Students: I have attached a 10-page article all about YOUR generation, iGEN. It is full of survey results, so it gets tedious at times. However, I want you to read it and annotate it. That means to mark it up with notes: your thoughts, comments, reactions, questions, confusions, etc. Really INTERACT with the material. Make sense of it. Think about how it relates to concepts in  the short story "The Pedestrian" or the novel Brave New World. Think about how the information correlates or does not correlate with your generation. Get your mind ready to have a class discussion about this article. 

 

So, you can print this monster article if you want to eat up 10 pages of paper. OR, you can copy and past it into your googledocs account. Just copy and paste it onto a new document. From that point, you can then use the comment box feature to complete your annotations. 

 

I'd like to set aside Friday, Sept. 15th for our discussion of this article.

 

Mrs. McCloud

 

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English 2 Honors: Novel Assessment of Summer Reading

 

For one of the summer reading novels assigned to incoming English 2 Honors students (Station Eleven or The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie or Life of Pi), respond to one of the two prompts below.

 

Organize your ideas into no more than 2-3 paragraphs.

 

Type the response. Double space.

 

Submit to turnitin.com by Tuesday night, August 29th, 10:00pm.

 

Do not procrastinate, as the window for turnitin.com submissions closes precisely at 10pm. If you do encounter any problems or issues, problem solve and be proactive!

 

 

PROMPTS:

Imagine the following scenario: “[our Society] decided our culture was too cluttered. They created commissions to choose the hundred best of everything: Hundred Songs, Hundred Paintings, Hundred Stories, Hundred Poems. The rest were eliminated. Gone forever” (from Matched, a novel by Ally Condie). If you were to create criteria for which fiction books were to be kept in the top 100, with all others completely eliminated from life, would your summer reading of Station Eleven, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, or Life of Pi make it onto the list? Why or why not?

 

If you were to sort books into three categories—those read once, those to re-read, and those that should never be read—into which category would you place your summer reading of Station Eleven, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, or Life of Pi? Explain your reasoning for your choice.