Assignment - Oakleaf High School

AICE Literature Summer Reading
Mrs. Sheffler
You will need to purchase two books for the summer reading.
The Traveler’s Gift, by Andy Andrews. This is the school-wide summer reading. I will administer the
required school assessments, but this selection will not be emphasized in class. Read the book so your
grades start strong, but spend most of your efforts on A Passage to India. (I would share copies of the
text if you can find someone to split the cost.)
1. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster. Focus your summer efforts on this selection.
Assessment: Expect a reading knowledge exam within the first two weeks of school.
Assignment: Select 3 passages from the text which have a strong impact on you. The passages
you select may vary in length from a paragraph to several pages if you wish. You must
photocopy or retype the passages to include with your summer assignments.
• Choose one passage that demonstrates strong characterization.
• Choose one passage that highlights an important plot event.
• Choose at least one passage with striking language use.
For each passage write a 1-2 page response that identifies the literary elements in your selected
passage and comments on how the passage creates its forceful effect. Your analysis should
explain the elements and the intended impact on the reader. Literary elements include those
listed on the glossary of literary terms.
Check out this website for advice:
http://www.germanna.edu/tutor/handouts/english/literary_analysis.pdf
Don’t worry if it isn’t perfect. I just want to see where your analysis skills are right now, and I
want you to think about literary terms in context.
2. Glossary of Literary Terms.
• Study this list of terms (attached).
• Be ready for an identification exam on the terms and definitions.

3. Choose a poet of literary merit and create an annotated anthology.
• Select 10 poems (all must be by the same poet). Print or type the poems out, one per page with
large margins.
• Annotate each poem. That is, make significant notes in the margins regarding the identification
of poetic devices, connections, your personal response to lines, questions, comments, whatever.
Fill the page with notes. Use whatever outside sources you want to use, but be sure you
document the source on the back of the poem annotation page. Volume matters here!
• See if you can identify common elements between the author’s poems. Bullet list things the
poems have in common.
So, be ready to turn in:
1. Three prose analysis responses for A Passage to India, 1-2 pages each. Include a photocopy or typed
version of the passages you are analyzing.
2. Ten poetry annotations, all by the same poet, 1 page each. Bullet list of common elements.
3. Be ready for a literary terms knowledge test.
4. Be ready for a basic reading test on A Passage to India.
5. Do the school-wide summer reading, and be prepared for whatever required activities we are
assigned by the administration.
Need more to do? Get a jump start on some of our reading for the year:
Selected Poems (Wordsworth Poetry Library), Wilfred Owen
Songs of Ourselves The University of Cambridge International Examinations Anthology of Poetry
in English (ISBN 81-7596-248-8)
Stories of Ourselves The University of Cambridge International Examinations Anthology of Stories
in English (ISBN 9780-521-727-914)
District and Circle (Faber), Seamus Heaney
Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Edward Albee
A Midsummer Night's Dream, William Shakespeare
Richard III, William Shakespeare
A Man for All Seasons, Robert Bolt
An Ideal Husband, Oscar Wilde