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Bulldogs’
Summer Reading
Batesville High School
Contacting a Teacher
To help students with their Summer
Reading tasks, the English teachers will
conduct help sessions in the BHS
Media Center. The exact dates and
times are listed below. However, if you
are in need of help (and you can’t
attend the help sessions) please contact
your classroom BHS teacher through
email and they will be sure to respond.
AP Lit. and Comp- Mrs. Lacey
A summer of beaches, BBQs and books!
Batesville High School holds high expectations for its young
people; thus, all Pre-AP students in grades 9-10 and AP Literature and
Composition are required to read selected texts during the summer. According
to the Indiana Department of Education, “Research indicates that the demands
that college, careers, and citizenship place on readers have either held steady
or increased over roughly the last fifty years.” In Batesville, the community
considers the task of helping our students excel and meeting those reading
demands, seriously. Since many students in our community read throughout
their summer break, we want to ensure the selected reading material
challenges and improves their appreciation and comprehension of quality
literature.
The BHS English Department strives to improve their Summer Reading
program, seeking best practices to aide in our students’ reading development.
Please read the expectations carefully and, as always, we are available to help!
Save the Date with an English Teacher!
Students should enter
BHS through the main
doors and signs will
guide them to the
Media Center. Please
bring your book(s)
and notes.
July 6th
July 20th
[6:00-8:00 pm]
Mrs. Schory
[6:00-8:00 pm]
Mrs. Lowery
July 14th
July 28th
[6:00-8:00 pm]
Mrs. Grimsley
[6:00-8:00 pm]
Mrs. Lacey
[email protected]
Pre AP 10- Mrs. Schory or
Mrs. Lacey
[email protected]
Pre AP 9- Mrs. Lowery
[email protected]
BATESVILLE HIGH SCHOOL
SUMMER READING 2015
Expectations
Our expectations require students to explore themes developed
through texts. The act of analyzing the author’s message provides
practice with the Indiana Standards. All students will create a
formal outline and from that present a formal speech. No essay is
required.
Objectives:
Pre AP 9: Theme of Power
• Learn to read more carefully and critically.
• Become engaged with the subject matter –
question it, agree with it, disagree with it,
compare it to other issues, make connections.
• Come to see reading and writing as a way of
exploring and learning about a subject, rather than
just a product to be judged.
• Move from merely summarizing material into
analyzing, interpreting, and evaluating literature.
• Make meaning for yourself rather than look to
teachers for the “right answers.”
• Become a more effective reader and thinker.
Students are expected to read one required text and one choice
from the list provided. Students will create a formal outline and
present their findings in a formal speech focusing on the theme of
control. We will spend a day at the beginning of the year editing
outlines and discussing formal speeches. For the first day, teachers
will check outlines and award 15 points for perfect MLA outlines
and Works Cited. 10 points for formal outline and 40 points for
formal speech. Total 50 points possible. Points will be deducted
for reading directly from notecards.
Required Reading: The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd,
840 Lexile
1 Choice- Choose from the list provided
Pre AP 10: Theme of
Tolerance
Students are expected to read one required text and one choice from the list
provided. Students will create a formal outline and present their findings in a
formal speech focusing on the theme of tolerance. We will spend a day at
the beginning of the year editing outlines and discussing formal speeches.
For the first day, teachers will check outlines and award 15 points for perfect
MLA outlines and Works Cited. 10 points for formal outline and 40 points
for formal speech. Total 50 points possible. Points will be deducted from
reading directly from notecards.
Required Reading: Cold Sassy Tree, Olive Ann Burns, 930 Lexile
Choice- Choose from the list provided
AP Literature and Composition
Students are expected to read one required text, and one choice from the list provided. Students will create a formal outline and
CompoComposition
present their findings in a formal speech. We will spend a day at the beginning of the year editing outlines and discussing formal
speeches. For the first day, teachers will check outlines and award 15 points for perfect MLA outlines and Works Cited. 15 points for
formal outline and 55 points for formal speech. Total 70 points possible. Points will be deducted for reading directly from notecards.
