Good Books for Summer Reading High School
Holyoke High School Summer Reading Lists – Summer of 2020
Overview & Purpose
We, the English teachers of Holyoke High School, recognize the importance of students standing to practise good reading habits over the summertime break. This is critical both for their academic skills and personal well-beingness and growth. Considering of the unique situation that is the Summer of 2020, we accept decided that summertime reading work will be optional . For students that consummate one summer reading assignment and return it in the Autumn of 2020, actress credit will be assigned.
In this spirit, nosotros have selected novels that we believe will be loftier interest for students. We encourage students to select a novel from the lists below, read information technology at their own pace, and complete a dialectical periodical for an extra boost to their grade in the Fall.
Note: Students can selection up copies of whatsoever novels that are with a star* at the Holyoke High Schoolhouse Due north Campus.
Freshmen Reading Options
Assignment Options:
- Complete a dialectical journal for the volume y'all read (see the periodical at the bottom of this list). Collect five-x quotes and, in your ain words, explicate how those quotes helped you empathise plot, setting, character, conflict, or theme.
- Mind to an interview with an author of a book you take read. In your own words, explicate how the writer was inspired or how they made decisions virtually the book and how you call back that impacted your takeaways from the volume every bit a reader.
- Select 2-3 current manufactures or other media forms and complete an explanatory writing slice that summarizes each of the articles/pieces you selected and likewise reflects on what the topics/events from each hateful for or about mod lodge.
(Some media suggestions: articles, photo galleries, artistic pieces, cartoons (political,
satirical, etc.), news clip, trending social media topic, etc.)
Mexican White Boy by Matt de la Pena
Telephone call Me Maria by Judith Ortiz Cofer
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Miss Peregrine's Domicile for Peculiar Children past Bribe Riggs
Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kicking Your Ass past Meg Medina
The Pact by Jodi Pioult
Romiette and Julio by Sharon M. Draper
The Crazy Man by Pamela Porter
The Fault in Our Stars by John Dark-green
The Time Auto by HG Wells
All American Boys by Jason Reynolds *
Sophomore Reading Options
Assignment Options:
- Complete a dialectical journal for the book you lot read (run into the journal at the bottom of this listing). Collect 5-10 quotes and in your words, explain how those quotes helped you understand plot, setting, character, conflict, or theme.
- Mind to an interview with one of the authors. In your own words explain how the writer was inspired or how they fabricated decisions about the book.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano by Sonia Manzano
Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
Will Grayson Will Grayson by John Green & David Levithan
The Realm of Possibility by David Levithan
The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
Parrot in the Oven by: Mi Vida by Victor Martinez
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkein
Picayune Women by Louisa May Alcott
With the Fire on Loftier by Elizabeth Acevedo
On the Come Upwardly past Angie Thomas*
Junior Reading Options
Assignment Options:
- Complete a dialectical journal for the book you read (see the journal at the bottom of this list). Collect 5-10 quotes and in your words, explain how those quotes helped you understand plot, setting, grapheme, conflict, or theme.
- Listen to an interview with 1 of the authors. In your own words explain how the author was inspired or how they made decisions about the book.
When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago
Concluding of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
Divergent by Veronica Roth
Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harlem Girlhood by Fatima Mernissi and Ruth Five. Ward
The Woman in White past Wilkie Collins
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
The Unnamed past Joshua Ferris
Breaking Through by Franciso Jimenez
The Shining by Stephen King
The Illuminated Woods by Edwin Fontanez
Dearest by Toni Morrison
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Map of Bones by James Rollins
The Guardians past John Grisham*
Senior Reading Options
Assignment Options:
- Complete a dialectical periodical for the book yous read (come across the periodical at the bottom of this list). Collect 5-10 quotes and in your words, explain how those quotes helped you empathise plot, setting, character, disharmonize, or theme.
- Heed to an interview with one of the authors. In your own words explain how the author was inspired or how they made decisions nearly the volume.
And So There Were None by Agatha Christie
Maisie Dobbs past Jacqueline Winspeare
Cujo past Stephen King
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
Before I Let Go by Marieke Nijkamp
Skyfaring: A Journey with a Airplane pilot by Marking Vanhoenaker
Just Mercy (Adapted for Immature Adults): A True Story of the Fight for Justice by Bryan Stevenson \
Because I Was a Daughter: True Stories for Girls of All Ages by Melissa de la Cruz
7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Covey
The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
Little & Panthera leo by Brandy Colbert
Reservation Blues by Alexie Sherman
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Decease of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
White Racket by Don Delillo
Emily Goldberg Learns to Salsa by Micol Ostow
The Power of I by Bryce Courtenay
The Reluctant Fundamentalist past Mohsin Hamid
Invisible Man past Ralph Ellison
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Host by Stephanie Meyer
Terrier past Tamora Pierce
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
A Trigger-happy and Subtle Toxicant by Samantha Mabry
Children of Men by P.D. James
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls
Walk to Beautiful: The Ability of Love and a Homeless Kid Who Found the Way by Mr. Jimmy Wayne
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
Simply Mercy by Bryan Stevenson*
Source: https://www.hps.holyoke.ma.us/2020/06/03/high-school-summer-reading-list-2020/
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