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Holmdel High School Summer Reading Program 2012 Rationale: 1) To help students continue to improve and develop skills of reading, critical thinking, and analysis 2) To make the summer reading meaningful and relevant to each grade level’s curriculum 3) To give students and teachers a common base for curriculum work during the first marking period 4) To enable students and teachers to integrate the summer reading selection into the curriculum beyond the first marking period if desired Requirements for students in grades 9, 10, 11 & 12: • Students will choose one grade level book for summer reading. The book selected for honors levels may be the same title as the one assigned to non-honors classes or it may be a different title. Honors-level teachers may assign additional books. * The AP Summer Requirements will be determined by the AP teacher.* • Students will be notified of the selected titles before school is dismissed in June. Suggestions for improving comprehension, reading strategies, etc. will also be offered. For those students who want to read more than one assigned book, additional titles will be listed via links to lists from the American Library Association and other reputable organizations. These titles are not part of the summer reading requirement and cannot be substituted for the assigned book In addition, students are welcome to read more than one of the three choices in the grade level list. Guiding philosophy: The Holmdel High School Summer Reading Program strives to reinforce effective reading comprehension strategies, foster an appreciation for reading, and expose students to diverse readings designed to appeal to the wide range of interests and skill levels of our population. Assessment: 1. The summer reading assessment will enable students to show their understanding of the chosen book but will not require them to create a book report or plot summary. This assessment will count for 5% of the first marking period grade. 2. This will be a uniform assessment, given by each English teacher, at the start of school in September. The assessment will be written in class and will serve as a diagnostic writing sample, as well as an indication of a student’s comprehension and analysis of the work. Students will respond to focused questions, created by the teachers of each grade level. 3. The summer reading books may also be used in other assignments throughout the school year.
Reading Choices for all incoming students 9 th GRADE STUDENTS: The Body of Christopher of Creed by Carol Plum-Ucci Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson *The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba *Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi 10 th GRADE STUDENTS: Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers Feed by M.T. Anderson *Half a Life by Darin Strauss *Maus by Art Spiegelman 11 th GRADE STUDENTS: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Husseini Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco Stork *A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah *The Devil’s Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea 12 th GRADE STUDENTS: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon On the Beach by Nevil Shute Nation by Terry Pratchett *The Water is Wide by Pat Conroy *Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling by Ross King *Non-fiction Honors English: in addition to choosing one of the grade level books from above, honors students are required to read the following for each entering grade: Honors English 9: Choose one fiction and one non-fiction title from the grade 9 choices above Honors English 10: Select one fiction and one non-fiction title from the list below: Fiction My Antonia by Willa Cather Native Son by Richard Wright Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck The Color of Water by James McBride Non-fiction Bird by Bird b Anne Lamott Half a Life by Darin Strauss
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