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Summer Reading Requirements 2009


Students should choose at least one book by an author from the grade level they will be entering in the fall of 2009.
(ELA honor students should select at least two books). Students need to keep a journal as they read. The journal will be due the
second Friday we return to school and will count as a test grade. Further information on the reading journalcan be found on
the bottoms of this page.


Categories
(M) = Mystery/Suspense (MC) = Multicultural (N) = Nonfiction (S) = Sports (B) = Biography (D) = Drama/Family (SF) = Science Fiction/Fantasy
(A) = Action/Adventure (HF) = History Film

Students Entering Grade 9
English Language Arts Robin Cook (M)
Sandra Cisneros (D)(MC)
Sharon Creech (D)
Walter Dean Myers (A)(MC)
Julie Hanke (SF)
Laurie Stolarz (M)(A)		 Anne Frank (B)
Homer Hickman (S)
Douglas Adams (SF)
JK Rowling (SF)
Dear America Series (HF)		 Jack London (A)
C.P. Curtis (HF)
R.L. Stevenson (A)
Rudyard Kipling (A)
Tomiko Higa (NF)
SOCIAL STUDIES Night
Hiroshima
All Quiet on the Western Front		 Elie Wiesel
John Hersey
Erich Maria Remarque

Students Entering Grade 10
English Language Arts Karen Hesse (HF)
Bluford Series (A)(MC)
Ursula Hegi (NF)
Orson S. Card (SF)		 S.E. Hinton (A)
Meg Cabot (A)
Ernest Hemmingway (A)
William Faulkner (A)
Nicholas Sparks (D)
Gail Tsukiyama (HF)
Travis Roy (B)(S)
Mitch Albom (NF)
Social Studies The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
April Morning
1776		 Frederick Douglass
Howard Fast
David McCullough

Students Entering Grade 11
English Language Arts Alexander McCall Smith (M)
David Gunderson (D)
Amy Tan (D)(MC)
Vince Flynn (A)
Richard Wright (B)(D)(MC)
Chaim Potok (HF)		 Michael Dorris (D)
Maya Angelou (D)(MC)
James McBride (B)
Mark Twain (A)
Alice Walker (D)(MC)
Tony Soos (M)(S)
WP Kinsella (S)
Orson Scott Card (SF)
Ray Bradbury (SF)
Cormac McCarthy (A)
Tony Hillerman (M)
Jon Krakauer (NF)
Social Studies Black Like Me
A Night to Remember
The Jungle		 John Howard Griffin
Walter Lord
Upton Sinclair

Students Entering Grade 12
English Language Arts Agatha Christie (M)
Isabel Allende (D)
Arthur Conan Doyle (M)
Charles Dickens (D)
George Orwell (SF)
Marion Zimmer Bradley (SF)		 JRR Tolkien (SF)
Toni Morrison (D)(MC)
Mike Lupica (S)
Mark Harris (S)
Dan Brown (A)
Tracy Chevailer (HF)
H.G. Wells (SF)
Robert Heinlein (SF)
Aldous Huxley (SF)
Mary Shelley (SF)
Joseph Conrad (A)
Erik Larson (NF)
Social Studies Animal Farm
All the King's Men
The Prince
*Hardball		 George Orwell
Robert Penn Warren
Niccolo Machiavelli
Chris Matthews

*Senior honors classes must read Hardball plus one other book on the list.

Reading Response Journals for Students Entering Gr.9, 10, 11,12


A Reading Response Journal is a notebook in which you write about your reading.
In it you communicate thoughts and feelings about the book that you are reading.
The journal is a window for the teacher to look through to see what you are thinking and what yo know about the book(s) you have selected.



What are the expectations? (Requirements)

1. Label the journal with the title and author of the book, and date each entry.

2. Write, on average, one page oer entry, although the length may vary. You may draw a
cartoon, but you must include dialogue between characters or create captions.

3. Produce at least ten written entries, and as many visual entries as you like.



What do students write about in a reading response journal?


- Make predictions about what will occur next.
- Write from the main character's perspective.
- Agree or disagree with the theme or the tone of the novel.
- Show a personal reaction to the story.
- Explain reading strategies that you used.
- Describe the main character or any character's personality.
- Comment on how a character has changed.
- Relate the novel to your personal life.
- Compare the novel to another novel that you have read.
- Explain why you liked or disliked the book you chose
- Feel free to write any thoughts or feelings you have about your reading.


Journals will be collected upon your return to school in September.

Enjoy your summer reading!