US+Summer+Reading+2010-2011

media type="custom" key="6088807" width="40" height="40" media type="custom" key="6069941" width="40" height="40" **20****10-2011 Summer Reading** Grade Level required Book **Choice Books** //Students are required to choose one selection from the appropriate list. During the first week of school, students will meet in a discussion group with a designated teacher to discuss the selected text. These discussions will be graded and will count as part of the student's English grade.// **Upper School Selections** //~//Brian Phillips: **//Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet//** by Bill McKibbon //~//John Marshall: **//Outliers//** by Malcom Gladwell //~//Bill Patti: **//Joe Turner’s Come and Gone//** by August Wilson //~//Gayle Gawlick and Carey Ann Schuck: **//The Hunger Games//** by Suzanne Collins (7-12) //~//Gail Loder : **//Say You’re One of Them//** by Uwem Akpan //~//Mark Henning: **//Where Men Win Glory//** by Jon Krakauer <span class="Normal�483�Char">~Jason Grove: <span class="Normal�484�Char">**//The Bullpen Gospels//** by Dirk Hayhurst <span class="Normal�485�Char">//~//Linda Bell: <span class="Normal�486�Char">**//Stones to Schools//** by Greg Mortenson <span class="Normal�487�Char">//~//Roger Cox: <span class="Normal�488�Char">**//Jesus Wants to save Christians//** by Rob Bell <span class="Normal�489�Char">//~//Daniel Osetic: <span class="Normal�490�Char">**//Drops Like Stars//** by Rob Bell <span class="Normal�491�Char">~Mike Cook: <span class="Normal�492�Char">**//1491//** by Charles Mann <span class="Normal�493�Char">//~//Sarah Sherrick:<span class="Normal�494�Char"> **//Speak//** by Laurie Halse Anderson (8-12 girls only) <span class="Normal�495�Char">//~// Doc Truslow<span class="Normal�496�Char">**//: Michelangelo//** <span class="Normal�497�Char">**//and the Pope’s Ceiling//** by Ross King <span class="apple_002dstyle_002dspan�498�Char">~Candace Walton: <span class="apple_002dstyle_002dspan�499�Char">**//Life As We Knew It//** by Susan Beth Pfeffer <span class="apple_002dstyle_002dspan�500�Char">~Woody Malot: <span class="apple_002dstyle_002dspan�501�Char">**//Bringing it to the Table//** by Wendell Berry <span class="apple_002dstyle_002dspan�502�Char"><span class="apple_002dstyle_002dspan�503�Char">**//~//**Holly Wylie: <span class="apple_002dstyle_002dspan�504�Char">**//A Night to Remember//** by Walter Lord (7-12) <span class="apple_002dstyle_002dspan�505�Char">~June Beale and Amy Cox: <span class="apple_002dstyle_002dspan�506�Char">**//Nineteen Minutes//** by Jodi Picoult <span class="apple_002dstyle_002dspan�507�Char">~ Chris Bedea: <span class="apple_002dstyle_002dspan�508�Char">**//Never let Me Go//** by Kazuo Ishiguro <span class="apple_002dstyle_002dspan�509�Char">Kathy Henning <span class="apple_002dstyle_002dspan�510�Char">**//Girl in Translation//** by Jean Kwok <span class="apple_002dstyle_002dspan�511�Char">~ Wendy and Baron Heinemann <span class="apple_002dstyle_002dspan�512�Char">**//Band of Brothers//** by Stephen Ambrose <span class="apple_002dstyle_002dspan�513�Char">~ Eva Lenart <span class="apple_002dstyle_002dspan�514�Char">**//Siddartha//** by Hermann Hesse <span class="apple_002dstyle_002dspan�515�Char"><span class="apple_002dstyle_002dspan�516�Char">**~** David Landis <span class="apple_002dstyle_002dspan�517�Char">**//The Dubliners//** by James Joyce <span class="apple_002dstyle_002dspan�518�Char">~Gordon Williams <span class="apple_002dstyle_002dspan�519�Char">**//Waiting//** by Ha Jin (10-12) <span class="apple_002dstyle_002dspan�520�Char">~Chris Mooers <span class="apple_002dstyle_002dspan�521�Char">**//The Iliad//** by Homer (Penguin Classics; Peter Jones editor) <span class="apple_002dstyle_002dspan�522�Char">~Stuart Jump <span class="apple_002dstyle_002dspan�523�Char">**//When the Game Was Ours//** by Larry Bird and Earvin Magic Johnson <span class="apple_002dstyle_002dspan�524�Char">~Anne Shook <span class="apple_002dstyle_002dspan�525�Char">**//Therese Desqueyroux//** by Francois Mauriac; translated by Raymond MacKenzie <span class="apple_002dstyle_002dspan�526�Char">~David Hopkins <span class="apple_002dstyle_002dspan�527�Char">**//The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain//** by Han Shan translated by Red Pine.
