Dual Enrollment English 101 & 102

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Summer Reading Assignment:
     1.  Choose five articles from the list below or you can choose any full-length articles (2+ pages)
         from The New Yorker (available online through the Lafayette Public Library) to read and annotate.
     2. You can print out the articles for annotations or you can use Kami to digitally annotate them.
     3.  Annotations must include highlighted information as well as notes in the margin about the highlighted passage.
     4.  Annotate for main idea, style/structure, interesting diction, persuasive techniques, literary devices.
     5.  Notes must include analysis/commentary (explanations) of the items you highlight.
     6.  The more insightful your notes are, the better your grade. 
           Notes that only summarize will not be awarded many points.
     7.  Have your annotations ready to submit or turn in on the first day of class.

Summer Reading Article Options: 

Langston Hughes, “Salvation”

George Orwell, “Shooting an Elephant”

Virginia Woolf, “Professions for Women”

Malcolm Gladwell, “Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted”

Nicholas Carr, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”

Stephanie Ericsson, “The Ways We Lie” 

Lars Eighner, “On Dumpster Diving” 

Sherman Alexie, “The Joy of Reading and Writing 

Lynda Barry, “The Sanctuary of School” 

Alexie, Sherman.  “The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me.”  Los Angeles Times. 19 April 1998.

Baca, Jimmy Santiago. “Coming into Language.” 

Bragg, Rick.  “Chapter 1” from All Over but the Shoutin’. 1998.  

Douglass, Frederick. “Chapter VII” (Learning to Read & Write) from Life of an American Slave. (Also available as an audio file.)

Malcolm X. “Learning to Read” 

Mitchell, Judith. “I’m Telling Everyone.” 

Offutt, Chris. “Trash Food.” Oxford American.