Summer Reading List for incoming 11th graders

Please choose 3 of the following to read and be prepared to take a test on them. They can be found at your neighborhood branch of the Boston Public Library. Go to amazon.com for reviews, page #'s, author information, etc. to help you make your choices.

The House of the Spirits - Allende
The Farming of Bones- Danticat
Pride and Prejudice - Austen
The Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas
The Hound of the Baskervilles -Doyle

An optional program that will help you improve your reading skills over the summer is Scholastic's Summer Reading Buzz at www.scholastic.com/buzz. This is a place to connect with other readers, answer questions and a sweepstakes with prizes like a trip to Walt Disney World.

Immigration during the 19th century: One Nation chapter 32

Immigrants in the United States during the 19th century

Identify the following terms:
Immigrant
Tenement
Assimilate
Chinese exclusion acts
Stereotype


True/False explain
Most of the new immigrants to the US after 1885 came from England.
Many Jews fled to the US in the 1880’s as a result of pogroms.
Most of the immigrants on the West Coast came from China and Korea.
Most of the Chinese immigrants in the second half of the 1800’s worked as laborers and factory workers.
Most Latino immigrants planned to remain in the US permanently.
Describe life in a European immigrant neighborhood in a big US city (New York, Boston, Philadelphia, etc.).