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Carencro High School Summer
Reading Program 2012-2013
� � The Louisiana Department of Education encourages all students to read every day
during the summer. Reading is the biggest factor in your child’s overall academic
success. Children who read more do better in school. Our goal is for every student to
become a capable reader and to develop a love for reading Parents can help their children reach that goal by reading to them and with them daily. If your children are already
reading, encourage them to read at least 30 minutes daily.
Involve them in reading activities at the public library. Help your child see that books are passports to the world.
Tips for High School Parents • Have books, magazines,
comics, graphic novels, and newspapers available for your child to read.
• Encourage your child to read for a specified period of time every day.
• Encourage your child to explore different authors, themes, and genres (biography, adventure, historical fiction, science fiction, poetry, and others).
• Let your child see you read every day.
• Talk with your child about what he/she is reading.
• Limit the amount of time your child spends watching television and playing video games.
• Create a quiet place, free from distractions, where your child may read.
• Encourage older children to read to younger brothers and sisters.
• Encourage the use of audio books. Enthusiastic readers come from families that support and promote reading.
Lafayette Parish Libraries
Broussard Branch 337-‐837-‐3936 100 West Main Street Broussard, LA 70518
North Regional Branch 337-‐ 896-‐6323 5101 North University Avenue Carencro, LA 70520 Butler Memorial Branch 337-‐234-‐0363 Martin Luther King Center 309 Cora Street Lafayette, LA 70501
Scott Branch 337-‐232-‐9321 5808 West Cameron Street Scott, LA 70583 Chenier Branch 337-‐ 291-‐2941 Chenier Center 220 West Willow Street, Bldg. C Lafayette, LA 70501 South
South Regional Branch 337-‐ 981-‐1028 6101 Johnston St. Lafayette, LA 70503 Youngsville Branch 337-‐ 856-‐9385 Twin Oaks Plaza 506 Lafayette St., Suite C Youngsville, LA 70592
CARENCRO HIGH RECOMMENDED (NOT REQUIRED) READING LISTS Ninth Grade List 13 Reasons Why, Jay Asher (C) A Step from Heaven, An Na (C) American Born Chinese, Gene Luen Yang (G) Backfield Package, Thomas Dygard (Sp) Bad Boy, Walter Dean Myers (B) Bleachers, John Grisham (C) Danger Zone, David Klass (Sp) The Dark Side of Nowhere, Neil Shusterman (SF) Dreamland, Sarah Dessen (C) Eragon series, Christopher Paolini (F) Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card (SF) Fighting Ruben Wolfe, Markus Zusak (Sp) Full Tilt, Neil Shusterman (S) Goddess of Yesterday, Caroline Cooney (HI) A Great and Terrible Beauty, Libba Bray (S) High Heat, Carl Deuker (Sp) House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros (C) Howl’s Moving Castle, Diana W. Jones (F) Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins (A) Leviathan, Scott Westerfeld (F) Lyddie, Katherine Patterson (HI) Matched, Ally Condie (C) Necessary Roughness, Marie Lee (SP) Rosa Parks, Douglas Brinkley (B) Spiders in the Hairdo, David Holt (NF) The Thief, Megan Whalen Turner (A) To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee Where Are the Children?, Mary Higgins Clark (M) Zel, Donna Jo Napoli (F)
Carencro High Summer Reading Requirements
✓The lists included in this brochure are recommendations from teachers and students. ✓Regular students are encouraged to choose books that interest them. They may choose to do a postcard project for up to two books to earn bonus points. ✓Honors students must read at least two books during the summer. They may choose books from this recommended list or any other age-‐appropriate, parent-‐approved books. Honors students must complete a postcard project for each selection. These projects are due the first day of class and will be part of the first six weeks grade. Postcard project requirements are included in this brochure.
