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MMA English Department 2012 Summer Readings/Assignments



If you are going into grade . . .


please read/complete the following:

6th Grade






The Indian in the Cupboard

by Lynne Banks

7th Grade





Hatchet
by Gary Paulsen

8th Grade






My Side of the Mountain
by Jean Craighead George

 ESL (all high school levels)






Hunger Games
by Suzanne Collins

9th Grade (or taking English 1)






Captain Courageous
by Rudyard Kipling

10th Grade (or taking English 2)






Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe

11th Grade (or taking regular English 3)







The Deerslayer
by James Fenimore Cooper

11th Grade (AP Literature & Composition)







Oedipus Rex
by Sophocles














The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald 









Complete the AP reading packets for each of the assigned novels: Oedipus Rex Packet and The Great Gatsby Packet.  You must print them out.  These must be completed by the first day of class!

12th Grade (ALL)

Set # 1: Read Ken Robinson’s Changing Paradigmsand then View: Sir Ken Robinson’s “Changing Paradigms” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U)

 

Set # 2: Read Spencer Johnson’s Who Moved My Cheese and then View: “Who Moved My Cheese” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEH6fvU8i7o)

 

Assignment: Create a 400-500 word response for each set of texts and videos.  The responses should record your thoughts and reactions to the works and discuss how the works might apply to your academic goals for the 2012-2013 MMA school year.



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