Incoming 10th Grade Accelerated English (preAP English 2A) students!! In order to best prepare you for a rigorous‚ academic year in English‚ we don’t want you to lose those fabulous reading skills you’ve acquired with your 9th grade English teacher. As such‚ IHS has implemented a summer reading program. Students are encouraged to read a minimum of six books over the summer. Five of these titles are completely of your choosing—go crazy and have fun. We’ll leave it up to you as to the definition
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When I first heard the title and the plot of the film (excluding the names of the characters)‚ I thought okay this is about a guy and how he spend his 500 days of summer. Summer that is the season I mean. But when I watched the film for the first time‚ that is when I realized‚ Summer is a name. Name of the love interest of Tom Hansen‚ the main actor. I like the way they did with the title‚ that it seemed it has a dual meaning. Usually‚ movies like this would end like the boy gets the girl. That
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The Carl B. & Florence E. King Foundation High School Summer Program in Biomedical Sciences at the School of Health Professions is a seven-week research program for college-bound students graduating from high schools around Texas in spring of 2014. Current Texas High School Seniors should apply for this summer program. This is great for students going into college for the academic year of 2014 – 2015. This program enables participants to master advanced diagnostic and therapeutic laboratory techniques
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Anthony Leon EngWr300 Shapiro March 1‚ 2015 My favorite childhood place I was separated from my family at a young age. When I was 7 my family and I moved to Vallejo because of my father’s job. I was extremely close with my cousins and family that lived in Soledad‚ a small town close to Salinas. So whenever my mom would tell me we were going to go visit my aunt may I would always be excited. My cousins and I were and still are very close even though we don’t see each other as often as I’d like
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Journal Entry #1 “Summer” by David Updike 440 Words Summary David Updike’s story “Summer” describes one summer holiday of a boy named Homer. He is faced with the external conflict on an unrequited love. Homer‚ the protagonist‚ is spending the summer at his best friend‚ Fred’s home near the lake. The summer‚ for the most‚ followed the usual flow of ‘athletic and boyhood fulfillment” (para 11) for Homer and Fred. There were the tennis matches and hiking‚ the alcohol and hanging out late at night
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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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Summer by David Updike King Solomon wrote wisely‚ and later was wisely paraphrased by the folk band “The Byrds”‚ “To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under heaven...” (Ecclesiastes 3:1‚8). Seasons often represent the periods of a person’s life; birth‚ youth‚ age and death. In the short story “Summer” by David Updike‚ the lake provides an eternal and unchanging witness to Homer’s transition from season to season and from boy to man. In the beginning we find the family and
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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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“All Summer In A Day” “All summer in a day” is a short story by Ray Bradbury about people living on the planet Venus and the weather conditions they live with. One might ask for the purpose of why Bradbury would write such a depressing and saddening story. The reason for that is to stress his audience of the importance of the little things in our everyday lives. We tend to take things for granted and lose our appreciation for them but do not stop to notice how important they are and how big of
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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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