Captain Shreve High School English III - Advanced Placement English Language and Composition M. Scott, AP Instructor

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1 Captain Shreve High School English III - Advanced Placement English Language and Composition M. Scott, AP Instructor MRScott@caddoschools.org English III AP Summer 2018 Assignments Budget time over several weeks to read the book and complete the assignments. Waiting until the week before school begins is ill-advised your work will reflect your procrastination and will by no means achieve Advanced Placement standard. Due dates are listed below. Turn in typed hard copies where required and save electronic copies to submit later on Turnitin.com. You will need hard copies of Unbroken for our daily classwork. No E-books in class! These texts are available on Amazon.com and at the public library. Though the local book store may have copies for sale, I do not recommend ordering through them. In the past, they have not fulfilled orders in a timely way. Due August 13: School Wide Summer Reading: 1. Complete the school-wide summer reading assignment listed on the Captain Shreve website. There will be writing and discussion-based activities the first week of school that will require a full understanding of the assignment you choose. Due August 20: AP English Language and Composition Course Reading and Research Assignment 1. Read Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand and complete the reading guide assignment. Purchase your copy ASAP. The book is available at Barnes and Noble. Amazon.com offers fast and free shipping. Shreve Memorial Library has many copies. Do not watch the film. The film varies from the detailed, factual account in the print text. Students who watch the film may be confused about facts and details that will appear on the test. You will need to purchase your own copy of Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. This is a documented account of 1936 Olympian Louis Zamperini and who was later drafted into WWII. In the midst of the war in the Pacific, Zamperini and the rest of his B-24 crew crashed; Zamperini and two other crewmen survived and drifted as sea for over a month before being captured by the Japanese. Hillenbrand carefully recounts details of the war, telling an unforgettable story of a man s journey into extremity Unbroken is a testament to the resilience of the human mind, body, and spirit. Since most of you are also enrolled in the American history course this fall, the people and events will be helpful to your knowledge of the historical context as well. On annotating the print text for reading and research: Write notes in your copy of the book. Use stickie notes for library books. E-books are not permitted for our class. They do not support the close reading strategies you need to develop for our course. Annotations include defining words you do not know, literary and historical

2 allusions, margin notes, writing commentary or reactions of your own, and summarizing ideas at the end of a chapter. Underlining and highlighting is meaningless without annotation. Reading and Research Assignment: Read Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand and complete the assignment included here. Again, this assignment is due Monday, August 20. Use the downloadable version on CaptainShreve.com to type your answers. Turn in hard copies and save electronic copies to submit on Turnitin.com. This assignment is to be completed without consulting any other person, book, or source. Dictionaries may be used to define vocabulary terms. I. Vocabulary: Define the word and write the sentence where it appears in the text. Use MLA format for parenthetical citations to cite the page number. Preface 1. winnowed Chapter 1 1. insurgency 2. avuncular Chapter 2 1. incipient Chapter 3 1. pundits Chapter 4 1. troika 2. Tuetonica Chapter 5 1. anodyne 2. pleurisy Chapter 6 1. bonhomie 2. crucible Chapter torpor Chapter doldrums Chapter expiation 2. insidious II. Identification: Write a complete sentence that describes or identifies these people, items, places, or events. Use the index to guide your research. 1. Glenn Cunningham

3 2. Torrence Tornado 3. Joseph Goebbels 4. The banner outside Reich Chancellery 5. Jimmie Saski Olympics 7. Russell Allen Phillips 8. Superman 9. Zeros 10. Mae West life vest 11. Art Reading and Everett Almond 12. Sharks and the Canton Airmen holes 14. Harry Brooks 15. Stinking Six 16. Green Hornet 17. Francis McNamara 18. Kwajalein 19. Yokohama 20. Ofuna 21. William Harris 22. Ashio 23. Kill-all order 24. Omori 25. Corporal Matsuhiro Watanabe 26. University of Theivery 27. Postman Calls 28. Tokyo Rose 29. Palawan Camp 30. Naoetsu 31. Camp Mitsushima 32. Cynthia Applewhite 33. Billy Graham 34. CBS, Draggan Mihailovich, Bob Simon 35. The Olympic torch III. Answer the following questions in complete sentences. Use MLA format for parenthetical citations to cite the page numbers. 1. Describe three reasons for non-combat casualties as described in Chapter How many AAF men were killed in combat in WWII? Refer to Chapter List the items which remained in the rafts with Phil, Louis, and Mac. 4. List food the men ate during their time on the rafts. 5. Refer to Chapter 20: List methods the men used to defy the guards.

4 6. Refer to Chapter 30: Describe the pamphlets dropped from U.S. planes before the bombing of Hiroshima. What happened to these pamphlets? 7. What is the significance of the body discovered in chapter 36? 8. Describe Louis s 1950 return to Japan. IV. Dates: Why is each important? Use complete sentences. 1. August 7, December 7, December 23, April 17, May 27, November 1, March 1, August 22, 1945 (describe two very different points of significance) 9. September 2, September 5, May 25, October 1, 1948 V. Notes: On page 407, Laura Hillenbrand explains how she researched the book and her abbreviations. Read this, then answer the questions about her notes: 1. What does HIA mean? 2. What does SCAP mean? 3. In the note for page 107 like animals crying what does Ibid mean? Use a dictionary to find the meaning of this term if needed. 4. In the note for page 277, what does [sic] mean? Use a dictionary to find the meaning of this term if needed. 5. Who wrote the sources used in page 22, Compton Open preparation? For these items, what type of source is each (book, newspaper, magazine, , website, or phone interview?) 1. #19 2. #24 made a wreck of me 3. #63 B-24 names 4. #67 Beer fight 5. #183 I was literally 6. #327 Louie loses beloved shirt 7. #376 Louie at park All assignments are due on their respective due dates. Use the downloadable version on CaptainShreve.com web to type your answers.

5 Turn in hard copies and save electronic copies to submit later to Turnitin.com. These assignments are to be completed without consulting any other person, book, or source.