Summer is a time for relaxation and reading! In the Middle School we have both required and recommended reading.
Reading Requirements:
Read a MINIMUM of three (3) books grades 7 and 8, (2) for grade 6.
ALL MIDDLE SCHOOL BOOK:
All students in the Middle School should read The Revealers by Doug Wilhelm.
ENTERING 6th GRADE
Chitra Banerjeee Divakaruni – The Conch Bearer
ENTERING 7th GRADE
Christopher Paul Curtis – The Watson’s Go to Birmingham - 1963
Ray Bradbury– The Martian Chronicles
ENTERING 8TH GRADE
S.E. Hinton – The Outsiders
John Howard Griffin – Black Like Me
Reading Recommendations:
We urge you to choose 2-3 other books from the recommended CLA summer reading list. The CLA summer reading list provides many choices of books selected by independent school librarians. Choose carefully and give yourself the opportunity to continue the valuable activity of reading during the summer months.
2007 SPECIFIC READING ASSIGNMENTS FOR UPPER SCHOOL STUDENTS
Summer reading is required of all students. Each student must read a minimum of three books outlined below. We urge you to read at least two other books during the summer. We recommend that you use the CLA summer reading list to find books that interest you. The CLA summer reading list offers books selected by independent school librarians and provides you with plenty of choice.
The required reading for each grade level has been chosen either to form the basis of a course or to supplement it. YOU MUST READ THE BOOKS ASSIGNED FOR YOUR GRADE.
ENTERING GRADE 9
Potok, Chaim - The Chosen (ALL STUDENTS)
Esquivel, Laura - Like Water for Chocolate (English)
Brown, Dan - The DaVinci Code (History)
ENTERING GRADE 10
Putnam, Robert D. - Better Together: Restoring the American Community (ALL STUDENTS)
Cather, Willa - My Antonia (English)
Brokaw, Tom - The Greatest Generation (History)
ENTERING GRADE 11
Card, Orson Scott - Ender's Game (ALL STUDENTS)
Welty, Eudora - One Writer's Beginnings (English)
Rodriguez, Luis J. - Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A. (English)
Orwell, George - 1984 (History)
ENTERING GRADE 12
Quinn, Daniel - Ishmael (ALL STUDENTS)
For students taking the Fall elective, Shakespeare's Comedies
Shakespeare, William - A Midsummers Night's Dream
For students taking the Fall elective, Personal History: Memoir and Autobiography
Frey, James - A Million Little Pieces
For students taking the Fall elective, Harlem Renaissance
Hughes, Langston - The Big Sea
For students taking the Winter elective, Poetry Writing
Rilke, Rainer Maria - Letters to a Young Poet
For students taking the Winter elective, African American Literature
Naylor, Gloria - Linden Hills
For students taking the Winter elective, Around the World
See, Lisa - Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
