May 10, 2006

 

Dear ISA Freshman, Sophomore, or Junior,

We at ISA are continually encouraging students to read, as reading is the one single skill that will help you to do well in many subjects.  Wide reading improves your vocabulary and test taking skills and prepares you for college and career.  You have read many kinds of books during this school

year, and we want to you continue reading during the summer.

Your assignment for the summer is to read two books:

1. First is a book of your choice, at least 200 pages long.
2. Second book is to be selected from the list below. 
3. You will be assessed on the two books and the grades for them will be an important part of your first six weeks’ grade.
4. If you are going to be enrolled in AP English, you must read A Tale of Two Cities and

      another book from the 12^th grade list.

Please select your books according to the grade you will be in during the 2006-2007 school year.

If you are going to be in the 10^th grade:         Cantora (Lopez-Medina)

                              Sister of My Heart (Divakaruni)

                                                                        Lesson Before Dying (Gaines)

                                                                        Parrot in the Oven  (Martinez)

                                                                        How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent  (Alvarez)

If you are going to be in the 11^th grade:         Black Boy  (Wright)

                                                                        One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest  (Kesey)

                                                                        Bean Trees  (Kingsolver)

                                                                        Bone  (Ng)

                                                                        Way Past Cool (Mowry)

If you are going to be in the 12^th grade:         A Tale of Two Cities  (Dickens)

                                                                        Zorba the Greek  (Kazantzakis)

                                                                        One Hundred Years of Solitude  (Marquez)

                                                                        Frankenstein  (Shelley)

                                                                        The Awakening  (Chopin)

 

Please sign the tear off portion below and return it to your English teacher.

 

                                                                                    Sincerely,

 

                                                                                    Ms. Nancy Evangelho

 

                                                                                    Ms. Ann Lew, English Department Chair

 

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I have read the ISA requirements for summer reading and understand that I am to read at least two books and take tests on them in the fall.

                                         

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