NOTICE:
Please scroll all the way through this document.
These pages include the summer reading list,
followed by Pre-AP assignments for each grade.
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Summer 2013 Reading Program
Fountain Lake High School
One of the five goals of the Southern Regional Education Board for a rigorous high school literacy program is that students will read
the equivalent of 25 books per year across the curriculum. The SREB recommends that 8 to 10 of those books be assigned through the
English class and that some of those books be assigned as part of a summer reading assignment. With that goal in mind, the Fountain Lake
High School English department has prepared the following assignments for all students in grades 9-12.
These courses are college preparatory courses which contain college level material. Although great care has been taken with the
selection of these book lists, some books may contain material which some readers may find offensive. However, part of the high school
curriculum is designed to help students develop the ability to weigh literary matters against their own moral standards.
The summer reading requirements for FLHS students entering the 9th-12th grades are as follows:
 Books read must be selected from the approved lists which will be available by May 28, 2013 at
www.flcobras.com/highschoollibrary.
 Books selected from the approved lists must include one non-fiction title.
 Accelerated Reader (AR) POINT requirements:
o Regular English classes: Earn 15 AR points.
o PreAP/AP English classes: Earn 25 AR points.
 PreAP/AP English classes will have summer assignments in addition to the AR point requirements. Please see English
teachers or www.flcobras.com for additional summer assignments in these classes. Books assigned as summer reading by
the PreAP/AP teacher can count toward the summer reading point goal, but may require additional work/projects at the
discretion of the teacher.
 GRADING:
o An average score out of 100 points will be calculated based on points earned.
o An average score out of 100 points will be calculated based on average percent correct on all AR tests taken during the
summer reading period.
 200 points possible for summer reading in Regular English classes
 PreAP/AP classes total points possible will differ based on additional assignments
o Summer reading date range: May 29—August 23, 2013(first Friday of first week back in school).
o The “No Zero” policy does NOT apply to Summer Reading assignments. All tests must be taken and PreAP/AP
assignments completed and turned in by the end of the school day August 23, 2013.
o Summer Reading counts only toward Summer Reading and cannot be added to the points that are due during the first 9
weeks.
oOnce the deadline has passed, no additional points can be accumulated toward this goal. All points earned after the
deadline will be counted toward the first 9 weeks AR goal.
 Many of the listed books are available for free as e-books. Project Gutenberg has most classics available as computer
downloads and Kindle downloads. See http://www.gutenberg.org/.
 It is the student’s responsibility to make sure that an AR test exists for each book selected. Students should also make
certain that they have not previously taken tests over books selected. See www.arbookfind.com for test availability and
https://hosted120.renlearn.com/739154/Home Connect/Login.aspx for testing history.
The AR tests may be taken during the summer in the high school library or upon returning to school in August. For questions, Ms.
Karen Vice may be reached at kvice@flcobras.com or in the FLHS Library (701-1746) on the following days this summer:
June 11, June 29, July 9, July 27, and August 6.
Students may check out books and take AR tests on these dates from 12 PM – 6 PM. Remember that the Garland County Library is
also a great summer resource for our students. For more details on summer activities and books available see their website
http://www.garland.lib.ar.us/ . Have fun reading this summer!
----------------------Please detach & keep the above information for reference.--------------------Sign and return the bottom form by May 1, 2013.
We, the undersigned, understand the summer reading requirements of Fountain Lake High School and expect to meet them by
8/23/13.
Student will be entering:  Grade ________ Regular English
OR  Grade ________ PreAP/AP English
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Fountain Lake High School
Summer Reading List 2013
FICTION
Title
21 Proms
Aansi Boys
Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian, The
Across the Universe
Adoration of Jenna Fox, The
Adventures of Augie March
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
After Ever After
Author
Levithan
Gaiman, Neil
Alexie, Sherman
Reis, Beth
Pearson, Mary E.
Bellow, Saul
Twain, Mark
Sonnenblick, Jordan
A.R.
