141-+Summer+Reading

**__2011 __** **__SUMMER READING __** **Please read and FOLLOW all of the instructions as they are written here. If you have questions, please feel free to email your teacher. ** Ms. Halsey – wendy.halsey@gmail.com Mrs. Baril – towandab@snet.net v Purchase a 100 page composition book. You will be doing a great deal of work in this book during the year. You NEED to have it with you on the first day of class. Logs will be collected that day to assess summer reading work. Failure to bring your log on the first day will result in an immediate grade reduction on both responses and preparation. v Read //My Ishmael// by Daniel Quinn. As you read, take notes as to what the narrator is learning and ask questions regarding why the narrator needs to learn these lessons. Highlight and annotate your book, particularly when you reach these lessons. v **In your log,** v **1. __Write down__ **five quotes from various points in the novel that you feel would generate some good discussion, or you found provocative and/or relative to your own needs as a student of the world, and then ask a question about the quote (hint: start thinking about what lessons you might need to learn in order to become a successful participant in a global community.) Not a yes or no question, but a discussion question that looks toward deeper, more global issues. **2. __Choose two__ **of your quotes and write a two page response for each quote in which you begin to answer your own question and also explore how this idea could be significant in your life as you embark on a new phase of your life journey (college). Remember that failure to have this completed assignment with you on the first day of class will result in a grade reduction for EACH day it is not turned in.
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