reading ability. Also, please consult teachers, local librarians, and book websites as you aid your child in choosing additional books to gain information about reading levels and other information about various titles. In order to complete the Summer Reading requirement, students should be prepared to take a reading comprehension test based on the required novel once they return to school. Also, within the first two weeks of school, your child will complete a writing assessment based on the other
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AP Language and Composition Summer Reading 2013 As you commence your journey as an advanced reader and writer, it is essential that you recognize the process by which you have attained this placement. Do you love to read? Do you enjoy analyzing a text to discover unique and profound ideas? Are you inspired by effective writing? Are you a creative thinker? Even if you have never asked yourself these questions before now, I am certain that your summer reading selections will lead you to
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APUSH PINS - AP US History Summer Assignment – 2015 Contact Information Name: Mr. John C. Moffi E-Mail: jmoffi@dadeschools.net Cell: 954-274-2908 To the new APUSH PINS of 2015 - 2016: Listed below are your assignments and the dates that they are due. 1. Your first assignment is to complete the following: a. E-mail me with your contact information (home phone, address, cell, etc). In the subject area of your e-mail please write APUSH SUMMER. b. Connect to our class EDMODO Account, Join URL:
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29 September 2013 Narrative & Description: The Summer of 2009 It was the end of my 8th grade year and we were all waiting for the last day to come around. As we were waiting, North Korea tested their second nuclear device. Following that test, Pyongyang conducted many missile tests that built tensions in the international community. It was getting closer to the last day and we were all jumping out of our seats. We could hear planes from the Pennridge airport flying by. In France, Air France Flight
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Honors and Advanced Placement Summer Reading Project Dear Parents/Guardians and Students, In preparing our students for the advanced language, literature, and composition curriculum, we believe that improving reading ability and maintaining gains made during the school year are important goals. In order to be certain students maintain their reading and critical thinking skills, we are requiring that students participate in a summer reading project. Summer reading will extend the honors/AP
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Trip of the Summer Finals were finally over! Although the season of summer had yet to begin, summer was officially here for me. This was the perfect time to plan something to really start this summer off great. However, little did I know the planning had already begun. A couple friends of mine mentioned taking a road trip to the city. Listening to this statement, I immediately was disappointed because we always go to Saint Louis. After a little more discussion I slowly became more
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Summer Reading My experience with summer reading went well this summer. I found a book that I enjoyed and it was a quick easy read as well. In past summers I usually pick the book that’s the shortest and that’s it. This year a friend had told me to read Life as we knew it by Susan Beth Pfeffer because she had read it in the past and said it was a great read. The book was about how the world plunges into despair and Miranda the main character learns how to take care of her family. Her two brothers
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Brittany Ferguson Dear Summer Search, Hello! My name is Brittany Ferguson, I am 17 years old and I’m from Richmond California. I go to Richmond High School and I’m currently entering my junior year of high school. I have lived in Richmond for about 80% of my life, and the other 20% was in Antioch. I live at home with my mom, sister and my brother. About two years ago, we moved from my step dad’s house it was seriously a tragic move. Times were really tough for my family. My mom works as a
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Claudia Mascina AP English Literature Summer Reading Assignment 1. Throughout The Jungle, many of Sinclair’s characters are not versatile or convincing characters as they are representing the force of the immigrant workers as a whole. The characteristics of Jurgi’s characters are made to
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Jesus Blanco 7/18/14 Summer Reading Entry 1 Summer Reading Entry 1 Over the summer, I have read many different books. But the book that I felt passionate writing about is called “My Stroke of Insight,” written by Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D. This book I feel like is very descriptive and very personal to Ms. Taylor; that way she, as well, is very passionate about her work and what she goes through. This book is
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Assessment: This is a college level course taught to those students meeting specific requirements. In order to help students to complete the tremendous amount of material and in order to help you do well on the AP exam in May, please complete this summer assignment. Please read the following chapters in Biology, 9 th Ed. by Neil A. Campbell & Jane B. Reece: Chapter 1: The Chemistry of Life Chapter 2: The Chemical Context of Life Chapter 3: Water and Life Chapter 4: Carbon and the Molecular Diversity
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6/1/13 Ms. St. Amand Summer Merit Program Essay I believe that my acceptance into the Summer Merit Program will affect my life in three positive ways. It will affect my life by giving me insight into pharmaceutical science and ophthalmic technologies, giving me a chance to meet and learn from interesting
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Summer is the season to laugh and play. Summer is the season for ice cream and dates. Summer is the season where school is out. Summer is the season to scream and shout. Summer Summer Summer Our favoite time of year Kids joyfully prancing around Swimming gracefully in pools r r r r r r r rr r r r r r rr f f f f f f f ff f ff ff f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f ff f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f
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Ghosts of Summers Past A few years ago, I drove up to northern Arizona to bring back a travel trailer I had received as part of my divorce settlement. As I pulled into the campsite I had visited many times as a teenager and again with my own small children, twilight was rapidly descending as it seems to do in the woods at 7,000 feet. An eerie sensation swept over me, bringing with it a mixture of emotions as I listened to the ghosts of summers past all around me. The memories came flooding
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and one other related text of your choosing. Composers use distinctive voice to emphasise significant aspect of life through the presentation of realistic or hyperbolic characters. Summer of the Seventeenth Doll by Ray Lawler shows realistic characters rebelling and accepting idea of marriage and change, while Summer Heights High directed by Chris Lilley emphasises social status and change through a stereotypical private school girl. It is through distinctive voice that shows different ideas towards
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change in myself. Over this summer is when I’ve really just realized it. Usually when it comes to writing assignments in an English class I have a hard time figuring out what to start it with or what to even say at all, that’s what I love about writing things I’m interested in or can relate to; I can write about it with lots of though and interest. So first of all let me tell you what I did this summer. My summer was half terrible but the other half was the best summer of my life. I’ll start with