Points
11
16
6
15
9
42
18
7
Alanna: The First Adventure
Alchemist, The
All Quiet on the Western Front
All These Things I’ve Done
Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: A Novel, The
Amazing Grace
American Tragedy, An
Amulet of Samarkant, The
Amy & Roger’s Epic Detour
An Abundance of Katherines
An American Tragedy
Animal Farm
Anna Dressed In Blood
Annie John
Antigone
Are We There Yet?
Art of Racing in the Rain, The
As I Lay Dying
Ashes
Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the
Nation, Volume 1: The Pox Party, The
Atonement
Awakening, The
Babbitt
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Bamboo People
Bee Season
Before I Fall
Beginner’s Luck
Bell Jar, The
Beloved
Beowulf
Between Shades of Gray
Birthmarked
Bitter End
Black and White: The Confrontation
Blankets: An Illustrated Novel
Blind Faith
Blood Hounds
Blood Red Road
Blue Girl, The
Boneshaker, The
Pierce, Tamora
Coelho, Paulo
Remarque, Erich Maria
Zevin, Gabrielle
Chabon, Michael
Shull, Megan
Dreiser, Theosodre
Stroud, Jonathan
Matson, Morgan
Green, John
Dreiser, Theodore
Orwell, George
Blake, Kendare
Kincaid, Jamaica
Sophocles
Levithan, David
Stein, Garth
Faulkner, William
Bick, Ilsa
Anderson, M.T.
7
6
10
13
38
6
65
19
14
10
65
5
12
7
2
6
11
9
16
13
McEwan, Ian
Chopin, Kate
Lewis, Sinclair
Sije, Dai
Perkins, Mitali
Goldberg, Myla
Oliver, Lauren
Pedersen, Laura
Plath, Sylvia
Morrison, Toni
22
12
22
8
7
17
18
20
11
15
5
9
16
13
4
2
10
7
12
13
14
Sepetys, Ruta
O’Brien, Caragh M
Brown, Jennifer
Brimmer, Larry
Thompson, Craig
Wittinger, Ellen
Pfeffer, Susan Beth
Young, Moira
deLint, Charles
Milford, Kate
Book Thief, The
Boy Meets Boy
Boy21
Brave New World
Breaking Dawn
Breaking Point
Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life, A
Brief History of the Dead, The
Bright Young Things
Brisingr
Brooklyn Rose
But I Love Him
By the Time You Read This, I’ll Be Dead
Call of the Wild, The
Candide
Canterbury Tales, The
Caramelo
Cardturner: A Novel About a King, a Queen, and a Joker, The
Catalyst
Catch-22
Catcher in the Rye, The
Catching Fire
Chains
Cherry Orchard, The
Children of Hurin, The
Chocolate War, The
Chosen One, The
Chosen, The
Clockwork Angel
Cold Mountain
Color Purple, The
Confederacy of Dunces, A
Copper Sun
Crank
Crime and Punishment (Unabridged)
Crossing the Tracks
Crow
Crow Lake
Crucible, The
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The
Curveball: The Year I Lost My Grip
Cyrano de Bergerac
Zuwak, Markus
Levithan
Young, Moira
Huxley, Aldous
Meyer, Stephenie
Flinn, Alex
Reinhardt, Dana
Brockmeier, Kevin
Godbersen, Anna
Paolini, Christopher
Rinaldi, Ann
Grace, Amanda
Peters, Julie Anne
London, Jack
Voltaire
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Cisneros, Sandra
Sachar, Louis
Anderson, Laurie Halse
Heller, Joseph
Salinger, J.D.
Collins, Suzanne
Anderson, Laurie Halse
Chekhov, Anton
Tolkien, J.R.R.
Cormier, Robert
Williams, Carol Lynch
Potok, Chaim
Clare, Cassandra
Frazier, Charles
Walker, Alice
Toole, John Kennedy
Draper, Sharon M.
