Northwest High School 2014 Incoming 12th Grade Students

Summer Reading Assignment

(Instructions & Reading Response Chart are posted on the NWHS website for downloading)

Instructions for 12 On-Level and 12 Honors: Choose 2 current event articles, one on careers and one on post-secondary training (college, military, trade school). These could be from the newspaper or on-line. Each article must be at least 600 words. For each article, complete an Interrogating an Article capture sheet. Additionally, you need to research a potential college of interest and complete the college profile. The entire summer reading assignment is due by the second day of school (Tuesday, August 26, 2014) and will be submitted to your English teacher. The summer reading assignment will not be accepted after the 2nd day of class.

Included is also a list of suggested reading that is entirely optional.

Suggested Reading List for Incoming 12th Grade Students / Optional

Games at Twilight Anita Desai Heart of Darkness/The Secret Sharer Joseph Conrad The Joys of Motherhood Buchi Emecheta King Lear William Shakespeare Metamorphosis Franz Kafka Native Speaker Chang Rae Lee Nectar in a Sieve Kamala Markandaya Obasan Joy Kagawa Oedipus Sophocles The Plague Albert Camus Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Tom Stoppard Siddhartha Hermann Hesse So Long a Letter Mariama Ba The Stranger Albert Camus Waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett Woman in the Dunes Kobo Abe Angela’s Ashes Frank McCourt Bread Givers Anya Yezierska Cat’s Eye Margaret Atwood Chronicle of a Death Foretold Gabriel Garcia Marquez

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Alexander Solzhenitsyn Beowulf Tr. Seamus Heaney Brave New World Aldous Huxley Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer The Farming of Bones Edwidge Danticat God of Small Things Arundhati Roy Grendel John Gardner Gulliver’s Travels Jonathan Swift The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood In the Time of the Butterflies Julia Alvarez Kaffir Boy Mark Mathabane “Master Harold”… and the boys Athol Fugard The Power of One Bryce Courtenay Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw Reading Lolita in Tehran Azar Nafisi Typical American Gish Jen What Is the What Dave Eggers Monkey Bridge Lan Cao

Dubliners James Joyce The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri

English 12 Name__________________________ Per____ Date________Interrogating an Article: Complete 2 charts, one for each article.

Author’s PerspectiveWhat is the subject?

What is the author’s claim about the subject?

Who is the intended audience?

Why is the author making this claim?

What is your opinion on the author’s stance (position) on this issue? (Do you agree or disagree & why?)

What is your philosophy on this issue?

What are three pieces of evidence that support this claim?

Make sure that you show the PARENTHETICAL CITATION after each quote!!

Eg:Author: (Smith).Article: (“Targeting”).

Quote

1.

2.

3.

Quote Analysis (Explain this quote in relationship to the claim being made? DO NOT PARAPHRASE IT! )

Lead into an above quote using a signal phrase (Smith said, “…”)

AND create a sentence that Integrates the quote. The results show that “….”)

Signal PhraseExample: Smith said, “…” (Smith).

Your Sentence & Quote Integration

Example: The results show that “….” (“Targeting”).

Source Information for Evidence Capture Sheet

Gather necessary information for Bibliographical fields you would find when using Noodle tools:

Author: Last name: _________________________________First Name: _____________________________

Title of Publication (magazine, newspaper, journal, etc…): _______________________________________________

Article title: _______________________________________________________________

Title of Database/Website: ___________________________________________________

Date Published (MUST USE THIS FORMAT FOR DATE = 20 May 2011): ________________ page #: _____________ issue or section: _____________

Most recent date of access: ______________________ Website address: ________________________________________________

Now, put that information into MLA format -

Author’s Last name, First. “Title of article.” Title of Newspaper or Website or Journal (original source). Original date published: section or issue. Page number. Title of Database. Web or Print. Date of access. (MUST USE THIS FORMAT FOR DATE = 20 May 2011).

Example: Smith, John. “The Love of Money.” Washington Post. 14 Dec 2011. Section B2. Online Newspapers United. Web. 12 Nov 2013.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Parenthetical Citation (Author’s last name) or if no author (“first word of the article title”): ______________________________________________

Adapted by Catherine Elliott, Instructional Technology Specialist, OCTO, MCPSAdapted from Brazilian Rain Forest. Permission granted from The Critical Thinking Consortium for use by Alberta teachers.

College Profile / Incoming 12th Grade Students

Directions: Choose any college in which you might be interested and complete the following activities. Remember, Family Connections and the college’s website are great sources of information.

a. Your Name – c. Possible Major –

b. Name of College/University – d. Location of College -

2. Other Majors – List 5 other majors you can study at this college

3. List 8-10 courses you need to take to complete the major you chose

4. List at least 4 electives you would like to take by course name (electives are courses that interest you that are not courses you would take for your major) and the reason that you chose those electives.

5. Extracurricular Activities – Make a list of at least 5 extracurricular activities, clubs, and sports that you can do in your spare time at the college

6. Dorms (choose one dorm in which freshman can live)a. Name of dorm - b. How many students are in each dorm room or suite?c. Are the dorms co-ed or single sex?

7. Costs - Get the cost of a full-time, on-campus student for one year and provide the information in the table below. Tuition

Room (dorm) and Board (food)

Books (estimate)

Student Fees (if any)

Other Fees (if any)

Total Cost

8. Financial Aida. What is the average amount of financial aid that a student receives at your college?

b. What percent of all of the students receive at least some financial aid?