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Tips for High School Parents Lafayette Parish Libraries Carencro High • Have books, magazines, School Summer Broussard Branch comics, graphic novels, 337-837-3936 Reading Program and newspapers available 100 West Main Street 2012-2013 for your child to read. Broussard, LA 70518 • Encourage your child to read for a specified period North Regional Branch of time every day. 337- 896-6323 5101 North University Avenue • Encourage your child to Carencro, LA 70520 explore different authors, themes, and genres Butler Memorial Branch (biography, adventure, 337-234-0363 historical fiction, science Martin Luther King Center 309 Cora Street fiction, poetry, and others). Lafayette, LA 70501 The Louisiana Department of • Let your child see you Scott Branch Education encourages all read every day. 337-232-9321 students to read every day • Talk with your child about 5808 West Cameron Street during the summer. Reading is what he/she is reading. Scott, LA 70583 the biggest factor in your • Limit the amount of time child’s overall academic Chenier Branch your child spends success. Children who read 337- 291-2941 more do better in school. Our watching television and Chenier Center goal is for every student to playing video games. 220 West Willow Street, Bldg. C become a capable reader and • Create a quiet place, free Lafayette, LA 70501 South to develop a love for reading from distractions, where Parents can help their children your child may read. South Regional Branch 337- 981-1028 reach that goal by reading to • Encourage older children 6101 Johnston St. them and with them daily. If to read to younger your children are already Lafayette, LA 70503 brothers and sisters. reading, encourage them to read at least 30 minutes daily. • Encourage the use of Youngsville Branch Involve them in reading audio books. Enthusiastic 337- 856-9385 activities at the public library. readers come from Twin Oaks Plaza Help your child see that books families that support and 506 Lafayette St., Suite C are passports to the world. promote reading. Youngsville, LA 70592 Carencro High Summer Reading CARENCRO HIGH RECOMMENDED (NOT REQUIRED) READING LISTS Requirements ✓ Ninth Grade List Tenth Grade List The lists included in this 13 Reasons Why, Jay Asher (C) Aleutian Sparrow, Karen Hesse (P) brochure are recommendations A Step from Heaven, An Na (C) Beautiful Creatures, Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl (F) from teachers and students. American Born Chinese, Gene Luen Yang (G) Breathing Underwater, Alex Flinn (C) ✓Regular students are Backfield Package, Thomas Dygard (Sp) Caramelo, Sandra Cisneros (C) encouraged to choose books Bad Boy, Walter Dean Myers (B) Crank, Ellen Hopkins (C) that interest them. They may Bleachers, John Grisham (C) Game, Walter Dean Myers (C) choose to do a postcard project Danger Zone, David Klass (Sp) Gentlehands, M.E. Kerr (C) for up to two books to earn The Dark Side of Nowhere, Neil Shusterman (SF) Half Caste and Other Stories, John Agard (P) bonus points. Dreamland, Sarah Dessen (C) Hole in My Life, Jack Gantos (B) ✓Honors students must read at Eragon series, Christopher Paolini (F) House of the Scorpion, Nancy Farmer (S) least two books during the Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card (SF) If You Come Softly, Jacqueline Woodson (R) Fighting Ruben Wolfe, Markus Zusak (Sp) It’s Not about the Bike, Lance Armstrong (B) summer. They may choose Full Tilt, Neil Shusterman (S) Kaffir Boy, Mark Mathabane (B) books from this recommended Goddess of Yesterday, Caroline Cooney (HI) Maximum Ride series, James Patterson (SF/A) list or any other age- A Great and Terrible Beauty, Libba Bray (S) Maus, Art Speilgelman (G) appropriate, parent-approved High Heat, Carl Deuker (Sp) Navajo Code Talkers, Nathan Aaseng (NF) books. Honors students must House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros (C) Ophelia, a Novel, Lisa Klein (A) complete a postcard project for Howl’s Moving Castle, Diana W. Jones (F) Phoning a Dead Man, Gillian Cross (M) each selection. These projects Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins (A) Running Loose, Chris Crutcher (C) are due the first day of class and Leviathan, Scott Westerfeld (F) Shoeless Joe, W. P. Kinsella (Sp) will be part of the first six Lyddie, Katherine Patterson (HI) So Yesterday, Scott Westerfeld (M) weeks grade. Postcard project Matched, Ally Condie (C) The Help, Kathryn Stockett (C) requirements are included in Necessary Roughness, Marie Lee (SP) The Pact, Davis, Jenkins, & Hunt (NF) Rosa Parks, Douglas Brinkley (B) The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd (C) this brochure. Tiffany Aching Adventures series, Terry Practhett (F / H) Spiders in the Hairdo, David Holt (NF) A=Adventure; B=Biography; The Thief, Megan Whalen Turner (A) Who Am I without Him, Sharon Flake (SS-C) C=Contemporary; D=Drama; To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee Wintergirls, Laurie Halse Anderson (C) F=Fantasy; H=Humor; Where Are the Children?, Mary Higgins Clark (M) Wrestling Sturbridge, Rich Wallace (Sp) HI=Historical; L=Louisiana; Zel, Donna Jo Napoli (F) M=Mystery; NF=Non-Fiction; P=Poetry; R=Romance; S- Suspense; SF= Science Fiction; SP=Sports; SS=Short Stories Carencro High Summer Reading CARENCRO HIGH RECOMMENDED (NOT REQUIRED) READING LISTS Requirements ✓ Eleventh Grade List Twelfth Grade List The lists included in this A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry (D) An Abundance of Katherines, John Green (C) brochure are recommendations Animal Dreams, Barbara Kingsolver (C) Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt (B) from teachers and students. Black & White, Paul Volponi (C) Beekeeper’s Apprentice, Laurie R. King (M) ✓Regular students are Coffee Will Make You Black, April Sinclair (C) Black Hawk Down, Mark Bowden (NF) encouraged to choose books Company, Max Barry (C) Cane River, Lalita Tademy (L) that interest them. They may Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Anne Tyler (C) Discworld series, Terry Pratchett (F) choose to do a postcard project For the Love of Venice, Donna Jo Napoli (R) Double Helix, Nancy Werlin (S) for up to two books to earn Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin (HI) Dracula, Bram Stoker bonus points. Eva, Peter Dickinson (SF) Going Bovine, Libba Bray (HI) ✓Honors students must read at Hanging on to Max, Margaret Bechard (C) Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (NF) least two books during the Hate List, Jennifer Brown (C) Graceling, Kristin Cashore (F) How I Live Now, Meg Rosoff (F) Grendel, John Gardner (H) summer. They may choose Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins (F/A) The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams (SF) books from this recommended Iron Heart: The True Story of How I Came Back If Beale Street Could Talk, James Baldwin (C) list or any other age- from the Dead, Brian Boyle (B) Interstellar Pig, William Sleator (SF) appropriate, parent-approved Jubilee, Margaret Walker (HI) MaZe Runner, James Dashner (F) books. Honors students must King of the Mild Frontier, Chris Crutcher (B) Methland, Nick Reding (NF) complete a postcard project for Love in the Driest Season, Neely Tucker (C) Mortal Engines, Philip Reeve (SF) each selection. These projects Mama Day, Gloria Naylor (C) The Omnivore’s Dilemma: the Secrets Behind What You are due the first day of class and Marcelo in the Real World, Francisco Storck (C) The Other Boleyn Girl, Philipa Gregory (HI) will be part of the first six Paper Towns, John Green (C) Mare’s War, Tanita Davis (C /HI) weeks grade. Postcard project Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich (NF) Roots, The Saga of an American Family, Alex Haley (HI) requirements are included in Peeps, Scott Westerfeld (F) Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison (C) Persepolis 1 and 2, Marjane Satrapi (G) The Help, Kathryn Stockett (C) this brochure. Son of the Mob, Gordon Korman (C) The Pact, Davis, Jenkins, & Hunt (NF) The Help, Kathryn Stockett (C) The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver (R) A=Adventure; B=Biography; The Pact, Davis, Jenkins, & Hunt (NF) The Queen’s Man, Sharon K. Penman (HI) C=Contemporary; D=Drama; Waiting for June, Joyce Sweeney (C) The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, John LeCarre (S) F=Fantasy; H=Humor; When I Was a Soldier, Valerie Zenatti Twilight, Stephanie Meyer (S) HI=Historical; L=Louisiana; Wolf by the Ears, Ann Rinaldi (HI) Wait for Me, An Na (C) M=Mystery; NF=Non-Fiction; World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, Max P=Poetry; R=Romance; S- Brooks (SF) Suspense; SF= Science Fiction; SP=Sports; SS=Short Stories SUMMER READING PROJECT Make a 4x6 postcard to the author. One side of the postcard should be visual; the other side must be addressed to the author. Select ONE of these questions to inspire your postcard. • How did the setting and/or character(s) and/or conflict mirror your life or the life of someone you know? • What strengths or flaws do you share with a character or characters in the book? • As you were reading, what past experience did you remember about yourself or someone you know? Comment on the significance of the experience. On the visual side of the card, create a collage that responds to your question. Keep your materials flat- magazines, scrapbook paper, old phonebooks & receipts, photos, or anything paper will work. Or, you may want to prepare a Photoshop collage. Abstract work is fine, but remember that the visual side should respond to one of the questions about your book. Postcard Grading Rubric On the written side, divide the card in half (like a Postcard follows instructions for size and visual/text component ___/10 postcard). On the right side, write the author’s address. You can invent the address if you like – Journal states question, gives reason why question was chosen, identifies materials, Be creative! On the left side, write a short letter and explains how the visual responds to the question chosen.
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