English III Pre-AP.
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If you're enrolled in English III Pre-AP for the 2019-2020 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 book Educated by Tara Westover.
Tara Westover wasn’t your garden variety college student. When the Holocaust was mentioned in a history class, she didn’t know what it was (no, really). That’s because she didn’t see the inside of a classroom until the age of seventeen. Public education was one of the many things her religious fanatic father was dubious of, believing it a means for the government to brainwash its gullible citizens, and her mother wasn’t diligent on the homeschooling front. If it wasn’t for a brother who managed to extricate himself from their isolated—and often dangerous--world, Westover might still be in rural Idaho, trying to survive her survivalist upbringing. It’s a miraculous story she tells in her memoir Educated. For those of us who took our educations for granted, who occasionally fell asleep in large lecture halls (and inconveniently small ones), it’s hard to grasp the level of grit—not to mention intellect—required to pull off what Westover did. But eventually earning a PhD from Cambridge University may have been the easy part, at least compared to what she had to sacrifice to attain it. The courage it took to make that sacrifice was the truest indicator of how far she’d come, and how much she’d learned. Educated is an inspiring reminder that knowledge is, indeed, power. |
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/Educated-Memoir-Tara-Westover/dp/0399590501
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/Educated-Memoir-Tara-Westover/dp/0399590501
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):
| eng_iii-educated-a-memoir_tara_westover.pdf.pdf |
Assignments.
As you read this novel, you will complete the following assignment in a spiral notebook. There will also be a test the first week of school over your reading.
Assignment--Study Guide
| eng_iiieducated_study_guide.pdf |