Required Reading: How To Read Literature Like a Professor, Thomas C. Foster, 1290 Lexile
Required Reading: Poetry, A Case Study (see choices below) Read a minimum of 10 poems and choose 2 for speech.
1 Choice- Choose from the list provided
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BATESVILLE HIGH SCHOOL
SUMMER READING 2015
Literary Terminology Focus by Grade
Pre-AP 9
antagonist
autobiography
biography
*characterization
climax
*conflict
dialogue
exposition
falling action
*foreshadowing
*metaphor
narrator
oxymoron
protagonist
resolution
rising action
setting
*simile
tone
Pre-AP 10
AP 11
alliteration
atmosphere/mood
connotation
diction
*dramatic irony
flashback
foil
imagery
personification
point of view
symbol
tone
*dynamic character
*static character
flat character
round character
*verbal irony
*archetype
* paradox
*allusion
* allegory
anecdote
assonance
aphorism
colloquialisms
consonance
dialect
figurative language
free verse
idioms
*parody
rhetoric
rhetorical question
*satire
verbal irony
*situational irony
*synecdoche
voice
*hubris
*hamartia
Freshmen should choose from the 9th grade list. Choosing a literary term with an *asterisk will be
required to earn an A on this element.
Pre AP 9: Theme of Power Reading Selections
Title
The Storyteller
Copper Sun
Things Fall Apart
Ender's Game
The Color Purple
Crucible
Speak
It’s Not About The Bike
The House of the Scorpion
Tiger Woods
A Girl Named Zippy
The Oath
Catching Fire
Thirteen Reasons Why
The Pretties
The Outsiders
Uglies
1984
The Tipping Point
How Starbucks Saved My Life
The Giver
Lord of the Flies
Chains
The Joy Luck Club
Author
Jodi Picoult
Sharon M. Draper
Chinua Achebe
Orson Scott Card
Alice Walker
Arthur Miller
Laurie Halse Anderson
Lance Armstrong
Nancy Farmer
Bill Guman
Haven Kimmel
Stephen Robert Stein
Suzanne Collins
Jay Asher
Scott Westerfeld
S.E. Hinton
Scott Westerfeld
George Orwell
Malcolm Gladwell
Michael Gates Gill
Lois Lowry
William Golding
Laurie Halse Anderson
Amy Tan
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Lexile Score
NA
820
890
780
670
1320
690
890
660
930
1010
820
550
860
750
770
1090
1160
760
770
780
930
BATESVILLE HIGH SCHOOL
SUMMER READING 2015
Pre AP 10: Theme of Tolerance Reading
Title
Snow Falling on Cedars
The Kite Runner
Ender’s Game
Brave New World
The Help
The Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn
The Secret Life of Bees
Forgotten Fire
The Color Purple
The Boy Who Dared
A Thousand Splendid Suns
A Lesson Before Dying
The Grapes of Wrath
The Knife of Never Letting Go
Autobiography of My Dead
Brother
Generation Dead
Incantation
A Raisin in the Sun
Jackie Robinson: Race, Sports,
and the American Dream
Outcasts United: A Refuge
Team, and American Town
Forrest Gump
Running Loose
Farewell to Manzanar
Author
David Guterson
Khaled Hosseini
Orson Scott Card
Aldous Huxley
Kathryn Stockett
Mark Twain
1080
840
780
870
730
990
Sue Monk Kidd
Adam Bagdasarian
Alice Walker
Susan Campbell
Khaled Hosseini
Ernest J. Geaines
John Steinbeck
Patrick Ness
Walter Dean Myers
840
1050
670
760
830
750
680
860
830
Daniel Waters
Alice Hoffman
Lorraine Hansberry
Josephy Dorinson and Joram
Warmund
Warren St. John
820
730
970
1210
870
1040
Schooled
Winston Groom
Chris Crutcher
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
and James D. Houston
Gordan Koman
My Name is Not Easy
Debby Dahl Edwardson
830
Ask Me No Questions
Marina Budhos
790
Wonder
RJ Palacio
790
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Lexile Score
740
BATESVILLE HIGH SCHOOL
SUMMER READING 2015
AP 11: Literature and Composition Reading Selections
Title
Beloved
Never Let Me Go
Snow Falling on Cedars
The Kite Runner
Memoirs of a Geisha
A Clockwork Orange
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Slaughterhouse Five
East of Eden
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Wuthering Heights
The Road
Girl With a Pearl Earring
