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Elementary Required Reading
Listed below are the reading requirements for all students entering K5 - 5th grades. Reporting instructions for each of the required books are on the reverse side of this listing. Have a great summer and get a head start on your reading. Pacing yourself will allow ample time for completion of the required books.
K5
The Ugly Duckling, Hans Christian Anderson
The Runaway Bunny, Margaret Wise Brown
The Velveteen Rabbit, Garth Williams
The Bremen Town Musicians, Brothers Grimm
The Story of Jumping Mouse, John Steptoe
1st grade
Stone Soup, Marcia Brown
The Story of the Statue of Liberty, Lucy Hawkinson
The Story of the Star-spangled Banner, George Wilde
2nd grade
Skylark, Patricia MacLachlan
The Friendship, Mildred Taylor
Julian, Dream Doctor, Ann Cameron
3rd grade
Sarah, Plain and Tall, Patricia MacLachlan
Little House in the Big Woods, Laura Ingalls Wilder
Mrs. Firsby and the Rats of NIMH, Robert C. O’Brien
4th grade
Charlotte's Web, E.B White
Rabbit Hill, Robert Lawson
5th grade
Old Yeller, Fred Gipson
Call It Courage, Armstrong Sperry
Reporting instructions for elementary students:
Write note cards on all required books. Any additional books will be credited towards prizes for summer reading. Follow the reporting instructions carefully:
- Create one note card for each book that you read.
- Use 5 x 8 cards (3 x 5 cards are too small and will not be accepted.)
- Write neatly in blue or black ink. You may also opt to type your cards.
On the front of each card include:
- Title (underlined or italicized if typed) and author
- Your name and the date that you finished the book
- Setting (time and place of action)
- Names of major characters
- Category (fiction or nonfiction)
On the back of the card include:
- Explain what you like most about the book.
- Explain what you like least about the book.
- State your opinion of the book:
- Would you recommend it to your friends?
- Is the subject interesting?
- Would you want to read other books by the same author?
- Explain your opinion. (Do not just answer yes or no.)
Middle School Required Reading
Listed below are the reading requirements for all students entering 6th - 8th grades. Reporting instructions for each of the required books are on the reverse side of this listing. Have a great summer and get a head start on your reading. Pacing yourself will allow ample time for completion of the required books.
6th grade
The Cay, Theodore Taylor
Let the Circle Be Unbroken, Mildred Taylor
- Read 3 additional books of your choice from the reading lists and complete cards on them, as well.
7th grade
Steal Away, Jennifer Armstrong
Homeless Bird, Gloria Whelan
- Read 3 additional books of your choice from the reading lists and complete cards on them, as well.
8th grade
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Animal Farm, George Orwell
The Moves Make the Man, Bruce Brooks
Reporting instructions for middle school students:
Write note cards on all required books. Any additional books will be credited towards prizes for summer reading. Follow the reporting instructions carefully:
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Create one note card for each book that you read.
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Use 5 x 8 cards (3 x 5 cards are too small and will not be accepted.)
-
Write neatly in blue or black ink. You may also opt to type your cards.
On the front of each card include:
- Title (underlined or italicized if typed) and author
- Your name and the date that you finished the book
- Setting (time and place of action)
- Names of major characters
- Theme
- Category (fiction or nonfiction)
- Author's point of view
On the back of the card include:
- Author's attitude toward the characters
- Write a memorable line or sentence, and chapter or page where this can be found.
- State your reason for choosing this line.
- Explain what you like most about the book.
- Explain what you like least about the book.
- State your opinion of the book:
- Would you recommend it to your friends?
- Is the subject interesting
- Would you want to read other books by the same author?
- Explain your opinion. Do not just answer yes or no.
Eighth grade note: Be prepared to write a well-defined, four-paragraph (minimum) essay: an introduction, body paragraphs, and a conclusion upon returning to school. Quotes will be expected to be incorporated to support your statements. This will be assigned during the first week of school
High School Required Reading
Listed below are the reading requirements for all students entering 9th - 12th grades. Reporting instructions for each of the required books are listed below. Have a great summer and get a head start on your reading. Pacing yourself will allow ample time for completion of the required books. Assignments are due the second week of school.
9th grade
The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury
Assignment: Keep a journal of your thoughts as you read the work. Compare what is going on in the book with what is going on in the world today.
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
Assignment: Write a 2 – 3 page paper indicating what the world would be like if there were no books to read. What would become of society? How would we read our Bibles? Do you think that there will be a time when it will actually be illegal to have free thought?
10th grade
The Iliad, Homer
or The Odyssey, Homer
Assignment: Write a 2 page character analysis of either Achilles, Hector, or Odysseus. Use examples from the book read to support your analysis. (The Latimore translation of this work is preferred.)
Read two (2) of the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Assignment: Write a two-page summary about one of the cases read.
11th grade
Read the essay “Nature” by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Assignment: Write a 1-2 page summary outlining three things you find wrong with Emerson’s views about Nature, God, and Christianity.
House, Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker
Ben-Hur, Lew Wallace
Assignment: Keep a journal of your thoughts as you read. Write a two-page summary of each book.
12th grade
Hamlet – the play
Hamlet – the movie
Assignment: Write a two-paged paper comparing and contrasting the similarities and differences between the movie and the play. Direct citations and quotes from the play must be included when using the book as a comparison.
The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis
Assignment: Write a paper on the tactics that Satan uses to cause man to fall. The use of scripture is absolutely mandatory. References from C. S. Lewis’ work must also be cited. |
