Summer Assignment

                 Honors Grade 10 (2007)

The Ill-Made Knight

Book III of The Once and Future King, by T.H. White

Objectives:

 To provide you with a magical reading experience
•  To allow you the opportunity to demonstrate your critical thinking, reading, and writing skills
•  To reinforce your knowledge of the MYP Areas of Interaction
•  To create a foundation of ideas that connect to other texts we will study during the school year.

Instructions:

1)   Review the Areas of Interactions and the related questions before reading The Ill-Made Knight.

2)   As you read, bullet notes about the characters and key ideas, and events (notes you'll want to review before taking the reading quiz the first week of school), and keep an eye open for a particular passage (approximately 1-4 paragraphs) that you find interesting and/or significant.

3)   Copy that passage (you may carefully type it up or photocopy it).

4)   Then, write a short analysis (6-12 sentences) discussing how your selected passage illustrates one or more of the MYP Areas of Interaction. In other words, look at each of the related questions and consider how your passage may provide an answer to the question.
     • You may write your analysis in the form of a BCR, or it can be a more
        informal, first-person reflection. You do, however, need to demonstrate that
        you have made a clear connection between the passage and the Area(s) of
        Interaction.

IMPORTANT: You will receive a grade on this assignment and there will also be a reading quiz on the book during the first week of school.

Areas of Interaction

•  Approaches to Learning (The value of knowledge. The art of problem solving, decision making, and communication.)
• How do Lancelot and/or King Arthur demonstrate that they value knowledge?

•  Community and Service (Responsibility. The needs of the community.)
• How do Lancelot and/or King Arthur demonstrate their sense of responsibility to their community?

•  Health and Social Education (Respect for body and mind. Responsible choices for self.)
• What choices do Lancelot and/or King Arthur make that reveal respect (or the lack thereof) for their physical and mental health?

•  Environment (Respect for the environment. Responsibility for the natural world.)
• Do Lancelot and/or King Arthur live in harmony with the natural world, demonstrating respect for the earth and her creatures? How so?

•  Homo Faber (Latin for "man the maker")(The creative and inventive genius of people—the ability to invent, change, and improve. The ability to impact and transform culture and history.)
• In what way is Lancelot or Arthur creative? What do they create and why?

Please be sure to devote some time to thinking about your personal project for the IB Middle Years Program. You will receive the IB MYP Summer Reflection and Planning packet through your Social Studies classes. Be sure to complete the required assignments from that packet.