 * <span class="Normal�439�Char">**Sixth Grade**: **//Crispin: The Cross of Lead//** <span class="Normal�440�Char">by Avi
 * <span class="Normal�441�Char">**Seventh Grade**: **//Wednesday Wars//** by Gary <span class="Normal�442�Char">Schmidt
 * <span class="Normal�443�Char">**Eighth Grade**: **//Something Rotten//** Alan Gratz
 * <span class="Normal�444�Char">**Ninth Grade**: **//The Chosen//** <span class="Normal�445�Char">by Chaim <span class="Normal�446�Char">Potok ( <span class="Normal�447�Char">Honors section must also read **//Purple Hibiscus//** <span class="Normal�448�Char">by Chimamanda Adichie)
 * <span class="Normal�449�Char">**Tenth Grade**: **//Life of Pi//** <span class="Normal�450�Char">by Yan Martel & **//Catcher in the Rye//** <span class="Normal�451�Char">by JD <span class="Normal�452�Char">Salinger. ( Honors section must also read **//Mrs. Dalloway//** by Virginia Woolf)
 * <span class="Normal�453�Char">**Eleventh Grade American Literature:** **//T//****//he Grapes of Wrath//** <span class="Normal�454�Char">by John <span class="Normal�455�Char">Steinbeck ( Honors section must also read **//The Metaphysical Club//** <span class="Normal�456�Char">by Louis Menand )
 * <span class="Normal�457�Char">**Eleventh Grade** **AP Language and Composition**: **//The//** <span class="Normal�458�Char">**//Grapes of Wrath//** by John Steinbeck and **//Autobiography of Malcolm X.//**
 * <span class="Normal�459�Char">**Twelfth Grade Fall Electives**
 * <span class="Normal�460�Char">**Magical Realism**: **//Song o//****//f Solomon//** <span class="Normal�461�Char">by Toni Morrison
 * <span class="Normal�462�Char">**Contemporary Literature I**: **//The Things They Carried//** <span class="Normal�463�Char">by Tim O’Brien ( honors must read one piece (except //The Bear)// in //Three Famous Short Novels// by Faulkner.
 * <span class="Normal�464�Char">**British Literature:** <span class="Normal�465�Char">**//A Tale of Two Cities//** <span class="Normal�466�Char">by Charles Dickens
 * <span class="Normal�467�Char">**AP Literature and Composition**: **//Sophie//****//’//****//s World//** by Jostein Gaarder and **//The Fountainhead//** <span class="Normal�468�Char">by Ayn Rand (be prepared to write in-class essays on each during the first week of class.)

<span class="Normal�558�Char">**Guidelines for Student Preparation****:** <span class="Normal�559�Char">**You MUST bring a copy of your required book to school**, as you will be using it during the first few weeks. Annotate (underline, highlight, take notes) as you read and mark important pages, so that you will be better prepared for the tests and writing assignments in your English class<span class="Normal�560�Char">//.// Use a journal or notebook, and follow the directions for the prompts below. <span class="Normal�561�Char">**Middle School:** <span class="Normal�562�Char">**Required Grade book**: Do prompts 1 and 2 <span class="Normal�563�Char"><span class="Normal�564�Char">**Choice summer reading book:** Do prompts 1and 2. <span class="Normal�565�Char">**Upper School:** <span class="Normal�566�Char">**Required Book:** Do all five prompts <span class="Normal�567�Char"><span class="Normal�568�Char">**Choice Book** : Do prompts 1, 2 and choose one prompt from 3, 4 or 5. Do a total of THREE prompts. <span class="Normal�569�Char">**Prompts:** <span class="Normal�570�Char">1. Find, underline or highlight at least five important passages in the book that have meaning for you and that help you understand the character conflicts, major themes or symbolism or point to pivotal moments in the book. After highlighting these passages, write a detailed explanation of this passage. Do this in your book OR on a separate piece of paper. <span class="Normal�571�Char">2. Name, identify and describe in detail the important characters in the book. <span class="Normal�572�Char">3 Identify the narrative point of view; is it first person, third person, omniscient? <span class="Normal�573�Char">4. Identify the following literary elements: setting, exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution, conflicts, major themes and examples of figurative language such as metaphors, similes, symbols or personification. <span class="Normal�574�Char">5 Identify the diction (language, word choices) used by the author; formal, colloquial, flowery, harsh, colorful, local dialect etc. How does the diction impact the tone of the author? What is the tone? Does the tone vary or stay the same?