Suggested

SUMMER READING LIST

For Entering Grade 9 – 12 Students

Follow-up Activities for Students

June 2003

11^th Grade Reading List

Fiction

Adams, Douglas The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Agee, James A Death in the Family

Angelou, Maya the Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou

Arnold, Adoff, ed. I Am the Darker Brother: An Anthology of Modern Poems by African Americans

Atwood, Margeret The Handmaid’s Tale

Auel, Jean The Clan of the Cave Bear

Austen, Jane Pride and Prejudice

Baldwin, James Jimmy’s Blues: Selected Poems

Banks, Russell The Sweet Hereafter

Bellow, Saul Seize the Day

Berg, Elizabeth Talk Before Sleep

Camus, Albert The Stranger

Chopin, Kate The Awakening

Duffy, Carol Ann, ed. I Wouldn’t Thank You for a Valentine: Poems for Young Feminists

Ellison, Ralph Invisible Man

Gaines, Ernest A Gathering of Old Men

Giovanni, Nikki, ed. Grandmothers: Poems, Reminiscences, and Short Stories about the Keepers of Our Traditions

Hamilton, Jane A Map of the World

Hurston, Zora Neal Their Eyes Were Watching God

Irving, John The World According to Garp

Jackson, Shirley The Haunting of Hill House

Kincaid, Jamaica Lucy

Kingslover, Barbara The Beantrees

Lahaye, Tim F. Tribulation Force: The Continuing Drama of Those Left Behind

Lamb, Wally I Know This Much is True

Morrison, Toni Song of Solomon

Mowry, Jess Six Out Seven

Myers, Walter Dean Fallen Angels

Nye, Naomi Shahib, ed. I Feel a Little Jumpy Around You: A Book of Her & His Poems Collected in Pairs

O’Brien, Tim The Things They Carried

Paton, Alan Cry, The Beloved Country

Rosenberg, Liz, ed. Earth-Shattering Poems

Shaara, Michael The Killer Angels

Tan, Amy The Kitchen God’s Wife

Tyler, Anne Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

11^th Grade Reading List

Nonfiction

Barrett, Paul M. The Good Black: A True Story of Race in America

Berman, Bob Secrets of the night Sky: The Most Amazing Things in the Universe You Can See with the Naked Eye

Carroll, Rebecca Sugar in the Raw: Voices of Young Black Girls in America

Century, Douglas Street Kingdom: Five Years Inside of Franklin Avenue Posse

Chaikin, Andrew A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts

Clawson, Calvin C. The Mathematical Traveler: Exploring the Grand History of Numbers

Cutting, Linda Katherine Memory Slips: A Memoir of Music and Healing

Dog, Mary Crow Lakota Woman

Fisher, David E. The Scariest Place on Earth: Eye to Eye with Hurricanes

Ghosh, Amitav In an Unique Land

Gulberg, Jan Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers

Hall, Bruce Edward Tea that Burns: A Family Memoir of Chinatown

Hancock, Graham Fingerprints of the Gods

Jacobs, Harold R. Mathematics, A Human Endeavor: A Book for Those Who Think They Don’t Like the Subject

Junger, Sebastien The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea

Kaku, Michio Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps and the Tenth Dimension

Kaplan, Robert D. Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History

Karr, Mary The Liar’s Club: A Memoir

Khanga, Yelena Soul to Soul: A Black Russian American Family, 1865 - 1992

Kotlowitz, Alex There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in Urban America

Krakauer, Jon Into the Wild

Laskin, David Braving the Elements: The Stormy History of American Weather

Latifah, Queen Ladies First: Revelations of a Strong Woman

Levy, Matthys Why the Earth Quakes

Loewen, James W. Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

Logan, Pamela Among Warriors: A Woman Martial Artist in Tibet

Makeba, Miriam Makeba: My Story

Mammana, Dennis Other Suns, Other Worlds?: The Search for Extra Solar Planetary Systems

Maples, William R. Dead Men Do Tell Tales: The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist

Millner, Denene What Brothers Think, What Sistahs Know: The Real Deal on Love and Relationships

Most, Doug Always in Our Hearts: The Story of Amy Grossberg, Brian Peterson and the Baby They Didn’t Want

O’Hanlon, Redmond Into the Heart of Borneo

Paulos, John Allen A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper

Reisner, Mark Cadillac Desert: The American West and It’s Disappearing Water

Salzman, Mark Iron and Silk

Spindel, Carol In the Shadow of the Sacred Grove

Suskind, Ron A Hope in the Unseen: A American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League

Thorne, Kip S. Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein’s Outrageous Legacy

Suggested Activities for Students

Standard	Activity
E2b	1. Write a letter to the author of the book you read explaining how you felt about it and discussing an issue of importance.
E2b	2. Write a letter from one character to another. Discuss the events of the story.
E2d	3. Create a storyboard for the book. Write a narrative procedure describing the storyboard.
E2b	4. You are a movie director looking for new movie scripts. Evaluate whether the book you have read would make a good film. Describe the audience. Which scenes would be interesting for a move? Decide whether the dialogue should be true to the text or should be rewritten.
E2b	5. Write a letter to another student in a different class describing your book. Convince him or her to read the book.
E1b	6. Write a comparison of two or more books by the same author. Discuss similarities, themes, differences, which book you preferred and why.
E2b	7. Discuss the themes presented in the book you read.
E5a	8. Create a poem or song illustrating the book.
Eb5b	9. Write a biography of one of the characters. Describe events and the character’s reactions and thoughts
	10. Did the book you read make you want to know more about a place, time period or person? Research and report on this subject of interest.
E5b	11. Did the author use an interesting and different writing technique in the book? Write an original short story mimicking (copying) this technique.
E2f	12. Has the book you read influenced your thinking? Compare your ideas before and after reading.

Campus Magnet High Schools Students’ Literature Log Name__________________________ English Teacher __________________________ Grade 9 10 11 12 Fall__ Spring __
Title Author Genre (novel, short story, poem, speech, essay, etc.) Description (suspense, tragedy, romance, science, fiction, historic, etc.) Examples of Literacy Techniques, Descriptive and Figurative Language	Setting (Time & Place) Plot Summary	Themes Conflicts	Protagonists’ (Main Characters) Names & Descriptions Other Characters: names, relationships, descriptions	Related Works (Title, Author, Genre) & How Related 1. 2. 3.

LITERATURE LOG, continued: Title & Author: ________________________________ Your Name__________________

COMMENTS:

Answer the questions completely, thoughtfully, and in accepted English structure in the space below. Add another page if necessary

1. In what way did this book connect to things you’ve known, experienced, or thought about in your own life?

2. What movies, television shows, plays or songs did this book remind you of, and why?

3. What did you especially like or dislike about the book (regarding the plot, the style or tone, or other elements)? Why?

4. Which character did you admire or like the most? Why? Which did you like the least? Why?

5. If you could talk to the author about the story itself or how it affected you, what would you say?

6. If you could talk to just one of the characters, to ask questions, make observations or suggestions, what would you say?