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Dear Windham High School Students
and Families,
As we continue to
expand our school-wide literacy plan, we are focusing on our Summer
Reading Program in conjunction with the Governor’s Summer Reading
Challenge. The list of titles should provide all students with
opportunities to read for pleasure and enrichment over the summer.
We encourage students to read as often as they can during the summer
months.
We have
an additional challenge this year. Thanks to the Windham PTO, we
have a title that will be our Community Read. We are asking our
high school students to please read Iguana Manana,
by Ann Whitford Paul and Ethan Long,
to a sibling, young friend or family member. Please help us
encourage our younger community members to read over the summer.
Any
books read, including book titles read for summer reading, will be
recorded and submitted to the Connecticut State Department of
Education as part of the Governor’s Summer Reading Challenge.
Students can use the journal handed out at school or the on-line
reading log to participate in the challenge. A student who reads 3
or more books and brings a journal or reading log signed by parent
or guardian to school in September will receive a coupon for ice
cream. The three students who read the most books will each receive
a gift certificate from Waldenbooks. Our goal, as always, is to
encourage and maintain active reading for pleasure, enrichment,
information and lifelong learning.
Titles can be found at
Borders in the Eastbrook Mall. There is a 10% coupon provided that
can be used during June and in August. Books will also be available
at the Willimantic Public Library and Saxton B. Little Free Public
Library. We encourage parents/guardians to assist students in
selecting and obtaining books that are both comfortable to read and
interesting to them.
We
recommend that each student read at least 2 books during the
vacation. Students will be required to draw upon what they have
read in one of the books on a graded writing exercise in English
class when school resumes.
Enjoy your summer reading!
Estimados estudiantes de
la Windham High School y sus familias,
A medida que cointinứa
la expansión de nuestro plan de instrucción para toda la escuela,
estamous poniendo atención a nuestro Programa de Lectura de Verano
en conjunto con el Reto de la Lectura de Verano de la Gobernadora.
La lista de los títulos le debe proveer a todos los estudiantes las
oportunidades para leer por placer y enriquecimiento durante el
verano. Instamos a los estudiantes a leer tanto como puedan durante
los meses del verano.
Cualquier libro leído, incluyendo los títulos de aquellos libros
para la lectura de verano, serán anotados y sometidos al
Departamento de Educación del Estado como parte del Reto de Lectura
de Verano de la Gobernadora. Los estudiantes pueden usar el diario
que se le proveyó en la escuela o el registro de lectura en el
Internet para participar en el reto. Un estudiante que lea 3 libros
o más y traiga un diario o lista de lecturas a la escuela en
septiembre, firmado por el padre o encargado, recibirá un cupón para
helad. Aquellos tres estudiantes que lean más libros recibirán un
certificado de regalo de Waldenbooks. Nuestra meta, como siempre,
es instar y mantener una lectura activa para el placer, el
enriquecimiento, la información y el aprendizaje por toda la vida.
Los títulos se encuentran en Borders en el Eastbrook Mall. Hay un
cupón de 10% el cual puede ser usado durante junio y en agosto.
También habrá libros disponibles en la Biblioteca Pública de
Willimantic y en la Biblioteca Saxton B. Little en Columbia.
Instamos a los padres-encargados a ayudar a los estudiantes a
seleccionar y obtener aquellos libros que sean fáciles para leer e
interesantes para éstos.
Recomendamos que cada estudiante lea por lo menos 2 libros durante
las vacaciones. Es un requisito que los estudiantes usen lo leído
en uno de esos libros para llevar a cabo un ejercicio de escritura
calificado en una clase de inglés, al regreso a las clases.
¡Disfruten
de su lectura de verano!
Take Your Pick!!!
Fiction
Poetry
Historical
Fiction
Science Fiction/Thriller/Fantasy
Non-fiction
Fiction
Iguana Manana,
by Ann Whitford and
Ethan Long. This year’s PTO Community Read. Support community
literacy and read this book to a younger member in your family.
This lively tale starring an industrious iguana and her fun-loving
but lazy friends does the Little Red Hen with a Latin beat
and a positive spin.
Life Is So Good,
by
George Dawson and Richard Glaubman.
One Book, One Region Selection for 2008.
Dawson, a black manual laborer who learned to read at age 98, has
written a memoir that stands apart from other end-of-the-century
texts and from the history generally recorded in textbooks--but is
essential to an accurate understanding of this century. The product
of collaboration between Dawson and high school history teacher
Glaubman, the book juxtaposes significant events of the century with
Dawson's personal experiences.
The
White Darkness,
by
Geraldine McCaughrean. 2008 Michael L. Printz Award.
Fourteen-year-old Symone's exciting vacation to Antarctica turns
into a desperate struggle for survival when her uncle's obsessive
quest leads them across the frozen wilderness into danger.
Love in
the Time of Cholera,
by
Gabriel García Márquez,
Edith Grossman
(Translator),
Edith Grossman
(Translator).
