English 11 Advanced Placement Language & Composition

Summer Reading Ms. Shannon

/Am Malala By Malala Yousafzai

In Cold Blood By Truman Capote

All assignments due Friday, August 12th

*If you have any questions, please email me at mshannonPleedski2.org

11th Grade English and Advanced Placement Language & Composition Ms. Shannon

*Students enrolled in Advanced Placement Language & Composition: Complete All Assignments for I Am Malala and In Cold Blood (attached)

/Am Malala Summer Reading

Re • uirements: Nonfiction Data Sheets -Para Ei ash Essa Short Answer Res onses and 1 notation Res onses

All assignments must be accurately completed and turned in Friday, August 12th.

1. Nonfiction Data Sheets - (Data Sheet Packet distributed in May. Copies available in LHS Office during the

summer)

Detailed instructions:

Data Sheet i — Complete both columns with full explanations to all questions (use back of sheet if necessary). Data Sheet 2 — Complete ALL 15 Blanks! Please pay attention to directions at the top of the table. (DEVICE

refers to Rhetorical Devices. See Ms. Shannon if you need a listing of Rhetorical Devices.) Data Sheet 3 — Explain Writing Style fully. You may need to use the back of the sheet to fully explain the significance of the opening and closing scenes. Data Sheet 4 — Answer ALL questions fully and with complete sentences. Data Sheet 5 — Respond to questions listed and give a minimum of 3 possible themes. Select a minimum of 2

quotations to support each of your 3 possible themes of the work. That means you will have a minimum of 6 total quotations.

2. Essay-Five-paragraph TYPED essay/analysis of I Arn Malala:

Your opening paragraph must include the Thesis Statement and paragraphs 2, 3, and 4 must follow the order

of the Thesis Statement. Your closing paragraph must include a strong conclusion with a re-statement of the

thesis (not word-for-word as stated in Opening Paragraph).

3. Short Answer Responses —

1. If you were a 16-year-old girl in Pakistan, could you have imagined doing what Malala did? What do you admire about Malala?

2. Why are her actions significant in terms of the worldwide struggle for human rights (in particular, women's rights)? If you could have spoken to the Nobel Prize committee, what would you have said in her support?

3. Malala gave an address to the United Nations. Choose a quote from her address and explain why it's particularly meaningful or memorable.

4. The Swat Taliban is a subgroup of the wider Pakistani Taliban movement based in South Waziristan, in Pakistan's Swat District. What was the political situation in Swat District at the time of the attack on Malala?

5. How do you explain Malala's attack in the context of Pakistan's history?

6. What complex impact has Malala's experience and story had in Pakistan?

7. What progress has been made in terms of women's rights in Pakistan?

4. Additional Requirement — Type responses or use notebook paper to fully explain theses 3 quotations from Malala Yousafzai:

• Malala: "We realize the importance of light when we see darkness. We realize the importance of our voice when we are silenced. We believe in the power and the strength of our words. Today is the day of every woman, every boy, and every girl who have raised their voice for their rights."

• Malala: "Let us pick up our books and our pens; they are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen can change the world."

• Malala: "I tell my story not because it is unique, but because it is not. It is the story of many girls. I am Malala, but I am also Shazia, I am Kainat, I am Kainat Sonro, I am Mozoun, I am Amina, I am those

sixty-six million girls who are deprived of education. I am not a lone voice, I am many. And our voices have grown louder and louder."

Author Information Who is (are) the author(s)? What are the authors' qualifications for writing on this subject? Is the author an authority in the subject area? How does the author present the subject and his/her expertise? Do the acknowledgements and bibliography indicate thoughtful research? (cite your sources)

Title:

Author:

Date of Publication:

GENRE:

Information about the person or subject's place in history:

(Why is this person or subject worthy of a book?)

English:

Name Nonfiction Data Sheet

Nonfiction Data Sheet 1

Quotations: (Your choices should be SIGNIFICANT to and REPRESENTATIVE of the book, and your explanation

should include discussion of this significance. Include page numbers, and put your choices in order.)

,Quotation Device and Explanation

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Writing Style: Discuss the author's style. Include the following as part of your discussion: Is the language level

appropriate? Does the style of writing have clarity? Is the material fairly easy to follow and understand?

Does the author avoid stereotypes and generalizations? You must discuss the author's use of tone,

diction, and form?(Think about how the author develops the story).

Significance of the opening scene: Significance of the ending/closing scene:

Nonfiction Data Sheet 3

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Format of the Work Is the layout appropriate to the organizational

method and writing style? Does the layout of the

material contribute to the natural flow of

information? Is the pattern easy to follow? Is

the physical size of the work appropriate to the

age level of the reader and the subject of the

work? Discuss the cover -- appropriate?

significance?

Nonfiction Data Sheet 4

Possible Themes: Purpose

Explain the author's purpose in telling this story. Why is he/she telling it? Is there some greater motive?

