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Carencro High School Summer Reading Program The Louisiana Department of Education encourages all students to read every day during the summer. Reading is the biggest factor in your child’s overall academic success. Children who read more do better in school. Our goal is for every student to become a capable reader and to develop a love for reading Parents can help their children reach that goal by reading to them and with them daily. If your children are already reading, encourage them to read at least 30 minutes daily. Involve them in reading activities at the public library. Help your child see that books are passports to the world. Tips for High School Parents Have books, magazines, comics, graphic novels, and newspapers available for your child to read. Encourage your child to read for a specified period of time every day. Encourage your child to explore different authors, themes, and genres (biography, adventure, historical fiction, science fiction, poetry, and others). Let your child see you read every day. Talk with your child about what he/she is reading. Limit the amount of time your child spends watching television and playing video games. Create a quiet place, free from distractions, where your child may read. Encourage older children to read to younger brothers and sisters. Encourage the use of audio books. Enthusiastic readers come from families that support and promote reading. Lafayette Parish Libraries Broussard Branch 3378373936 100 West Main Street Broussard, LA 70518 North Regional Branch 337 8966323 5101 North University Avenue Carencro, LA 70520 Butler Memorial Branch 3372340363 Martin Luther King Center 309 Cora Street Lafayette, LA 70501 Scott Branch 3372329321 5808 West Cameron Street Scott, LA 70583 Chenier Branch 337 2912941 Chenier Center 220 West Willow Street, Bldg. C Lafayette, LA 70501 South Regional Branch 337 9811028 6101 Johnston St. Lafayette, LA 70503 Youngsville Branch 337 8569385 Twin Oaks Plaza 506 Lafayette St., Suite C Youngsville, LA 70592

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Carencro High School Summer

Reading Program

The  Louisiana  Department  of  Education  encourages  all  students  to  read  every  day  

during  the  summer.  Reading  is  the  biggest  factor  in  your  child’s  overall  academic  

success.  Children  who  read  more  do  better  in  school.  Our  goal  is  for  every  student  to  

become  a  capable  reader  and  to  develop  a  love  for  reading  Parents  can  help  their  children  reach  that  goal  by  reading  to  them  and  with  them  daily.  If  your  children  are  already  

reading,  encourage  them  to  read  at  least  30  minutes  daily.  

Involve  them  in  reading  activities  at  the  public  library.  Help  your  child  see  that  books  are  passports  to  the  world.  

Tips  for  High  School  Parents  • Have  books,  magazines,  

comics,  graphic  novels,  and  newspapers  available  for  your  child  to  read.  

• Encourage  your  child  to  read  for  a  specified  period  of  time  every  day.  

• Encourage  your  child  to  explore  different  authors,  themes,  and  genres  (biography,  adventure,  historical  fiction,  science  fiction,  poetry,  and  others).  

• Let  your  child  see  you  read  every  day.    

• Talk  with  your  child  about  what  he/she  is  reading.  

• Limit  the  amount  of  time  your  child  spends  watching  television  and  playing  video  games.  

• Create  a  quiet  place,  free  from  distractions,  where  your  child  may  read.  

• Encourage  older  children  to  read  to  younger  brothers  and  sisters.  

• Encourage  the  use  of  audio  books.  Enthusiastic  readers  come  from  families  that  support  and  promote  reading.    

Lafayette  Parish  Libraries    

Broussard  Branch    337-­‐837-­‐3936  100  West  Main  Street  Broussard,  LA  70518    

 North  Regional  Branch    337-­‐  896-­‐6323  5101  North  University  Avenue  Carencro,  LA  70520        Butler  Memorial  Branch    337-­‐234-­‐0363  Martin  Luther  King  Center  309  Cora  Street  Lafayette,  LA  70501    

 Scott  Branch    337-­‐232-­‐9321  5808  West  Cameron  Street  Scott,  LA  70583        Chenier  Branch    337-­‐  291-­‐2941  Chenier  Center  220  West  Willow  Street,  Bldg.  C  Lafayette,  LA  70501  South      

Regional  Branch  337-­‐  981-­‐1028  6101  Johnston  St.  Lafayette,  LA  70503        Youngsville  Branch  337-­‐  856-­‐9385  Twin  Oaks  Plaza  506  Lafayette  St.,  Suite  C  Youngsville,  LA  70592      

 

