2008 Summer Reading

 

Below is the required reading for the summer. Please have these books completed before returning to school this August. We hope you enjoy them and that you have a wonderful summer.

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The SBEC English Department

 

Grade              Books                                      Authors                                   Study Packet/Questions

 

 

7th                    The Hobbit                                J.R.R. Tolkien              Questions Here

 

7-Honors          The Hobbit                                J.R.R. Tolkien              Questions Here  

                  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer         Mark Twain                  Questions Here

 

7 -Reach          Old Yeller                                 Fred Gipson                  Questions Here

 

8th                    The Giver                                 Lois Lowry                   Questions Here

 

8-Honors          The Giver                                 Lois Lowry                   Questions Here

                        The Miracle Worker                  William Gibson Questions Here

 

8-Reach           Because of Winn Dixie               Kate DiCamillo Questions Here            

 

9th                    The Outsiders                S.E. Hinson                  Questions Here

 

9-Honors          Monster                                    Frank Peretti                 Questions Here

(Choose one)    Robinson Crusoe                       Daniel Defoe                Questions Here

 

9-Reach           The Call of the Wild                  Jack London                 Questions Here

(Clark)

 

10                    A Raisin in the Sun                    Lorraine Hansberry       Questions Here

                         Kingdoms Call             Chuck Black                 Questions Here

           

10-Honors        A Raisin in the Sun                    Lorraine Hansberry       Questions Here

                        Mythology (parts 1-3)                Edith Hamilton Questions Here

 

10-Reach          The Outsiders                            S.E. Hinton                  Questions Here

 

11th                  This Present Darkness               Frank Peretti                 No Questions

                          Night                                     Elie Wiesel                   Questions Here

 

11th Honors      This Present Darkness               Frank Peretti                 No Questions

                          Night                                     Elie Wiesel                   No Questions

 

11-AP              This Present Darkness               Frank Peretti                 No Questions

                        Night                                       Elie Wiesel                   No Questions

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn       Mark Twain                  No Questions

 

11-Reach          The Hiding Place                      Corrie Ten Boom          Questions Here

(Clark)

12th boys          The Lord of the Flies                 William Golding           Questions Here

                        Screwtape Letters                      C.S. Lewis                    Questions Here

 

12th girls          Emma                                       Jane Austen                  Questions Here

                        Screwtape Letters                      C.S. Lewis                    Questions Here

 

*12-AP will read the same selections as other 12th grade classes listed above*

 

12-Reach          Monster                                    Frank Peretti                 Questions Here

(Clark)

 

 

Honors English 7

Summer Reading

The Hobbit

 

 

On a separate sheet of notebook paper, answer in sentence form the following questions about the novel.

 

*Chapters 1-3

1.               What is Gandalf’s reputation?

2.               According to the dwarves’ song, where do they want to go, why do they wish to go there, and why did they leave in the first place?

3.               What is to be Bilbo’s job on the adventure?

4.               What happens to Bilbo on his first attempt at “burglaring”?

 

*Chapters 4-7

1.               How does Bilbo get separated from everyone?

2.               How do the Goblins and Wargs trap the party in the forest?

3.               In one well-written sentence, characterize Beorn.

4.               Why can’t the party go around Mirkwood?

 

*Chapters 8-11

1.               Explain how Bilbo saves the dwarves from the giant spider.

2.               Explain how Bilbo helps the dwarves escape from the Wood-elves.

3.               How do Bilbo and the dwarves finally find the secret door?

 

*Chapters 12-14

1.               What does Smaug do when he discovers Bilbo has stolen the cup?

2.               What is cram?

3.               What does Thorin give Bilbo? Why?

4.               What is the importance of the black arrow?

 

*Chapters 15-19

1.               What good news does Roac bring?  What bad news does he bring?

2.               Why does Bilbo offer the Arkenstone to Bard?

3.               How has the treasure changed Thorin?

4.               Who is involved in the Battle of Five Armies?

5.               Why isn’t Bilbo found until the day after battle?

6.               How does Thorin make amends with Bilbo?

7.               Why are Bilbo’s things being sold?  What is it the Sackville-Bagginses never admit?

Vocabulary List

 

attercop - a spider; an ill-natured person

audacious - bold or daring

bard - a poet

benighted – confused in the dark

besieged – surrounded in a hostile manner

bilbo – a sword, a rapier

blighter – a contemptible fellow

carrion – decaying flesh of a dead body

cavalcade – a procession of people on horseback

clamor – a great outcry; noise

conspirator – a person who takes part in a conspiracy

cronies – friends

enmity – hostility

eyrie- the nest of an eagle, located in a high place

flummoxed – to confused or perplexed

forded – crossed a river or other body of water

hart- a male dear

laburnums- small, poisonous trees and shrubs

mattocks – a tool like a pickax with aflat blade, used for loosening the soil

necromancer- someone -who claims to be able to tell the future by communicating with the dead through black magic; a sorcerer

palpitating – a rapid of the heart

portcullis – a strong barrier

precipice – a vertical cliff; a very steep place

purloined – stolen

quay- a pier or landing area for ships

quoits – a game where players throw rings at a peg in the ground

reconciliation to become friends again; to settle differences