Rising 10th grade students who are taking Advanced Program English 2 should read The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah. Students should expect to take a brief assessment, to engage in class discussions, and complete a brief writing assignment in the first week of school. 

"In love we find out who we want to be. In war we find out who we are."

In the quiet village of Carriveau, France in 1939, Vianne Mauriac says good-bye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. She doesn’t believe that the Nazis will invade France…but invade they do, in droves of marching soldiers, in caravans of trucks and tanks, in planes that fill the skies and drop bombs upon the innocent. When a German captain requisitions Vianne’s home, she and her daughter must live with the enemy or lose everything. Without food or money or hope, as danger escalates all around them, she is forced to make one impossible choice after another to keep her family alive.

Vianne’s sister, Isabelle, is a rebellious eighteen-year-old, searching for purpose with all the reckless passion of youth. While thousands of Parisians march into the unknown terrors of war, she meets Gaëtan, a partisan who believes the French can fight the Nazis from within France, and she falls in love as only the young can…completely. But when he betrays her, Isabelle joins the Resistance and never looks back, risking her life time and again to save others. 

(From Goodreads.com)

Any questions, email Ms. Smith jennifer.smith@jefferson.kyschools.us 

Copies of the assignment will be distributed the last week of school before summer break. You may pick them up from Ms. Smith (112) or Ms. Jankowski (118). If you do not get one, some will be left in the front office and may be picked up when the office is open over the summer. 

Read and follow the directions carefully. This assignment sets the stage for all the work we will do next school year! 

You must have printed copies of the text set to complete the assignment. 

Any questions, email Mrs. Jankowski:  elizabeth.jankowski@jefferson.kyschools.us 

Assignment Directions   Text Set

Choose from a list of several documentaries, read The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, and complete your choice of writing assignments connecting the documentary to autobiography or the real world. 

The complete directions are linked HERE. 

Any questions, email Mr. Graham: jonathan.graham@jefferson.kyschools.us 

This assignment is IN ADDITION to your English summer literacy assignment (if assigned) for your English class.

Assignment Link

Any questions, email Ms. Hare lindsay.hare@jefferson.kyschools.us

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Through this story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on a sun-drenched Algerian beach, Camus explores what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd." (Goodreads.com)

Be prepared for an assessment, an On Demand assignment, and complete the work listed at the link here: 

Assignment Link

Any questions, email Mr. Tatum: heath.tatum@jefferson.kyschools.us 

This is for the dual-credit class offered at LMHS through UL.

Read this excerpt: “Toolbox” from On Writing by Stephen King

Be prepared for an On Demand and a group discussion activity. Complete the following task: 

Assignment Link

Any questions, email Ms. Butler: danette.butler@jefferson.kyschools.us 

This is for the dual-credit class offered at LMHS through UL.

Intermediate College Writing Summer Reading Project:

Stephen King’s On Writing

“If you want to become a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There’s no way around these two things that I’m aware of, no shortcuts.” - Stephen King

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Any questions, email Kristin Vukmanic: kristin.vukmanic@jefferson.kyschools.us