RISING GIFTED ENGLISH II (NON-MAGNET) STUDENTS:
Please read The Stranger by Albert Camus and Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. There will be a test on Tuesday, August 24 that separates the readers from the SparkNoters, so be prepared.
RISING APEES:
The summer reading packet is on the BHS website in its entirety, but the reading assignment is as follows:
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
and one of the following:
The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
You will need to submit a completed focus paper on Friday, August 27 by 3 p.m. that fuses a theme from the three works you study this summer. We discussed some of these possibilities in the spring meetings.
If any of you have any questions, you can reach me at hilleyj@gmail.com OR at jennifer.hilley@ocps.net.
You have a little over a month, so get crackin'! Love to all.
