Summer Assignments

English 9 - Read "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary Blackwood
The Shakespeare Stealer PDF

English 9 Honors - Read "The Shakespeare Stealer" By Gary Blackwood and read "Lord of the Flies" By William Golding
The Shakespeare Stealer PDF
Lord of the Flies PDF

English 11 - Read "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter PDF

English 11 Honors - Read "The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and "The House of Seven Gables" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter PDF
The House of Seven Gables PDF

DIRECTIONS: Provide the LITERARY definition of each word. You will be responsible to know the terms for the Summer Reading Assignment in September. 

INCOMING 9TH GRADE:

Exposition

Inciting Action

Rising Action

Climax

Falling Action

Resolution

Denouement

Internal Conflict

External Conflict

Metaphor

Simile

Foreshadowing

Hyperbole

Personification

Theme

INCOMING 11TH GRADE:

Allusion

Antagonist

Character

Diction

Ethos  Imagery

Irony 

Logos 

Metaphor

Narrator

Pathos

Point of View (all of them)

Protagonist 

Selection of Details

Setting

Structure

Style 

Symbol 

Theme

Tone