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English 12 IBSummer Assignments |
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I. The Great Gatsby Reading and Responding (required)
Select version:
EITHER: Check out from ERC and use sticky notes to mark text for commentary
OR: Purchase your own copy if you wish to mark text directly
NEW edition Ð page numbering slightly different
Books West or Borders (ISBN 0743273567) $13.95
USED edition Ð same page numbering as ERC version
Amazon or Alibris.com (ISBN 0020198817) $4.00 and up (used, incl. shipping)
Buy ruled "Composition" notebook for this and other 12IB assignments.
Read novel:
Read once for enjoyment, for the story and its personal meaning to you, with a cool glass of iced tea in the shade.
Re-read/review with sticky notes, highlighter, and response journal at hand.
DUE: READING to be completed by Thursday, August 27.
Response journal:
Complete all Compo entries as detailed on Page 2 of these instructions.
Assignment will be graded and should reflect your close reading of the text.
DUE: RESPONSES to be completed by Monday, August 31.
II. Passage of Choice (required)
In addition to the assigned novel, we hope you will read, read, read works of your own choiceÑfrom short stories to novels to plays to poetry to songs and more. From this exploration, please choose a short passage to share with the class.
DUE: Typed or photocopied PASSAGE by Friday, August 28.
III. World Lit (optional)
Remember that you can be revising your WL Assignment 1 over the summer and can be developing ideas for your WL Assignment 2. While the final versions wonÕt be due until late in the semester, the works on which theyÕre based are fresh in your mind now!
With that, we hope you have a great summer
filled with recreation, reflection, friendship and reading.
We very much look forward to our class together next fall as we continue our English A1 studies!
I. The Great
Gatsby Reading and Response
Journal
As you would expect, we want you to interact with the novel through reader response journal entries! We will be doing close reading commentaries on this novel, as well as all of the works for Semester 1 of English 12 IB. In preparation for those commentaries, use the following format to write nine reader response entries, one per chapter.
For each chapter:
A. Choose a 30- to 40-line passage that you appreciate as meaningful to the work as a whole and relevant to the literary feature assigned for that chapter (setting, character, etc.).
B. Make a photocopy of the passage and note its page number/s or copy from the etext available at http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/f/fitzgerald/f_scott/gatsby/ . You are encouraged to color-mark, highlight, or otherwise make notes on the passage. (If you have no copier when reading, note page number and start/end of the passage, then insert the copy before turning in Compo.)
C. Paste/tape the copied passage onto the left-facing page of your Composition notebook.
D. Write your response to each passage, as directed below, on the right-facing page/s that follow.
Complete the following entries. Remember to discuss literary features + text evidence + effect in each response.
- Chapter 1 Ð select a passage that describes the setting. Discuss how this passage contributes to your interpretation of the work as a whole, including stylistic devices* that affect the creation of the setting in your mind.
- Chapter 2 - select a passage that develops a character. Discuss how this passage contributes to your interpretation of the work as a whole, including literary strategies* that affect your reaction to this character.
- Chapter 3 - select a passage that describes the party. Discuss how this passage contributes to your interpretation of the work as a whole, including stylistic devices* that affect your reaction to this party and its participants.
- Chapter 4 - select a passage that gives the reader background information about Gatsby. Discuss how this passage contributes to your interpretation of the work as a whole, including literary strategies* that affect your feelings about Gatsby.
- Chapter 5 - select a passage that develops the relationship between Daisy and Gatsby. Discuss how this passage contributes to your interpretation of the work as a whole, including literary strategies* that contribute to this relationship and shape your own reaction to both Daisy and Gatsby.
- Chapter 6 - select a passage that reveals the nature of the narrator. Discuss how this passage and the narrator contribute to your interpretation of the work as a whole. Identify the narratorÕs tone and literary strategies that shape it*; comment on the narratorÕs purpose in this chapter, as well as the effect the narrator is having on your reactions to the events and characters.
- Chapter 7 - select a passage that utilizes symbolism. Discuss how this passage contributes to your interpretation of the work as a whole, and comment on the effect of the symbol/s on the overall meaning of the novel.
- Chapter 8 - select a passage that reveals NickÕs attitudes. Discuss how this passage contributes to your interpretation of the work as a whole, including strategies* employed by the author to reveal these attitudes. Comment on the role they play in your own reaction to the ending and to the novel as a whole.
- Chapter 9 - How does the ending shape your overall interpretation of the novel? What theme/s stand out to you? Speculate on why this work is an American classic that is still studied and remembered.
II. Passage of Choice
To encourage you to explore the world of words on your own terms...
For the second day of class (Friday, August 29), bring a piece of writing that you love.
v 10 to 40 lines
v Excerpt from poem, song lyrics, novel, other
v Typed or photocopied
v Author and source cited
v Your name
Choose a passage you find powerful and well-written. You don't have to understand everything about it, though; one paradox of literature is that text can be both meaningful and mysterious.
Ms. Bowen offers one of her favorites as an example...
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from "Isn't That What Friends Are For?"
I've been scraping little shavings off my ration of light And I've formed it into a ball, and each time I pack a bit more onto it I make a bowl of my hands and I scoop it from its secret cache Under a loose board in the floorAnd I blow across it and I send it to you Against those moments whenThe darkness blows under your door
Isn't that what friends are for?
Bruce Cockburn, singer-songwriterBreakfast in New Orleans, Dinner in TimbuktuRykodisc, 1999
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Selected Literary Features Ð Fiction
Adapted from a list compiled by Laura Bokesch, Library Media Teacher http://www.orangeusd.k12.ca.us/yorba/literary_elements.htm