While
delivering a message to her father, Florentino Ariza spots Fermina
Daza and immediately falls in love. What follows is the story of a
passion that extends over 50 years, as Fermina is courted solely by
letter, decisively rejects her suitor when he first speaks, and then
joins the urbane Dr. Juvenal Urbino, much above her station, in a
marriage initially loveless but ultimately remarkable in its
strength. Also available in Spanish,
El amor en los tiempos del cólera (Love in the Time of Cholera)
by
Gabriel García Márquez.
November Blues,
by
Sharon M. Draper.
When November Nelson loses her boyfriend, Josh, to a pledge stunt
gone horribly wrong, she thinks her life can't possibly get any
worse. But Josh left something behind that will change November's
life forever, and now she's faced with the biggest decision she
could ever imagine. How in the world will she tell her mom and how
will Josh's parents take the news? She's never needed a friend more.
Change of Heart,
by
Jodi Picoult.
Picoult's story tackles a triple-whammy of hot-button issues--the
death penalty, bioethics, and religious freedom. Shay, a condemned
inmate wishes to donate his heart to the sister of his murder victim
after he is executed. A mesmerizing page-turner, Change of Heart
examines the topic of religious dogma against the plight of a
child's struggle with life and death.
Knife Edge,
by
Malorie Blackman.
In this sequel to Naughts and Crosses, Persephone Hadley, now
an 18-year-old single parent, is raising her biracial daughter in a
sharply divided alternate England, where black Crosses suppress the
white Naughts. She faces pressure from both her
less-than-understanding Cross family and her disintegrating Naught
family, and everyone in between. When her brother-in-law's violent
behavior leads to murder, Sephy provides a false alibi to save Jude,
but doing so irreparably damages other lives.
Imani
All Mine,
by
Connie Rose Porter.
Imani's name means "faith," and her mother, Tasha, is a 15-year-old
African-American high school honors student. Tasha's mother is
emotionally distant and the teen resolutely turns away from the
attempts of other well-meaning adults to help her.
Under the Same
Sky,
by
Cynthia DeFelice.
Joe Pedersen, 14, begrudgingly joins the migrant workers on his
father's upstate New York farm to earn the $1000 he needs to buy a
Thunderbird motorbike. When immigration officials suddenly arrive at
the farm, Joe discovers the fragile status of three workers who
carry false papers in a desperate attempt to support their families
back in Mexico.
One
Whole and Perfect Day,
by Judith Clarke. 2008 Michael L. Printz Honor Book.
Lily feels both love for and embarrassment about her eccentric
family: a grandmother with an imaginary friend, an ax-brandishing
grandfather, a mother who brings home patients from the elder-care
facility where she works, and an estranged older brother, Lonnie,
who still can't seem to get his life together.
River Secrets,
by
Shannon Hale.
Enna and Isi's friend Razo is small and bullied; he has always
considered himself pretty useless, so he is thrilled to be chosen as
one of a hundred Bayern soldiers accompanying an ambassador on a
peacekeeping mission to the Tiran capital.
Secrets in the Shadows (Bluford
Series),
by
Anne Schraff
and
Paul Langan.
Roylin Bailey is living a nightmare--and it's
his fault. It started when the new student, Korie Archer, arrived in
his history class.
How to
Ruin My Teenage Life,
by
Simone Elkeles.
In this sequel to How to Ruin a Summer Vacation, everything
in sixteen-year-old Amy Nelson Barak's life is going wrong! Her mom
got married and moved to the suburbs, and now they are going to have
a baby. Amy moves in with her dad in Chicago and signs him up for an
online dating service.
Game,
by
Walter Dean Myers.
Drew Lawson knows basketball is taking him places. It has to,
because his grades certainly aren't. But lately his plan has run
squarely into a pick. Coach's new offense has made another player a
star, and Drew won't let anyone disrespect his game. Just as his
team makes the playoffs, Drew must come up with something big to
save his fading college prospects. It's all up to Drew to find out
just how deep his game really is.
Re-Gifters,
by Mike
Carey.
Korean American teenager Dixie and her best friend, Avril, practice
Hapkido, a martial art. There is a big Hapkido tournament coming up
in their South Central Los Angeles neighborhood, but Dixie, who has
a fiery disposition, loses her focus when she develops a crush on
another teen Hapkido artist, Adam.
Poetry
Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath.
2008
Michael L. Printz Honor Book.
Red Hot Salsa: Bilingual Poems
on Being Young and Latino in the United States,
by Lori Marie Carlson.
Latino poets tell us, in English and in Spanish, who they are and
what their hopes are for the future.
Maya Angelou:
A Glorious Celebration,
by
Marcia Ann Gillespie,
Richard A. Long,
Rosa Johnson,
Rosa Johnson Butler,
Oprah Winfrey.
Beautifully designed and featuring over 150
sepia portraits, family photographs, and letters from the life of
one of the world’s most beloved and admired artists, this moving
biography will appeal to all fans of the poet laureate.
Poems from Homeroom: a Writer's Place to Start,
by Kathi Appelt.
