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Animal Farm 

by George Orwell

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How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines, Revised Edition

by Thomas C Foster

It is expected that every student will come to class on the first day of school having completed the summer assignment.

There are three parts:

Part 1: Thomas C. Foster’s How to Read Literature like a Professor 

HERE is a PDF copy of How to Read Literature like a Professor 

This book will help you better analyze literature and read into the text like your English teachers do when they read. This is a book about how to read books and is not a story. It will help better prepare you for the rigor of this class, as well as to prepare for Advanced Placement courses.

For the summer assignment, you only need to read the chapters listed below. Make a copy of these Cornell notes to fill out one of these (for each chapter) as you read and turn in on the first day of school. You are also encouraged to annotate while you read; this is a habit of strong readers!

You are responsible for reading the following chapters:

• Chapter 1: Every Trip is a Quest

• Chapter 8: Its Greek to Me

• Chapter 9: It’s More than Just Rain or Snow

• Chapter 12: Is that a Symbol?

• Chapter 13: It’s All Political

• Chapter 19: Geography Matters…

• Chapter 20...So Does Season

• Chapter 23: It's Never Just Heart Disease...And Rarely Just Illness