1. WCCHS Language Arts Honors/AP Summer Reading Night 2015

2. English I Honors Focus:  Preparation for AP Classes and Tests  Active/Critical /Analytical Reading and Thinking Skills  Analysis of “Author’s Craft” Techniques and Choices  Primarily Argument Writing Skills  Effective Researching Skills  Public Speaking Skills  Grammar / Vocabulary Building  All Students Will Refine Their 21 st Century Skills  All Students Will be Academically “Stretched”

3. English I Honors 1. E1H Reading Packet Please follow along... Mrs. Stewart’s annotation key “Marking a Text” model for OMAM

4. The inside front cover of Mrs. Stewart’s copy: Of Mice and Men.

5. “Marking a Text”

6. Annotation:

8. Assignments Assignment A – Introduction: Due by June 15 th. Use your personal email address Assignment B – Focus Questions: Due via hardcopy on the first day of school Assignment C – Essay: Due via hardcopy on the first day of school

9. English II Honors Focus:  Preparation for AP Classes and Tests  Active/Critical /Analytical Reading and Thinking Skills  Analysis of “Author’s Craft” Techniques and Choices  Primarily Argument Writing Skills  Effective Researching Skills  Public Speaking Skills  Grammar / Vocabulary Building  All Students Will Refine Their 21 st Century Skills  All Students Will be Academically “Stretched”

10. Summer Reading Expectations Critically read and annotate the two English 2 Honors texts  1984 Annotations should focus on literary themes and techniques  Fast Food Nation Annotations should focus on the Rhetorical Triangle (speaker, audience, message, and appeals to ethos, pathos, logos) See the materials packet for a sample annotation

11. Summer Reading Expectations Critically read the choice text  Columbine, Dave Cullen  Breakthrough, Jack Andraka  Catch-22, Joseph Heller  Ready, Player One, Ernest Cline Purchase They Say, I Say by Graff and Birkenstein for the first day of class

12. Assignments Assignment A: Annotations for both books due on the first day of school Assignment B: 1984 Reading Guide due on the first day of school Assignment C: In-class essay on Fast Food Nation during the first week of school

13. AP Language Focus:  Preparation for the AP Exam and college courses  Active “Close” Reading  Rhetorical Analysis/Understanding Rhetorical Situation  Synthesis  Argumentation  Public Speaking Skills/Research Skills  Grammar / Vocabulary Building  Technology integration  All Students Will be Academically “Stretched”

14. Summer Reading Expectations Critically read and annotate the AP texts  Into the Wild Annotations should focus on literary themes and techniques  Two Longform articles Consider how rhetoric works in real life situations Annotations should address the rhetorical situation

16. Assignments Assignment A: Annotations due first day of class Assignment B:Essay completed during the first unit with peer/teacher editing Assignment C: In-class essay, Q3, on Into the Wild in September

17. AP Literature Focus:  Preparation for AP Exam and college courses  Active “Close” Reading Skills  Rhetorical Analysis of fiction and poetry  Public Speaking Skills -demonstrating a “scholarly mindset”  Research Skills  Grammar / Vocabulary Building  Technology integration  All Students Will be Academically “Stretched”

18. Summer Reading Expectations Critically read and annotate the AP texts  How to Read Literature Like a Professor Read this text BEFORE reading the novel. Then, utilize the text while reading Tess – to “find the patterns”  Tess of the D’Urbervilles Annotations should focus on literary themes and author’s techniques

19. Assignments Assignment A: Annotations due first day of class. Assignment B:Essay completed during the first unit with peer/teacher editing in September Assignment C: In-class essay, Q2, on Tess of the D’Urbervilles in September

20. Email Addresses E1HPatrick Clifford at pclifford2@d94.orgpclifford2@d94.org Lauren Stewart at lstewart@d94.orglstewart@d94.org E2HMark Begovich at mbegovich@d94.orgmbegovich@d94.org Katie Wood at kwood@d94.orgkwood@d94.org AP LangNicole Osborne at nosborne@d94.orgnosborne@d94.org Brian Turnbaugh at bturnbaugh@d94.orgbturnbaugh@d94.org AP LitNicole Osborne at nosborne@d94.orgnosborne@d94.org ?sMary Howard, language arts chair at mhoward@d94.orgmhoward@d94.org