A collection of poems for young adult readers, accompanied by
fascinating accounts of how and why the poems came to be, along with
writing exercises to inspire readers to create their own poetry.
A Fire in My Hands: Poems,
by Gary
Soto.
These poems depict Latino characters, but readers of all ethnicities
will appreciate their honesty and familiar themes.
Historical Fiction
Good
Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village,
by
Laura Amy Schlitz.
2008
Newbery Medal Winner.
Using a series of interconnected monologues and dialogues featuring
young people living in and around an English manor in 1255, Schlitz
offers first-person character sketches that build upon each other to
create a finer understanding of medieval life.
Elijah of Buxton,
by
Christopher Paul Curtis.
Newbery Honor Book.
Eleven-year-old
Elijah is the first child born into freedom in Buxton, Canada, a
settlement of runaway slaves just over the border from Detroit. He’s
best known in his hometown as the boy who made a memorable
impression on Frederick Douglass. But things change when a former
slave steals money from Elijah’s friend, who has been saving to buy
his family out of captivity in the South.
Sunrise Over Fallujah,
by
Walter Dean Myers.
Robin's parents aspire for him to go to college, but following
September 11, he feels compelled to join the Army instead. By early
2003, Robin has completed Basic Training and is deployed to Iraq
where he becomes part of a Civil Affairs Unit charged with building
the trust of the Iraqi people to minimize fighting. Civil Affairs
soldiers are often put into deadly situations to test the waters,
and Robin finds that the people in his unit, who nickname him "Birdy,"
are the only ones he can trust. Robin quickly learns that the
situation in Iraq will not be resolved easily and that much of what
is happening there will never make the news.
47,
by Walter Mosley.
The life of a young slave named 47 seems doomed until he meets a
mysterious runaway slave and finds himself swept up in a struggle
for his own liberation.
Vampire High,
by
Douglas Rees.
When Cody Elliot's parents receive his less-than-stellar report
card, they decide it's time for a change. His options are Our Lady
of Perpetual Homework and Vlad Dracul Magnet School, so the choice,
for Cody, is obvious. After his interview with the headmaster at
Vlad and meeting Charon, the school's yellow-eyed wolf, Cody knows
there is something decidedly different about this place.
Breaking Dawn
(The Twilight Saga, Book 4),
by
Stephenie Meyer.
This title will be released on August 2, 2008.
Breaking Dawn,
the final book in the #1 bestselling Twilight Saga, will take your
breath away.
Repossessed,
by A.M. Jenkins.
2008
Michael L. Printz Honor Book.
First, meet Shaun, age 17. He is about to take a step in the wrong
direction - into the path of an oncoming truck. Next, meet Kiriel, a
minor demon in search of a short break from the fires of hell. Put
the two together, and you get a whole different view of daily life.
Dreamquake: Book Two of the Dreamhunter Duet,
by
Elizabeth Knox. 2008 Michael L. Printz Honor Book.
Dreamhunter Laura Hame has just inflicted the sleeping patrons at
the Rainbow Opera dream palace with a nightmare that blows a
government conspiracy wide open.
Road of
the Dead,
by
Kevin Brooks.
Fourteen-year-old Ruben Ford is sitting in his father's junkyard
when he knows--knows--that his older sister, Rachel, has been raped
and murdered. Perhaps it is his Gypsy blood that gives him second
sight; Ruben can see and feel things others can't.
Rebel Angels,
by Libba Bray.
In this sequel to the Victorian fantasy
A Great and Terrible Beauty,
Gemma continues to pursue her
role as the one destined to bind the magic of the Realms and restore
it to the Order--a mysterious group who have been overthrown by a
rebellion.
Non-fiction
Andy Warhol: Prince of Pop,
by Jan Greenberg.
Charting the artist's rise, the authors deliver an absorbing tale --
one in which the American dream of fame and fortune is played out in
all of its success and its excess.
AFC North,
by James Buckley.
This book provides a brief history of all four of the AFC North
teams. Additional books in this series include all of the AFC and
NFC pro football divisions.
Persepolis:
The Story of a Childhood,
by
Marjane Satrapi.
In
powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story
of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the
overthrow of the Shah's regime, the triumph of the Islamic
Revolution, and the devastating effects of war with Iraq.
Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the
Civil Rights Movement,
by Ann Bausum.
Two Nashvillians--one white and one black--meet as Freedom Riders
during the Civil Rights Movement.
Getting Away with Murder: the True Story of the Emmett Till Case,
by
Chris Crowe.
Presents a true account of the 1955 Mississippi murder of
fourteen-year-old Emmett Till.
Harlem Stomp! A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance,
by
Laban Carrick Hill.
In Harlem, New York the dawn of the twentieth century was a time of
intellectual, artistic, literary, and political blossoming.
Sigmund Freud: Pioneer of the Mind,
by
Catherine Reef.
Reef explains Freud's groundbreaking theories and methods and shows
how Freudian thought has affected our culture, changing the way we
think about everything from art and literature to raising our
children.
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