NINTH GRADE SUMMER READING PROGRAM Ninth graders are required to read the following two books and to bring them to school on the first day of classes. No reading notes are required, though you may take notes if you want to do so. Your NGP teachers will be reviewing what constitutes good notes and how to take them. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, by Ishmael Beah. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 9780374531263 Ball Don't Lie, by Matt de la Pena. Delacorte Press. ISBN 0385734255
LAWRENCE ACADEMY S TENTH GRADE SUMMER READING PROGRAM Into the Wild is Jon Krakauer s attempt to piece together the story of Chris McCandless, a young man found dead in the Alaskan wilderness. Like a historian or a detective, Krakauer had to gather information from many different sources to reconstruct the last years of Chris s life and to try to understand how he might have died. We would like you to notice the many sources Krakauer used, as you read Into the Wild this summer. Construct a table similar to the one below. In three columns, write the page number on which you notice a source of information, a description of that source, and what Krakauer learned. Your table should include at least 30 information sources. For those who want to do more, please set 50 notes as your maximum. To help you get started and to give you examples to follow, we have filled in 5 entries for you. Find 25 to 45 more sources and bring the completed table to the first CSC class. It will be collected and graded by your teacher. Page # Source of Information What Krakauer learned 3 Postcard Chris s feelings about going into the wild. 3-7 Jim Gallien How Chris was dropped off at the trail 11-13 3 hunters: Thompson, How they found Chris s body in the bus Samel, and Swanson 12 Note for help Chris s fear at the end 13 Butch Killian, an EMT When the call came to the volunteer fire department Into the Wild will give us the starting point for our work in both English and History classes in September. Although this table makes up the only notes we require, please take whatever other reading notes you would like to help you recall the book for use in class. Into The Wild, by Jon Krakauer. Anchor Books. ISBN 0-385-48680-4
ELEVENTH GRADE SUMMER READING PROGRAM As you read The Glass Castle, look for three things: personal connections to the story, three revealing moments about one character, and three passages that relate to a pattern. A personal connection might be a character, a relationship, a problem or a situation in the story which reminds you of something from your own experience. A revealing moment is a point in the book when you learn something significant about a character: something he does or says, or something another character says or thinks about him. A pattern is a recurring image, word, phrase, situation or idea. Take notes on these connections, moments and patterns by marking them in your book along with notes in the margin, on post-its or on a separate piece of paper to remind you of why you marked them. The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls, Scribner. ISBN 978-0-7432-4754-2
TWELFTH GRADE SUMMER READING PROGRAM 12 th grade AP English: As you read The Odyssey and Huckleberry Finn, identify a pattern you see in each book and trace that pattern throughout the text. Take notes on the pattern you have noticed by marking each instance in which it occurs in your book and taking notes in the margin. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain. Modern Library Classics. ISBN 0-375-7537-6 The Odyssey, by Homer. Penguin. ISBN 0-140-44911-6 12 th grade Senior Seminar and Honors Writing and electives: You may choose any book you would like to read. You may not choose a book you have read for another course. As you read the book you choose, look for personal connections to the story. A personal connection might be a character, a relationship, a problem or a situation in the story which reminds you of something from your own experience. Take notes on these connections by marking them in your book and writing down notes in the margin, on post-its or on a separate piece of paper to remind you of what that connection is. Having trouble thinking of what book to choose? Look on the next page for suggestions!
Can t think of what to read? Here are some of our favorites Mr. Mitchell A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut On Writing, Stephen King Mr. David Smith The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran Moby Dick, Herman Melville The Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac Mr. Scott Smith Cat s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson The Once and Future King, T.H.White Ms. Sadler A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving Speak, Laura Hales Anderson The Sirens of Titan, Kurt Vonnegut Mr. Mees The Stranger, Camus O! Pioneers, Willa Cather Great Expectations, Charles Dickens Ms Beveridge Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier The Book of Ruth, Jane Hamilton Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri Mrs. Moore Masie Dobbs, Jacqueline Winspear Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, David Wroblewski Dr. Haman Waiting for Teddy Williams, Howard Frank Mosher Return of the Native, Thomas Hardy Little, Big, John Crowley