Summer+Reading+2013

This summer, as part of your first quarter grade in English, you will be reading two books and presenting or writing about them. One book you will read on your own and the other you will read in a group. There are no books that are required, but you will __choose one of your two books from the selection given.__ You may read in groups of 2-4 people (better to pick people you know you will see at least a few times during the summer). There is no specific time that you must meet, however it is your responsibility to make sure your project or presentation on your book is prepared for the first week of school. During the first week of English class, you and your group will have time to discuss the book and present your work.
 * ICS Summer Reading - Created entirely by ICS students in consultation with Mrs. Gutzwiller & Mr. Hultberg **

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If you register before July 15, please try and complete the two-book requirement; if you register by Aug 1, please complete at least one book. If you have completed summer reading for a different school, we will accept that work if done this summer. If you were enrolled in our 8th grade, you are expected to know and understand the requirement, and to complete the work regardless of registration date. If you would like to join a group, let Mr. Hultberg know through "comment" above or contact him at ghgordon049@gmail.com; or log into Edmodo and inquire about any groups already forming. Mr. Hultberg, Mr. Menning, or Mrs. Phinney can give you the class codes for Edmodo.com =====


 * Suggested titles (Choose one): ** [Students in a group of different grade levels may read a book from any level]

Your second book may be anything you like, provided your parents approve. Feel free to consider young adult books. You might like a collection of short stories or poetry. You might read a graphic novel. You could think about a sports or political biography, a true life adventure, wildlife writing, science and technology, or theology and philosophy. How about a mystery or a book about how to cook or travel?

Some authors to consider: Frank Herbert (//Dune//, Sci-fi), Michael Crichton (sci-fi); Shel Silverstein; Edgar Allan Poe; George Bernard Shaw (//Pygmalion//, drama); Laurie Halse Anderson (realistic fiction), Lynda Barry (humor), Emily Bronte, Jane Austen; Ursula LeGuin, and Madeline L'Engle (fantasy).

Grade 9: dowd9s class code Edmodo.com

 * Mysterious Benedict society series
 * // The Book Thief //
 * The High society trilogy
 * // Night // by Elie Wiesel - The true story of a young Jewish boy who survives a concentration camp in WWII.
 * // Farewell to Manzanar // by Jeanne Wakatzuki Houston - The true story of a young teen Japanese-American girl in an internment camp in California during WWII.
 * 4 Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
 * //Anne Frank: Diary of A Young Girl -// Anne is hidden in the Secret Annex by Christian Miep Gies during WWII.

Grade 10: wlv7tu class code Edmodo.com

 * //Fahrenheit 451// by Ray Bradbury
 * //Murder on the Orient Express// or another mystery by Agatha Christie
 * //Kon-Tiki// by Thor Heyerdahl: Six men cross the Pacific on a raft.
 * //The 39 Steps// by John Buchan - The original British spy adventure-thriller


 * Grades 11-12: apkcvb. Class code Edmodo.com **
 * //The Pearl// by John Steinbeck - A fisherman in La Paz finds a black pearl which changes his family's life.
 * //The Chosen// by Chaim Potok - Two teenage Jewish boys form a friendship, one of them raised in silence by his father.
 * //A Separate Peace// by John Knowles - Two teenage boys bend the rules at an East Coast school during WWII.
 * //Twelfth Night// by William Shakespeare - A comedy in which a girl dresses as a boy and serves a duke.
 * //What We Lost// (Once Was Lost) by Sara Zarr - A pastor's daughter struggles with her faith when a girl from her congregation goes missing.
 * //Tales From the South Pacific// by James Michener - A collection of stories set in Hawaii
 * //The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial// by Herman Wouk - Is Captain Queeg really paranoid?


 * AP English Literature and Composition:** (APES students may replace one book w/ Env. Sci. project) **nuoinp class code Edmodo.com**
 * //How to Read Literature Like A Professor//
 * //Things Fall Apart// by Chinua Achebe
 * A collection of poetry by a single author
 * A collection of short stories by a single author
 * //How To Read Poetry// by Burton Raffel
 * //How To Read A Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry// by Edward Hirsch

You and your group will have freedom on how you would like to present your book and your work at the end of the summer. Your options are: - //A series of 15 journal entries//: If this is your group's choice, you must each complete your own entries seperately. However, you are allowed to bounce ideas off each other and help get each other started. The entries can be responses, such as why you liked or disliked reading a free-choice book, what you enjoyed about it, and your recomendation. Other ideas could be predicting what will happen next in the book, quoting something good from the collection and explaining its meaning, or identifying a conflict within the story and if you can see it being resolved. Think of three questions about what you have read and switch with someone else in your group to answer them. If you could rewrite part of this selection, which part would it be and how would you rewrite it? How has what you read challenged, stretched, or impacted you faith? - //An informational skit//: This would be a collaborative project that your whole group would get credit for. Each person must be included in the skit and it must respond to three of the question/statements for refelction below. - //A poster or display board//: This would also be credit for the whole group and it must as well respond to three of the questions/statements for reflection - //You may propose an alternative project to Mr. Hultberg//!
 * Presentation**

The above are also the options for what you do with the book you read on your own. You could choose to do the same project with the group and by yourself, or you could do two different ones.

- Connect a part of what you have read with a person or event in your own life. - Pick a quote or statement from the book and clarify what you think it means. - Note a theme or themes in your book and explain how they come out in the story. - What parts of the novel did like or dislike? - What do you see as the climax of the story? Why? - Which characters are you most like or unlike? Why? - How do you see redemption as a part of what you have read? If you did not see it, how does that make you feel about your reading, and what might the author have wanted to reflect instead?
 * Questions/Statements for Reflection**

From your ICS Summer Reading Coordinator, Gordon Hultberg and Student Liaison Kasey Begg. Contact Mr. Hultberg: ghgordon049@gmail.com or on Twitter @ICSAmLit