SUMMER ASSIGNMENT

Sophomore English Summer Assignment

Required Reading: Oedipus Rex, Sophocles

Keep Track of your Reading: As you read Sophocles’ tragedy, keep track of the following elements. Use journal format. Write at least 4 one-page journals.
-opinionated reactions (to the plot, characters, language, format,
literary elements, ect.)
-enjoyable quotes
-connections (text-to-self, text-to-text, text-to-society)
-emerging themes
-page numbers

Required Film (watch at least one production of at least two of the plays listed below)
Hamlet, William Shakespeare
Othello. William Shakespeare
Macbeth, William Shakespeare

Keep Track of your Thoughts: As you watch the film(s), keep track of the following elements. Use journal format. Write at least 4 one-page journals.
- opinionated reactions (to the plot, characters, acting, language, ect.)
- enjoyable quotes
- connections (film-to-self, film-to-text, film-to-film, film-to-society)
- emerging themes

Suggested Reading: The Odyssey, Homer


Suggested Resources / Practice Materials:
The Elements of Style, William Strunk, Jr.
Vocabulary Workshop, Jerome Shostack (Level E)
Grammar Workbook for the SAT, ACT … and More, George Ehrenhaft


Looking for More?
Summer Enrichment (suggested)
Mythology, Edith Hamilton
Beowulf, Author Unknown
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
Candide, Voltaire