Tenth Grade List Aleutian Sparrow, Karen Hesse (P) Beautiful Creatures, Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl (F) Breathing Underwater, Alex Flinn (C) Caramelo, Sandra Cisneros (C) Crank, Ellen Hopkins (C) Game, Walter Dean Myers (C) Gentlehands, M.E. Kerr (C) Half Caste and Other Stories, John Agard (P) Hole in My Life, Jack Gantos (B) House of the Scorpion, Nancy Farmer (S) If You Come Softly, Jacqueline Woodson (R) It’s Not about the Bike, Lance Armstrong (B) Kaffir Boy, Mark Mathabane (B) Maximum Ride series, James Patterson (SF/A) Maus, Art Speilgelman (G) Navajo Code Talkers, Nathan Aaseng (NF) Ophelia, a Novel, Lisa Klein (A) Phoning a Dead Man, Gillian Cross (M) Running Loose, Chris Crutcher (C) Shoeless Joe, W. P. Kinsella (Sp) So Yesterday, Scott Westerfeld (M) The Help, Kathryn Stockett (C) The Pact, Davis, Jenkins, & Hunt (NF) The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd (C) Tiffany Aching Adventures series, Terry Practhett (F / H) Who Am I without Him, Sharon Flake (SS-‐C) Wintergirls, Laurie Halse Anderson (C) Wrestling Sturbridge, Rich Wallace (Sp)
A=Adventure; B=Biography; C=Contemporary; D=Drama; F=Fantasy; H=Humor; HI=Historical; L=Louisiana; M=Mystery; NF=Non-Fiction; P=Poetry; R=Romance; S-Suspense; SF= Science Fiction; SP=Sports; SS=Short Stories
CARENCRO HIGH RECOMMENDED (NOT REQUIRED) READING LISTS Eleventh Grade List A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry (D) Animal Dreams, Barbara Kingsolver (C) Black & White, Paul Volponi (C) Coffee Will Make You Black, April Sinclair (C) Company, Max Barry (C) Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Anne Tyler (C) For the Love of Venice, Donna Jo Napoli (R) Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin (HI) Going Bovine, Libba Bray (HI) Hanging on to Max, Margaret Bechard (C) Hate List, Jennifer Brown (C) How I Live Now, Meg Rosoff (F) Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins (F/A) Iron Heart: The True Story of How I Came Back from the Dead, Brian Boyle (B) Jubilee, Margaret Walker (HI) King of the Mild Frontier, Chris Crutcher (B) Love in the Driest Season, Neely Tucker (C) Mama Day, Gloria Naylor (C) Marcelo in the Real World, Francisco Storck (C) Mare’s War, Tanita Davis (C /HI) Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich (NF) Peeps, Scott Westerfeld (F) Persepolis 1 and 2, Marjane Satrapi (G) Son of the Mob, Gordon Korman (C) The Help, Kathryn Stockett (C) The Pact, Davis, Jenkins, & Hunt (NF) Waiting for June, Joyce Sweeney (C) When I Was a Soldier, Valerie Zenatti Wolf by the Ears, Ann Rinaldi (HI)
Twelfth Grade List An Abundance of Katherines, John Green (C) Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt (B) Beekeeper’s Apprentice, Laurie R. King (M) Black Hawk Down, Mark Bowden (NF) Cane River, Lalita Tademy (L) Discworld series, Terry Pratchett (F) Double Helix, Nancy Werlin (S) Dracula, Bram Stoker Eva, Peter Dickinson (SF) Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (NF) Graceling, Kristin Cashore (F) Grendel, John Gardner (H) The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams (SF) If Beale Street Could Talk, James Baldwin (C) Interstellar Pig, William Sleator (SF) Maze Runner, James Dashner (F) Methland, Nick Reding (NF) Mortal Engines, Philip Reeve (SF) The Omnivore’s Dilemma: the Secrets Behind What You The Other Boleyn Girl, Philipa Gregory (HI) Paper Towns, John Green (C) Roots, The Saga of an American Family, Alex Haley (HI) Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison (C) The Help, Kathryn Stockett (C) The Pact, Davis, Jenkins, & Hunt (NF) The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver (R) The Queen’s Man, Sharon K. Penman (HI) The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, John LeCarre (S) Twilight, Stephanie Meyer (S) Wait for Me, An Na (C) World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, Max Brooks (SF)
Carencro High Summer Reading Requirements
✓The lists included in this brochure are recommendations from teachers and students. ✓Regular students are encouraged to choose books that interest them. They may choose to do a postcard project for up to two books to earn bonus points. ✓Honors students must read at least two books during the summer. They may choose books from this recommended list or any other age-‐appropriate, parent-‐approved books. Honors students must complete a postcard project for each selection. These projects are due the first day of class and will be part of the first six weeks grade. Postcard project requirements are included in this brochure. A=Adventure; B=Biography; C=Contemporary; D=Drama; F=Fantasy; H=Humor; HI=Historical; L=Louisiana; M=Mystery; NF=Non-Fiction; P=Poetry; R=Romance; S-Suspense; SF= Science Fiction; SP=Sports; SS=Short Stories
Make a 4x6 postcard to the author. One side of the postcard should be visual; the other side must be addressed to the author.
Select ONE of these questions to inspire your postcard.
• How did the setting and/or character(s) and/or conflict mirror your life or the life of someone you know? • What strengths or flaws do you share with a character or characters in the book? • As you were reading, what past experience did you remember about yourself or someone you know? Comment on the
significance of the experience.
On the visual side of the card, create a collage that responds to your question. Keep your materials flat-‐ magazines, scrapbook paper, old phonebooks & receipts, photos, or anything paper will work. Or, you may want to prepare a Photoshop collage. Abstract work is fine, but remember that the visual side should respond to one of the questions about your book.
On the written side, divide the card in half (like a postcard). On the right side, write the author’s address. You can invent the address if you like – Be creative! On the left side, write a short letter to the author, answering one of the questions.
Turn this card in with a short journal (about 150 words). Put your MLA heading on the journal and title it “Summer Reading Postcard.” Your journal must be at least two paragraphs. In the journal, state the question that is the subject of your card and how what you read in your book inspired you to choose that question. In the second paragraph, explain how you created the visual side of your postcard and justify the images you chose to create your “artwork.”
QUESTIONS? A member of the CHS English Department will take your emails beginning July 9th. Write to [email protected] with your concerns.
SUMMER READING PROJECT
Postcard Grading Rubric
Postcard follows instructions for size and visual/text component ___/10
Journal states question, gives reason why question was chosen, identifies materials, and explains how the visual responds to the question chosen. ___/15
Visual is thoughtful and effectively responds to question. ___/10
Short letter to author is thoughtful and effectively responds to the question with details from the text. ___/10