SCHOOL NAME REQUIREMENT SUGGESTED & REQUIRED TITLES Bates, Carlton, Horace Mann, Saltonstall, Please see recommended reading lists (ALSC , MCBA, Children's Book Council, We Need Diverse Books). Witchcraft Select at least one fiction or nonfiction book that is just right for you in July, and do the same thing again in August. Then create a Goodreads account and rate your books. When you return to school, be Collins Middle prepared to discuss your books and complete a brief writing task related to your summer reading. All students must read the one read book - Line Change: A True Story of Resilience in the Face of Adversity by Matt Brown and Todd Civin. In addition, all students must select one other book, either Essex Tech High fiction or nonfiction, that was written for young adults or adults. Students entering Enligh AP courses may have additional summer reading assignments. All students must read at least 3 short stories from the school's one read book: A Thousand Beginnings and Endings: Fifteen Retellings of Asian Myths and Legends, edited by Ellen Oh. Students must then Bishop Fenwick High complete both a reading reflection parargraph on the one read book and select one of the reflection projects. In addtion, all English classes have further reading requirements. Please refer to Fenwick library's website for more information or ask at the Salem Public Library's circulation desk. Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper Grade 6: Read Waiting for Normal by Leslie Connor Paperboy by Vince Vawter and choose one other book from the list: Bystander by James Preller The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd Grade 7: Choose one of the following: Stupid Fast by Geoff Herbach Grade 8: Read The Giver by Lois Lowry and complete accompanying work. Parrot in the Oven by Victor Martinez Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson Grade 9: Choose one book from the list. Students in Honors ELA must read one book plus the required honors book, The Book Before We Were Free by Julia Alvarez Thief by Markus Zusak. Salem Academy Honors ELA: Charter School Must read The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Grade 10: Choose one of the following books. Students should take reading notes (focused on key details, themes, and The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore questions/inferences) in preparation for a multiple choice and short answer test on these ideas upon returning to school. Additionally, reading notes may be used on a required in-class writing assignment about the summer reading novel. Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson The Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell AP ELA: Grades 11 and 12: All students must read The Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. Students in AP ELA must also choose one more book The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion from the AP ELA approved reads list. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (rising seniors only) All students must select one of the following books: Grendel by John Gardner Educated by Tara Westover Becoming by Michelle Obama The Dog Stars by Peter Heller The Road by Cormac McCarthy Those Who Saved Us by Jenna Blum Salem High The Crossover by Kwame Alexander Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi The Mamba Mentality: How I Play the Game by Kobe Bryant Undocumented: A Dominican Boy's Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League by Dan-el Padilla Peralta Educated by Tara Westover Students must complete 3 assignments by specified dates: a 1-2 page argumentative essay in response to a local, national, or global Becoming by Michelle Obama Salem High event (Citizens of the World due July 31st); visiting a college or university and writing a narrative about the experience (College Visit Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom AP Language and Narrative due first day of school); and selecting a book from the following list, annotating the text, and EITHER attending the Composition The Mamba Mentality: How I Play the Game by Kobe Bryant SHS Book Club Social OR complete the assigned questions (Nonfiction Reading due September 12). Undocumented: A Dominican Boy's Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League by Dan-el Padilla Peralta Beginner/ESL 2: El Deafo by Cece Bell Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty by Cregory Neri Salem High Monster: A Graphic Novel by Walter Dean Myers and Guy A. Sims Students must select one book from their respective ESL Level: ELL Intermediate/ESL 3: Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass by Meg Medina I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sanchez The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo Salem High Students must complete 4 assigments by specified dates: Create at least 5 blog posts responding to readings, videos, and current events all relating to European history (due August 31st); Read the required AP European reading of A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage, answer the questions, and write a book review (due first day of class); Label the provided maps of Europe (due first day of class); and History read, annotate, and answer questions regarding the Sherman textbook packet (due first day of class). Salem High Students must read A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn and complete the accompanying packet. AP US History Read one of the following books and complete a written assignment by August 31st: The Social Animal (10th ed.) by E. Aronson If a Lion Could Talk: Animal Intelligence and the Evolution of Consciousness by S. Budiansky On Being Certain. Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not by R. Burton The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us by C. Chabris and D. Simons Addiction: Why Can't They Just Stop? by S. J. Cheever, S. Froemke, and S. Nevins Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (5th ed.) by R. B. Cialdini Think Like a Freak by S. Dubner and S. Leavitt The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing by Merve Erme Salem High Blink by M. Gladwell AP Psychology An Unquiet Mind by K. R. Jamison Music, the Brain and Ecstasy: How Music Captures Our Imagination by R. Jourdan Rethinking Violence and Aggression in Sport by J. H. Kerr The Seven Sins of Memory How the Mind Forgets and Remembers by D. L. Schacter Entwined Lives: Twins and What They Tell Us About Human Behavior by N. L. Segal Learned Optimism by M. E. P. Seligman A History of Psychiatry from the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac by E. Shorter Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me) by C. Travis and E. Aronson The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil by P. G. Zimbardo Salem High AP US Students must read the required book Hardball: How Politics Is Played, Told by One Who Knows the Game by Chris Matthews and then complete a writing assignment. Government and Politics.