Jane Eyre
The Adventures of Huckelberry Finn
All the Pretty Horses
1984
Catch 22
Tess of the D’Uberbilles
The Count of Monte Cristo
In Cold Blood
A Raisin in the Sun
The Crucible
Macbeth
Oedipus the King
Death of a Salesman
The Glass Castle
On the Road
The Basketball Diaries
Author
Toni Morrison
Kazuo Ishiguro
David Guterson
Khaled Hosseini
Arthure Golden
Anthony Burgess
Khaled Hosseini
Kurt Vonnegut
John Steinbeck
John Irving
Emily Bronte
Cormac McCarthy
Tracy Chevalier
Charlotte Bronte
Mark Twain
Cormac McCarthy
George Orwell
Josephy Heller
Thomas Hardy
Alexander Dumas
Truman Capote
Lorraine Hansberry
Arthur Miller
William Shakespeare
Sophocles
Arthur Miller
Jeanette Walls
Jack Kerouac
Jim Carroll
Lexile Score
870
1080
840
1000
1310
830
850
700
1050
880
670
770
890
990
940
1090
1140
1110
930
1040
970
1320
1390
1070
1320
1010
930
Required Reading: Poetry, A Case Study: Choose ONE author:
Emily Dickinson
Langston Hughes
Robert Frost
Edgar Allan Poe
Walt Whitman
William Wordsworth
Maya Angelou
** You will find a collection of these poets’ poems at http://www.poemhunter.com/
** Read at least 10 poems and choose 2 for speech.
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BATESVILLE HIGH SCHOOL
SUMMER READING 2015
Overview—
Summer Reading Analytical Speech
(Required novel & choice novel)
Complete the analytical speech for the required novel and the novel of your choice. As you read, annotate
and take notes, which will be beneficial as you write your speech outline and choose your significant passages.
Write complete sentences for your outline. In addition, all outlines must follow the Modern Language
Association (MLA) guidelines. Incorporate ALL of the following aspects in your speech:
I. Introduction
A. Attention Getter
B. The thesis should be written as a sentence with a claim.
1. Correct: Friendship can help an individual through many difficult situations.
2. Incorrect: Friendship. This example is wrong because it is a topic, not a thesis.
II. Thematic similarities.
A. Discuss similarities of the theme in each text.
B. Discuss a literary term from the list that relates to the theme using both texts: e.g. symbol(s),
conflict(s)--internal/external (Choosing a higher-level literary term with an *asterisk will be
required to earn an A on this element.) Highlight and underline the term.
C. Oral Reading required from first text and needs to emphasize the theme: the Required novel or
the novel of your choice
(See more details below)
III. Thematic differences.
A. Discuss differences of the theme in each text
B. Discuss a literary term from the list that relates to the theme using both texts: e.g. symbol(s),
conflict(s)--internal/external (Choosing a higher-level literary term with an *asterisk will be
required to earn an A on this element.) Highlight and underline the term.
C. Oral Reading required from second text needs to emphasize the theme: the Required novel or
the novel of your choice
(See more details below)
IV. Conclusion
***You are required to submit a MLA Works Cited with your outline.
Additional requirements/information: (updated May 2015)
1. Oral Reading: A specific passage from each novel should be read to support your example (s) and
connection (s). After reading the passages, explain the significance and impact. Students must identify
the author and the page number where the oral reading passage is located in the text. Students are
expected to have a copy of their novels (hard copy or electronic).
2. Typed Outline: Due the first day of school. We will review the outlines and formal speech guidelines
the first day of school.
3. Time limit: (9th 4-6 min.; 10th 4-6 min.; 11th 5-7 min.)
4. Presentation Skills: Eye contact, voice & variety, body language, prepared & organized, does not read
directly from notes, and engages audience
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