English 9 Honors:  Summer Assignment

 

 

Your summer assignment consists of two parts: 1) selecting from a variety of text and collecting your thinking in a Reader’s Response Journal and 2) exploring and becoming familiar with essential vocabulary relating to literary devices, literary terminology, and grammar. 

 

READER’S RESPONSE JOURNAL

  • The following texts are connected by the common theme of Coming of Age.  Prior to reading, please familiarize yourself with this theme by conducting research.  What does it mean?      
    • Read and annotate the texts for the specific purpose of showing your thinking and process for making meaning.  For each text you will write two responses in your Reader’s Response Journal.  Use the examples of proficient reading responses to inform your writing.  
      • Your first response will focus on your general reactions to the text.
        • What did you think?  What did you notice?  What struck you as interesting or thought provoking
      • Your second response will focus on identifying and analyzing the theme of the text.
        • What is the author saying about the theme of coming of age?  Why are they saying it?  How are they saying it? 
        • Be sure to use quotes from the text to support your response. 

    VOCABULARY ASSIGNMENT

    In the back of your Reader’s Response Journal we would like you to begin the process of defining and exploring a wide variety of key vocabulary.  This list will serve as a foundation from which we will build throughout the year.  Please define each of the terms below and find specific examples of the ways that authors are using them in the texts you read. 

     

    Theme

    Alliteration

    Onomatopoeia

    Metaphor

    Simile

    Personification

    Imagery

    Allusion

    Analogy

    Hyperbole

    Tone

      

     Pronoun

    Independent clause

    Subordinate clause

    Compound sentence

    Complex sentence

     

    Point-of-View

    Syntax

    Diction

    Connotation

    Denotation

    Satire