Summer Reading Assignment for Form III: Summer 2015
Mr. Hauser (ahauser@cistercian.org)
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SUMMER MANDATORY READING ASSIGNMENT
You should acquire, through means noble or nefarious, a copy of King Arthur and His Knights
of the Round Table written by Roger Lancelyn Green. It can be any issue of this book, but it must be
written by Roger Lancelyn Green, or else you will be very confused come fall about why you’re failing
all your assessments. (It has happened before.) The most recent edition of the book is published by
Puffin Classics and has the ISBN 978-0141321011.
The assignment for this summer is to practice something called
active reading. Active
reading means doing something more than just moving your eyes over the words on the page.
Specifically, I would like you all to annotate while you read. On each page of the novel you should
write at least one note, question, or comment. If you get to the end of a page and you don’t have
anything to write, it means that you didn’t read the page carefully enough – so read it again!
Here’s an example from my predecessor, Mr. O’Brien’s, very own book:
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OPTIONAL (EXTRA CREDIT) ASSIGNMENT
Read a work from the Recommended Summer Reading List that is posted on Cistercian’s
website. It cannot be a book that you have read for another class, including a summer class-- choose
something that you want to read! Then complete one of the following (and make sure to write
somewhere the book’s title and author):
A. Write a short story or poem based on one of the characters or persons in the work. Some
suggestions you might want to try: the tale of a character’s life before or after the events of the story;
rewrite an important scene from a different point of view; rewrite part of the work if you or another
person were put into the story.
B. Write a short “creative nonfiction” journal piece based on your experience reading the work
or relating its events to your own life in some way.
C. Do some additional research on some detail within the work that interested you, then write
an “encyclopedia entry” of your own on the subject. Cite your sources (and don’t just copy them).
Teach me something!
The extra credit assignment will be worth a quiz grade. It should be about 1-2 double-spaced pages
long.
IMPORTANT: These assignments are due on the first day of class, August 18th. Have your
annotated copy of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table written by Roger Lancelyn Green
ready to go on the above date.
I look forward to working with you in August!
-Mr. Hauser
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