Hopkins, Ellen
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Stuber, Barbara
Wright, Barbara
Lawson, Mary
Miller, Arthur
Haddon, Mark
Sonnenblick, Jordan
Rostand, Edmond
18
8
8
11
28
7
9
14
15
45
4
7
6
7
5
26
23
9
7
30
11
16
11
12
8
6
15
21
27
9
20
11
5
40
8
10
12
5
10
7
7
Dairy Queen
Daniel Half Human: And the Good Nazi
Dark Life
Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares
Daughter of Smoke and Bone
Dead Beautiful
Dead-Tossed Waves, The
Dear John
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Death in the Family, A
Dirty Little Secrets
Divergent
Doctor Zhivago
Doll’s House, A
Don Quixote (Unabridged)
Dune
Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things, The
Earth: The Operator’s Manual
East of Eden
Eclipse
Eleventh Plague, The
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Farewell to Arms, A
Fat Boy Chronicles: Inspired by a True Story, The
Fathers and Sons
Faust
Feed
Forgotten Fire
Frankenstein
Gardener, The
Glass Menagerie, The
Glimpse
Go Tell it on the Mountain
God of Animals, The
Good Soldier, The
Grapes of Wrath, The
Great Gatsby, The
Grimm Legacy, The
Gulliver’s Travels (Unabridged)
Hamlet
Heart of Darkness
Murdock, Catherine Gilbert
Chotjewitz, David
Falls, Kat
Cohn, Rachel
Taylor, Laina
Woon, Yvonne
Ryan, Carrie
Sparks, Nicholas
Cather, Willa
Agee, James
Omololu, C.J.
Roth, Veronica
Pasternak, Boris
Ibsen, Henrik
Cervantes Saaverdra, Miguel
de
Herbert, Frank
Mackler, Carolyn
Alley, Richard B.
Steinbeck, John
Meyer, Stephenie
Hirsch, Jeff
Foer, Jonathan Safran
Hemingway, Ernest
Lang, Diane
Turgenev, Ivan
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Anderson, M.T.
Bagdasarian, Adam
Shelley, Mary
Bodeen, S.A.
Williams, Tennessee
Williams, Carol Lynch
Baldwin, James
Kyle, Aryn
Ford, Ford Madox
Steinbeck, John
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Shulman, Polly
Swift, Jonathan
Shakespeare, William
Conrad, Joseph
10
9
9
10
16
16
18
13
12
16
10
16
36
4
91
28
8
34
22
11
13
13
9
12
7
9
17
8
3
4
13
18
25
8
11
25
7
10
Hex Hall
Hold Me Closer, Necromancer
House of Mirth, The
How to Save a Life
Hunchback of Notre-Dame, The (Unabridged)
Iliad, The
Inferno
Infinite Kung Fu (graphic novel)
Invisible Man
Iron King, The
Jane Eyre
Kite Runner, The
Known World, The
Last of the Mohicans, The (Unabridged)
Legend
Lesson Before Dying, A
Level Up
Little Brother
Lola and the Boy Next Door
Looking for Alaska
Lord of the Flies
Macbeth
Madame Bovary
Marzi (graphic novel)
Matched
Metamorphosis, The
Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A
Mill on the Floss, The
Mister Pip
Moby-Dick, or The Whale
Name of the Star, The
Native Son (The Original 1940 Text)
Never Fall Down
Never Let Me Go
New Found Land: Lewis and Clark’s Voyage of Discovery
Night Birds, The
Nineteen Minutes
Odyssey, The
Once
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Hawkins, Rachel
McBride, Lish
Wharton, Edith
Zarr, Sara
Hugo, Victor
Homer
Dante
McLeod, Kagan
Ellison, Ralph
Kagawa, Julie
Brontee, Charlotte
Hosseini, Khaled
Jones, Edward P.
