Summer Reading for incoming Juniors
FOR STUDENTS ENROLLING IN CP ENGLISH III:
For this assignment, you will need to choose one of the following novels and work on the attached assignment. This will be due when you come back from summer break. You will need to obtain a copy of the book on your own.
For this assignment, you will need to choose one of the following novels and work on the attached assignment. This will be due when you come back from summer break. You will need to obtain a copy of the book on your own.
Please have this completed for the first day of the 2016-2017 school year. Not completing the summer reading assignment will result in a significant negative impact on grades.
DOWNLOAD THE CP ENGLISH III SUMMER READING ASSIGNMENT HERE.
STUDENTS ENROLLING IN CP ENGLISH III should choose one of the five books listed below. There is a brief description of each novel. Be sure to choose one that most interests you.
DOWNLOAD THE CP ENGLISH III SUMMER READING ASSIGNMENT HERE.
STUDENTS ENROLLING IN CP ENGLISH III should choose one of the five books listed below. There is a brief description of each novel. Be sure to choose one that most interests you.
The Woman Warrior (non-fiction/memoir)
by Maxine Hong Kingston
As a girl, Kingston lives in two confounding worlds: the California to which her parents have immigrated and the China of her mother’s “talk stories.” The fierce and wily women warriors of her mother’s tales clash jarringly with the harsh reality of female oppression out of which they come. Kingston’s sense of self emerges in the mystifying gaps in these stories, which she learns to fill with stories of her own. A warrior of words, she forges fractured myths and memories into an incandescent whole, achieving a new understanding of her family’s past and her own present.
by Maxine Hong Kingston
As a girl, Kingston lives in two confounding worlds: the California to which her parents have immigrated and the China of her mother’s “talk stories.” The fierce and wily women warriors of her mother’s tales clash jarringly with the harsh reality of female oppression out of which they come. Kingston’s sense of self emerges in the mystifying gaps in these stories, which she learns to fill with stories of her own. A warrior of words, she forges fractured myths and memories into an incandescent whole, achieving a new understanding of her family’s past and her own present.
The Things They Carried
by Tim O’Brien
The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O’Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three.
by Tim O’Brien
The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O’Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three.
Moloka'i: A Novel (historical fiction)
By Alan Brennert
Young Rachel Kalama, growing up in idyllic Honolulu in the 1890s, is part of a big, loving Hawaiian family, and dreams of seeing the far-off lands that her father, a merchant seaman, often visits. But at the age of seven, Rachel and her dreams are shattered by the discovery that she has leprosy. Forcibly removed from her family, she is sent to Kalaupapa, the isolated leper colony on the island of Moloka'i.
By Alan Brennert
Young Rachel Kalama, growing up in idyllic Honolulu in the 1890s, is part of a big, loving Hawaiian family, and dreams of seeing the far-off lands that her father, a merchant seaman, often visits. But at the age of seven, Rachel and her dreams are shattered by the discovery that she has leprosy. Forcibly removed from her family, she is sent to Kalaupapa, the isolated leper colony on the island of Moloka'i.
Into the Wild
by John Krakauer
In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. How McCandless came to die is the unforgettable story of Into the Wild.
by John Krakauer
In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. How McCandless came to die is the unforgettable story of Into the Wild.
The Illustrated Man
by Ray Bradbury
The tattoed man moves, and in the arcane designs scrawled upon his skin swirl tales beyond imagining -- tales of love and laughter, darkness and death, of mankind's glowing, golden past and dim, haunted future.
by Ray Bradbury
The tattoed man moves, and in the arcane designs scrawled upon his skin swirl tales beyond imagining -- tales of love and laughter, darkness and death, of mankind's glowing, golden past and dim, haunted future.