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Nicole Blase March 24th, 2015 Analysis Response Essay Erickson “The Girls in Their Summer Dresses’ by Irwin Shaw is a short story about a couple that argues about how the husband is constantly looking at other women which led to the wife becoming insecure. Throughout the story, Shaw uses many literary devices, including diction, the author’s word choice, to develop her central idea that jealousy can lead to insecurities
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2013 Summer Assignments New Egypt High School Philosophy Current educational trends have proven that education must be a continual learning process. In order for the experience to extend beyond the 10 month school year, it is imperative that our learners continue to exercise their skills through the Summer Reading Program. Students are becoming year round learners with responsibilities to not only their family and friends, but also to their continuing education and their future. Research
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Summer Reading Assignment Honors Ninth Grade Literature and Composition Purpose of Assignment: The intention of the summer reading assignment is to promote literacy, to introduce the topics and themes for our first unit of study, to continue the rigorous workload and high expectations of Elite Scholars Academy during the summer break, and to encourage student ownership of their own learning experiences. This assignment counts as your first test grade in the class and will be due the first week
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My Summer With The Warriors Moniette Wells ENG121: English Composition I (AXC1314C) Shayla Gordon May 6, 2013 My Summer With the Warriors The screeching sound of the alarm has me reaching over to hit the snooze button for just 10 more minutes, but I know to get there in time I must get started. It’s the last week of May and most families are preparing for the usual Labor Day festivities. A day filled with BBQ’s, fireworks, friends and family. My Labor Day will include friends and family
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learning activities undertaken throughout life, with the aim of improving knowledge, skills and competence, within a personal, civil, social and employment-related perspective (Summers & Smith 2010). The concept of lifelong learning has become one of the most widely discussed concepts in the field of adult education (Summers & Smith 2010). Lifelong learning is the ongoing, voluntary, and self-motivated pursuit of knowledge for either personal or professional reasons (Robert, 1997). Therefore, it not
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“I have a heart, says science, but I am a monster, says society” (pg. 167 Mafi) Each time Juliette believes in herself there is another flaw about her that comes up. This summer I finished 10 books, the one that I enjoyed the most was Unravel Me by Tahereh Mafi, #2 of the Shatter Me series. Juliette is now free from the Restablishment and society. She anticipates war. So does everyone else at Omega Point. She's grown closer to those at Omega Point, the one place that she can call home where everyone
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colours in this poster are old fashioned with faded out colours, darker. The placement of each symbol or lettering is placed evenly throughout the poster. Colour Schemes- the season that is conveyed in the poster is summer because they use a yellow, meaning the warm yellow sun, in summer. The meaning that they are trying to give off is that with all the warm, bright colours, it will be that way for the Olympics, bright and exciting. Space- this poster and its objects/lettering are very comfortably
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This was no ordinary summer afternoon. The temperature was a hundred-five degrees. Kids were riding their bikes, in swimming pools, swinging on swings, and playing hiding go seek. However, my brothers and I were in the house. We could not leave the house because we was grounded, because we decided not to go to school. So I decided to cook us lunch. I went into the cold freezer to search for the clear bag a bag of chicken. I took the chicken to the sink and ran cold water on it until it unfrozen
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LGHS Honors English II Summer Reading Assignment How to Read Literature Like a Professor Revised Edition: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines Thomas C. Foster In Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Red-Headed League," Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson both observe Jabez Wilson carefully, yet their differing interpretations of the same details reveal the difference between a "good reader” and a "bad reader." Watson can only describe what he sees; Holmes has the knowledge
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enhanced tourism and attract tourist and create tourism travel environment. Chapter 1 Introduction Every four years athletes, coaches, officials, sponsors, media, and tourists gather in one city for the world’s most prominent mega-event, the Summer Olympics. Though many of the early Games were relative afterthoughts incorporated into the billing of the World’s Fair, the Modern Olympiad has since flourished into a global phenomenon that draws hundreds of millions of dollars in television contracts
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Summer fever Over the past few years, people have been getting hay fever and therefore we need to make sure people reduce their chances of making their condition worse. Hay fever is a common allergic condition, but how is it caused? It is all caused by pollination. Pollination is when the pollen from the anther transfers to the stigma. There are two ways of pollen transferring into another plant. It can be done by insect-pollination or wind-pollination. Insect- pollination is when insects carry
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Kaitlyn Power Period 1-1 The Pie Essay In the chapter “The Pie” from A Summer Life, by Gary Soto, a little boy steals a pie from a German Market. Gary wonders during his decisions, if God if guiding him through his choices. During this chapter Gary recreates his six-year-old guilty self by repetition of sins, religious diction, and light to dark imagery. The most notable device used in “The Pie” is the repetition of sins. Gary feels as if he is the perfect child in his eyes, and demonstrates this
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2013 APUSH Summer Assignment Considering Advanced Placement U.S. History? Your summer assignment focuses on exploring the first two themes you will encounter within the first two chapters of American Pageant. SHS APUSH Summer assignment descriptions CORE CONTENT Identifications: Your chapter identifications are simply essential vocabulary terms, people, or events of note. As we progress through the year it is your responsibility to master these identifications. A mastery of
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Noelle Christensen AP Government 8/30/2014 Summer Work Chapter 5 Concept Questions 1. Why did the Articles of Confederation fail? a. Could not enforce laws b. Could not tax c. All 13 states had to approve d. Could not regulate interstate commerce e. Each state had its own laws f. Too much power to the states g. No central government 2. What was the immediate impact of Shay's Rebellion? a. It proved the Articles of Confederation would not work and it brought forth the Constitution. 3. What motivated
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