English III Regular Summer Reading Requirements

*All summer reading projects are due by August 15, 2014. If you have English in the fall, then simply turn in your assignment to your English teacher by the due date. If you have English second semester, the summer reading assignment is due to your teacher (check your schedule or Skyward) by August 15, 2014.

Choose one work from this list to read:

Calico Joe by John Grisham Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen Delirium by Lauren Oliver Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys How Lucky You Can Be: The Story of Coach Don Meyer by Buster Olney Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope by Gabby Giffords & Mark Kelly Columbine* by Dave Cullen (*mature themes)

*If at anytime you, the student, or your parent/guardian find these novels questionable in content, theme, or language, it is your right to stop reading it and choose another novel from the list. **Plagiarism, whether it is one sentence or a whole paragraph, will result in an automatic zero.

The key to this assignment is to find a book you are interested in, have fun reading it, and complete the project for that novel. The best way to read a short summary for these books is to go to www.amazon.com and peruse that site until you find which novel best suits your interests.

You can purchase these books online, download them to an e-book reader, check them out from a local library, or purchase them from a nearby bookstore, such as: Mr. Kay’s Used Books, Books-A-Million, or Barnes and Noble.

Complete one of the following projects:

For the Artist: Draw/Sketch five scenes from the novel and describe the scene you are depicting on the back of each paper. Each scene needs to drawn on a separate piece of paper (not lined notebook paper, but plain computer paper or sketch pad paper), so at the end of your project you will have five scenes on five different sheets of paper with descriptions on the back. Take your time on this. The more effort you put into it, the better your grade will be.

For the Musician: Create an IPod Playlist/CD of at least eight songs that relate to this novel, the conflicts, the themes, and/or the characters. You must write one paragraph (at least seven strong sentences) per song choice that explains the reason that song relates to that novel. What is the meaning of that song, and how does it relate to that character, theme, or conflict?

For the Poet: Write ten poems that relate to the novel. You can put yourself in the shoes of a few of the characters and write from their viewpoints. Please be sure to include at least three sentences after each poem that tell which character’s viewpoint you are writing from and how exactly your poem relates to the novel.

For the Technology Lover: Pretend you are a director of the movie that’s coming out for the novel you read. You want to make a lot of money of this movie, so you need to have a movie trailer (preview) that makes people want to go to the theaters to see your movie. Create a movie trailer that highlights the novel’s characters, conflicts, and themes. It needs to be attention grabbing because you want a box office hit.

*If you have any questions, e-mail Ms. Phillips at [email protected]