CP IV A Summer Reading Instructions
Greetings, Class of 2012!
We look forward to your senior year.
Our goal this year is to prepare you for the demands of college reading and writing. We have much to
do. The work is sometimes difficult, but with effort and organization, you can do it. You may even find
yourself enjoying the process of learning; we hope so!
If you have questions about this summer assignment, please contact one of us:
Mrs. Crnkovich ~ crnkovich@mullenhigh.com
Mrs. Filholm ~ filholm@mullenhigh.com
Enjoy your reading!
1. Purchase a copy of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. Any version, including a used copy, is fine.
2. Read the book carefully. As you read (and after), complete the Close Reading Packet. Complete it in ink, use
proper citations, and turn in on the first day of class.
a. This Close Reading Packet requires you to find and record evidence as you read.
i. All evidence (quotes) should be cited properly, with chapter and page number.
b. Print the packet before you begin reading, and have it with you as you read the novel.
c. Read and follow instructions exactly.
3. As you read: On the last page of every chapter, write a summary of that chapter. Your teacher will check for this
work inside your book.
4. Also, inside your book: for each example you select as evidence for the Close Reading Packet, highlight or
underline that selection in your book. Mark each selection with the abbreviation provided in red in the Close
Reading Packet.
5. Be prepared for tests and graded discussions on the text.
6. If you do a good job on this summer assignment, you will be in good stead at the start of class, since we will
begin the trimester with Jane Eyre. If, however, you do not do the assignment, you will find yourself in a giant
hole.
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Name ___________________________________________________________________ Period _____
Close Reading Packet: Jane Eyre
Theme
What does this work say about real life?
What message is the author trying to convey, through characters and plot and setting, etc., to those opf us who
are her readers?
After you read Jane Eyre, fill in the blank for three possible Theme Statements, below. Use an abstract noun for
the first blank in each sentence, and finish each thought simply and accurately.
**Note: you are making the leap here between the book and what it says about real life – so no mention of
characters, etc. from the book.**
Theme Statement examples:
A theme of Star Wars is the exploration of identity.
A theme of Catcher in the Rye is the loss of innocence.
A theme of True Grit is the pursuit of justice.
Now your turn:
1. A theme of Jane Eyre is the ___________________________________________ of
_____________________________________________________________________.
2. A theme of Jane Eyre is the ___________________________________________ of
_____________________________________________________________________.
3. A theme of Jane Eyre is the ___________________________________________ of
_____________________________________________________________________.
Genre (G)
In what category of literature does the work belong?
Identify: fiction or non-fiction? Novel, novella, short story, poem, play, film script?
Identify Genre
How does the genre relate to the work’s theme(s)?
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Title (Title)
What might be the significance of the work’s title?
Title
Why did the author choose this title?
How does title relate to the work’s theme(s)?
Structure (make notes in margins)
What is the central method of organization in the work? How are the parts of the work ordered?
What might the structure have to do with developing the theme(s) of the work?
Setting (Sg)
What is the time, place, and world in which the action takes place?
[Jane Eyre encompasses five major settings. Name each and provide two quotes from the novel—with chapter
and page numbers—to describe each setting. Then answer the questions in the second column.]
Setting #1:
Two quotes:
Setting #2:
Two quotes:
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How does each setting help develop the theme(s) of
the work?
Setting #3:
Two quotes:
Setting #4:
Two quotes:
Setting #5:
Two quotes:
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Point of View (POV)
Identify the point of view of the work. Select two quotations that are representative of the work. List them in
the left column and answer questions for each in the right column.
Point of View
How close is the narrator to the events being narrated?
(Two examples)
How closely is s/he involved? How does this
involvement or detachment contribute to developing
the work’s theme(s)? How reliable is the narrator?
Tone (T)
Identify the central emotion from which the narrator speaks. What mood does the author’s tone create in the
reader? List two quotes that show tone and discuss in the right column.
Tone
How does each quote create tone?
(Two examples)
How does the tone relate to the work’s theme(s)?
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Plot
Write a summary, by section (use the five major settings as sections), of what is happening in each passage.
Plot Summary
Think: Who? What? When? Where? Why?
How does the plot relate to the work’s theme(s)?
