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PHS Summer Enrichment Project➔ Step 1: Plan. Choose TWO experiences! You may choose any from the

list provided below, or you may participate in an enrichment experience of equal or greater value.

➔ Step 2: Participate. Read your text, attend your performance, visit your museum!

➔ Step 3: Prove. Collect and keep a ticket stub, pamphlet, playbill, flyer, brochure, copy of the book etc. as documentation for your experience.

➔ Step 4: Prepare. Write an accurate and detailed summary of each enrichment experience to prepare yourself for the response you will write when you return to school.

Please join our Summer Enrichment Google Classroom (9mpjpv) to communicate with teachers, ask questions, connect with other students to attend in groups, and find links to further details on these experiences.

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Dramatic/Musical PerformancesAny free events are noted*

● James and the Giant Peach performed June 2-3, $15 at USM’s Mannoni Performing Arts Center

(*Dress rehearsal is open to the public June 1 for free, check Classroom for details)

● William Carey’s Meistersingers perform Songs of the Sacred June 11, $15

● Laurel Little Theatre presents Beauty and the Beast July 28-31, $15

● Biloxi Little Theatre presents Amadeus May 26-28 and June 1-3, $12

● USA International Ballet Competition June 10-23 in Jackson, MS

● William Carey’s summer dinner theatre June 16-July 2 & July 12-23, $30 entry

Local Library Features● *Read A Monster Calls & see the movie showing at the

Hattiesburg Public Library May 25 (This counts as 2 experiences!)

● *Sign up for a free library card your local public library

Museum Exhibits● *Tour USM’s DeGrummond Children’s Literature

Collection, open M-F● *The Life and Legacy of Jim Henson art exhibit June 9-

17, see FestivalSouth’s website for more information● * The Mississippi High School Drawing Exhibition June

5-19 at USM● *Tour the Freedom Summer Trail● Walter Anderson Museum of Art in Ocean Springs, MS● *William Carey’s Sarah Gillespie Museum of Art● Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame & Museum in Jackson, MS● *USM’s Museum of Art ● Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, free entry, $3 donation suggested

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● African American Military History Museum, $1 entry● *Mississippi Armed Forces Museum, Camp Shelby, MS

Literary or Informational TextsPlease Note: We have selected many titles written by contemporary authors for the summer reading list. Since this list is for all high school students, some selections are focused toward mature readers; please consider both the maturity level of the text and its difficulty when helping your student select a book. If you have questions about the content, please research the choices; www.commonsensemedia.org is a good website to assess the maturity of the content.

*These books are available in the PHS library. These are available to check out for the summer if you are in good standing with the library.

Literary ChoicesSci-fi/Horror

Palahniuk; 800L Lullaby*Crichton; 840L The Andromeda StrainPatchett; 990L State of Wonder*Stoker; 1060L Dracula*Wells; 1070L The Time Machine*Lewis; 1250L The Screwtape Letters

Historical fiction

*Clavell; Shogun*Remarque; 830L; All Quiet on the Western Front*Paton; 860L Cry the Beloved Country*Morrison; 870L; Beloved*Doerr; 880L All the Light We Cannot See*Achebe; 890L; Things Fall ApartBrumbo; 970L Johnny Got His Gun*Crichton; 1060L; The Great Train Robbery*Warren 1130L All the King’s Men*Frazier; 1210L Cold Mountain1230L House of Mirth

Dystopian/Post-apocalyptic

*Huxley; 870L Brave New WorldBradbury; 890 Fahrenheit 451*Ishiguro; 930L Never Let Me Go

Spirituality/Philosophy/Magical Realism

Gaiman; The Ocean at the End of the Lane*Wallace; Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic ProportionsAlvarez; 910L In the Time of the Butterflies

Crime/Suspense

Hawkins; HL760 The Girl on the Train*Grisham; 780L A Painted HouseBrown; 850L The Da Vinci CodeSebold; 890L The Lovely BonesDostoevsky; 900L Crime and Punishment

Satire Vonnegut; 850L Slaughterhouse-Five*White; 1080L The Once and Future King*Twain; 1080L A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s CourtHeller; 1140L Catch-22Kesey; 1110L One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Relation- ships

