GREENVILLE HIGH SCHOOL PRE-AP SUMMER READING ASSIGNMENT 2013 9TH GRADE Mrs. Nelson: nelson@greenvilleisd.com; Cell- 903-269-0603 English I Pre-AP Summer Reading: To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee) Available at Hastings‚ Barnes and Noble‚ or on Amazon.com [pic] [pic] Assignment: While you read To Kill a Mockingbird‚ note and annotate passages that you think are significant. Mark that book! 1. The goal is to note your thoughts about selected quotes as you read
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someone was mad at someone else‚ if we were all together situations and arguments were to be paused during family time. the discipline and order was all created by “Granny”. So naturally hot Michigan summers‚ no school‚ pool in the backyard‚ basketball court in the house‚ all these things meant company. Every summer for as long as I can remember all of my family‚ friends‚ and strangers basically stayed at our home as if it was a hotel
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Summer vacation is the best part of the year. A student can have a couple of months entirely to himself. He is not bothered about books and examinations. He can do whatever he likes. He can go wherever he pleases. He can build his health. He can visit his relations. If he can afford‚ he can go to the hills. Our school closed on 15th May and I decided to pass my summer vacation at Simla. As my parents were busy and could not accompany me‚ I decided to go with my friends. Big preparations were to
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Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May‚ And summer’s lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines‚ And often is his gold complexion dimmed‚ And every fair from fair sometime declines‚ By chance‚ or nature’s changing course untrimmed: But thy eternal summer shall not fade‚ Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st‚ Nor shall death brag thou wander’st
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fortnight before the summer break‚ we stopped taking I interest in studies. Everyone of us made an ambitious plan to ‘ visit some place or the other. But man proposes and God I disposes. On the very first day‚ my mother slipped in the I jdtchen and broke her ankle. Her whole leg was plastered and she was advised bed rest for three weeks. I had to prepare ) tea and cook food for the whole family. My friends came to enquire about her health and I had to serve them as well. I kept company with
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How can someone be claimed as insane? In the case of Andrea Yates‚ she was found not guilty by reasons of insanity. Clearly Andrea Yates was insane because of what she did. Andrea Yates murdered her five children. Andrea Yates has thought about killing her children for quite a while before she really did kill her children. Her husband Rusty Yates knew about his wife trying to kill their children and caught Andrea before she did it the first time. Andrea Yates attempted to kill her kids before and
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wants. Within the short stories‚” The White Circle” by John Bell Clayton‚” The Day I Followed” by Eric Luper‚ and” Bully on the Ledge” by Kurtis Scaletta‚someone has to overcome the obstacles of being bullied‚ or the bully themselves‚ and admittedly regretting it in the end. The common thread in these three short stories is to think about your decisions before you make them a reality and end up regretting them in the cessation of everything. In “The White circle‚”by John Bell Clayton‚ Anvil‚ a
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Everyone. Today‚ I am going to tell you a little bit about myself and the year I was born. My name is Jack‚ 27 years old and I am extremely terrified right now. I was born in July 7th 1984. It seems like I am the oldest student in this class. As I am an international student‚ I grew up in Korea until 21 and went to a Korean army as a gunner and came to the U.S. I studied in Seattle for 3 years and moved to Corvallis three month ago. I am a senior student and majoring in Finance. That was pretty much
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Hills Like White Elephants and The Girls in Their Summer Dresses: The Couples Hills Like White Elephants‚ written by Ernest Hemingway‚ and Irwin Shaw’s The Girls in Their Summer Dresses are quite similar in the fact that they both depict a couple’s conversation. Even though the two conversations aren’t about the same thing‚ they both are the result or the expression of tensions felt by the characters. However‚ the characters’ reactions and the future that we can imagine for the couples are different
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time to be studying religion because it is so complex. Religion I believe is very important in today’s world. Being able to know many things about religion is good just because you have to understand why people are doing what they are doing. It is also important because religion is everywhere we look today and being able to understand it will help. Throughout my whole life I personally didn’t have a really good understanding of what I really believed. Everyone has many different beliefs and different
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