Cooper, James Fenimore
Lu, Marie
Gaines, Ernest J
Yang, Gene Luen
Doctorow, Cory
Perkins, Stephanie
Green, John
Golding, William
Shakespeare, William
Flaubert, Gustave
Sowa, Marzena
Condie, Ally
Kafka, Franz
Evans, Richard Paul
Shakespeare, William
Eliot, George
Jones, Lloyd
Melville, Herman
Johnson, Maureen
Wright, Richard
McCormick
Ishiguro, Kazuo
Wolf, Allan
Maltman, Thomas
Picoult, Jodi
Homer
Gleitzman, Morris
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia
10
13
26
12
38
25
3
30
15
33
16
22
32
11
11
1
17
10
11
9
3
8
13
12
11
3
10
42
14
24
7
15
13
21
29
24
4
8
27
Picture of Dorian Gray, The
Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco
Manzano, The
Portrait of a Lady, The
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A
Pride and Prejudice (Unabridged)
Pygmalion
Queen of Water, The
Raised by Wolves
Recovery Road
Red Badge of Courage, The (Unabridged)
Red Pyramid, The
Red Tent, The
Revolution
Robinson Crusoe
Romeo and Juliet
Rot & Ruin
Running Dream, The
Running With the Kenyans
Scarlett Letter, The
Scorpio Races, The
Selected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sky Is Everywhere, The
Slaughterhouse-Five
Sold
Somebody Everybody Listens To
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
Sound and the Fury, The
Split
Stranger, The
Sunrise Over Fallujah
Swallowing Stones
Tale of Two Cities, A
Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Things a Brother Knows, The
Things Fall Apart
Three Musketeers, The (Unabridged)
Three Rivers Rising: A Novel of the Johnstown Flood
To Kill a Mockingbird
To the Lighthouse
Tom Jones (or The History of Tom Jones)
Wilde, Oscar
Engle, Margarita
14
2
James, Henry
Joyce, James
Austen, Jane
Shaw, George Bernard
Resau, Laura
Barnes, Jennifer Lynn
Nelson, Blake
Crane, Stephen
Riordan, Rick
Diamant, Anita
DFonnelly, Jennifer
Defoe, Daniel
Shakespeare, William
Maberry, Jonathan
Van Draanen, Wendelin
Finn, Adharand
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Stiefvater, Maggie
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Nelson, Jandy
Vonnegut, Kurt
McCormick, Patricia
Supplee, Suzanne
Cameron, Peter
Faulkner, William
Avasthi, Swati
Camus, Albert
Myers, Walter Dean
McDonald, Joyce
Dickens, Charles
Hardy, Thomas
Hurston, Zora Neale
Reinhardt, Dana
Achebe, Chinua
Dumas, Alexandre
Richards, Jame
Lee, Harper
Woolf, Virginia
Fielding, Henry
44
16
27
6
14
15
8
8
18
18
17
27
5
17
9
14
7
10
8
5
9
9
14
10
6
11
9
27
23
10
8
8
42
4
15
12
82
Treasure Island
Turn of the Screw, The
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Vanity Fair
Virals
Vixen
Waiting For Godot
War and Peace
Warped
Water for Elephants
Where Things Come Back
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the
West
Woman Warrior, The
Wonder
Wonderstruck
Wuthering Heights
Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath
Zahra’s Paradise (graphic novel)
Stevenson, Robert Louis
James, Henry
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Thackeray, William F.
Reichs, Kathy
Larkin, Jillian
Beckett, Samuel
Tolstoy, Leo
Guibord, Maurissa
Gruen, Sara
Whaley, John Corey
Maguire, Gregory
12
10
32
66
11
14
2
118
11
14
9
25
Kingston, Maxine Hong
Palacio, R.J.
Selznick, Brian
Bronte, Emily
Hemphill, Stephanie
Amir and Khalil
11
11
4
23
5
2
NONFICTION
TITLE
AUTHOR
1776
Amelia Earhart: This Broad Ocean
Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia
Earhart
American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the
Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
Angela’s Ashes
Bomb: The Race to Build – and Steal – the World’s Most
Dangerous Weapon
Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless
Breaking Night
Can I See Your I.D.? True Stories of False Identities
Chasing Lincoln’s Killer
Child Called “It”, A
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fall or Succeed
Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at
the Fair That Changed America, The
McCullough, David G.
Taylor, Sarah Stewart
Fleming, Candace
A.R.
POINT
S
20
1
5
Polly, Matthew
18
McCourt, Frank
Sheinkin
23
10
Blumenthal, Karen
Murray, Liz
Barton, Chris
Swanson, James L.
