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| Central High School Summer Reading Lists 2008-09 |
English Grade 10 Summer Reading Assignment |
For those entering Honors English 10, one book is mandatory. A second book is extra credit.
For all other incoming 10th-graders, one book is extra credit.
In the first week of school, you will have a test on the book(s)you read.
AUTHOR TITLE
Alvarez, Julia Yo!
Banks, Russell The Rule of the Bone
Chbosky, Stephen The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Chevalier, Tracy Girl with a Pearl Earring
Cormier, Robert Fade
Crutcher, Chris Deadline
Gaines, Ernest J. A Lesson Before Dying
Garcia, Pelayo “Pete” From Amigos to Friends
Hiaasen, Carl Flush
Hidier, Tanuja Desai Born Confused
Kidd, Sue Monk The Secret Life of Bees
King, Stephen The Long Walk
Mah, Adeline Yen Chinese Cinderella
Martel, Yann Life of Pi
Meyer, Stephanie Twilight
Myers, Walter Dean Sunrise over Fallujah
Nolan, Han A Summer of Kings
How should you choose? Go to a library or bookstore and find the books (Providence libraries, Borders, and Barnes & Noble will have this list available). Look at the covers and read either the back cover or the dust jacket. Or, you can use technology. Go to Amazon.com and enter a title under the “books” category. You can read reviews by book critics or by ordinary readers (customer reviews)
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English Grade 11 Summer Reading Assignment |
All students are required to read one of the books listed below and to write a short response about it.
For Advanced English 3 this mandatory assignment that will count towards your first quarter grade. Bring your response with you on the first day of classes.
AUTHOR TITLE
Baca, Jimmy Santiago A Place to Stand
Bradbury, Ray Fahrenheit 451
Gaines, Ernest J. A Lesson Before Dying
Hadden, Mark The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
King, Stephen The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Kingsolver, Barbara The Bean Trees
Naylor, Gloria The Women of Brewster Place
O’Brien, Tim The Things They Carried
Sebold, Alice The Lovely Bones
Walls, Jeannette The Glass Castle
Your written response should be approximately 1½ pages long (typed or very neatly printed, in ink). Consider:
* The book’s strong points and weak points
* Memorable lines of the text that stood out to you
* Any ideas you have about the book’s theme, or main point
* Questions that you had while reading but now can answer
* Questions that you had while reading that remain in your mind
* Any connections that came to your mind while reading
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English Grade 12 Summer Reading Assignment |
All students are required to read one of the books listed below. For incoming 12th graders this is a recommended assignment
These assignments are mandatory for Early Enrollments Program (EEP) students.
Early Enrollment Program English is taken for college credit next year. Like most honors or advanced classes, this one requires a summer reading project. Next year we will read several books that focus on the individual in society and on women’s place in society. The summer reading titles should give you a preview of these themes.
Al-Shaykh, Hanan -Women of Sand and Myrrh
- an account of the lives of four contemporary Arab women living in the Middle East
Cañon, James -Tales from the Town of Widows
- a story about what happens to a town when guerrilla soldiers take all the men away
*Diaz, Junot -The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
- a coming of age novel about an overweight, Dominican “nerd” living in New Jersey
Hegi, Ursula -Floating in My Mother’s Palm
- This book centers on a girl growing up in post-WWII Germany.
*Hosseini, Khaled -A Thousand Splendid Suns
- 3 interwoven stories of women living in a male-dominated, ever-changing Afghanistan
Hulme, Keri -The Bone People
- In New Zealand, the lives of three lonely people collide.
Isaguro, Kazuo -Never Let Me Go
- Here, in a novel set in the future, 2 children grown up and then have reason to investigate their education in an exclusive, private school.
Nahai, Gina B. -Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith
- the life of a Jewish girl growing up in Iran, searching for her mother
Shafak, Elif -The Bastard of Istanbul
- intersecting lives of two families: one Turkish and the other Armenian (The novel looks into Armenian genocide at the hands of Turks.)
Sijie, Dai -Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
- During the Chinese Cultural Revolution, two young men are sent to work in a remote village.
Suri, Manil -The Death of Vishnu
- “Vishnu, the odd-job man in a Bombay [India] apartment block, lies dying on the staircase landing. Around him, the lives of the apartment dwellers unfold.”
Udall, Brady -The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint
- After a half-Apache boy survives a serious accident, his optimism helps him move beyond many challenges.
THE WRITING:
Divide the number of pages of your book into approximate thirds. After reading each third of the book, stop and write a letter to me, discussing your responses to the reading. DO NOT SUMMARIZE, or I’ll assume you simply copied something you found online! Instead, write about:
• What you liked about the book.
• What you didn’t like.
• What confused you.
• What surprised you.
• How you connected to the reading (connected to other texts, your own
life, what you’ve studied, etc.)
• What you noticed about the style or structure of the book.
• What you discovered or learned from the reading.
The three letters are due on the first day of class. Please try to type, but if you can’t (or don’t have a working printer), write neatly in ink. If you would prefer to email your letters to me over the summer, I will respond to you. My email address is: susan.friendson@ppsd.org.
This assignment will be counted as a major project grade.
* Indicates book is not yet available in paperback |
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