English II Pre-AP.
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If you're enrolled in English II Pre-AP for the 2017-2018 school year you're in the right place. Below you will find our summer reading novel and corresponding assignments. This will be due when the school year begins in the fall.
We are reading the novel The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. It is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it—from garden seeds to Scripture—is calamitously transformed on African soil. What follows is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in postcolonial Africa.
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The Novel.
It is highly recommended that you acquire your own physical copy of the novel.
Here is a convenient link where you can order it off of Amazon (do not order anything without your parents' permission): www.amazon.com/dp/0061577073/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_6kejzbK0VP2GG
If you cannot acquire your own physical copy of the novel, you may find a full PDF version here (it works best if downloaded and used with an eBook reader, such as Kindle or iBooks, especially if being read on a smartphone):
Here is a convenient link where you can order it off of Amazon (do not order anything without your parents' permission): www.amazon.com/dp/0061577073/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_6kejzbK0VP2GG
If you cannot acquire your own physical copy of the novel, you may find a full PDF version here (it works best if downloaded and used with an eBook reader, such as Kindle or iBooks, especially if being read on a smartphone):
| the-poisonwood-bible.pdf |
Assignment.
After you read this novel, you will complete the following assignment. This will be due at the start of the fall semester.
| engiisummerreadingassignment.pdf |