Pelzer, Dave
Diamond, Jared M
Larson, Erik
5
22
3
6
5
48
23
Eagle Blue: A Team, a Tribe, and a High School
Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska
Elephant Talk: The Surprising Science of Elephant
Communication
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: A
Friendship That Changed the World
Father Abraham: Lincoln and His Sons
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia
Remembers
Flesh & Blood So Cheap
Ghosts in the Fog: The Untold Story of Alaska’s WWII
Invasion
Glass Castle: A Memoir, The
Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans
High School Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska
How I Made It to Eighteen: A Mostly True Story
How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully
Famous
I.M. Pei: Architect of Time, Place, and Purpose
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, The
Into the Unknowns: How Great Explorers Found Their
Way
John Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth: A Biography
Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX: The Law That
Changed the Future of Girls in America
Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, A
Many Faces of George Washington: Remaking a
Presidential Icon, The
Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor
B95
Mosque
Mysterious Bones: The Story of Kennewick Man
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass , an American
Slave & Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Race to Save the Lord God Bird, The
Radioactive Boy Scout: The True Story of a Boy and His
Backyard Nuclear Reactor, The
Salem Brownstone: All Along the Watchtowers
Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Story of Roberto Clemente, The
Terezin: Voices from the Holocaust
D’Orso, Michael
18
Downer, Ann
3
Colman, Penny
11
Holzer, Harold
Ung, Loung
9
15
Marrin, Albert
Seiple, Samantha
6
6
Walls, Jeannette
Nelson, Kadir
D’Orso, Michael
White, Tracy
Bragg, Georgia
12
2
18
2
4
Rubalcaba, Jill
Skloot, Rebecca
Ross, Stewart
3
18
4
Partridge, Elizabeth
Blumenthal, Karen
8
6
Beah, Ishmael
McClafferty, Carla Killough
13
5
Hoose, Phillip
5
Macaulay, David
Kirkpatrick, Katherine
Douglass, Frederick
1
3
22
Hoose, Phillip
Silverstein, Ken
9
11
Dunning, John Harris
Isaacson, Walter
Blumenthal, Karen
Roach, Mary
Santiago, Wilfred
Thomson, Ruth
1
40
9
16
2
Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Fight
Terrorism and Build Nations One School at a Time
Titanic: Voices from the Disaster
To Timbuktu: Nine Countries, Two People, One True
Story
Tom Thumb: The Remarkable True Story of a Man in
Miniature
Tuesdays with Morrie
Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines
Unbroken
Unraveling Freedom: The Battle for Democracy on the
Home Front During World War I
Walden
We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children’s March
Witches! The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem
Mortenson, Greg
23
Hopkinson, Deborah
Scieszka, Casey
7
12
Sullivan, George
5
Albom, Mitch
Sheff, Nic
Hillenbrand
Bausum, Ann
5
17
24
4
Thoreau, Henry David
Levinson, Cynthia
Schanzer, Rosalyn
21
8
4
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9th Grade Reading Requirements
Dear Students,
Welcome to Fountain Lake High School’s Pre-AP ninth grade English Class. Congratulations to
you for entering high school. This will be the first of many exciting years you will spend here.
I’m looking forward to spending the year with you in Pre-AP ninth grade English. Pre-AP classes
are going to be more involved than other English Classes. You are making a commitment to yourself and
me that you will: display intrinsic motivation (meaning I do not have to motivate you to do your work),
prioritize your time, read on your own, keep up with classroom materials, and bring classroom materials
each time class meets.
Throughout the year, you will see many different styles of teaching, different ways of working,
and different ways of learning. You will be asked to become familiar with and master such skills as:
recognizing tone, analyzing text, making comparisons, determining meaning of words, phrases, and
statements in context, comprehending text, annotating text, and writing about text while learning many
more exciting strategies.
Creating a tone dictionary will be your summer assignment and it is to be completed BEFORE
school starts for the 2013-2014 school year. Your ability to prioritize and dedicate yourself will become
evident during this assignment. Remember that learning can be fun; it does not have to be drudgery. It
will only become painful if you make it a chore. Think of this assignment as a way to build your
vocabulary and to write about text more efficiently. Along with the summer assignment, you will have
summer reading. If you think that summer reading and this summer assignment is too much, then
please reconsider taking ninth grade Pre-AP English.