Mosley; The Last Days of Ptolemy GreyMcEwan; Atonement: A NovelGaines; 750L A Lesson Before Dying

Coming-of- age

Krueger; Ordinary Grace: A NovelPetterson; Out Stealing Horses*Bronte, Charlotte; 610L Jane Eyre*Salinger; 790L The Catcher in the Rye

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*Hosseini; 840L The Kite Runner*Bronte, Emily; 880L Wuthering HeightsLahiri; 1090L Unaccustomed Earth*Austen; 1120L Persuasion*Wharton, Edith 1170L The Age of Innocence; 1230L House of Mirth

Quick; 830L Boy21*Morrison; 870L Song of Solomon*Klein; 890L Orphan Train*Wroblewski; 900L The Story of Edgar SawtelleSantiago; 1020L When I Was Puerto Rican*Knowles; 1110L A Separate PeaceKerouac; 930L On the Road

Journey *Green; 850L Paper Towns*Adams; 880L Watership DownPatchett; 990L State of Wonder

Mythology/Fantasy

Allende; The Stories of Eva LunaKostova; The Historian*Rushdie; 940L Haroun and the Sea of StoriesMorgenstern; 950L The Night CircusTolkien; 1000L The Hobbit; 860L The Fellowship of the Ring; 810L The Two Towers; 920L The Return of the King

Drama Ibssen; A Doll’s HouseWilliams; The Glass MenagerieWilder; Our TownWilde; The Importance of Being EarnestMiller: Death of a SalesmanEuripides; Medea

Non-fiction Choices

Science & Math

*Grann; The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon*Roach; 1100L Gulp : Adventures on the Alimentary Canal*Roach; 1230L Stiff : The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers*Kean; 1300L The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

Health Care *Davis; Living and Dying in Brick City: Stories from the Front Lines of an Inner-City ERJadick & Hayden; On Call in Hell: A Doctor’s Iraq War StoryMoalem; Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease*Mukherjee; The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

History Larson; In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s BerlinRavina; The Last Samurai : The Life and Battles of Saigo Takamori*Boom; 900L The Hiding Place*Hillenbrand; 1010L Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption

Warfare/Combat

Jadick & Hayden; On Call in Hell: A Doctor’s Iraq War StoryRavina; The Last Samurai : The Life and Battles of Saigo TakamoriStanton; Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of U.S. Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in AfghanistanO’Brien; 830L If I Die in a Combat Zone*Beah; 920L A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

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*Keneally, Thomas 1150L Schindler’s Lis t Uchida; 1280L Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese-American FamilyEverett; 1460L Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome’s Greatest Politician

*Hillenbrand; 1010L Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and RedemptionSwofford; 1320L Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles

True Crime Capote, Truman 1040L In Cold Blood*Larson; 1170L The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America

Education *Braun, The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary ChangeNafisi, Azar. Reading Lolita in Tehran*Moore; 990L The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

Psychology *Navarro; What Every BODY is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People

Nutrition *Schlosser; 1240L Fast Food NationPollan; 1390L In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

Memoir Noor, Queen; Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected LifeSheff (Father); Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s AddictionEggers; A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering GeniusMcClure; A Pearl in the Storm: How I Found My Heart in the Middle of the OceanSheff (Son); HL770L Tweak: Good rowing Up on MethamphetaminesYousafzai; 1000L I am Malala*Hillenbrand; 1010L Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and RedemptionWalls; 1010L The Glass Castle*Angelou; 1070L I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings*McCourt; 1110L Angela’s Ashes

Athletics Coughlin; Earn the Right to Win: How Success in Any Field Starts with Superior PreparationBernstein; Million Dollar ArmBlais; In These Girls, Hope is a MuscleColton; Counting Coup: A True Story of Basketball and Honor on the Little Big HornDawidoff; The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe BergEpstein; The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic PerformanceFoer; How Soccer Explains the WorldMaraniss; When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi*Lewis; Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair GameRemnick, King of the WorldRhoden; Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black AthleteRoberts; Joe Louis: Hard Times ManBrown; 1260L The Boys in the Boat