 89, 95, A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (82, 91, 09) 04, 08) Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston (91, Tarftuffe by Moliere (87) 08) The Tempest by William Shakespeare (71,78, 96, The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor 03, 05, 07, 10) (09, 10) Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (82, 91, 03, 06, 07) Z Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (91, 97, 03, The Zoo Story by Edward Albee (82, 01) 09, 10, 11) Zoot Suit by Luis Valdez (95)