I am happy to answer questions you may have via email. You can email me at
cbyrd@flcobras.com . I have all my emails forwarded to my cell phone, so even if I am out of town, I can
answer your questions!
Once again, I am looking so forward to facilitating your learning process. I plan to have a great
year full of rigorous learning and projects. I cannot wait to see you all on the first day of school.
Best Wishes,
Ms. Celeste N. Byrd
English/Language Arts
Fountain Lake High School
Tone Dictionary Directions: Please use Calibri 11 point font and double space your document. You can
have two word entries per page as long as the spacing is even and organized. When your dictionary is
complete, you should put it all into a one-inch three-ring binder. You can make a decorative cover sheet
that shows off your personality, or artwork. You may place the decorative sheet in the front sleeve of
the binder. The dictionary will be your first grade of the nine weeks, so please make sure it is complete.
The attached rubric will be used for grading. I have provided an example entry so you can have a visual
reference.
Introductory Page: Create an introductory page that contains the heading “Tone Dictionary,” your
name, your teacher’s name (Ms. Byrd), the class (Pre-AP English), and the date the dictionary is due, 23
August 2013. Please place this in the center of the page in Calibri 11 point font.
Dictionary Pages:

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
Number each word alphabetically.
Type the word in bold.
In brackets next to the word, type its phonetic and syllabic spelling. (See example)
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



Type the part of speech that you are going to use in a sentence (either adjective or adverb),
insert a colon, space twice, and then write the definition that goes with the word. (you should
not use a form of the word in the definition)
Press enter and type Other Parts Of Speech:, then list other parts of speech of the word. (See
example)
Press enter and type an original sentence (a sentence written by you, not the dictionary, or
someone else) using the adjective or adverb form of the word (put your word in bold).
Press enter and add a picture from a magazine, newspaper, website, or other media that you
think captures the essence of the word (you can literally paste these on the page if you so
choose).
Next to the picture cite the source where you retrieved it, web address if from the internet;
actual source if from a magazine or newsprint.
Thesaurus Pages: These pages come after all of your dictionary entries.


Number each word alphabetically and type the word in bold followed by a colon.
Space twice and follow the word with a list of several words that have the same meaning in
normal type.
Works Cited Page: This page comes after your thesaurus pages.

Use http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/ to help you create an MLA works
cited page for the dictionary you use. I do not mind if you use an online dictionary. Look under
the heading “Citing an Electronic Source,” read the information carefully, and you should do just
fine.
Tone Dictionary Rubric:
Entries:
Each entry is worth 2 points. You will receive points for each COMPLETE entry to earn up to 168 points.
If the entry is incomplete, you will receive no points for that entry.
Your points:________________ divided by 168=________________Your score.
Neatness:
This part is completely subjective on my part. The following rubric will help you understand the grading.
4= 100-90 points
Journal is
organized, neat
3= 89-80 points
Journal is slightly
disorganized;
2= 79-70points
Journal is thrown
together
1= 69-60 points
Journal is thrown
together
0= 59-0 points
Journal looks as if
it was finished the
and clean. There
are no paper
edges outside the
edges of the
binder. Student
has taken care of
the binder and has
given it to the
teacher in mint
condition. The
teacher can tell
that the student
took time put
forth effort, being
thoughtful about
each picture as it
correlated to the
word. The
sentences are
interesting and
thoughtful.
there may be
paper edges
outside the edges
of the binder.
Student may not
have taken care of
the binder and has
given it to the
teacher in worn
condition (even if
you use an old
binder, it can look
like new). The
teacher can tell
the student took
time and put forth
effort in thinking
about each picture
as it correlated to
the word, but
could have been
more efficient.
haphazardly;
paper edges may
be outside the
edges of the
binder. Student
did not take care
of the binder and
gave it to the
teacher in worn
condition (even if
you use an old
binder, it can look
like new). The
teacher can tell
the student put
the project
together hurriedly
with little effort in
thinking about
each picture as it
correlated to the
word.
haphazardly;
paper edges may
be outside the
edges of the
binder. Student
did not take care
of the binder and
gave it to the
teacher in
damaged
condition (even if
you use an old
binder, it can look
like new). The
teacher can tell
the student put
the project
together hurriedly
with no effort in
thinking about
each picture as it
correlated to the
word.
night before.
