Summer Reading

The New SHS Summer Reading 2008 !

SHS is teaming-up with the One Book, One Region initiative for Eastern CT to read.

Assignment: You are required to read TWO books.

1. Read the One Book, One Region choice Life is So Good by George Dawson and Richard Glaubman

2. A second book, either Poetry 180, A Turning Back to Poetry selected by Billy Collins or a book of your choice.
***You MAY NOT use any of the titles listed below as they are part of the SHS curriculum. ( See below.)

What you have to bring to school on Literacy Day (Wednesday, September 3, 2008) in order to share your summer reading experience and get a “Pass” on your report card:

1.For any book read other than the poetry book: Select two sections of text, ten lines or longer, and copy them out on an index card. Include the page number, book title, and author’s name. Write a five sentence (or more) paragraph explaining why you selected this section of text.

2.For the book of poetry do the following:
Select two poems and write them out on a separate sheet of paper. Then write a five sentence or more paragraph explaining why you selected this poem.

YOU MAY NOT SELECT ANY OF THE FOLLOWING FOR A FREE CHOICE SUMMER READING BOOK The Odyssey , Homeless Bird , Ties that Bind , Ties that Break , Mythology and You , The Giver, Things Fall Apart , Ishmael , Siddhartha , Anthem Drama: Romeo and Juliet , Julius Caesar, Westside Story Fiction: Grapes of WrathRagged Dick To Kill a Mockingbird Maus II Fail Safe A Separate Peace Of Mice and Men Drama:A Raisin in the Sun The Crucible Fiction: The Great Gatsby The Scarlet Letter The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1000 Acres, Snow in August, The Lord of the Flies The Bean Trees The Catcher in the Rye , Walden, Fahrenheit 451, The Stranger , Caramelo Short Stories: Contemporary Short Stories, Woman Hollering Creek Nine Stories Drama: Macbeth , King Lear , Glass Menagerie , Death of a Salesman , Fences Memoir: This Boy’s Life Nonfiction: Perfect Storm Drama: Hamlet, Othello, Much Ado About Nothing , A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Chekhov’s Plays , A Streetcar Named Desire A Long Day’s Journey into Night, Ibsen’s Plays, Oedipus Cycle Oedipus the King Persuasion, Cat’s Cradle Nonfiction: Alive! , Into the Wild, Into Thin Air , In Cold Blood , The Art of Work , The Art of the Personal Essay , Into Thin Air , Memoir: Angela’s Ashes , Born on the 4th of July , A Long Way Gone, Fiction: The Things They Carried, Speak, Parrot in the Oven , Whirligig , Ordinary People , Heart of Darkness , Beloved , Working , All Quiet on the Western Front , The Old Man and the Sea , A Farewell to Arms , Mutiny on the Bounty , After the First Death , One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch , Brave New World , The Sun Also Rises , 1984 , In Cold Blood Persuasion , Catch 22 , Snows of Kilimanjaro Anthologies: Literature Anthology-The Human Experience , The Prose Reader Poetry: A Book of Luminous Things Short Stories: Loneliness of Long Distance Runner Nickel and Dimed Emerson’s Writings

YOU MAY NOT SELECT ANY OF THE FOLLOWING FOR A FREE CHOICE SUMMER READING BOOK

The Odyssey , Homeless Bird , Ties that Bind , Ties that Break ,
Mythology and You , The Giver, Things Fall Apart ,
Ishmael , Siddhartha , Anthem

Drama: Romeo and Juliet , Julius Caesar, Westside Story Fiction: Grapes of WrathRagged Dick To Kill a Mockingbird Maus II Fail Safe A Separate Peace Of Mice and Men

Drama:A Raisin in the Sun The Crucible
Fiction: The Great Gatsby The Scarlet Letter The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1000 Acres, Snow in August, The Lord of the Flies The Bean Trees The Catcher in the Rye , Walden, Fahrenheit 451, The Stranger , Caramelo

Short Stories: Contemporary Short Stories, Woman Hollering Creek
Nine Stories
Drama: Macbeth , King Lear , Glass Menagerie , Death of a Salesman , Fences

Memoir: This Boy’s Life

Nonfiction: Perfect Storm

Drama: Hamlet, Othello, Much Ado About Nothing , A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Chekhov’s Plays , A Streetcar Named Desire A Long Day’s Journey into Night, Ibsen’s Plays, Oedipus Cycle Oedipus the King Persuasion, Cat’s Cradle
Nonfiction: Alive! , Into the Wild, Into Thin Air , In Cold Blood , The Art of Work , The Art of the Personal Essay , Into Thin Air ,
Memoir: Angela’s Ashes , Born on the 4th of July , A Long Way Gone,

Fiction: The Things They Carried, Speak, Parrot in the Oven , Whirligig , Ordinary People , Heart of Darkness , Beloved , Working , All Quiet on the Western Front , The Old Man and the Sea , A Farewell to Arms , Mutiny on the Bounty , After the First Death , One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch , Brave New World , The Sun Also Rises , 1984 , In Cold Blood
Persuasion , Catch 22 , Snows of Kilimanjaro

Anthologies: Literature Anthology-The Human Experience , The Prose Reader

Poetry: A Book of Luminous Things

Short Stories: Loneliness of Long Distance Runner
Nickel and Dimed

Emerson’s Writings

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