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IB Year 1 Summer Reading List

This document provides the summer reading list for juniors taking IB Lang A1. It includes three required texts: Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel, The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, and selected chapters from How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas Foster. Students must keep a reading response journal for each text and be prepared to write an in-class essay on the first day analyzing a key passage from either The Things They Carried or Like Water for Chocolate. The summer assignment is worth 5% of the first semester grade.

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IB Year 1 Summer Reading List

This document provides the summer reading list for juniors taking IB Lang A1. It includes three required texts: Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel, The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, and selected chapters from How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas Foster. Students must keep a reading response journal for each text and be prepared to write an in-class essay on the first day analyzing a key passage from either The Things They Carried or Like Water for Chocolate. The summer assignment is worth 5% of the first semester grade.

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Reading List for IB Lang A1 Year 1 (Juniors) 1. Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (magic realist fiction) You may substitute House of Spirits by Isabel Allende if youve already read Like Water. 2. The Things They Carried by Tim OBrien (creative nonfiction) 3. How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas Foster: Chapters 21-27 (nonfiction) If you did not read this text last year, please also read the Introduction plus Chapters 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 14, 18, and 20

All of the above are available from the Bend High library EXCEPT Like Water for Chocolate. Our first day of class: Reading Response Journals due Be prepared to write an in-class Key Passage Commentary Essay on the summer reading (more info on back of this page) The summer reading is worth 5% of your first semester grade Reading Response Journal: For all of the books, keep a Reading Response Journal. A Reading Response Journal is a notebook in which you write about your reading. In it you communicate thoughts and feelings about the book you are reading; its a window for the teacher to look through to see what you are thinking and what you know about the selection. You may use a computer, if you prefer. Youll need to print out a hard copy to take to class the first day. Use the format below: 1. Produce 8 entries for each book; length will vary. Aim for an average of about half a page per entry if you type or write small. 2. Write the date of each entry at the top of each page. 3. You may draw a cartoon as a visual entry if you wish, but you must include dialogue between the characters or create captions. 4. For How to Read Literature Like a Professor, you may tend to have many entries that summarize or paraphrase the concept you have learned about in the chapter. That is fine. 5. Approximately 25% of your responses to OBrien and Esquivel should be commentary. By thinking and writing about the authors use of literary devices and their effects, you will gear up for the in-class essay you will write in class.

In-Class Essay: In addition to turning in your reader response journals, you will write an essay on the summer reading in class on our first day back. You will be asked to write commentary on a key passage selected from either The Things They Carried or Like Water for Chocolate (the teacher will select the passage). The key passage will be provided for you, along with a guiding question to help you direct your thoughts. If you wish to get a head start on the rest of the literature well read during the school year, the titles are listed below. First Semester Deep River: Shusaku Endo Woman at Point Zero: Nawal El Saadawi (creative nonfiction) Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand (drama) Second Semester Persepolis: Margane Satrapi (graphic novel) Kite Runner: Khaled Hossein (fiction) The Great Gatsby: F. Scott Fitzgerald (fiction) Macbeth: Shakespeare (drama)

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