Pre-IB English II Summer Reading 2015

You will need a composition notebook. Skip the first two pages in the composition notebook; we will use to set up a table of contents.
Summer reading journals will be used and checked the first Friday of the school year.

Books
The Absolutely True Story of a
Part-Time Indian by Sherman
Alexie

Due: Friday, August 28, 2015

Objective: Participate in a grade level shared reading; read closely for elements of plot,
character and tone in fiction in order to cite textual evidence in writing.
Get the Book: from CCHS Media Center, the public library, online or purchase it on your
own. Purchase a copy of the book so that you can color mark it as directed below.
Directions:
1. Read the book.
2. Pay particular attention to how Alexie creates characters and draws out the contrast between
Native and non-native communities.
3. Take notes as directed below on elements of the plot in your journal.

On Writing
by Stephen King

Objective: Identify and analyze tools authors use to create style. We will use these tools to
analyze the work of other writers.
Get the Book: from the library at school, the public library or find it in PDF form online here:
http://ow.ly/vsL37
If the link does not work search On Writing PDF and you will find it. You may also purchase
a copy of the book if you choose.
Directions:
1. Read the book.
2. Pay particular attention to Kings sense of self (his identity and coming of age as a writer)
and notice how he describes conflictsboth internal and externalthat he over came.
3. Take notes as directed below in your journal.

Journal Pages Review

Set up in a composition
notebook --no spirals,
please.
You may get creative
and decorate your
journals cover if you
wish.

Skip the first two pages then begin. Each number below represents at least one page in your
journaluse more pages if you need them.
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
1. Characters 2 columns: character names and descriptions from the book (include
page numbers in parenthesis)
2. The Rez 2 columns: specific places on the reservation and descriptions from the
book (include page numbers in parenthesis)
3. Reardon --2 columns: specific places on the reservation and descriptions from the
book (include page numbers in parenthesis)
4. Conflict--2 columns: internal and external note quotes or phrases that show the
conflict(s) (include page numbers in parenthesis)
On Writing by Stephen King
5. Autobiography p. 1-110 Main Ideas/events (3 to 5 words that sum up each of the 38
sections)
6. Writing tools and rules p. 111-137- make a list of tools and rules
7. Writing advice quotes collect 10

Choice Book (s)

*1 required additional
reading always helpful

Choose a classic, a contemporary classic or a popular YA read. The choice of what to read for
fun is yours! You might enjoy a work from the Harvard Classics collection
https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Harvard_Classics_(Bookshelf)
Recommendations are noted on the back, but the choice is yours.

If you like

Classic

Contemporary

Young Adult

To Kill a Mockingbird

A Raisin in the Sun,

Hansberry

The Help, Sockett

Warriors Dont Cry, Beals

Black Like Me, Griffin

Lay that Trumpet in Our

Hands, McCarthy

The Port Chicago 50:

Disaster, Mutiny, and the
Fight for Civil Rights,
Sheinkin

The Journal of Helene Berr

Berr

The Sandcastle Girls,

Bohjalian

The Book Thief, Zusak

Sophies Choice, Styron

Everything is Illuminated,
Foer

Real-life commentaries on
race and society

Schindlers List, The Boy in

the Striped Pajamas, or
Night

Briar Rose, Yolen

Historic, holocaust
narratives

The Odyssey or Flowers

for Algernon

Gone with the Wind,

Mitchell

Epic journeys of selfdiscovery and saving grace

Paradise Lost, Milton

Women Heroes of World

War II: 26 Stories of
Espionage, Sabotage,
Resistance and Rescue by
Atwood
The Goldfinch, Tartt
The Curious Incident of the
Dog in the Nighttime,
Halpern

The Devils Arithmetic,

Yolen
Maus, Spiegelman
Between Shades of Grey,
Sepetys
Percy Jackson series,
Riordan
Antigoddess, Blake
The Unbecoming of Mara
Dyer, Hodkin

Romeo & Juliet

Wuthering Heights, Bronte

The Notebook, Sparks

Love: forbidden, destined,

all-consuming

The Great Gatsby,

Fitzgerald

Gone Girl, Flynn

Animal Farm or 1984, The

Lottery

Anthem, Rand

Childhoods End, Clark

Life as We Knew It, Pfeffer

Brave New World, Huxley

Enders Game, Card

Delirium, Oliver

When She Woke, Jordan

The Maze Runner, Dashner

Visions of a future that

feature humanitys fall

The Fault in Our Stars,

Green
Eleanor and Park, Rowell

The Mortal Instruments:

The City of Bones, Clare