Summer 09 Reading and Assignments (due upon return to school in the fall)

Summer Reading Booklist - English Department

All Freshmen

All Sophomores - Annotating a Text - a couple of definitions to clarify directions:

Juxtaposition: The arrangement of two or more normally unassociated ideas, characters, actions, settings, phrases, or words placed next to one another for the purpose of comparison, contrast, rhetorical effect, suspense, character development, surprise, or wit.

Imperative: A type of sentence structure used primarily for issuing a directive or command. The imperative verb uses the base form and the subject is generally absent; the missing subject is understood to be you.

Junior - Regular

Junior - Honors

Junior - AP

Senior - Regular

Senior - Honors

Senior - AP

Frye's Mythoi - for use with Senior AP summer