ENGLISH IV HONORS READING & ASSIGNMENT

Please read George Orwell’s Animal Farm for your honors reading experience! We have also provided you with a few supplementary opportunities in which you should partake. You will be responsible for each assignment on Day 1. Failure to complete the summer assignment will not result in a withdrawal from the course, so please be prepared!

Your Mission

Read Orwell's Animal Farm (There are a limited number of copies in the LC or you can access the text online. )
Watch the animated adaptation from 1954
Complete 10 Double-entry journals using the Say~Mean/Matter, Double-Entry Note Structure
Watch the "Days that Shook the World..." video
Keep notes organized and ready for submission. Feel free to utilize supplementary resources, but do not allow any of them to substitue for a close reading of the text.

Say~Mean/Matter, Double-Entry Note Structure in MLA format

We will use a 3 column-note structure in class, but for your summer reading notes, please set up your thinking as follows~

A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry. (When you handwrite your notes, underline the book’s title please.)

What does the text explicitly say?	What does this quote mean and Why does it matter?
“Damn my eggs-Damn all the eggs that ever was” (Hansberry 34). Write the part of the quote that is most helpful to understanding what you write in the second column. You may use an ellipse (...) but make sure to include what makes sense. Your second column, the Mean and Matter, should be logically linked to the quote and should be at least 3 sentences. Notice the example is not a summary, but a reaction to the reading. This is the Emotional Impact. **You will use your notes for a literary analysis, so be thorough. You are the expert!	Walter Lee’s response to his wife, Ruth is one of frustration. Once Walter Lee realizes that Ruth is ignoring his attempts to persuade her to go along with his future plans, he curses his breakfast in anger. Ruth’s decision to provide Walter Lee with scrambled eggs after he told her he did not want them, and her prodding to eat his breakfast ignites a firestorm in Walter Lee. This moment provides several pieces of information for the reader: 1. Walter Lee and Ruth are at odds and 2. Walter Lee’s idea for the money is not a popular choice, and 3. Walter Lee’s need for his wife to side with him provides insight about the strained relationship that he has with his own mother, Lena.
Please note if you have used a pdf.	You may color-code your notes if doing so helps!

What does the text explicitly say?

What does this quote mean and Why does it matter?

“Damn my eggs-Damn all the eggs that ever was” (Hansberry 34).

**Write the part of the quote that is most helpful to understanding what you write in the second column. You may use an ellipse (...) but make sure to include what makes sense.

**Your second column, the Mean and Matter, should be logically linked to the quote and should be at least 3 sentences. Notice the example is not a summary, but a reaction to the reading. This is the Emotional Impact.

**You will use your notes for a literary analysis, so be thorough. You are the expert!

Walter Lee’s response to his wife, Ruth is one of frustration. Once Walter Lee realizes that Ruth is ignoring his attempts to persuade her to go along with his future plans, he curses his breakfast in anger. Ruth’s decision to provide Walter Lee with scrambled eggs after he told her he did not want them, and her prodding to eat his breakfast ignites a firestorm in Walter Lee. This moment provides several pieces of information for the reader: 1. Walter Lee and Ruth are at odds and 2. Walter Lee’s idea for the money is not a popular choice, and 3. Walter Lee’s need for his wife to side with him provides insight about the strained relationship that he has with his own mother, Lena.

Please note if you have used a pdf.

You may color-code your notes if doing so helps!