
Summer 2023
Honors 10 English
Before the beginning of the 2023-2024 school year, incoming Honors 10 English students should read F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby. Students should analyze a character’s development throughout the novel by completing the following:
- Double-entry journal: Write down 5 quotations from the novel that demonstrate your chosen character’s development throughout the novel. After each quote, provide three or more sentences that analyze the character at that moment. In other words, what does the reader learn about the character from this quote?
- Below your double-entry journal, write 3-5 sentences summarizing your analysis of the character’s development.
- The above assignment is due on the first day of school. In addition, students should be prepared to discuss the novel in a Socratic discussion and for an in-class timed writing on the novel during the first week of school.
Questions? Contact Ms. Day at mday@bishopchatard.org, Mrs. Hilton at khilton@bishopchatard.org or Mr. Mann at jmann@bishopchatard.org
AP Literature
- Choose one of the books listed below to read and analyze for your summer reading assignment. In addition, complete the following literary analysis assignment for your chosen text.
- Before the start of the school year, students should analyze a character’s development throughout the novel by completing the following:
- Double-entry journal: Write down 10 quotations from the novel that demonstrate your chosen character’s development throughout the novel. After each quote, provide three or more sentences that analyze the character at that moment. In other words, what does the reader learn about the character from this quote? How is the character developing/changing throughout the course of the plot?
- Below your double-entry journal, write 4-6 sentences summarizing your analysis of the character’s development, and what message you believe that the author is attempting to portray through the character’s development.
The assignment is due the first day of school and should be completed electronically. You should also be prepared for a timed writing on your summer reading text during the first week of school.
Questions? Email Ms. Day at mday@bishopchatard.org. She looks forward to having you in class!
Published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man’s fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman’s stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. At once a naturalistic epic, captivity narrative, road novel, and transcendental gospel, Steinbeck’s powerful landmark novel is perhaps the most American of American Classics.
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