Grade 11 Summer Reading Assignment

Directions – Choose one of the books listed below and complete one page of two-column notes per indicated sections. (Total: 4 pages of notes)

The Autobiography of Malcom X as told to Alex Haley

1.      Chapters 1-6
2.      Chapters 7-12
3.      Chapters 13-16
4.      Chapters 17-Epilogue

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

1.      Feathers from A Thousand Li Away
2.      The Twenty-Six Malignant Gates
3.      American Translation
4.      Queen Mother of the Western Skies

Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

1.      Chapters 1-6
2.      Chapters 6-12
3.      Chapters 13-18
4.      Chapters 19-25

Use this Partial Model of two-column notes as an example to help format your notes. See front side for specific content details for notes. Notes in model below are taken from A Tale of Two Cities.

Characterization and Character Development	- Sydney Carton in Book Two, Chapter 3, as a slovenly mess who is uninterested in his work - First to see Lucie faint (67), and acts jealous around Charles Darnay -Confesses his love to Lucie in Book Two, Chapter 13
Conflict (Internal and External)	-Internal conflict: Carton’s self-hatred. He wants to be loved but does not think he is worthy of it. Book Two, Chapter 13 Uses metaphors to draw a picture of his worthlessness before expressing his ultimate devotion and promise to Lucie. -External conflict: “’He is hanged there forty feet high-and is left hanging, poisoning the water’” (154). Gaspard is hanged for killing the Marquis His body is left hanging over the fountain as both a warning to and a punishment of the village peasants
Significant Quotations with Explanation	“’O Miss Manette…think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life your love beside you!’” (138). Carton showing his true love for Lucie. Knows she will never love him Loves her so much he would do anything to make her life happy even if it does not include him

Characterization and Character Development

- Sydney Carton in Book Two, Chapter 3, as a slovenly mess who is uninterested in his work

- First to see Lucie faint (67), and acts jealous around Charles Darnay

-Confesses his love to Lucie in Book Two, Chapter 13

Conflict (Internal and External)

-Internal conflict: Carton’s self-hatred. He wants to be loved but does not think he is worthy of it. Book Two, Chapter 13

Uses metaphors to draw a picture of his worthlessness before expressing his ultimate devotion and promise to Lucie.

-External conflict: “’He is hanged there forty feet high-and is left hanging, poisoning the water’” (154).

Gaspard is hanged for killing the Marquis
His body is left hanging over the fountain as both a warning to and a punishment of the village peasants

Significant Quotations with Explanation

“’O Miss Manette…think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life your love beside you!’” (138).

Carton showing his true love for Lucie.
Knows she will never love him
Loves her so much he would do anything to make her life happy even if it does not include him

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