Summer Reading Assignment
English II Honors
Summer Reading Book:
The Elegance of a Hedgehog
By: Muriel Barbery
Directions: You will be annotating for 3 specific aspects as you work your way through the novel. You will need to have 3 different
highlighters/pens so that you can annotate appropriately. You will also need to make educational comments in the margins- refer to
the list below if you need some examples for appropriate comment ideas.
What to Annotate for:
•Characterization (Blue) - Character traits of the main characters that you come across throughout the novel.
•Literary Terms (Yellow) - Anytime you recognize a Lit Term, highlight it.
•Important Plot Events (Green) - Highlight anything that you feel is important to the overall progress of the novel.
As you work with a text, consider all of the ways that you can connect with what you are reading. Here are some suggestions that will
help you with your annotations:
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Define words or slang; make the words real with examples from your experiences; explore why the author would have used
a particular word or phrase.
Make connections to other parts of the book. Feel free to use direct quotes from the book.
Make connections to other texts you have read or seen, including:
o Movies
o Comic books/graphic novels
o News events
o Other books, stories, plays, songs, or poems
Draw a picture when a visual connection is appropriate.
Re-write, paraphrase, or summarize a particularly difficult passage or moment.
Make meaningful connections to your own life experiences.
Describe a new perspective you may now have.
Explain the historical context or traditions/social customs that are used in the passage.
Offer an analysis or interpretation of what is happening in the text.
Point out and discuss literary techniques that the author is using.
English II Honors Book List
2015-2016 School Year
In August the PTO does a fund raiser at the Barnes and Nobel on Shea. If you purchase your novels there, you can help
give 10% back to Desert Mountain!
Title
Publisher
Author
ISBN #
Cost
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
9780385474542
$9.99
Hamlet
Knopf Doubleday Publish.
Group
Simon & Schuster
William Shakespeare
9780743482783
$2.99
Frankenstein
The Power of One
Kite Runner
Bantam Classics
Ballantine Books
Simon & Schuster
Mary Shelley
Bryce Courtenay
Khaled Hosseini
0-553-21247-8
9780345410054
978-1442364226
$4.95
$10.99
$9.99
English II Honors
Adam and North | DMHS
English II Honors
Adam and North | DMHS