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