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Character (CD)
How are the major characters in the work depicted? Find two quotes for each of the following characters. Each
quote should show something about how the character acts, what he or she believes, or how the narrator feels
about the character. Write the quote in the left column and the analysis of it (what it shows about the character)
it the right column.
Character/Quotes
What does this quote reveal about the character?
(Two examples per character)
What are the character’s motivations?
How does this character contribute to the work’s
theme(s)?
Jane Eyre
Mr. Rochester
St. John
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Helen
Miss Temple
Mr. Brocklehurst
Dialogue (“”)
Notice the dialogue between characters in the text. Select two examples of dialogue that helps build the work’s
theme(s). Analyze the quotes in the right column.
Dialogue between Characters
How does the author use each quote to create comedy or
(Two Examples)
drama? Does it reveal character, create tone, build
suspense? How does dialogue relate to the theme(s) of the
work?
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Descriptive Details (Dtl)
Notice some of the sensory details in the work (can be seen, heard, touched, tasted, or smelled).
Descriptive Sensory Details
How do these details help create the theme(s) of the
(Two Examples)
work?
Conflict/Contest (Cflct)
What is the nature of the central conflict or drama in the work? Find two examples.
Describe the conflict
Categorize it: man vs. self; man vs.
Analyze it: how does the conflict
(what is being contested and by
society; man vs. nature; man vs.
relate to the work’s theme(s)?
whom?).
fate/God; man vs. technology, etc.
(Two Examples)
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Epiphany (E)
Any sudden realizations or turning points by the narrator and/or reader
Epiphany
How does it relate to the work’s theme(s)?
(Two Examples)
Oppositions (vs.)
Notice centrally important pairs of opposites, and name them.
The opposites may be: characters, symbols, ideas, settings, images, sounds, etc.
Oppositions
How are they opposites?
(Two examples)
Which does the author value?
How does the opposition relate to the work’s theme(s)?
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Parallel Elements (II)
Notice centrally important elements to which the author gives similar weight – they are somehow of similar
value.
Parallel elements may be: characters, colors, symbols, ideas, settings, images, sounds, etc.
Parallel Elements
How are they parallel?
(Two examples)
Does the author value or disvalue these elements?
How do the elements relate to the work’s theme(s)?
Diction (W)
Diction means the individual words an author uses.
Notice two words, which you do not know, that seem especially important to the work.
Fill in the information below.
Word
Definition within context of work
How is this word important to the
(cite places it is used)
work’s theme(s)?
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Syntax (SYN)
Notice the way sentences are put together in this work.
Find two examples that are typical of the syntax, and analyze them as requested.
Syntax
What do you notice about: length/types of sentences,
(The way grammar and grammar patterns are used)
types of verbs, punctuation, etc?
(Two Examples)
Sound (circle the example)
Notice any patterns of sound in the work, such as alliteration, assonance, consonance, sibilance, and rhyme.
Pattern of Sound
Name it (see terms, above)
How is this pattern of sound
(Two Examples)
important to the work’s theme(s)?
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Figures of Speech (FL)
Notice the way the author uses language creatively.
Look for: metaphors, similes, personification, synecdoche, oxymoron, paradox, irony, apostrophe,
onomatopoeia.
Figure of Speech
Name it: see list above
How does this figure of speech help
(Two examples)
contribute to the work’s theme(s)?
Allusions (allus)
Notice any quick, indirect references within the work to something in literature, history, religion, mythology, etc.
The reference is not explained; the reader must be educated to understand it.
Allusion
To what does this allude – what is it
How is this allusion important to the
(Two Examples)
making reference to?
work’s theme(s)?
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Images, Imagery (Im)
Notice categories of related images in the work. For example, are there three or more images which might fall
into one of these categories?
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Nature
Urban
Clothing
Domestic
Machine
Technology
Sports
Religion
Animal
Color
Imagery
Cite three examples of images which
fall into a similar category.
Describe the category:
What do these images have in
common?
How do these images relate to the
work’s theme(s)?
Elements of Comedy and Satire (CS)
Notice any humor or satire (poking fun of the foibles of society) in the work.
Elements of Comedy & Satire
Are there elements of surprise, absurdity, sexual humor,
(Two examples)
physical mishap, comic characters or details?
How do these elements help create the work’s theme(s)?
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