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Summer Reading Requirements 2007


Students should choose one book by an author from the grade level they will be entering in the fall of 2007. (Honors students choose two books). Students need to keep a journal as they read. The journal will be due the second Friday of school. Students will also complete a writing assignment on the second Friday of school. Both assignments will count as test grades.

Categories
(M) = Mystery/Suspense (S) = Sports (B) = Biography (D) = Drama/Family (SF) = Science Fiction/Fantasy
(A) = Action/Adventure

Students Entering Grade 9
English Language Arts Robert Parker (M)
Robin Cook (M)
Sandra Ciscernos (D)
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)
Jack Schaefer (A)
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)
Vince Flynn (A)
Richard Wright (B)(D)(MC)
Chaim Potok (HF)		 Michael Dorris (D)
Maya Angelou (B/D)
James McBride (B)
Mark Twain (A)
Alice Walker (D)
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)
HG 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		 George Orwell
Robert Penn Warren
Niccolo Machiavelli

Rubric for Evaluating Reading Journals
Summer - 2007

The A Reading Response Journal
• Fulfills all 3 requirements on a rich and profound level.
• Substantial entries are made for every assignment.
• Entries draw connections to other works and from a personal experience.

The B Reading Response Journal
• Fulfills most of the 3 requirements on a rich & profound level.
• Substantial entries are made for most assignments. Some entries are superficial.
• Entries often draw connections to other works and occasionally from personal experience.

The C Reading Response Journal
• Fulfills most of the requirements with adequate clarity and depth.
• Basic comprehension of the novel is apparent. However, entries reveal that an assignment is partially or incorrectly understood.
• Entries occasionally draw connections to other words and from personal experience.

The F Reading Repsonse Journal
• Little or nothing is recorded in the journal or comments are not related to assignment. There is no basis for evaluations.

Inscrutable handwriting results in an F.

Reading Response Journals

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

What are the expectations? (Requirements) You should:

· Date each entry and write the title of the book and the author.

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

· 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 novel. (Use at least three literary terms in your answer).
· Finally, feel free to write anything about the novel that you feel strongly about.

Have fun reading in the summer!