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AVID Summer Reading Assignment
Dear AVID Student ________________,
One of the most important ways to prepare for college is to read well-written and challenging books. This year’s summer assignment is as follows:
For incoming 9th graders 1 book, fiction or nonfictionFor 10th - 11th - 12th grade 1 fiction and 1 nonfiction
Choose from the list we have provided, or ask your current teachers for their recommendations. If you enrolled in Honors or A.P. classes that require summer reading, you may use one of those books for this assignment. Our list is just suggestions. You may choose any book as long as you have never read it before in or out of school and it is an appropriate level of difficulty.
Your AVID summer assignment has three parts:1. Read the book(s) and keep your READING LOG (attached). If you are in 10th, 11th, or 12th grade, you will need to print two reading logs or copy the template on your own notebook paper. 2. Complete a ONE-PAGER for the novel. (See the examples and read the directions on the back of this page.)3. Complete a READING REFLECTION. Please type your answers to the following questions, single spaced, in a 10 or 12 point font size – 1-1 ½ typed page for each book.
A. Heading: Your name, title, author, genre, and number of pages.B. 1 paragraph: How did you find out about this book? Why did you
choose it?C. 1 paragraph: Summarize what the book is about.D. 1 paragraph: Why does this book qualify as “well written and challenging?” How did it challenge you? How did it affect you?E. 1 paragraph: Did the times and places in which you did the
reading affect your experience – make it more enjoyable or more difficult? What can you learn about studying and reading from these
observations?
Compile all three parts for each book in a binder or folder with your name and AVID grade on the outside. To begin the year as an AVID student
in good standing, you must turn in this assignment on the FIRST DAY of AVID class. Have a great summer, but do not forget to start on this early!
Sincerely,
Mrs. Perkins & Mrs. Harvey
[email protected]: Honors English II and Honors/AP English III Teacher, AVID [email protected]: Honors Advanced Composition, English Teacher, & AVID Elective TeacherHow to do a ONE-PAGERA 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 paper2. Must fill the entire page (not much open, white space- fill everything)3. Writing must be in ink or typed4. Include the title and the author5. Use colored pencils or markers (Can also be done on computer ) 6. Design it to be artistic and visually appealing7. 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.
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SOME SUGGESTIONS FOR AVID SUMMER READINGThese 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 to a current teacher. You can purchase the book in hard copy or on an e-reader, but you do not have to buy it if one is available for free at the library! Email us ASAP if you are having trouble and we will help you.
Look for books about issues and topics that interest you, but challenge yourself. This is the suggested list, but you may certainly branch out
NONFICTIONFAST FOOD NATIONEric Schlosser.Shocking (and true) story about your food.
INTO THIN AIR: A PERSONAL ACCOUNT OF THE MT. EVEREST DISASTERJon KrakauerA tragic attempt to conquer Mt. Everest
GUNS, GERMS, AND STEELJared DiamondHuman history from 11,000 BC.
LIES MY TEACHER TOLD MEJames W. Loewen.The truth about U.S. history.
WAR IS A FORCE THAT GIVES US MEANINGChristopher Hedges.A journalist and war correspondent examines the reasons for war, and its effects.
ALL RIVERS RUN TO THE SEA: A MEMOIRElie Wiesel.The author of Night survived the Holocaust and became a journalist and writer.
Questions?
E-mail Mrs. Harvey (9th) or Mrs. Perkins (10th/11th/12th) at [email protected]
GROWING UP CHICANA/O: AN ANTHOLOGYTiffany Ana Lopez, editor.20 authors remember their childhood.
ALWAYS RUNNINGLuis Rodriguez.Rodriguez leaves gangs behind him, but sees his son make a different choice.
WETBACK NATIONPeter Laufer.The author argues for an U.S. - Mexico border, with free movement for all in both directions.
BAGHDAD BURNING: GIRL BLOG FROM IRAQRiverbend.25-year-old blogger’s personal report from the heart of the war.
NELSON MANDELA: A BIOGRAPHYMartin MeredithFrom prison to leader of his country.
THE BEAUTY MYTHNaomi Wolf.Do you have to look like someone else?
STAND AND DELIVERNicholas EdwardsStudents from East L.A. learn the value of hard work and dreams – from their calculus teacher.
NICKEL AND DIMEDBarbara Ehrenreich
How working people live on low wages.
STIFF: THE CURIOUS LIVESOF HUMAN CADAVERSMary Roach.A surprising and sometimes funny story of the ways scientists use the human body.
HOW READING CHANGED MY LIFEAnna Quindlen
MATH/SCIENCE (prep for 11-12 classes!)POWERS OF TENPhilip and Phylis MorrisonZoom 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 sizeand distance understandable.
THE THERMODYNAMICS OF PIZZA: ESSAYSON SCIENCE AND EVERYDAY LIFEHarold MorowitzThoughts of a distinguished biophysicist.
SILENT SPRINGRachel CarsonFirst book to present the effects of pesticides on the environment; inspired the first environmentalists.
BEING DIGITALNicholas NegreponteThe founder of the media lab at MIT predicts the technological future, such as wearable computers.
ZERO: THE BIOGRAPHY OF A DANGEROUSIDEACharles Seife and Matt ZimetHow the concept of “zero” changed the world.
FICTIONCARAMELO.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 VIDAMartinez, Victor. Fourteen-year-old Manny Hernandez lives in the projects of California's Central Valley with his troubled family.
GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAINJames BaldwinSemi-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.
NO LONGER AT EASE, a sequel to THINGS FALL APARTChinua AchebeAdjustments are needed when new ways conflict with old ways in post-colonial Africa.
EVA LUNAIsabel Allende.Eva loves a Turkish merchant, a guerrilla fighter, and a German immigrant while triumphing over harsh reality through creativity and imagination.
NINE STORIESJ.D.SalingerA small, thought-provoking book by the author of The Catcher in the Rye.
THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOGIN 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 – SOME QUALITY CHOICES FOR THE TRANSITION TO HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISHBARRIO 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 9Francisco Jimenez.A Mexican family crosses the border illegally to find farm work in the fields of California.
CHILDREN OF THE RIVER-AVID 9
Linda CrewCan Sundara be a "good Cambodian girl" if she has an American boyfriend?
MOLLY BY ANY OTHER NAME-AVID 9Okimoto, Jean DaviesMolly must decide whether or not to find her birth mother.
THE CROSSING-AVID 9Paulsen, Gary.Alone on the streets of Juarez, Manny lives for the day he'll cross into the United States.
THE SHADOW BROTHERS-AVID 9A. E. CannonMarcus spends his junior year trying to figure out the changes in himself and in his foster brother.
BURIED ONIONS-AVID 9Gary SotoAfter his cousin is killed, Eddie tries to escape the unending violence of the Fresno barrio.
TANGERINE Edward BloorAfter 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 Suggestions for any grade level:
Looking for Alaska by John Green
It’s Kind of A Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Random Family by Nicole LeBlanc
Wall of Fame by Jonathan Freedman (about the teacher who started AVID)