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Summer Reading2021-2022

Pine-Richland High School

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New Students/Parents: Students enrolling in the district during the summer can contact the High School English Department Chair, Gina Mahouski ([email protected]), or their 2021-22 scheduled English teacher about a time frame for completion of summer reading assignments. Faculty email addresses are listed on the district website.

Students: ● Please see the suggested Summer Reading Program requirements and book lists on the following slides.● You will be responsible for obtaining your own copies of the summer reading books and bringing the books to

class during the first week of school○ Books MAY be available to check out from the library prior to summer, please see/email Mr. Pollock

for availability ([email protected])

Overview

mailto:[email protected]


During our in-depth program review process that took place during the 2019-2020 school year, one of the emerging recommendations was to include more modern and diverse texts into the curriculum, including summer reading. The in-depth program review gathers input from exemplary schools in the state, data, research, community partners, parents, students, and teachers. Each list includes the following:

● Diversity in genres/themes● Diversity in gender of authors and main characters● Intellectual diversity of characters/authors/themes● Cultural diversity of characters/authors/themes● Grade-level/curriculum appropriate options● A variety of national book award-winning texts● Previous summer reading list options● Modern texts and classic texts

Parent Note: If there are alternative, grade-level appropriate book options you would prefer for your son/daughter, please email Gina Mahouski ([email protected]) for approval. Students would still be able to take part in the same class discussion and writing assessments at the beginning of next school year. The 2021-22 English teacher of your student would be notified of the alternative choices in advance of the upcoming school year.

Overview


Rationale of summer reading at the high school level:● Encourages students to develop lifelong reading habits● Prevents a slide of reading comprehension, analysis, and close-reading skills over the

summer● The choice of diverse texts encourages reluctant readers● Provides an opportunity for engaging student discussion and writing activities at the

beginning of the following school year

What to expect on assessment of summer reading during the first week of school:● Small-group and large-group discussions based on text themes and real-world connections● A written response to a prompt

Rationale & What to expect

During the first week of school, expect to engage in a graded discussion and writing task about your reading; answering these questions prior to the discussion may enhance your overall understanding of the book(s). Written responses to the following questions will not be collected.

■ Do any of the characters experience a dynamic shift throughout the text?■ How do characters demonstrate different leadership characteristics?■ How does the setting impact the events of the text? ■ Can you identify internal/external conflict of the protagonist? If so, what are they and

how do they develop the character(s)?■ Can you identify any motifs? If so, what are they?■ How does the author’s diction impact the tone?■ How is the dominant theme developed throughout the text?■ Is symbolism present in the text? If so, how does it contribute to the development of

the theme?■ What connections can you make between the text and your life, society, or historical

events?

Questions to consider as you read...

https://www.masterclass.com/articles/dynamic-characters-vs-static-characters#:~:text=A%20dynamic%20character%20is%20a,the%20course%20of%20a%20story.&text=Most%20main%20characters%20and%20major,static%20characters%20stay%20the%20same.

https://literarydevices.net/?s=setting

https://literarydevices.net/?s=conflict

https://literarydevices.net/motif/

https://literarydevices.net/?s=diction

https://literarydevices.net/?s=tone

https://literarydevices.net/?s=theme

https://literarydevices.net/?s=symbolism

Book ListsPlease see your grade level list on the following slides for

your book options

A Printable copy of the list can be found here

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9th Grade Summer ReadingEnglish 9: Choose 2 BooksHonors English 9: Choose 3 books

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Just Mercy

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Adapted for Young Adults (Bryan Stevenson) Nonfiction

Bryan Stevenson details from his personal experience his many challenges and efforts as a lawyer and social advocate, especially on behalf of America's most marginalized people.

AB STEVENSON 2018

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The Glass Castle

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(Jeanette Walls) Autobiography

The author recalls her life growing up in a dysfunctional family with an alcoholic father and distant mother and describes how she and her siblings had to fend for themselves until they finally found the resources and will to leave home.

