IB English - Year Two

SUMMER READING GUIDE IB ENGLISH HL TWO

TEXT: BARRACOON by ZORA NEALE HURSTON

PART 1: Barracoon Annotations

Get your own copy (new or used) of Barracoon. Make meaningful annotations as you read. You are responsible for reading and annotating all sections, except the Afterword by Deborah G. Plant. This means you should read and annotate all of the following:

·      the foreword by Alice Walker

·      the introduction and the editor’s note by Deborah G. Plant

·      the preface

·      the introduction

·      Chapters 1-12 (the main body of the text)

·      the appendix— all by Hurston.

I will collect your annotated book on the first day of school.

For advice on annotations, watch these two YouTube videos:

·      “How to Annotate” (by Studyign–not a misspelling)—a student’s perspective (about four minutes)

·      “How to Annotate a Text” (by Heather Butz)—a teacher’s perspective (about three minutes)

·      Also, peruse the next page of this document, for it is a sample of one of my annotated pages.

PART 2: TEST ON BARRACOON

You will also have a test on Barracoon which involves both a multiple-choice section and an extended response section during the first week of school. For questions, contact Ms. Wilcox at Kari.Wilcox@darlington.k12.sc.us.