Honors British Literature 135

Dr. Alice Price

aprice@rdhs.

            Summer Assignment

 

Welcome to Honors British Literature. Over the summer you will read one play, Twelfth Night and complete one assignment, which will prepare you for a year of critical thinking and responding in writing to British Literature. We will begin the year by re-reading Twelfth Night, so this assignment is designed to help familiarize you with the play.

 

Please purchase this edition only   The Arden Shakespeare, Twelfth Night,   edited by J. M. Lothian and T. W. Craik, Reprinted in 2003.    The ISBN number for the paperback is 1-904271-15-4.

 

Reading:

 

Read the play carefully and as you read the text, read the footnotes. This will take some time, so do not leave it until the last week.

 

Annotating:

 

As you read Twelfth Night, make annotations about the lines you feel are most important.  Use your own system for annotation.  If you find lines puzzling, I’d use a question mark.

 

Writing: Two parts

 

As you read Twelfth Night,  also read the footnotes at the bottom of the page. Then go back and write about the two footnotes per scene which helped you understand the text. These may be as simple as vocabulary words, which were explained.   You do not have to write a lot, but you do have to identify and explain why these two footnotes helped you. If there are additional helpful footnotes per scene, which you think were particularly insightful, feel free to write about them.

 

Then after you have read the play and the footnotes, read the Introduction, beginning on pages xvii to xcviii. There are six sections in this Introduction. Write about two pages per section. I will collect these pages of analysis, as well as your footnote work on the first day of class.

 

Thank you for your cooperation.

 

Mrs. Price

 

  

Read and sign the Regina Dominican Honors code and attach it to your summer work.

 

 

 

THE HONOR CODE OF REGINA DOMINICAN HIGH SCHOOL

 

 

“Regina Dominican High School strives to create an atmosphere of academic

Integrity where students accept responsibility for their own education and

The ramifications of their actions.  The school community values academic

integrity and promotes the development of the students into mature, honest

and responsible women.  Academic dishonesty will not be tolerated” (Regina

Dominican Handbook 10). 

 

Plagiarism is one form of academic dishonesty.  According to The Little,

Brown Compact Handbook, plagiarism is “the presentation of someone else’s

ideas or words as your own, whether deliberate or accidental” (Aaron 217).  

To avoid plagiarism, make sure to credit all sources you consulted and to

include quotation marks and citations when copying word for word from a

source.

By signing my name, I affirm my commitment to the Regina Dominican Honor

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