Instructions

May 27, 2009

 

           Dear FACS Parents and Students,

                It is hard to believe that another school year has come and gone!  I have thoroughly enjoyed having your child(ren) in my class. 

                The end of the school year brings with it the summer reading program.  This year I have decided to do something a little different.  I am going to have two reading lists: one for the junior high school and one for the senior high school.  Each student is to choose two books from the appropriate list to complete the assignment.

                There are TWO exceptions.

                   (1)  The rising 10th grade (9th going into 10th)  must read  The Road to Memphis. This is the third in the series of the Logan family. 

                   (2) Those novels with an asterisk  (*) are  long.  If you choose one of these, you do not have to choose another (unless you are assigned The Road to Memphis, as stated above).

                   The assignment is the same as in past summers.  You are to keep a journal for these novels. (You may put both assignments in the same journal.)  At the end of each chapter, write a good summary paragraph and an analysis. Each paragraph should be at least 5-6 sentences. 

          Examples of questions you may consider for your analysis are as follows:

How did the chapter make you feel?/What did you think about it?
What did you like/dislike about it?
Was the chapter believable/realistic?
Would you have made the same decisions as the characters? Why/why not?

This assignment will be worth 100 points and is due on the first day of school.

               Thank you,

               Deana Polk

Reading List:

          8TH AND 9TH GRADE
          Joni    Joni Eareckson-Tada
        *Little Women    Louisa May Alcott
          Robinson Crusoe  Daniel Defoe
         Summer of the Swans  Betsy  Byars
         The Call of the Wild   Jack London
         Swiss Family Robinson   Johann David Wyss
         Emma   Jane Austen
         The Power of a Praying Teen   Stormie Omartian
        *Christy  Catherine Marshall
         Anne of Green Gables   L.M. Montgomery
         Battlefield of the Mind  (Teen Edition)    Joyce Meyer
         Julie    Catherine Marshall
        Oliver   Charles Dickens
        The Jungle Book    Rudyard Kipling

 

        10TH AND 11TH GRADE

         Joni   Joni Eareckson-Tada
         Just Like Jesus   Max Lucado
         My Antonia   Willa Cather
        The Red Badge of Courage   Stephen Crane
        The Screwtape Letters   C.S. Lewis
        The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
        The Battlefield of the Mind  (Teen Edition)  Joyce Meyer
       *Christy   Catherine Marshall 
        The Prince and the Pauper  Mark Twain
        Journey to the Center of the Earth   Jules Verne
         Robinson Crusoe  Daniel Defoe
Any Book by Jane Austen
Any Book by the Bronte Sisters
Any Book by Charles Dickens