AB WALLS 2006

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Long way Down

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(Jason Reynolds) Novel in poetic verse

As Will, fifteen, sets out to avenge his brother Shawn's fatal shooting, seven ghosts who knew Shawn board the elevator and reveal truths Will needs to know.

FIC REY 2017

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I am Malala

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(Malala Yousafzai) Autobiography

Malala Yousafzai's describes her fight for education for girls under Taliban rule, the support she received from her parents to pursue an education, and how the Taliban retaliated against her by trying to kill her.

AB YOUSAFZAI 2013

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The House on Mango Street

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(Sandra Cisernos) Fiction

A young girl living in a Hispanic neighborhood in Chicago ponders the advantages and disadvantages of her environment and evaluates her relationships with family and friends.

FIC CIS 1994

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Alas, Babylon

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(Pat Frank) Fiction

The story of a group of people who rely on their own courage and ingenuity to survive in a small Florida town that escaped nuclear bombing.

FIC FRA 1999

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Dear Martin

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(Nic Stone) Fiction

Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him.

FIC STO 2017

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Lord of the Flies

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(William Golding) Fiction

After a plane crash strands them on a tropical island while the rest of the world is ravaged by war, a group of British schoolboys attempts to form a civilized society but descends into brutal anarchy.

FIC GOL 2003

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10th Grade Summer Reading

English 10: Choose 2 BooksHonors English 10: Choose 3 books

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Hidden figures

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(Margot Lee Shetterly) Nonfiction

Hidden Figures tells the incredible real-life account of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden—who, in a time when black women faced seemingly insurmountable obstacles, went to work as “calculators” at NASA. With pencils, paper, and slide rules, they transformed airplane, rocket, and satellite designs—and ensured a World War II victory.

510.92 SHE 2017

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The Poet X

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(Elizabeth Acevedo) Novel in poetic verse

Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking.

FIC ACE 2018

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Punching the Air

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(Ibi Zoboi, Yusef Salaam) Novel in poetic verse

Even though Amal Shahid is an artist and poet, he's still viewed as disruptive and unmotivated at his diverse art school. One fateful night at a local park, a fight breaks out and Amal is sent to prison. His despair and rage at having his bright future destroyed threaten to overcome him until he discovers the refuge and hope that his words and art give him.

FIC ZOB 2020

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The other Wes Moore

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(Wes Moore) Autobiography

Wes Moore discusses how he met and interviewed another man also named Wes Moore who followed a very different and destructive life than his own, even though they grew up close to one another in the same dangerous neighborhood. Moore outlines the life decisions that led each of them in different directions.

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Very Large Expanse of sea

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(Tahereh Mafi) Fiction

It's 2002, a year after 9/11. It's an extremely turbulent time politically, but especially so for someone like Shirin, a sixteen-year-old Muslim girl who's tired of being stereotyped. Then she meets Ocean James. He's the first person in forever who really seems to want to get to know Shirin.

FIC MAF 2018

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The Hate u give

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(Angie Thomas) Fiction

Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend.

FIC THO 2017

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Fahrenheit 451

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(Ray Bradbury) Fiction

After learning that books are a vital part of a culture he never knew, a book-burning official in a future fascist state clandestinely pursues reading until he is betrayed.

FIC BRA 2003

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One Day in the life of Ivan Denisovich

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(Alexander Solzhenitsyn) Fiction

A harrowing novel about life in a Stalinist labor camp in Siberia. Recounts the experiences of Sukhanov, a prisoner at a Soviet work camp in Siberia as he struggles for survival.

FIC SOL 1995

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11th Grade Summer ReadingEnglish 11: Choose 2 BooksHonors English 11: Choose 3 books

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Stamped

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(Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi) Nonfiction

A history of racist and antiracist ideas in America, from their roots in Europe until today, adapted from the National Book Award winner Stamped from the Beginning.

