2019 English Language Arts Summer Assignment
Grade 12 Instructions
Instructions for Incoming Twelfth Graders:
**All of your writing pieces should be typed and saved – preferably as a Google Doc.
Assignment Guidelines and Requirements:
1. Text-analysis directions:
Your Task: Closely read one of the texts below and write a well-developed, text-based response of three paragraphs. In your response, identify a central idea in the text and analyze how the author’s use of one writing strategy (literary element or literary technique or rhetorical device) develops this central idea. Use strong and thorough evidence from the text to support your analysis. Do not simply summarize the text.
Central Idea: The central idea is the central, unifying idea of the story, which ties together all of the other elements used by the author to tell the story. The central idea can be best described as the universal truth found in the story.
Guidelines: Use these guidelines when writing your text-analysis response.
Be sure to:
· Identify a central idea in the text
· Analyze how the author’s use of one writing strategy (literary element or literary technique or rhetorical device) develops this central idea. Examples include: characterization, conflict, denotation/connotation, metaphor, simile, irony, language use, point-of-view, setting, structure, symbolism, theme, tone, etc.
· Use strong and thorough evidence from the text to support your analysis
· Organize your ideas in a cohesive and coherent manner
· Maintain a formal style of writing
· Follow the conventions of standard written English
2. College and Career tasks:
Your Task: Complete all of the written tasks for Naviance and College Board as well as researching the Financial Aid aspect of college.
(see attached)
12th_grade_summer_assignment_-_college_and_career_component.docx
12th_grade_summer_assignment_-_college_and_career_component.pdf
- Read one text from the list provided for English Language Arts (see below); you can get a copy of the text at your local library or online.
- Complete one text-analysis response, based upon your selected text, following the directions provided (see below).
- Complete the three, written College and Career tasks (see below).
**All of your writing pieces should be typed and saved – preferably as a Google Doc.
Assignment Guidelines and Requirements:
- All work must be your own. Do not plagiarize. You will not receive credit for the assignment if your work is copied from any source.
- The text analysis essay is directly correlated to the text you are reading.
- The College and Career tasks will require you to research and document your options for the future.
1. Text-analysis directions:
Your Task: Closely read one of the texts below and write a well-developed, text-based response of three paragraphs. In your response, identify a central idea in the text and analyze how the author’s use of one writing strategy (literary element or literary technique or rhetorical device) develops this central idea. Use strong and thorough evidence from the text to support your analysis. Do not simply summarize the text.
Central Idea: The central idea is the central, unifying idea of the story, which ties together all of the other elements used by the author to tell the story. The central idea can be best described as the universal truth found in the story.
Guidelines: Use these guidelines when writing your text-analysis response.
Be sure to:
· Identify a central idea in the text
· Analyze how the author’s use of one writing strategy (literary element or literary technique or rhetorical device) develops this central idea. Examples include: characterization, conflict, denotation/connotation, metaphor, simile, irony, language use, point-of-view, setting, structure, symbolism, theme, tone, etc.
· Use strong and thorough evidence from the text to support your analysis
· Organize your ideas in a cohesive and coherent manner
· Maintain a formal style of writing
· Follow the conventions of standard written English
2. College and Career tasks:
Your Task: Complete all of the written tasks for Naviance and College Board as well as researching the Financial Aid aspect of college.
(see attached)
12th_grade_summer_assignment_-_college_and_career_component.docx
12th_grade_summer_assignment_-_college_and_career_component.pdf
Grade 12 ELA Texts
Down and Across by Arvin Ahmadi (fiction)
or
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner (non-fiction)
or
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner (non-fiction)