9th Grade Summer Reading 2019

(for previous 8th graders -  rising 9th graders)

 

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In preparation for the next grade level, complete the following summer task. This task will help develop the skills you have been working on. Additionally, this task will require independent efforts as well as time management skills, which are crucial for your continued growth throughout the summer.

 

*This assignment will be the 1st assessment grade for the marking period.

It is due the 1st week of school.

 

Task:

 

• Examine the list of summer reading novels for your grade level. Select one that you will read for your task.

• As you read your selected novel, track central events, characters, and conflicts. Additionally, focus on more in depth concepts, such as character motivations (why they do what they do), author’s choices, writing style, themes, and etc. 

• For your novel, select four quotes total (from the beginning, middle, and end of the novel). Your quotes should be significant to the novel. (Keep in mind: plot, character, conflict, motivation, author’s choices, writing style, themes, and etc.)

• Create a T chart with the quotes on the left (include the page number), and a one paragraph analysis on the right. 

• You analysis should follow the one paragraph expectations for your grade level. Your paragraph should clearly explain the significance of your selected quote. You should develop your ideas fully and proofread for clarity.

 

(See sample below)

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Example:

 

Name:

Novel: “V for Vendetta”

Author: Alan Moore & David Lloyd

Due Date:

 

Quote

“‘I believe in strength. I believe in unity. And if that strength, that unity of purpose, demands a uniformity of thought, word and deed then so be it. I will not hear talk of freedom. I will not hear talk of individual liberty. They are luxuries. I do not believe in luxuries’” (Moore and Lloyd, issue ii, pg 2).

 

 

Analysis

It is very hard to put ourselves into the position of dictators. After WWII, Hitler was seen, and is still seen, as the ultimate evil; an evil that should not happen again. However, in “V for Vendetta” by Alan Moore and David Lloyd, the authors choose to give the reader the dictator’s perspective. By doing this, readers are given an interesting view into the motivation of characters that they normally would not understand. In this quote, Adam Susan (the dictator) defends his perspective on fascism by indicating that the community can only be strong and survive if the people are united in “thoughts, word and deed.” To do this, his people must sacrifice their freedom. This theme centered on freedom is what drives the novel, one character fighting to give the people freedom, and the other taking the people’s freedom away. 

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