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AVID at Southern Lee High School

Summer Reading Assignment 2014-15

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One of the most important ways to prepare for college is to read well-written and challenging books. Please take this seriously and complete this assignment to the best of your ability. It is due on the first day of school in the fall. If you have any questions, visit slhscavid.. You can email Mrs. Perkins or Mrs. Harvey through the contact form there. You may also email us directly: hharvey.sl@lee.k12.nc.us or jperkins.sl@lee.k12.nc.us. Our expectations are higher than ever, so we need you to bring your “A” game. Think of it this way: you could start off next year with a 100 % average if you do this project well (

This year’s summer assignment:

Incoming 9th graders must read one book, fiction or nonfiction

Everyone else must read two books, one fiction and one nonfiction

AP English summer assignment books count – just add one-pagers for one

12th grade – you must also make a “College Crate” (see separate handout)

Choose from the list we have provided, or ask your current teachers for their recommendations. Your book choice must be appropriate to your age and scholastic ability. If you deviate from the reading list, you must get it approved by Harvey or Perkins via email or in person.

Your AVID summer assignment has three parts (do all three twice if in 10/11/12th):

1. Read and keep a double entry journal with twelve quotes (attached).

2. Create a ONE-PAGER (examples/directions to follow).

3. Please type your answers to the following questions in MLA Format.

Heading: Your name, title, author, genre, and number of pages.

1 paragraph: How did you find out about this book? Why did you choose it?

1 paragraph: Summarize the main idea as well as the central theme/argument the author is making.

1 paragraph: Why does this book qualify as “well written and challenging?” How did it challenge you? How did it affect you?

1 paragraph: Did the times and places in which you did the reading affect your experience – make it more enjoyable or more difficult? What did you learn about yourself as a reader through this experience?

To begin the year as an AVID student in good standing, you must turn in this ENTIRE assignment in a folder or binder on the FIRST DAY of class.

How to do a ONE-PAGER

A ONE-PAGER is a way of responding to a piece of writing on a single sheet of paper. It represents your written and graphic interpretation and understanding of what you have read. It may be very literal (based just on the facts or information in the piece) or it may be a symbolic representation of the story. It helps you as a reader visualize what you are reading.

DIRECTIONS:

1. Must be on standard sized, unlined paper

2. Must fill the entire page (not much open, white space- fill everything)

3. Writing must be in ink or typed

4. Include the title and the author

5. Use colored pencils or markers (Can also be done on computer )

6. Design it to be artistic and visually appealing

7. See below for the required components for your one-pagers

Your ONE-PAGER should include the following:

1. 2-3 excerpts from the reading (Passages that you think are important to the story); these are copied word for word onto the paper. (Not more than 3-5 sentences each.)

2. At least two graphic representations (your colorful drawings, magazine pictures, or computer graphics) that illustrate that part of the novel and the excerpts you chose to include.

3. A personal response to what you have read and the excerpts you have used: your comments, interpretation, evaluation, reactions, etc. These are written in your own words.

4. 3-4 examples of figurative language (similes, metaphors, onomatopoeia, analogies, personification, idioms, etc.) found in the text. These should be copied and labeled.

SOME SUGGESTIONS FOR AVID SUMMER READING

These books and many others are available through the public library, even if they are not on the shelf. For more suggestions that might be right for you, show this list to the librarian or a teacher.

Look for books about issues and topics that interest you, but challenge yourself.

NONFICTION

FAST FOOD NATION

Eric Schlosser.

Shocking (and true) story about your food.

THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE TEENS:

The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide

Sean Covey

Help for surviving high school.

INTO THIN AIR: A PERSONAL ACCOUNT OF THE MT. EVEREST DISASTER

Jon Krakauer

A tragic attempt to conquer Mt. Everest

GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL

Jared Diamond

Human history from 11,000 BC.

LIES MY TEACHER TOLD ME

James W. Loewen.

The truth about U.S. history.

WAR IS A FORCE THAT GIVES US MEANING

Christopher Hedges.

A journalist and war correspondent examines the reasons for war, and its effects.

ALL RIVERS RUN TO THE SEA: A MEMOIR

Elie Wiesel.

The author of Night survived the Holocaust and became a journalist and writer.

GROWING UP CHICANA/O: AN ANTHOLOGY

Tiffany Ana Lopez, editor.

20 authors remember their childhood.

ALWAYS RUNNING

Luis Rodriguez.

Rodriguez leaves gangs behind him, but sees his son make a different choice.

WETBACK NATION

Peter Laufer.

The author argues for an U.S. - Mexico border, with free movement for all in both directions.

BAGHDAD BURNING: GIRL BLOG FROM IRAQ

Riverbend.

