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ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
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All
students at Mansfield High School are encouraged to
read one or more books for their enjoyment and for
their continued skill development during summer
vacation. The following link will give you the
information for suggested titles that are related
thematically to the different courses’ units. They
vary in levels of difficulty. These books should be
available at most bookstores and at the Mansfield
Public Library.
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Mansfield
Summer Reading List, 2011
English
Department
All students at Mansfield High School are encouraged to
read one or more books for their enjoyment and for their
continued skill development during summer vacation. The
following suggested titles are related thematically to
the different courses’ units. They vary in levels of
difficulty. These books should be available at most
bookstores and at the Mansfield Public Library.
Students entering Grade 9:
Students who are taking College Prep A or B, must
read one of the following choices below.
Students who are taking Honors must read two
books from the choices below; one of the choices must
be from the selections with *asterisks. Students
should anticipate an assessment on the reading and take
notes on plot, characters, and theme. Notes must be
handwritten to use with the assessment.
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Sunrise
over Fallujah, Walter Dean Myers
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Son
of the Mob, Gordon Korman
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Speak,
Laurie Halse Anderson
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The
Chocolate War, Robert Cormier
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The
Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
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Hotel
on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Jamie
Ford
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*A
Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
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*Something
Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury
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*I
Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
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Students entering Grade 10:
Students who are taking College Prep A or B, must
read one of the following choices below.
Students who are taking Honors must read two
books from the choices below; one of the choices must
be from the selections with *asterisks. Students
should anticipate an assessment on the reading and take
notes on plot, characters, and theme. Notes must be
handwritten to use with the assessment.
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Parrot
in the Oven,
Victor Martinez |
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Eleven
Seconds: a story of tragedy, courage, and triumph,
Travis Roy
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The
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time,
Mark Haddon
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Fahrenheit
451, Ray Bradbury
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Snow
Flower and the Secret Fan, Lisa See
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The
Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein
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*Kite
Runner, Khaled Hosseini
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*Jane
Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
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*My
Antonia, Willa Cather
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Students in Grades
11 and 12 are encouraged to read one or more
books for their enjoyment and for their continued skill
development during the summer vacation.
The following suggested titles are related
thematically to the different courses’ units.
To receive extra credit for one of the selections, students must read
a book from their designated list, complete a reading
journal, and
submit their work
to their English teacher during the first week that
their English class meets.
The reading journal directions may be found on
MHS website under Summer Reading.
Students
entering Grade 11
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Into
the Wild, Jon Krakauer
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A
Lesson before Dying, Ernest J. Gaines
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Lovely
Bones, Alice Sebold
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The
Help, Kathryn Stocket
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Devil
in the White City, Erik Larson
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Wait
Until Next Year: Summer Afternoons with My Father
and Baseball, Doris Kearns
Goodwin
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Students
taking 11 AP must read the following book and may choose
one of the selections above for extra credit. AP
students are encouraged to take notes on A Walk in
the Woods to help them review for their assessment.
*A
Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the
Appalachian Trail, Bill Bryson
Students
entering Grade 12
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The
Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
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Persepolis
(Part I), Marjane Satrapi
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The
Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir,
Bill Bryson
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A
Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier,
Ishmael Beah
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The
Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier’s Education,
Craig Mullaney
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Angela’s
Ashes, Frank McCourt
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The
Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
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War,
Sebastian Junger
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Students
taking 12 AP must
read the following two books
and may read one of the above books for extra credit.
AP students are encouraged to take notes on
Wuthering Heights and
How to Read Literature Like a Professor to help them
review for their assessment.
*Wuthering
Heights, Emily Bronte
*How
to Read Literature Like a Professor, Thomas C. Foster
A
printable PDF file of this list
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Extra
Credit Reading Journal
for Grades 11 and 12
Answer
the following questions carefully and thoroughly.
Please use relevant textual evidence to support
your ideas. Be sure to identify the book’s title and
author’s name.
Due:
first week of English class
Length:
approximately 3 pages, handwritten neatly
(a)
Write a one-page reaction statement to
the book that you read.
Be specific in your thoughts about points that
you liked or didn’t like about the book, ideas that
intrigued you, etc.
Be sure to include specific
textual references. Include page numbers.
(b)
Cite a memorable passage of no more than
thirty words or three sentences from the book.
Include page number(s). Explain why
you have chosen this passage from the book.
(c)
Describe your first impression of one
character or event that you find interesting.
Give at least three
examples of textual evidence that supports or
generates this impression. Be sure to include the page
numbers.
(d)
**Identify what causes a significant
change in one character, and describe the results of
that change. This
change may be the consequence of a choice, a conflict
of some kind that has to be resolved, a display of
some outstanding trait like courage, or even the
result of an action or event that occurs during the
story.
**Students
who read The
Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid are to
answer the following question instead of “d”
(students must answer parts a, b, and c as well).
**Does
the childhood Bryson describes take place in a lost
America? He
paints a rich portrait of community ties and identity.
To what degree do those ties still exist?
What has been lost?
Consider the effects of TV and the computer.
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History Summer Reading
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SHEDDING
GRACE
SUMMER READING ASSIGNMENT FOR
US HISTORY I HONORS
Shedding Grace is a
story set in pre-Revolutionary Boston. In that summer
and fall of 1769, as England was beginning to strictly
enforce its trade laws, young Jonathan Hamrick set out
on a voyage of discovery for the true meaning of
liberty, justice and equality.
The History Department at Mansfield
High School uses this book to help you refresh your
recollections of Pre-Revolutionary America so that you
will be able to actively engage with the content that
will be presented when school begins again. In
addition, the book presents important concepts such as
truth, justice, equality, duty, and liberty that have
formed the bedrock of our historical and contemporary
American society.
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packet PDF) |
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