Paper edges are
outside the edges
of the binder.
Student did not try
to procure a
usable binder in
good condition.
The teacher can
tell the student
did not use any
effort in
completing the
assignment.
There may be varying degrees of success on this project. As the teacher I reserve the right to use my
subjective opinion on your level of success according to the rubric.
Your score______________________%
Tone Dictionary Word List
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Admonitory
Aggressive
Analytical
Apathetic
Assertive
Audacious
Authoritative
Bantering
Belligerent
Benevolent
Blissful
Bombastic
Brusque
Candid
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Capricious
Churlish
Circumspect
Conciliatory
Condescending
Contemplative
Contemptuous
Convivial
Cryptic
Deprecating
Derisive
Despondent
Detached
Didactic
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Disdainful
Disgruntled
Disinterested
Dogmatic
Ecstatic
Elated
Exasperated
Exuberant
Facetious
Fanatical
Flippant
Foreboding
Frustrated
Harrowing
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Imperturbable
Incredulous
Indignant
Inflammatory
Ingenuous
Insipid
Insolent
Insouciant
Introspective
Irreverent
Ludicrous
Macabre
Malevolent
Meditatively
Melancholic
Mercurial
Morose
Naïve
Nostalgic
Objective
Optimistic
Paranoid
Patronizing
Pedantic
Perplexed
Phlegmatic
Poignant
Pompous
Pretentious
Provocative
Prudish
Resolute
Sardonic
Skeptical
Smug
Somber
Staid
Surly
Taunting
Vehement
Whimsical
Zealous
EXAMPLE ENTRY:
59. Mercurial [mer-kyur’-e-el] adjective: Characterized by rapid and unpredictable changes in mood.
Other Parts Of Speech: mercurially, adverb, mercurialness, noun
Because Sarah has a mercurial personality, you never know what kind of mood she will be in when she
comes to class!
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A few words about adjectives and adverbs…you need to use them correctly in order to receive full credit
on the entries.
Adjectives are descriptive words which are used to add detail to a sentence. They can give important or
necessary information, or they can just make the sentence more interesting or detailed. Adjectives
modify (describe) nouns or pronouns. Adjectives answer the questions: Which one? What kind? How
many?
Adverbs are descriptive words which are used to add detail to a sentence. They can give important or
necessary information, or they can just make the sentence more interesting or detailed. Adverbs modify
verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs. (They frequently end in -ly).
Please feel free to look up information you need in order to do your best on creating your original
sentences using only adjectives or adverbs.
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11th Grade Reading Requirements
Pre-AP 11th Grade Summer Reading Project
The summer reading project is as follows:
In order to receive an “A”, you must complete two high quality assignments. You are to choose
one of the books that you read from the summer reading list, and create the following two
assignments using the one book. Your work will be turned in together in a way each piece can be
kept together. Your work will be due no later than the first Friday of the school year 2013-2014.
1. Write a literary letter to the author of your book (see attached guidelines and rubric).
2. Create a poem inspired by your summer reading choice. The poem must consist of a minimum
of ten lines with an appropriate rhyme scheme and include at least two recognizable literary
devices (e.g. alliteration, hyperbole, metaphor, personification, repetition, simile, etc.)—see
attached rubric.
LITERARY LETTER
1. HEADING
2. DATE
3. GREETING (“Dear …”)
4. SECTION 1:
 Title
 Author
 Why you chose the book or what interests you
5. SECTION 2:
 Summary
 Use images from the book
6. SECTION 3 (Chose one):
 A Prediction
 A Connection
7. CONCLUSION
 Question or opinion about the book
8. CLOSING:
(Sincerely,)
(“Your name”)
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10th Grade Reading Requirements