LEGEND HS REQUIRED SUMMER 2015 READING ASSIGNMENT
Dear Students and Parents*,
All students must read one young adult or adult book of their choice over the summer. While most students will choose
to read a novel, biographies, autobiographies, memoirs and histories are also an option. What’s most important is that students pick a
book of high interest that they read cover to cover and are eager to talk about when they return to school. The lists and links on the back
provide resources to help students in their book choice. The Parker Library and its teen librarians are another great resource. Of course,
we encourage students to read more than one book this summer! Summer reading will be the focus in English classes for at least the
first two weeks of school. It will be a vehicle for reviewing elements of literature as well as reading, writing, and speaking assessments.
Some teachers may include a creative project that allows students to celebrate and share their summer reading in unique ways.
Why summer reading?
The stakes for children who do not read over summer vacation are high. Substantial research on this topic shows that it's usually the
students who can least afford to lose ground as readers who are most likely to suffer from summer reading loss and fall far behind their
peers. The few months of loss in reading skills compounds over the years; by the time children reach middle school, those who haven't
read during the summers may have lost as much as two years worth of achievement, and it continues to compound through high school.
The National Endowment of the Arts’ 2007 report, “To Read or Not to Read: A Question of National Importance,” summarizes the
importance of continuously reading: “As Americans, especially younger Americans, read less, they read less well. Because they read
less well, they have lower levels of academic achievement.
Why choice?
This year’s complete choice in summer reading is a departure from previous years’ assignment. Research motivated this change.
Stephen Krashen’s The Power of Reading (Libraries Unlimited, 1993) affirmed that free, voluntary reading yielded benefits including
better spelling, writing style, and grammatical development. Reading for pleasure improves stress levels and test scores, and self-choice
improves a student’s motivation to read.
How can parents participate in their student’s book choice?
Books at the young adult and adult level may contain mature content and language. We leave it up to students and their parents to
determine what is appropriate to read. We encourage parents to be involved in their child’s selection of his/her summer reading book.
Parents, share titles you’ve enjoyed and take a trip with your child to the public library (or use OverDrive to check out eBooks–see a
librarian for help!) or to a bookstore. Attend the LHS Book Fair at Southlands Barnes & Noble May 26 from 4-8 p.m. (Online
Book Fair # is 11618691). Research shows that availability of books is a major motivating factor in getting teens to read. To foster
valuable discussion, parents can read the selected book too. On the first day of school, students will receive a reading selection form
that both they and their parents must sign and return.
What is the Library Summer Reading Program?
For those students who want to challenge themselves beyond the required summer reading assignment, we encourage them to
participate in the Legend Library Summer Reading Program. The program challenges students to read a lot and to blog about their
reading. Prizes are awarded in August. For more information, see the LHS library website.
*To students of non-honors/non-AP classes and their parents. Honors/AP students have a different summer reading
assignment. Please see your teacher or the main Legend website.
Come to our book fair at Barnes and Noble Southlands Tuesday,
May 26th from 4:00-8:00 pm
Your summer books will be available for purchase. You can also order them online or get one at a local library. We will have
other books for next year’s English classes available for purchase as well.
A portion of all proceeds goes back to Legend High School!
Freshman Honors English I Summer Reading Project
Lord of the Flies
Welcome to Honors English I at Legend High
School! For this year’s summer reading project, you
will read William Golding’s award-winning novel
Lord of the Flies. As you read this compelling book,
you will find that it is about much more than the
plight of young choirboys stranded on an island . . . it
goes far beyond that. The symbolism that Golding
incorporates into this novel is phenomenal!
Now, it is time to share your knowledge and
thoughts on this literary masterpiece.
William Golding
In-text Citation:
If the author’s name is not in your sentence, put
the last name in parentheses, leave a space with no
punctuation, and then indicate the page number.
