1. Chapter Summaries ;- as you read the chapters, write down what happened. Keep track of the plot.
2. Setting ;- list where the events take place. Note any changes in setting.
3. Characters ;- list the characters are you read. Be aware of the major and minor characters. They may be characterized in various ways: through physical descriptions (appearance), through psychological descriptions (thoughts), throughmoral descriptions (actions), and through social descriptions (how/where fit into society’'s levels).
4. Tone ;- the author’'s attitude toward the subject matter. It might be solemn, satiric, sad, happy, etc.
5. Theme ;- what message the author might be sending. It is also the author’'s purpose in writing the work. As yourselves why the author wrote the story.
Be sure to read ACTIVELY ;- that is, think as you read. Try to anticipate what might happen and why. Put yourselves in the characters’' situations. Think and feel for them as them.
Write all your thoughts and observations in your notebook as you read.
Do not wait until late in the summer to begin reading!!!! It is recommended that you read in July and August (do not wait until late August to start your reading).
Remember ;- These books are about you. They are statements on what it means to be human!
Enjoy the books and enjoy the summer.
READING LIST
Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451.
Frank, Anne. Diary of a Young Girl.
London, Jack. Call of the Wild.
Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Treasure Island.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Wells, H.G. War of the Worlds.
Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart.
Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice.
Baldwin, James. Go Tell It on the Mountain.
Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre.
Camus, Albert. The Stranger.
Cather, Willa. My Ántonia.
Conrad, Joseph. Lord Jim.
Heart of Darkness
Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment.
Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Essays.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby.
Forster, E.M. A Passage to India.
Golding, William. Lord of the Flies.
Hardy, Thomas. Tess of the D'Urbervilles.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter.
Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls.
A Farewell to Arms
Homer. The Odyssey.
The Iliad.
Hugo, Victor. Les Misérables.
Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Ibsen, Henrik. A Doll's House(drama).
James, Henry. The Turn of the Screw.
Washington Square.
Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
Dubliners
Kafka, Franz. The Trial.
Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Lawrence, Jerome Inherit the Wind(drama).
Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird.
Llewellyn, Richard. How Green Was My Valley.
McCullers, Carson. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.
The Member of the Wedding.
Miller, Arthur. The Crucible.
Death of a Salesman
Morrison, Toni Beloved
Song of Solomon
Orwell, George. 1984.
Animal Farm.
Potok, Chaim. The Chosen.
Remarque, Erich Maria. All Quiet on the Western Front.
Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye.
Shakespeare, William. Hamlet.
King Lear.
Much Ado About Nothing.
Sonnets.
Steinbeck, John. Of Mice and Men.
The Grapes of Wrath.
Thoreau, Henry David. Walden.
Tolkien, J.R.R. The Lord of the Rings.
Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Updike, John. Rabbit, Run.
Warren, Robert Penn. All the King's Men.
Wharton, Edith. The Age of Innocence.
White, T.H. The Once and Future King.
Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Wilder, Thornton. Our Town.
The Bridge of San Luis Rey.
Williams, Tennessee. A Streetcar Named Desire(drama).
Brianchoi
