{"content":[{"text":"Honors English 3: Pre-Course Assignment \n Naperville Central High School Communication Arts Department","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.046162,"width":0.665524,"height":0.046151000000000005}},{"text":"Re�d���...is � ���l-co���c� �p���; we ���s� �� ag����t t�e ��v� o� ��r�� w��� al� �� �ur ����l�e�t���, \n im����at���, an� ���ti���� re����ce�.” \n ― Tho��� C. Fos���, How �� R�a� ��t��a��r� Li�� � Pro���s��","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.117424,"width":0.7844690000000001,"height":0.06394000000000002}},{"text":"Welcome to Honors English 3! One of the goals of our course is to discuss literature in a nuanced, analytical, and insightful \n manner. To do this, we’ll need to use the language of literature, or the “language of reading” as Thomas C. Foster calls it, to \n have these purposeful discussions. For your summer assignment, you are to closely read and annotate How to Read \n Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster. In this text, Foster explains how to read literary works more deeply. \n Focusing on patterns, theme, symbolism, allusions, intertextuality, and other literary devices, Foster will give you tips on \n how to be a more analytical reader, an important skill in our course. It is essential that you read this text closely because not \n only will it help you complete your summer reading assignment, but it will also provide you with the framework for our study \n of literary text throughout the school year.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.201263,"width":0.8797520000000001,"height":0.12143899999999999}},{"text":"In addition, you’ll need to complete the following assignment with insightful commentary, in-depth thinking, and concrete \n connections.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.337626,"width":0.858406,"height":0.030530999999999975}},{"text":"Directions: \n 1. Read and annotate How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster. To this end, consider the \n following reading strategies based on Mortimer Adler’s How to Read a Book to help with deciding what to annotate \n (see next page). \n 2. Choose ﬁve chapters to discuss in-depth. One chapter must be from chapters 1-5, the second from chapters 6-10, \n the third from chapters 11-15, the fourth from chapters 16-21, and the last one from chapters 22-27. \n 3. Create a ﬁve-slide Google Slides presentation--one for each chapter. \n a. For each chapter you must: \n i. Summarize the main point of the chapter \n ii. Select the most important quote from the chapter and be prepared to explain your decision when \n you present in class \n iii. Connect the idea in the chapter to something you have previously read or viewed (either in school \n or for pleasure). You may consider novels, plays, short stories, poems, ﬁlms, and television shows. \n You do not need textual evidence from the literature or ﬁlm connection, but you do need to make \n sure that you explain with enough detail for the connection to make sense. \n 5. Save your Slides presentation to your school Google Drive and be ready to submit it to Canvas on the ﬁrst day of \n class. While we know some students worked with this book freshman year, the work you complete for this \n assignment should be new, and we will be using turnitin.com to check for originality and self-plagiarism. \n 6. Be ready to share and explain your presentation with other members of the class.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.383081,"width":0.880071,"height":0.32219700000000007}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}