Dear Incoming Freshman:
Listed below are the titles for your required summer reading. Upon your return to school in September, your teacher will require you to complete an assignment based on your reading and to write an argumentative essay supported with textual evidence, which will count for part of your first marking period grade. All books may be borrowed from the public library, purchased at your local bookstore, or on the Internet. You must choose and read two texts, for the class you will enter in the Fall, as well as the Commencement Speech by Steve Jobs that can be found as a pdf file with a link posted on our Library webpage. Instructions for completing a DEJ as you read, are listed on the flip side of this list. Teachers will work with you in September to use your textual evidence and write a highly effective essay. We encourage you to read independently. Extra credit will be given to those students who show evidence of reading more than the required three texts. Challenge yourself!
Grade 9-E1
Choose 1 Work of Fiction
The Lovely Bones Sebold
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Alexie
My Sister’s Keeper Picoult
And Then There Were None Christie
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Safran Foer
Flowers for Algernon Keyes
Choose 1 Work of Non-Fiction
The Pact: Three Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream Davis, Jenkins and Hunt
I Am Malala Yousafzai
Persepolis The Story of a Childhood Satrapi
Required Speech:
Commencement Speech by Steve Jobs at Stanford University
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html
We look forward to seeing you in September. Have a wonderful summer.
Sincerely,
Virginia Izzo
Assistant Principal
English Department