ASSIGNMENTS

See assignments listed by month below. In many cases the books and/or stories are available by clicking on the link. If a link is not available, use your library card!

Know the following elements of each novel: Plot, theme, setting, narrator (point of view), protagonist, antagonist, characters & descriptions, tone, conflict (see elements of novel below)

AUGUST

Author Profiles: One paragraph minimum on each author for your grade level, include time period, influences and works. 

SEPTEMBER

9

Animal Farm by George Orwell   

10

Booker T. Washington   Up From Slavery: An Autobiography (CHAPTER 17)

11

The Night by Elie Wiesel      

12

Wuthering Heights by Emily  Bronte        

 The Ant and the Chrysalis  Aesop's Fable

"I Hear American Singing"  by Walt Whitman

 Nature by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
She Walk in Beauty by Lord Byron   

OCTOBER

9

The Odyssey by Homer

10

THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE by  by Edgar A. Poe 

11

Eric Hermannson's Soul  by Willa Cather  

12

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Lewis Stevenson 

The Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Christian Anderson

NOVEMBER

9

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

10

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain   

11

Main Street by Sinclair Lewis     

12

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley  

Sonnet 18 by Shakespeare

Friendship  by Henry David Thoreau

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

To A Skylark by Percy Shelley

DECEMBER

9

"How the Camel Got Its Hump" by Kipling 

10

Ralph Waldo Emerson   Conduct of Life (1860)  Behavior

11

Chicago by Carl Sandburg 

12

If thou must love me, let it be for nought   by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

JANUARY

9

  The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant

10

"Bartleby, the Scrivener" by Herman Melville  

11

William Faulkner    As I Lay Dying    

12

The Adventures of Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie   

To A Mouse by Robert Burns

 Battle Hymn of the Republic by Julia Ward Howe

Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King

Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Charge of the Light Brigade  

FEBRUARY

9

 The Pearl by John Steinbeck 

10

Man Without a Country Edward Everett Hale

11

F. Scott Fitzgerald  The Great Gatsby  (9)

12

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells   

Auld Lang Syne by Robert Burns  

Part 1: Life Are friends delight or pain by Emily Dickinson 

The Waste Land by T S Eliot 

Youth and Art  by Robert Browning

MARCH

9

The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien    

10

Washington Irving Rip Van Winkle & The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

11

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair 

Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9  Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Chapter 27 Chapter 28 Chapter 29 Chapter 30 Chapter 31

12

ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND   by Lewis Carroll   (12)

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (12 pages)

APRIL

RESEARCH PAPER

Solitude ( from Waldon) by Henry David Thoreau

APRIL & MAY

9

Beowulf & Grendel

10

The Call of the Wild by Jack London         

11

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

12

Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet  

SUMMER READING FORM

Complete the form and bring to class the 1st day of class on August 17th

Name of Book _________________________

Author _______________________________

1. Setting (time & place)

2. Protagonist 

3. Antagonist

4. Plot

5. Theme/s

6. Point of view

7. Conflict

8. How did the story end

Describe the characters in detail (what they did in the story, what happened to them, physical characteristics)

9. Character 1

10. Character 2

11. Character 3

12. Character 4

13. Which character did you like? Why?

14. Which character did you not like? Why?

15. Did you like the book? Why/why not?

Summer Reading List

Read the book from your grade level for the fall.  Complete the Summer Reading Form (at end of May assignments) for the book and bring to the first day of class. If you make an A on the form, you will not have to take the book test.

9th GRADE

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

10th GRADE

 The Scarlet Letter  by Nathaniel Hawthorn 

11th GRADE

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

12th GRADE

Pride and Prejudice  by Jane Austin 

AUTHORS

9th Grade Authors

1.Pearl Buck

2.George Orwell

3.Rudyard Kipling

4.JRR Toilkin
5.Arthur Conan Doyle

6.Homer

7.William Golding

8.Harper Lee

9.Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

10.Remarque

11.Alexander Dumas

12.Sir Walter Scott

13.Williamn Shakespeare

14.John Knoles

15.William Dampier

16.Robert Lewis Stevenson

17.Aldous Huxley 

18.Jean M. Auel 

19.Bram Stoker 

20.Chaim Potok

21.Daphne Du Maurier

22.Miguel Cervantes

23.Henrik Ibsen

24.Franz Kafka

24. John Steinbeck

10th Grade Authors

1.Benjamin Franklin

2.Washington Irving

3.Frances Scott Key

4.William Cullen Bryant

5.James Fennimore Cooper

6.Edgar Allen Poe

7.Ralph Waldo Emerson

8.Nathaniel Hawthorne

9.Henry David Thoreau

10.Frederick Douglas

11.Herman Melville

12.Harriet Beecher Stowe

13.Henry Longfellow

14.Oliver Wendell Holmes

15.Rebecca Harding Davis

16.Louisa May Alcott

17.Edward Everett Hale

18.Abraham Lincoln

19.Mark Twain

20.Walt Whitman

21.Bret Harte

22.Henry James

23.Joel Chandler Harris

22.Helen Hunt Jackson

23.Emily Dickinson

24.Ida Tarbell

25.Stephen Crane

26.Kate Chopin

27.Charlotte Perkins Gilman  

11th Grade Authors

I1.da Tarbell

2.Henry James

3.W.E.B. Dubois

4.Jack London

5.Mary Austin

6.Edith Wharton

7.Mark Twain

8.Upton Sinclair

9.Gertrude Stein

10.Jane Addams

11.Theodore Dreiser

12.Robert Frost

13.Rachel Lindsay

14.Sinclair Lewis

14.T.S. Eliot

15.Willa Cather

16.Edgar Lee Masters

17.Carl Sandburg

18.Edna St. Vincent Millay,

19.F. Scott Fitzgerald

20.Ezra Pound

21.Eugene O’Neill

22.James Joyce

23.Ernest Hemingway

24.Edna Ferber

25.William Faulkner

26.Langston Hughes

27.Martin Luther King  

12th Grade Authors

1.William Shakespeare

2.John Milton

3.Henry Fielding

4.Charles Lamb

5.William Wordsworth

6.Percy Shelley

7.Richard Brinsley Sheridan

8.Charles Dickens

9.Jane Austin

10.Robert Browning

11.D. H. Lawrence

12.Lewis Carroll

13.Lord Byron

14.Agatha Christie

15.Robert Lewis Stevenson

16.William Thackery

17.H. G. Wells

18.John Keats

19.Daphne Du Maurier

20.Charlotte Bronte

21.Mary Shelley

22.J. R. R. Tolkien

23.T.S. Elliott

24.Oscar Wilde

25.Thomas Hardy

26.Henrik Ibsen

27.Christopher Marlowe