Shore Regional High School
English Department
Prepared by Victoria Koontz and Cecilia Ross
Summer Reading Titles
Grade Level
College Prep
Honors
9th
Troy by Adele Geras
Living Up the Street by
Gary Soto
Additional title:
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray
Bradbury
10th
The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemmingway
The Bell Jar by Sylvia
Plath
The Old Man and the Sea
The Bell Jar by Sylvia
Plath
Pilgrimage at Tinker
Creek by Annie Dillard
11th
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by
Robert Louis Stevenson
Frankenstein by Mary
Shelley
Honors/IB and AP
assignments will be
distributed at annual
meeting
12th
On the Road by Jack
Kerouac
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Color Purple by Alice
Walker
Honors/IB and AP
assignments will be
distributed at annual
meeting
Overall Requirements
 Each grade level will have at least two required
summer reading titles
 Students will be required to not only read the novel,
but complete an annotative quote log
 The annotative quote log will be collected and
students will be permitted to use it to construct a
graded in-class essay during the first week of school
Additional Grade Level
Assignments
 Each grade’s additional assignment will ask students to
demonstrate their understanding of the skills practiced
throughout the previous school year
 9th grade will construct character and theme log
 10th grade will construct character, theme and motif log
 11th grade will construct character, theme, motif and
symbolism log
 12th grade will construct character, theme, motif, symbolism
and literary theory log

*Honors/IB and AP will complete teacher implemented assignments
in lieu of these assignments
Annotative Quote Log Guidelines
for Students
• Analyze the parts of the quote, identifying at least two words
or phrases that resonate with your larger purpose; refer
directly to this word or phrase. Build links between your ideas
and the ideas of the text you’re analyzing.
• Think of the quote as a “specimen on the table.” You are taking it
apart and showing us what you see in it. If the quotation is
particularly rich or complex, you will need to spend more time
“unpacking” its significance.
• Interpret the significance of this quote to a particular
character or theme. Tell your reader what meaning this quote
holds in relationship to the book as a whole.
•
Explain how your analysis of this passage relates to what you
take to be author’s central idea and/or pertinent character traits
or plot points and how it helps you advance your ideas and
feelings about the story as well.
Sample Annotative Theme Quote
Log
Theme
Control over one’s destiny
(SAMPLE)
Search for happiness despite
hardship
Search for happiness despite
hardship
Search for happiness despite
hardship
Effects of war
Quote with page number
“Polyxena wondered if the Gods would forgive her for finding a small measure of happiness
in being near Iason. Was any happiness allowed at such a sorrowful time?” (Geras 250).
Analysis
(what does this quote prove about this character?)
In this quote, Polyxena weighs her own choices with what the gods expect of her. She worries if she will
be punished for taking her destiny into her own hands.
Sample Annotative Character
Quote Log
Character Name
Iason
(SAMPLE)
Xanthe
Xanthe
Marpessa
Quote with page number
“As Iason brushed the coats of one horse after another, he
wondered about the passage of the days and nights, and about
the way that life returned to being ordinary after even the most
horrifying of events” (Geras 213).
Analysis
(what does this quote prove about this character?)
Iason is clearly a sensitive and thoughtful character. This quotes shows
that he is introspective and reflective as he ponders the events of the
Trojan War and the effects they have had on his own life and the lives of
those around him.
Access
 Students will receive hard copies of the logs and
instructional PowerPoint slides at the conclusion of
the English final exam period.
 All documents will be available for viewing and
download on the Shore Regional High School site
throughout the summer.