<p>English 10 Honors Summer Reading Assignment Mr. Ennis [email protected] Read Life of Pi </p><p>Write a dialectical journal as you read the novel. A complete entry includes the page number, quotation, and a two–three sentence analysis referenced to one of the three themes. Your quotes should be kept in the order of their appearance in the novel. You will be allowed to use your dialectical journal in completing the project that you will be assigned when you return to school. The journal is DUE on the first day of class. First semester is due first semester, and second semester is due second semester. </p><p>You will have a total of 12 entries in your journal. The entries must correspond with the page numbers below. Entries 1-3: Chapters 1-36 Entries 4-6: Chapters 37-58 Entries 7-9: Chapters 59-84 Entries 10-12: Chapters 85-100</p><p>Think about the following themes • Coming of Age/Maturity - Growing up and maturing (either mentally or physically) is a progression; it is not something that happens to a child overnight. When a child loses his innocence, he gains awareness and understanding of the world in which he lives. Examine the progression of Pi Patel throughout the course of the novel. Cite examples of how Pi, through experiences and mental struggles while alone on the raft, becomes an adult and learns to understand the world in which he exists.</p><p>• Faith and Religion– Pi Patel, while struggling for survival in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, faces both physical and mental hardships. How does religion and/or faith factor into his experience of survival and ability to overcome these hardships? What conclusions does Pi draw regarding different world religions and his own personal faith?</p><p>• Nature of Reality— The novel raises questions about the nature of reality. Is the nature of reality simply a matter of scientific presuppositions or can an individual’s experience challenge scientifically accepted notions or reality? Can fantasy and fiction reveal deep truths about our world? How do we determine what is real? English 10 Honors Summer Reading Assignment Mr. Ennis [email protected]</p><p>Dialectical Journal</p><p>Your dialectical journal for The Life of Pi will be a conversation on the page. On the left you will write important quotations from the novel; on the right you will write why the quote is significant in the context of the story. Set it up like this:</p><p>Note Taking</p><p>Citing page numbers, write significant excerpts from the text on this side of the page. The excerpts of text will add meaning for your understanding of one of the Directly across from the significant excerpts, following themes: write your original ideas about the importance of the text. This analysis must  Coming of Age/Maturity be at least two to three complete sentences.  Faith and Religion Your analysis should include:  Fear  Interpretation of how the quote Cite 12 entries total. illustrates the theme. Entries 1-3: Chapters 1-36  Explanation of how the quote fits in Entries 4-6: Chapters 37-58 with the plot of the novel. Entries 7-9: Chapters 59-84 Entries 10-12: Chapters 85-100 Be sure to specify the theme discussed in your entry with an C(oming of Age), F(aith), or R(eality) as shown below.</p><p>Examples (You may NOT use these!): F – “Bapu Ghandi said, ‘All religions are true.’ I just want to love God”, I blurted out, and looked down, red in the face. (page 69)</p><p>Pi is frustrated with his teachers and parents who insist that he choose one religion to follow. Instead, C – “It was Richard Parker who calmed me Pi seeks a simpler version of faith that does not down. It is the irony of this story that the one include the controversies and arguments that adults squabble over. Pi has intense faith, but he is not who scared me witless to start with was the very necessarily religious. same who brought me peace, purpose, I dare say even wholeness.” (page 162) English 10 Honors Summer Reading Assignment Mr. Ennis [email protected]</p><p>Pi realizes that his experience with the tiger brought him to maturity. He has found a sense of self and purpose that he was lacking in his life before he was stranded on the raft. </p>