305.800973 KEN 2020

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The immortal life of henrietta lacks

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(Rebecca Skloot) Nonfiction

Examines the experiences of the children and husband of Henrietta Lacks, who, twenty years after her death from cervical cancer in 1951, learned doctors and researchers took cells from her cervix without consent which were used to create the immortal cell line known as the HeLa cell.

616.0277 SKL 2011

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Ordinary Hazards

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(Nikki Grimes) Autobiography in poetic verse

Author and poet Nikki Grimes explores the truth of a harrowing childhood in a compelling and moving memoir in verse

AB GRIMES 2019

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Too Close to the falls

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(Catherine Gildiner) Autobiography

Welcome to the childhood of Catherine McClure Gildiner. It is the mid-1950s in Lewiston, New York, a sleepy town near Niagara Falls

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The bean trees

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(Barbara Kingsolver) Fiction

Taylor, a poor Kentuckian, makes her way west with an abandoned baby girl and stops in Tucson. There she finds friends and discovers resources in apparently empty places.

FIC KIN 1988

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We are not from here

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(Jenny Torres Sanchez) Fiction

Pulga has his dreams, Chico has his grief, Pequeña has her pride and these three teens have one another. Crossing from Guatemala through Mexico, they follow the route of La Bestia, the perilous train system that might deliver them to a better life--if they are lucky enough to survive the journey.

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Furia

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(Yamile Saied Méndez) Fiction

Seventeen-year-old Camila Hassan, a rising soccer star in Rosario, Argentina, dreams of playing professionally, in defiance of her fathers' wishes and at the risk of her budding romance with Diego.

FIC MEN 2020

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The great gatsby

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(F. Scott Fitzgerald) Fiction

Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, the novel depicts narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.

FIC FIT 1953

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0601 12th Grade Summer Reading

English 12: Choose 2 BooksHonors English 12: Choose 3 books

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The undocumented americans

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(Cornejo Villavicencio) Autobiography

One of the first undocumented immigrants to graduate from Harvard reveals the hidden lives of her fellow undocumented Americans in this deeply personal and groundbreaking portrait of a nation.

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57 Bus

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0601(Dashka Slater)Nonfiction

If it weren't for the 57 bus, Sasha and Richard never would have met. Both were high school students from Oakland, California, but they inhabited different worlds. Sasha, a white teen, attended a small private school. Richard, a black teen, attended a large public one. Each day, their paths overlapped for a mere eight minutes.

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MAUS I & II

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0601(Art Spiegelman) Graphic Novel

Vladek Spiegelman and his wife, living and surviving in Hitler's Europe. The author captures the everyday reality of fear during the Holocaust and is able to explore the guilt, relief and extraordinary sensation of survival - and how the children of survivors are in their own way affected by the trials of their parents.

GN 940.5318 SPI 1986

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Apple Skin to Core

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0601(Eric L. Gansworth) Memoir in Verse

Eric Gansworth tells the story of his life and family through poems about their Onondaga heritage, from the horrible legacy of government boarding schools, to watching his siblings leave and return and leave again, to his fight to be an artist who balances multiple worlds.

AB GANSWORTH 2020

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Brave New world

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(Aldous Huxley) Fiction

A satirical novel about the utopia of the future, a world in which babies are decanted from bottles and the great Ford is worshipped.

FIC HUX 2006

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The Kite runner

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(Khaled Hosseini) Fiction

Amir, haunted by his betrayal of Hassan, the son of his father's servant and a childhood friend, returns to Kabul as an adult after he learns Hassan has been killed, in an attempt to redeem himself by rescuing Hassan's son from a life of slavery to a Taliban official.

FIC HOS 2003

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1984

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(George Orwell) Fiction

An allegory exploring the dangers of life in a strictly totalitarian society governed by Big Brother and the Thought Police.

FIC ORW 1977

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Pride and prejudice

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(Jane Austen) Fiction

In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the courtship of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters.

FIC AUS 1996

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Please contact the 9-12 ELA department chair, Gina Mahouski, ([email protected]) with any questions


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