Welcome Sophomores of 2012-2013! As your vacation begins and the seemingly endless days of summer stretch ahead, now is the best time to pick up your summer reading books. These books are available at Barnes & Noble, Amazon, your public library, and other bookstores. Your assignment is to read 3 books this summer: one required book, one nonfiction (column A) and fiction (column B). Each time you read, you are to write a reading log in a notebook, or type a blog to be printed out. (Minimum: 30 logs this summer) Format of B(LOG)/ JOURNAL 1) Title Author Date
Time
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Response paragraph and/or unfamiliar or unusual vocabulary words &definitions. _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________
Have a Great Summer, Ms. Pickering
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Parents’ Signature
My Summer Books 1) __________________by__________________________ FavoriteQuote:_________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ 2) __________________by__________________________ FavoriteQuote:_________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ 3) __________________by__________________________ FavoriteQuote:_________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________
COLUMN A: Nonfiction
COLUMN B: Fiction
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
The Kite Runner
By William Kamkwamba
ByKhaled Hussein
Angela’s Ashes
Fallen Angels
By Frank McCourt
By Walter Dean Meyers
The Diary of Anne Frank
In the Time of the Butterflies
By Anne Frank
By Julia Alvarez
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The Absoulte True Diary oa Part-Time Indian
By Maya Angelou
By Sherman Alexie
Letters from a Slave Girl:
The Pearl
The Story of Harriet Jacobs
By John Steinbeck
By Mary E. Lyons Peak by Roland Smith
A Long Way Gone By Ishmael Beah
Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
Like Water for Chocolate By Laura Esquiral