Golding’s use of foreshadowing leaks out
from page to page. For example, when
Piggy’s glasses become “damaged,” he
“cleans the remaining lens” but the vision of
the future becomes clouded (Golding 101).
Project Specifications:
How will this be graded?
You will create a one to two-page newspaper
containing the following labeled sections:
Your newspaper will be worth a total of 100
points. Each section is worth the following:
* Newspaper Header (Name your newspaper
so it fits the assignment—be creative.)
- newspaper name, your name, due date
* Lead Story (Summary of the book with
related picture.) One to two summary
paragraphs in your own words. Write with
clever word choice and use in-text citations.
Plagiarism will not be tolerated!
* Editorial (Your thoughts on what happened to the
boys.) One to two paragraphs; don’t use
personal pronouns like “I” or “me” or “my.”
* Where Are They Now (Give us information about
William Golding . . . highpoints in his life)
One paragraph.
Plagiarism will not be tolerated!
* Faces in the Crowd (Paragraphs
highlighting two characters)
One paragraph for each character
with vivid descriptions. Please use
in-text citations (quoted lines)
to support this.
* Newspaper Header (10 points)
* Lead Story (20 points)
* Editorial (20 points)
* Where Are They Now (10 points)
* Faces in the Crowd (20 points=10/character)
* Presentation (20 points)
Make sure to label each section of your newspaper clearly
with the headings listed!
Break your newspaper into columns, label each
section, and make it pleasing to the eye. Please quote the
book for specific examples if you can to demonstrate intext citations.
If you don’t know what your project should look like,
please view The Denver Post for ideas, see the attached
student example, or look online for help. Good luck!
When will this be due?
Your one to two page newspaper (on 8 ½ X 11” paper)
will be due on your first full day of school at Legend—not
the freshman orientation day. Failure to have this project
completed may jeopardize your opportunity to remain in
Honors English I.
Come to our book fair at Barnes and Noble (Southlands)Tuesday,
May 26th from 4:00-8:00 pm
Your summer books will be available for purchase. You can also order them online or get one at a local library. We will have
other books for next year’s English classes available for purchase as well: Of Mice and Men, To Kill a Mockingbird, and The
Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet.
Here is an example from a previous year where we read Eli Wiesel’s Night.
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at another camp. There his father fell very ill
for weeks and weeks. One day Elie woke up
and his father was gone. On April 10, 1945
he was rescued by an underground
resistance. Elie and thousands of others were
finally free.
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Featuring: Night by Elie Wiesel with
his Holocaust narrative.
Follow Elie through
his journey of
surviving the
Holocaust.
NIGHT BY ELIE WIESEL
THIS HOLOCAUST NARRATIVE KEEPS THE
reader on the edge of their seat the entire time
of the story. When war came to Elie’s town,
Sighet, all the foreign Jews were taken away,
“Crammed into cattle cars by the Hungarian
police, they cried silently. Standing on the
station platform, we too were crying” (Wiesel
6). It was 1944 when the German police came
for the rest of the Jews. All the Jews were put
into Ghettos where they were to live and not
leave. There were two in Sighet, where Elie
lived. Then came their first transportation to a
camp, “... we are being taken somewhere in
Hungary to work in the brick factories. It seems
that here, we are too close to the
front...” (Wiesel 14). They too were locked into
cattle cars where people were dying left and
right from starvation and exhaustion until they
reached Auschwitz. Women went to the right
while men to the left. It was then when Elie last
saw his mother and sisters. However, he still
had his father and would for a very long time.
It was then death stared him right in the face. It
was then the torture began. They were given
daily rations of food, it was not enough to
support the body though (bread, soup, and
coffee). Near the end the Nazis had everyone in
camp run in the excruciating cold snow. They
ran and ran until they stopped.. continued on page 2.
Where is he now?
Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel, born in 1928, is now 85 years old. He is married
to his wife, Marion Wiesel. Marion actually helps translates his
books. He and his wife created a foundation call the Elie Wiesel
Foundation for Humanity. This was created to help fight against
indifference as well as injustice and intolerance. He also taught
humanities at Boston University. Elie Wiesel has written over 42
books which includes some of the following; Dawn, Souls on Fire,
and The Forgotten. Elie has also won various awards. Including the
Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Nobel Peace Prize in
1986.
To the left shows what type of conditions
the Jews were forced to live in. People
were stuffed into the bunks with barely
any room to move. This made the perfect
breading ground for disease and sickness.
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Adolf Hitler tortured innocent people
during the Holocaust showing no mercy to
the Jewish and no soul. The Jewish are the
same race as he was, the human race. The
only difference was their beliefs. Almost
everyone takes life for granite, food for
granite, clothes for granite, family for
granite. Except for people like Elie and
others who have survived something like the
Holocaust. That is until they experience
starvation, what it means to be dying of
thirst and hunger. Or what it means to be
tortured just because some one dislikes you
or hates you for what you believe in. Is it
really that bad to believe something else than
the person right next to you?
Hitler created walking skeletons of
people. He tore apart families beneath the
seams. He convinced soldiers to ruthlessly
murder the innocent by thousands. Not one
person even Hitler himself should have been
tortured like that. Staring Death in the face
as one stands in front of a flaming pit
watching, as your family and others are
burning alive. Screaming at the top of their
lungs for God to save them, for some one to
help. Or have a child taken from you, thrown
up in the air and shot down like a target.
Right...In...Front...Of...You...That is baffling
that someone would do that. It shows no
respect at all...Respect. Respect is what
everyone needs to learn. Not just respect for
your elders but respect your peers. What that
does is create a nice society. People should be
nice to the other person even if people don’t
like that other person. The Holocaust is an
eye opener to how to treat peers and respect.
The complete opposite of what actually
happened. Learn to respect.
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2
Faces in the Crowd
In the beginning of the book, Elie
focused on a man who went by the name of
Moishe (Moishe the Beadle). He was a
foreign Jew who lived on the streets. After a
while Moishe and Elie become to talk
constantly and Moishe began to teach him
some things about the Kabbalistic works.
Eventually being foreign would backfire on
Moishe, “And then, one day all foreign Jews
were expelled from Sighet” (Wiesel 6).
Somehow his able to escape
death with only a wounded
leg and returned to Sighet.
Elie told the reader how
Moishe would go to houses
every night telling the
residents what he saw and
what happened. However
something was different,
“Moishe was not the same.
The joy in his eyes were
Elie is in the photo above. The middle row and middle bunk.
gone. He no longer sang. H He is the very last person in that bunk.
no longer mentioned neither
God or Kabbalah” (Wiesel 7).
Elie also mentioned a family member,
Stein. Elie and his father were standing in
Auschwitz waiting for role call to be over
when Stein found them. His father couldn’t
“We returned to our
remember though, “My father had not
block. On our way
recognized him. He must have barely known
there we learned that
him, always being up to his neck in
the underground
communal affairs and not knowledgeable in
resistance of the
family matters” (Wiesel 43). Stein had
camp
had made the
somehow found family but only Elie
decision not to
remembered him. Stein came back everyday
abandon the Jews and
to visit them. That is until Elie told him his
prevent their
wife and children were fine. Stein told them
that that was the one thing keeping him
liquidation” (Wiesel
alive. A transport was coming in from
114).
Antwerp and his family should have been
there. After Stein left that day he never
returned, he had found out the truth about
his family.
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Optional Titles for LHS Summer Reading 2015
You do NOT have to choose a book from this list, but if you’re struggling to find something that interests
you, this list is a good place to start. The QR Codes at the bottom of the form provide additional resources.
