Robert Hungerford
Preparatory High School
Summer Reading List
2005-2006
Complete all the activities below for one of the recommended titles. The assignment (worth 100 points) is due the first day of school. You should write the first three parts of the assignment as a reading log as you read.
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1. New
Information About the Setting of Your Story 5 @ 3 pt. each |
List five new pieces of information you learned about the time or location of your book’s story. Do not list new vocabulary words. Reference the page number where you noticed the new information. You must give page numbers to receive credit! |
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2. Make
Predictions as You Read! 10 @ 3
pts. each |
As you read, make 10 predictions in your reading log about what will happen next in the story, noting the page # you were reading at the point of the prediction. Skip lines between entries so you can go back after finishing the book and note why your predictions were correct or incorrect. You must give page numbers to receive credit! |
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3. Points of Confusion as you Read 5 @ 3 pts. each |
All readers get confused as they read – capable readers are able to stop themselves as points of confusion and get themselves “unstuck.” It might be that they misread a name, tripped over sentence structure or “zoned” out for a paragraph. Discuss 5 moments in reading your book where you got stuck or unsure about something and describe the strategies you used. You must give
page numbers to receive credit. |
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4. New Book
Cover 10 pts. |
Create a new cover for your novel that demonstrates your understanding of the book’s plot and/or theme. The drawings can be original, cutouts from a magazine or pictures from the Internet. Write a 100 word explanation of the illustration and its meaning. |
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5. If your book was a movie… 30 pts. |
If you made your book into a movie, who would you want to play one of the major characters in the film? Write a persuasive letter to that film star telling them about the plot of the story. Be sure to mention what about the plot would make it an attractive film to American audiences and why they should accept your offer to take the role. (Letter should be at least 150 words.) Your letter
should demonstrate your understanding of the novel’s plot not your
understanding of a particular movie star. |
If any of this paper is typed, please use 12 pt., Times New Roman font and double space your writing. Handwritten papers are acceptable but should also be double-spaced.
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Freshmen 9th Grade |
No More Dead Dogs by Gordon Korman; The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things by Carolyn Mackler; Tangerine by Edward Bloor; Death Be Not Proud by John Gunther; Tears of Tiger by Sharon Draper |
Sophomores10th Grade |
All 10th Graders: pay particular attention to the setting of the story and the change in technology as the story unfolds. Honors: A
Land Remembered by Patrick Smith Regular: 1700’s: Life, Swee; Ghost Fox by James Houston 1800’s: Kindred by Octavia E. Butler; With Every Drop of Blood by James Lincoln Collier 1900’s: Briar Rose by Jane Yolen; Under a War-Torn Sky by Laura M. Elliott |
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Juniors 11th Grade |
Honors: The Assistant by Bernard Malamud; A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines; The Old man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway; Cannery Row by John Steinbeck Regular: Black Boy by Richard Wright; Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts; Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson; A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L’Engle; Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom |
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Seniors 12th
Grade |
Regular: Grendel
by John Gardner; Passage to Honors: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce; Childhood’s End by Arthur Clarke; Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
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