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    • Student Summer Reading List

    (2007-2008)

     

    9th Grade

    Standard: Monster (Walter Dean Myers)

    Honors: Up from Slavery (Booker T. Washington) required, Cheating Lessons (Nan Willard Cappo)

     

    Alternative Selection: Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes (Chris Crutcher)

     

    10th Grade

    Standard: Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keys)

    Honors: Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keys), The Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)

     

    Alternative Selection: Hard Times (Charles Dickens)

     

    11th Grade

    Standard: A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)

    Honors: A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway), The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne )

     

    Alternative Selection: Moby Dick (Herman Melville)

     

    12th Grade

    Standard: The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)

    Honors: The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)

    A.P.: The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger), Mythology (Edith Hamilton)

     

    Alternative Selection: The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)

     

     

     

     

     

    General Information:

     

    Read all books listed for the specific class you will take.

     

    - Be sure you read the ACTUAL NOVEL – reading Cliff's Notes, internet summaries, etc. will not be sufficient to succeed.

     

    - Alternative books are listed for those who may be unable for religious or personal reasons to read an assigned selection. You are expected to read the assigned book; alternative selections are to be used only when essential. Note that these alternative novels are neither shorter nor easier than the assigned works.

     

    - On the first day of school you will be given the dates for specific assignments and tests on your summer reading. No written work is required during the summer, except as noted here:

     

    10 th Grade Honors: Keep a dialectical journal, or a double-entry reader-response journal that records a conversation between the ideas in the text and the ideas of the reader. Divide a piece of paper into three (3) columns in which you include a quotation, the page number of that quotation, and the reason why you've included this quotation. In the third column, write down the thoughts, questions, insights, and ideas you experience in response to these quotes in the book. You need a minimum of twenty-five (25) responses.

     

    12 th Grade Honors: A 1,500 word journal for each selection will be due during the second full week of school. For Catcher, write 500 words on the novel's plot, 500 words on character, and 500 on your personal reaction to the novel. For Mythology, discuss as many stories and/or characters as possible in 1500 words.


     

     



    Students! Doing research?


    Mrs. Wilkinson, our Media Specialist, has put together a listing of sites that will help you in your quest for knowledge.

    Go to http://guest.portaportal.com/ and type in username "nsalibrary" for links to several web sites of interest to your studies.

     

    Wanna read any chick lit or lit for guys.  Come to NSA's library to check out some new arrivals!
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