District-Approved Novels
And Then There Were None
The Bell Jar
The Curious Incident of the Dog in
the Nighttime
Go Ask Alice
The Help
The Hobbit
The House of the Scorpion
The House on Mango Street
The Hunger Games
Into Thin Air
The Joy Luck Club
Lord of the Rings
The Magician
Night
One Day in the Life of Ivan
Denisovich
Ordinary People
A Separate Peace
Slaughterhouse-Five
Sophie’s World
The Stand
The Stranger
A Thousand Splendid Suns
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Tuesdays with Morrie
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows
of Ava Lavender
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Where Things Come Back
More Than This
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
Belzhar
100 Sideways Miles
(or any Andrew Smith)
The Night Circus
We Should All Hang Out Sometime
Popular Young Adult Stand-alones
Before I Fall
Mosquitoland
The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley
We All Looked Up
Since You've Been Gone
Bone Gap
I'll Meet You There
Paper Towns (or any John Green)
All the Bright Places
An Ember in the Ashes
Magonia
Panic
Challenger Deep
Thirteen Reasons Why
Hate List
It's Kind of a Funny Story
Every Day
Eleanor & Park
Fangirl
We Were Liars
Boy 21
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Side Effects May Vary
I'll Give You the Sun
The Pact (or any Jodi Picoult)
Falling into Place
Liars, Inc.
Everything That Makes You
Between Shades of Grey
My Heart and Other Black Holes
Aristotle and Dante Discover the
Secrets of the Universe
When Crickets Cry
The Burning of Cherry Hill
The Absolutely True Diary of a
Part-Time Indian
The Scorpio Races
365 Days of
YA
from Epic
Reads
Popular Young Adult Series
Legend (or any Marie Lu)
The Selection
To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Divergent
Matched
The Maze Runner
Winger
The Testing
Dorothy Must Die
Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children
Delirium
Shatter Me
The Darkest Minds
The Winner's Curse
Unwind
Uglies
I Hunt Killers
Cinder
The Naturals
The 5th Wave
Throne of Glass
The Archived
No Safety in Numbers
Seraphina
Anna and the French Kiss
Just One Day
The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
Ashfall
Red Queen
The Heir Chronicles
A Court of Thorns and Roses
Divided We Fall
Homelander
Code Name Verity
The Madman's Daughter
Falling Kingdoms
The Raven Boys
(or any Maggie Stiefvater)
Mortal Instruments
(or any Cassandra Clare)
Graceling
Chaos Walking
Shadow and Bone
Leviathan
Seven Realms
Vampire Academy
Shipbreaker
Daughter of Smoke & Bone
Gemma Doyle
Blood Red Road
The Queen of the Tearling
Starbound
Nil
If you liked...
book lists by
genre
Popular Adult Titles Teens Love
All the Light We Cannot See
A Darker Shade of Magic
Vicious
The Girl on the Train
Robert Langdon Series
(or any Dan Brown)
Columbine
The Martian
Bossypants
Yes, Please
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
I Am Malala
The Glass Castle
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Art of Racing in the Rain
Mistborn Series
The Rosie Project
Alive
The Poisonwood Bible
Devil in the White City
11/22/63
Ready Player One
American Gods
Sarah's Key
The Amazing Adventures of
Kavalier & Clay
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a
World That Can’t Stop Talking
Hyperbole and a Half
Is Everyone Hanging Out
Without Me?
Breaking Night
Middlesex
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Omnivore's Dilemma
Memoirs of a Geisha
A Density of Souls
Never Let Me Go
American Sniper
Unbroken
The Power of One
Pay It Forward
The First Fifteen Lives
of Harry August
Station Eleven
A Game of Thrones
Codex Alera
The Light Between Oceans
Redeployment
Stiff
The Power of Habit
The Short and Tragic Life
of Robert Peace
Andromeda Strain
White Oleander
Freakonomics
The Opposite of Loneliness
The Orphan Master’s Son
Any Nicholas Sparks book
Orange is the New Black
Wild
1774
Benjamin Franklin: An American
Life
College Board’s
College-Bound
Reading List