25-year-old blogger’s personal report from the heart of the war.

NELSON MANDELA: A BIOGRAPHY

Martin Meredith

From prison to leader of his country.

THE BEAUTY MYTH

Naomi Wolf.

Do you have to look like someone else?

STAND AND DELIVER

Nicholas Edwards

Students from East L.A. learn the value of hard work and dreams – from their calculus teacher.

NICKEL AND DIMED

Barbara Ehrenreich

How working people live on low wages.

STIFF: THE CURIOUS LIVES

OF HUMAN CADAVERS

Mary Roach.

A surprising and sometimes funny story of the ways scientists use the human body.

HOW READING CHANGED MY LIFE

Anna Quindlen

An example.

MATH/SCIENCE (prep for 11-12 classes!)

POWERS OF TEN

Philip and Phylis Morrison

Zoom to Earth from 1 billion light-years away to the subatomic level of 10-16. The pictures in the book are arranged to make mathematical concepts of size

and distance understandable.

THE THERMODYNAMICS OF PIZZA: ESSAYS

ON SCIENCE AND EVERYDAY LIFE

Harold Morowitz

Thoughts of a distinguished biophysicist.

SILENT SPRING

Rachel Carson

First book to present the effects of pesticides on the environment; inspired the first environmentalists.

BEING DIGITAL

Nicholas Negreponte

The founder of the media lab at MIT predicts the technological future, such as wearable computers.

ZERO: THE BIOGRAPHY OF A DANGEROUS

IDEA

Charles Seife and Matt Zimet

How the concept of “zero” changed the world.

FICTION

THE KITE RUNNER

Khaled Hosseini

Two boys growing up in Afghanistan meet different fates when the Taliban changes their lives.

CARAMELO.

Sandra Cisneros,

The lives of Mexican-American women in two worlds.

IN THE TIME OF THE BUTTERFLIES.

Julie Alvarez.

Sisters become involved in gunrunning and revolutionary politics.

PARROT IN THE OVEN: MI VIDA

Martinez, Victor. Fourteen-year-old Manny Hernandez lives in the projects of California's Central Valley with his troubled family.

GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN

James Baldwin

Semi-autobiographical novel about a 14-year-old black youth's religious conversion.

CHICANO: A NOVEL.

Richard Vasquez.

A family flees the Mexican Revolution for life in the U.S.

THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES.

Sue Monk Kidd.

Lily Owens confronts loss, loneliness, and racism, and learns about the power of love.

NO LONGER AT EASE, a sequel to THINGS FALL APART

Chinua Achebe

Adjustments are needed when new ways conflict with old ways in post-colonial Africa.

EVA LUNA

Isabel Allende.

Eva loves a Turkish merchant, a guerrilla fighter, and a German immigrant while triumphing over harsh reality through creativity and imagination.

NINE STORIES

J.D.Salinger

A small, thought-provoking book by the author of The Catcher in the Rye.

THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG

IN THE NIGHT-TIME.

Mark Haddon.

The mystery of a murdered dog, told by an autistic 15-year-old boy who solves quadratic equations but can’t bear to be touched.

AVID 9 ONLY (You can pick from anything, but 10/11/12 cannot choose from this section) – SOME QUALITY CHOICES FOR THE TRANSITION TO HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH

BARRIO STREETS, CARNIVAL DREAMS:

Three Generations of Latino Artistry.

Lori Marie Carlson, editor.

Latino writers and artists show what it was to be Hispanic in twentieth-century America.

THE CIRCUIT: STORIES FROM THE LIFE OF A MIGRANT CHILD-AVID 9

Francisco Jimenez.

A Mexican family crosses the border illegally to find farm work in the fields of California.

CHILDREN OF THE RIVER-AVID 9

Linda Crew

Can Sundara be a "good Cambodian girl" if she has an American boyfriend?

MOLLY BY ANY OTHER NAME-AVID 9

Okimoto, Jean Davies

Molly must decide whether or not to find her birth mother.

THE CROSSING-AVID 9

Paulsen, Gary.

Alone on the streets of Juarez, Manny lives for the day he'll cross into the United States.

THE SHADOW BROTHERS-AVID 9

A. E. Cannon

Marcus spends his junior year trying to figure out the changes in himself and in his foster brother.

BURIED ONIONS-AVID 9

Gary Soto

After his cousin is killed, Eddie tries to escape the unending violence of the Fresno barrio.

TANGERINE

Edward Bloor

After he and his family move to Tangerine, FL, geeky, bug-eyed-glasses wearing Paul Fisher might get the chance to finally be the hero.

Additional Popular Titles: The Fault in Our Stars (John Green – anything by him!), Divergent Series, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs, The Immortal Instrument Series

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