1. Shepard Summer Assignment
Mr. Barringer

2. What’s Class Like?
We’ll spend the year reading GOOD novels, plays, short stories, and poems.
Hamlet
A Raisin in the Sun
Kite Runner
1984
Lord of the Flies

3. You’ll develop your literary analysis skills, which will make you a better reader, writer, and thinker.
We’ll participate in daily discussion, which will make you a better speaker and thinker.
We’ll have activities that will allow you to connect what you learn in Government and Economics.

4. Overview Read one novel and How to Read Literature like a Professor.
Complete one writing assignment.

5. Writing Assignment Personal Essay. (4-6 typed pages, MLA style)
Full details are on my website (barringerlit.weebly.com), but you’ll essentially apply what you learned in How to Read Literature Like a Professor to your novel.

6. Book List
A Farewell to Arms All Quiet on the Western Front As I Lay Dying Beloved Brave New World Catch-22 The Catcher in the Rye The Color of Water The Color Purple The Count of Monte Cristo Fahrenheit 451 For Whom the Bell Tolls Frankenstein The Grapes of Wrath Heart of Darkness
The Hobbit I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Invisible Man Jane Eyre The Joy Luck Club Night Of Mice and Men The Old Man and the Sea One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest The Picture of Dorian Gray Pride and Prejudice Slaughterhouse 5 The Stranger Things Fall Apart Wuthering Heights

7. Contact Contact me over the summer if you have any questions:
barringerlit.weebly.com