Welcome to Valley View Honors & Advanced Placement Program

1. Welcome to Valley View Honors&Advanced Placement Program

2. WHY HONORS/AP • THE BEST WAY TO PREPARE FOR COLLEGE • HONORS LEADS TO AP, AP LEADS TO COLLEGE CREDITS • YOU LOOK GOOD ON YOUR APPLICATION PACKET

3. 9TH GRADE HONORS SUMMER READING BOOKS FAREWELL to MANZANAR By Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston OF MICE AND MEN By John Steinbeck

4. DUE DATE DUE ON FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL WEDNESDAY AUGUST 11 Wed (100) Thursday (50) Friday (25)

5. Dialectical Journals (DJs)What are they? • A dialectical journal is a method for personally responding to a piece of literature • It allows you to infer meaning for the text. • Dialectical journals in other words are a response to literature in journalformat. DJ FORMAT HAS THREE ASPECTS: • Interpretive claim • Evidence from the text • Analysis of Evidence

6. INTERPRETATIVE CLAIM • This isyourresponse to an aspect of the reading. • It can focus on literary terms EX. theme, character, symbolism,foreshadowing, flashback… • You may discuss the meaning and significance of the selectionin relation to the novel as a whole. • Do not restate or explain/retell the quotation

7. Evidence from the text This is the quotation that you have chosen to support and add evidence to the claim that you have made. EVIDENCE! EVIDENCE! EVIDENCE! Remember that a weakly supported claim will not be able to stand!!!

8. ANALYSIS OF EVIDENCE • You should quote and paraphrase the literature. • Explain how the quote and claim support each other AGAIN, YOU ARE NOT RESTATING THE QUOTATION. This is where you explain why the quote led you to make the interpretive claim that you did.

9. DJ FORMAT DIRECTIONS Go to ‘TABLES” and set up for two columns. After each DJ add another row.

10. PART II -VOCABULARY Selection 10 vocabulary words • Your word choice process must be thorough and thoughtful. • Words chosen must be significant and the meanings help to determine your understanding of the selection • Includes the sentence in which selected words have occurred • What you think it means • Includes a dictionary definition • Includes a meaningful paraphrase of your interpretation of the word within the context it was used in the text.

11. VOCABULARY SAMPLE • Sample Vocabulary Word (Farewell to Manzanar) 1. Gaunt (41). “He looked over sixty, gaunt, wilted as his shirt, underweight, leaning on that cane and favoring his right leg.” She describes his terrible condition when he returned. Dictionary Def.: Thin and bony; hollow-eyed and haggard, as from hunger or illness. So obviously he was in an extremely unhealthy way.

12. FINAL NOTES ON SUMMER READING PROJECT • Books are available at VVHS library • Start early-do not procrastinate • No exceptions will be made on late work unless student is new to VVHS boundary or has transferred from another district. (August 31 and September 30 deadline) • “I wasn’t going to be in Honors and then I changed my mind.” is not an excuse!

13. Survival kit for success as a VVHS Honors student • A good dose of determination and discipline • Careful selection of good, positive friends • All the support systems you can use Parents, teachers, guidance counselors, on and off campus library, computer with internet access, study groups • Know what interdisciplinary portfolio is.

14. HIGH SCHOOL IS NOT A DRESS REHEARSAL Know what you want and keep your eye n the prize

15. WHAT IS A TRIPLE THREAT STUDENT? • A SOLID AND CONSISTENT TRANSCRIPT • COMMUNITY SERVICE AND CAMPUS INVOLVEMENT • SOLID SCORES ON SAT/ACT EXAMINATIONS • BONUS: DON’T LEAVE HOME/SCHOOL WITHOUT IT: SOUND CHARACTER

16. CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR PROMOTION AND HAVE A GREAT SUMMER