2011

Over the course of the last year, faculty and administration have been evaluating the current summer reading program and have decided it needs to change. The current program's goal was to provide an abundance of choices so that all students could find a book of interest to them. The concept is one we all embrace, unfortunately it is impossible for teachers to be familiar with all of the titles. Thus, evaluating the required assignments is unrealistic.

The new summer reading program will be modeled after book discussion groups. The program will still offer a wide variety of choices and insure that teachers/facilitators have read the title. The list below has approximately seventy-five titles, both fiction and nonfiction, and spans a wide array of topics. The key below indicates the subject area they connect to. Students will read a title over the summer. They will develop three clarifying questions they anticipate being raised during the book discussion. In addition, students will answer in a well developed paragraph one of the questions listed on the Summer Reading Web page.

Upon returning to school in the fall, students will be notified of the day, time, location, and facilitator of their book discussion group. Students will go to the assigned room to join in a book discussion. They will turn in their questions and answers to the facilitator. Both participation in the discussion and the written questions and answers will comprise their grade for summer reading which will be reflected in the first term English Language Arts grade.

Finally…enjoy your book and look forward to discussing the title with fellow students and staff!

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