Grade 10 Summer Reading Assignment

Directions - Choose one of the books listed below and complete one page of two-column notes per indicated section. (Total: 3 pages of notes)

A Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger

1.      “Foreword” – “God’s Country”
2.      “The Flemish Cap” – “The Zero-Moment Point”
3.      “The World of the Living” – “Acknowledgements”

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

1.      Volume I (Chapters 1-15)
2.      Volume II (Chapters 16-26)
3.      Volume III (Chapters 27-38)

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

1.      Part I
2.      Part II
3.      Part III

Use this Partial Model of two-column notes to help format your notes. See front side for specific content details for notes. Notes in model below are taken from To Kill a Mockingbird.

Conflict (Internal and External)	Internal conflict: Heck Tate asks Atticus to shoot Tim Johnson Heck says this is a “one-shot job” (126) Although Atticus is the best man for the job, shooting goes against his principles External conflict: Bob Ewell spits in Atticus’s face Tells Atticus “he’d get him if it took the rest of his life” (290) Foreshadows Bob Ewell’s violence against Jem and Scout
Characterization and Character Development	Jem’s character development: Realizes they should not have peeked into the Radley’s window When Dill first visits, Jem is curious about the Radleys, wants to see/have contact with Boo, acts out Boo’s life Now he says, “We shouldn’a done that tonight, Scout” (75)
Significant Quotations with Explanation	“It was then, I suppose, that Jem and I first began to part company” (75). Scout in narration Demonstrates a change in the relationship between Scout and Jem In the beginning, they were close – now, Jem has more wisdom than Scout Foreshadows more complications between the two

Conflict (Internal and External)

Internal conflict: Heck Tate asks Atticus to shoot Tim Johnson

Heck says this is a “one-shot job” (126)
Although Atticus is the best man for the job, shooting goes against his principles

External conflict: Bob Ewell spits in Atticus’s face

Tells Atticus “he’d get him if it took the rest of his life” (290)
Foreshadows Bob Ewell’s violence against Jem and Scout

Characterization and Character Development

Jem’s character development: Realizes they should not have peeked into the Radley’s window

When Dill first visits, Jem is curious about the Radleys, wants to see/have contact with Boo, acts out Boo’s life
Now he says, “We shouldn’a done that tonight, Scout” (75)

Significant Quotations with Explanation

“It was then, I suppose, that Jem and I first began to part company” (75).

Scout in narration
Demonstrates a change in the relationship between Scout and Jem
In the beginning, they were close – now, Jem has more wisdom than Scout
Foreshadows more complications between the two

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