Happy Summer 2017!

Please don't forget your reading requirements for the following school year:

English Department English Department Faculty Jennifer Pust - Department Chair Pete Barraza Amy Chapman Gilda De La CruzRandy Denis Stephanie Dew Kathleen Faas Helen Fernandez Nathan Fulcher Diane Gonsalves Noemi Gonzalez Annette Gromala Chon Lee Meredith Louria Tisha Reichle Marla Schwartz Andrea Shore Paul Sinfield Maria Stevens Diane Toppel Tina Ustation Megan Walker Kitaro Webb Summer Reading for 2017 Over the summer, Samohi students are required to read two books.  You can get the books from a library or bookstore. (Santa Monica Public Library branches will have many copies.)  Then help your child make time to read them—a daily half-hour is perfect—and ask your child regularly about what’s happening.  Parents, if you too read the assigned books, the experience will be especially rewarding—for both of you! For complete 2017 Summer Reading information, all required titles, and free-choice recommendations. Summer Reading 2017 Selections 1. The Martian by Andy Weir Mark Watney is both a botanist and a mechanical engineer. After a freak accident, the rest of his crew leaves him on the Martian surface, thinking he was dead. The rest of the book is about how Watney tries to survive and the rescue efforts taken by NASA to retrieve him. 2. One Free Choice Book - Recommendations > Honors AP Also Read:Incoming 9HP: Kindred - Octavia E. Butler Incoming 10HP: Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut Incoming 11AP: The Boys in the Boat - Daniel James Brown Incoming 12AP: Candide - Voltaire and The Bible, (following selections): Old Testament Genesis Ch 1 to 9; 11, 22 Exodus Ch 1-14; 19 to 20 Judges Ch 13 to 16 Ruth Ch 1 to 4 Job Ch 1 to 3; 8 to 10; 38, 42 Ecclesiastes Ch 1 to 3; 12 Song of Solomon Ch 1 to 4 Jonah Ch 1 to 4 New Testament Matthew Ch 1 to 7; 24 to 28 Luke Ch 24 John Ch 20 to 21

Final Weekly Agendas

1984

Finish reading Book 3 for Monday, May 22nd

-discussion credit

Character Venn due Friday, May 26th.

Independent Reading Book Report due June 2nd, in hand.

Final Timed Essay on 1984 on final day, Wednesday, June 7th

Weekly Agenda 5.8-5.12

1984

MONDAY-TUESDAY

Review Goldstein’s Book

-”War is Peace” Worksheet

-”Ignorance is Strength”

--key concepts

HW Read and Finish Book 3 for Thursday.

WEDNESDAY

SSR

THURSDAY-FRIDAY

Quiz: Analyze the significance of ideas present in passages from both “War is Peace” and “Ignorance is Strength”

Begin discussion of Book 3

-s/m/t:T.A.C

--symbols related to dehumanization

HW Read Book 3, Chapter 1 for Monday, Chapter 2 for Tuesday.

Weekly Agenda 5.1-5.5

MONDAY/TUESDAY

Review Book 2, Chapters 1-6

HW Read Chapters 7 and 8 by THURSDAY: prepare to contrast Inner and Outer party.

AND, continue to add to Venn Draft.

WEDNESDAY

SSR (no entry)

THURSDAY/FRIDAY

Review Chapters 7 and 8

-symbolism of items Inner party has access to

HW Begin reading Chapter 9, read through page 166 for MONDAY.  Fill in answers to numbers 1-10.

Weekly Agenda 4.24-4.28

MONDAY-TUESDAY

Continue working on Body Biography for Winston

-collect evidence and connect it to body parts

Review Chapters 2-3

-essential language

-symbols to motif

-add answers and evidence to question worksheet

HW Read through Chapter 4 for Thursday, Read Chapter 5 for FRIDAY.

WEDNESDAY

Journals Due #s6-8

THURSDAY

Continue Review-Chapters 3-4

Begin Body Bio for Julia

FRIDAY

SSR

Finish Questions for Chapter 5

HW Read through Chapters 6-7 for MONDAY.