A.P. Summer Reading List Requirements 10th Grade Honors – Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals Uglies by Scott Westerfeld Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee by Dee Brown Uglies – Summer Reading Project During the summer of 2013‚ all students who are entering grades 9-12 will read the book Uglies. For their summer reading project‚ students should choose one project from the choices below. Projects will be due to their English teachers on Friday‚ August 30. Create a diary or journal
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Human Interaction is The Importance of Life In the poem‚ “Summer Solstice‚ New York City‚” by Sharon Olds‚ a man stands on the roof of a building ready to end his life. The man hung at the edge of the roof until things started to change for him. Many men went up to the roof and one man talked him out of committing suicide. After experiencing the longest day of the year around the United States’ most populated city and busiest one at that‚ the man receives personal attention to keep him from stepping
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A street market in summer A street market in summer is always a wonderful sight. As with markets‚ the street is lined with stalls of fresh produce‚ fresh foods‚ clothing‚ cooked foods‚ flowers‚ and even electronics. The sellers boast the greenest of green vegetables‚ the reddest of red apples that even Snow-White could not resist to bite a second time‚ pulses and beans in small plastic bags so that every strata of buyers can afford‚ the fashionable women’s dresses with various colours‚ some rivaling
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The Girls in their summer dresses Men like the way women look. Whether it is women on TV or in magazines‚ they seem to like to look at women. Is this common among all men to want to look at that girl in the cute dress or the tight jeans? Or maybe it’s only certain guys that have to stare at women as they pass. But what if the man looking is married? That certainly changes the innocence of the stare. In "The Girls in their summer dresses"‚ by Irwin Shaw‚ Michael Loomis is
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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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English 111: 9 th Grade Advanced Summer Reading Guide (2015) Blessed Trinity Catholic High School Please print this packet and write the answers to the questions on this first page directly on the paper. Type the answers to the study questions. Bring the completed packet on the first day of class for a homework grade. After receiving instructions in class‚ you will also submit your answers to these questions to Turn It In. What is your name? Marisa Whitfield How many books did you read in the
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the first time to get into a decent college‚ graduate with a major or two‚ start internships‚ get a stable job‚ etc. At what point did we stop believing our innocent declarations of being an astronaut or being President of the United States? In The Summer of 1787‚ the author explores the long drawn out process of making the Constitution. He gives insight on each character that contributed and shows the extreme level of dedication and determination every single one of them had. It gave me a new level
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The Great Gatsby Summer Reading Assignment Chapter 1: 1) A) Nick Carraway is both a good and bad narrator for the story. We can personally witness the events in the story as if we are actually part of the novel‚ but at the same time‚ he cannot display an accurate interpretation of what happened between Gatsby and Daisy before he met them. To fill in the blanks of information that Nick does not know about‚ he turns to other characters in the story (Joran Baker and Gatsby). He is too deeply
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Summer Reading Assignment in English III A. Timeline 1. Childhood Dreams Randy Pausch was a kid who loved to dream big dreams. And it was important to him to have specific dreams. When he was in grade school‚ a lot of kids wanted to become astronauts‚ but Randy just wanted the floating and to experience getting in zero gravity. When he was eight years old‚ their family went on a trip to see Disneyland. And to him it was the happiest place on earth. He wanted to become one
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