If so, what is it? Additionally, what is the reader supposed to get out of the work? What are the overall

themes developed in this work? Use quotations (textual evidence) to support your themes. Themes

should be written as "messages" in sentence form.

Nonfiction Data Sheet 5

Advanced Placement Language & Composition In Cold Blood

Summer Reading

Requirements: Five-Paragrauh Essay Vocabulary Charts and Short Answer Responses

NAME: I. Select one of the topics below for a 5-7 paragraph essay response. Your paper must be

typed (Times New Roman 12 pt.) with correct title page, numbered pages, spacing, and word count (at the end of last paragraph). Your paper must have a minimum of FIVE properly cited quotations from In Cold Blood. All assignments due on August 12th.

1. What is the role of family in In Cold Blood? Choose two or three characters and compare and contrast how family relationships have shaped or defined them. Does the integrity of a family symbolize something larger in the context of the book?

2. Despite the fact that Capote spent years with the killers and the residents of Finney County and developed close personal ties to many of them, he is almost entirely absent from the narrative. Or is he? Are there places where his point of view creeps into the book? What literary devices does he develop to convince the reader that he is present or absent from the story?

3. Perry finally apologizes for the crime; however, critical accounts suggest that Capote embellished this part of the novel for dramatic effect and that the real Perry said nothing of the sort. What do you make of this apology? Discuss why Capote might have invented this segment. Is it faithful to the representation of Perry that the book has crafted up to this point? Do you feel it helps to clarify his character or does it make him more ambiguous? Does knowing that Capote embellished Perry's character in this way cast doubt on the story as a whole?

4. In undertaking his research in Kansas, Capote's original aim was to document the psychological impact of the killings on the residents of Holcomb, only afterwards shifting his focus to Perry and Dick. Describe this impact as it becomes expressed over the course of the book. How does Capote directly and indirectly articulate a change in the community? To what extent are the residents of Holcomb responsible for a change in the general milieu and to what extent are they affected by the goings on

around them?

5. One book review noted: "In Cold Blood is a work that transcends its moment, yielding poignant

insights into the nature of American violence." Consider Capote's research and detailed description of the criminals in this book and reflect on whether this statement is true. Write an essay in which you agree or disagree with this review.

6. Capote's purpose in writing this book changes as the story progresses. Analyze those choices and how he manipulates the reader to support his purpose. Finally, argue what his real purpose was in

publishing In Cold Blood.

7. Does the book make a distinction between what is legal and what is moral? Discuss how the book handles the relationship between law and morality with respect to one of the following: the death penalty; the insanity defense (M'Naghten vs. Durham rule); Perry's reckoning with organized religion.

II. Vocabulary Why It Makes Sense

Instructions: As you read In Cold Blood, look for at least 20 words that you are unfamiliar with and that look interesting. When you find a word, fill out a column of this worksheet. The most important box is the "Why It Makes Sense" box. Here, explain how the context of what is happening in the book helps you to better understand the definition of the unfamiliar word. This worksheet (with all columns completed) is due on August 12th with your other Summer Reading Assignments. I have an example listed on the top row:

Vocab. Word #

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Word Sentence Definition Why It Makes Sense

Example Intrepid

"Certainly not Holcomb's widowed postmistress, the intrepid Mrs. Myrtle Clare,

Characterized by resolute fearlessness, fortitude, and endurance.

This makes sense because earlier in the book, Capote describes Mrs. Myrtle Clare as the only member of Holcomb who was unshaken by the murder of the Clutter famil

who scorned her fellow townsmen as 'a lily-livered lot, shaking in their boots afraid to shut their eyes'."

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III. Short Answer Responses:

1. Explore the significance of the title of the chapter "The Last to See Them Alive." How does Capote

characterize the Clutter family along with the people who saw them last?

2. Analyze what techniques Capote uses to heighten the mood of mystery in his reader in Part 1.

3. Analyze the characterizations of Dick and Perry up until they're both sound asleep at the end of Part 1 where Perry is described as having "fallen face down across the bed, as though sleep were a weapon that had struck him from behind".

4. In branding one's work as a non-fiction novel, does the writer have an ethical responsibility to deliver their prose without any hidden agendas? Or is it impossible for our human nature to be completely objective? If that's the case, is it foolhardy to refer to any text as truly a work of nonfiction? Is Capote's tweaking of the genre his way of admitting his embellishing of the text?

5. Analyze the role public hysteria/intrigue plays in shaping our impression of current events, giving an example from a recent newsworthy event. How can we be informed yet aloof from the conspiracy theories?

6. Analyze at least two of Perry's songs/poems/hymns explaining what they reveal about his character.

7. What does Capote hope to emphasize with the following quotation? "The crime was a psychological accident, virtually an impersonal act; the victims might as well have been killed by lightning. Except for one thing: they had experienced prolonged terror, they had suffered".