English 12 Summer Reading Teachers: Helen Dunning hdunning@kis.or.kr‚ Jim Burwell jburwell@kis.or.kr Here is the summer reading list for English 12—A Thematic Study of World-wide Literature. This is required summer reading. Reading these books will expand your vocabulary‚ build your personal library‚ start preparing you for university study‚ and guide the discussions for much of the first semester. 1. Order the TWO books and order them early. How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A
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English 12 11 September 2013 The Importance of Waimea Summer Over the first 2 months of school we have read a novel titled Waimea Summer‚ by John Dominus Holt. This book takes place in a small town of Waimea‚ a city in Hawaii known for its cowboys and ranching. In Waimea Summer there is one main character that is the books central focus and his name is Mark Hull. Throughout the book‚ Mark goes on a journey to find his true self and eventually his identity slowly starts to change from being
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I think summer vacation is very important to people all over the world. It gives them the chance for seeing new places‚ family gathering and have a good time and enjoys their selves. We use to travel in vacations. This year my family decided to spend our summer vacation in Cairo. I was very happy and I went to pack up my bags to be ready. While packing I was thinking of the new places that I’m going to see‚ I decided that our first place to visit must be the pyramids. On the fourth day of our trip
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Using Excel‚ please help with the following: Mary Kelly is a scholarship soccer player at State University. During the summer she works at a youth all-sports camp that several of the university’s coaches operate. The sports camp runs for eight weeks during July and August. Campers come for a one-week period‚ during which time they live in the State dormitories and use the State athletic field and facilities. At the end of the week a new group of kids comes in. Mary primarily serves as
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Research Proposal The research proposal that I picked for this course is what the summer camp counselor’s role is for the campers‚ and for the camp. How does the counselor’s role affect the experience for the campers? What is the best advice a counselor could take in to make the camp experience better. Do campers feel that their counselor is more a friend‚ or there to babysit? I feel these questions are a good start to the research I will be doing. There are also a lot of sub questions that come
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No Coincidence One Summer Night‚ written by Ambrose Bierce‚ is a satirical story which involves a presumably dead man‚ Henry Armstrong‚ who was in fact comatose‚ being ironically killed by the shady caretaker of the graveyard. Irony is a recurring literary device in many of Bierce’s short stories and books‚ reflective of his time period where satire and sarcasm in stories was popular. Bierce is quite known for his similarities in plot outlines in his literature. In his most famous short story‚ An
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The setting of A Farewell to Arms is Italy‚ where they were fighting Austria‚ during World War I. The story is about Frederick Henry‚ an American‚ who served as a lieutenant in the Italian army to a group of ambulance drivers. At the start of the novel‚ Frederick was a drunk who traveled from one house of prostitution to the next. Yet he was discontent with his unsettled lifestyle. Frederick meets Catherine Barkley an English volunteer nurse‚ who serves in Italy‚ at a near by hospital. In the
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came into its own due to increasing industrialization and globalization.(Notes) Modernism is notoriously difficult to define clearly because the term encompasses a variety of specific artistic and philosophical movements including symbolism.(UNLV) Ernest Hemingway has a modernist style of storytelling. “Hills Like White Elephants” by Hemingway has many elements that illustrates modernism. The first element of its characteristics is the questioning of the the meaning and importance of abortion. Next
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“The Girls in Their Summer Dresses” Irwin Shaw’s short story “The Girls in Their Summer Dresses” talks about a young married couple who tries to enjoy a Sunday afternoon in New York City. Frances catches her husband looking at other beautiful women as they pass by which creates an argument between the two. During several rounds of Courvoisier‚ Michael confesses his hidden obsession with women and how he admires and loves to observe many different types of women. He does this in such a detailed
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Summer Reading 2012 Sophomores Sophomores are required to read two books for English this summer: 1) Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 2) Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities We will give you a multiple-choice test on both books during the second English class next fall; therefore‚ please 1) read these books with care this summer; 2) bring your copies of them with you when you arrive in the fall and review the books before the test
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