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CARENCRO  HIGH  RECOMMENDED  (NOT  REQUIRED)  READING  LISTS   Ninth  Grade  List  The  Absolutely  True  Diary  of  a  Part-­‐Time  Indian,  Sherman  Alexie  (H)  American  Born  Chinese,  Gene  Luen  Yang  (G)  Armageddon  Summer,  Jane  Yolen  and  Coville  (S)  Backfield  Package,  Thomas  Dygard  (Sp)  Bad  Boy,  Walter  Dean  Myers  (B)  Dean  Koontz  (NF)  A  Child  Called  “It,”  Dave  Petzer  (B)  Danger  Zone,  David  Klass  (Sp)  The  Dark  Side  of  Nowhere,  Neil  Shusterman  (SF)  Dreamland,  Sarah  Dessen  (C)  Eragon  series,  Christopher  Paolini  (F)  Ender’s  Game,  Orson  Scott  Card  (SF)  Fighting  Ruben  Wolfe,  Markus  Zusak  (Sp)  Full  Tilt,  Neil  Shusterman  (S)  Goddess  of  Yesterday,  Caroline  Cooney  (HI)  A  Great  and  Terrible  Beauty,  Libba  Bray  (S)  High  Heat,  Carl  Deuker  (Sp)  House  on  Mango  Street,  Sandra  Cisneros  (C)  Howl’s  Moving  Castle,  Diana  W.  Jones  (F)  Hunger  Games,  Suzanne  Collins  (A)  Leviathan,  Scott  Westerfeld  (F)  The  Lightening  Thief,  Rick  Riordan  (F)  Lyddie,  Katherine  Patterson  (HI)  Necessary  Roughness,  Marie  Lee  (SP)  The  Real  Question,  Adrian  Fogelin  (C)  Rosa  Parks,  Douglas  Brinkley  (B)  Spiders  in  the  Hairdo,  David  Holt  (NF)  A  Step  from  Heaven,  An  Na  (C)  The  Story  of  a  Girl,  Sara  Zarr  (C)  The  Thief,  Megan  Whalen  Turner  (A)  To  Kill  a  Mockingbird,  Harper  Lee    Where  Are  the  Children?,  Mary  Higgins  Clark  (M)  Zel,  Donna  Jo  Napoli  (F)  

Carencro  High  Summer  Reading  Requirements  

✓The  lists  included  in  this  brochure  are  recommendations  from  teachers  and  students.  ✓Regular  students  are  encouraged  to  choose  books  that  interest  them.  They  may  choose  to  do  a  postcard  project  for  up  to  two  books  to  earn  bonus  points.  ✓Honors  students  must  read  at  least  two  books  during  the  summer.  They  may  choose  books  from  this  recommended  list  or  any  other  age-­‐appropriate,  parent-­‐approved  books.  Honors  students  must  complete  a  postcard  project  for  each  selection.  These  projects  are  due  the  first  day  of  class  and  will  be  part  of  the  first  six  weeks  grade.  Postcard  project  requirements  are  included  in  this  brochure.    A=Adventure; B=Biography; C=Contemporary; F=Fantasy; H=Humor; HI=Historical; L=Louisiana; M=Mystery; NF=Non-Fiction; P=Poetry; R=Romance; S-Suspense; SF= Science Fiction; SP=Sports; SS=Short Stories

Tenth  Grade  List  Aleutian  Sparrow,  Karen  Hesse  (P)  The  Bean  Trees,  Barbara  Kingsolver  (C)  Beautiful  Creatures,  Kami  Garcia  and  Margaret  Stohl  (F)    Breathing  Underwater,  Alex  Flinn  (C)  Caramelo,  Sandra  Cisneros  (C)  Crank,  Ellen  Hopkins  (C)  The  Christopher  Killer,  Alane  Fergerson  (M)  Game,  Walter  Dean  Myers  (C)  Gentlehands,  M.E.  Kerr  (C)  Half  Caste  and  Other  Stories,  John  Agard  (P)  Hole  in  My  Life,  Jack  Gantos  (B)  House  of  the  Scorpion,  Nancy  Farmer  (S)  If  You  Come  Softly,  Jacqueline  Woodson  (R)  Imani  All  Mine,  Connie  Porter  (C)  It’s  Not  about  the  Bike,  Lance  Armstrong  (B)  Kaffir  Boy,  Mark  Mathabane  (B)  The  Keeper’s  Son,  Homer  Hickam  (A)  The  Lovely  Bones,  Alice  Seybold    Maximum  Ride  series,  James  Patterson  (SF/A)  Maus,  Art  Speilgelman  (G)  Navajo  Code  Talkers,  Nathan  Aaseng  (NF)  Ophelia,  a  Novel,  Lisa  Klein  (A)  The  Notebook,  Nicholas  Sparks  (R)  Phoning  a  Dead  Man,  Gillian  Cross  (M)  Running  Loose,  Chris  Crutcher  (C)  The  Secret  Life  of  Bees,  Sue  Monk  Kidd  (C)  Slam,  Walter  Dean  Myers  (C)  Shoeless  Joe,  W.  P.  Kinsella  (Sp)  So  Yesterday,  Scott  Westerfeld  (M)  Tiffany  Aching  Adventures  series,  Terry  Practhett  (F  /  H)  A  Time  for  Dancing,  Davida  Hurwin  (C)  Who  Am  I  without  Him,  Sharon  Flake  (SS-­‐C)  Wintergirls,  Laurie  Halse  Anderson  (C)    Wrestling  Sturbridge,  Rich  Wallace  (Sp)  

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CARENCRO  HIGH  RECOMMENDED  (NOT  REQUIRED)  READING  LISTS   Eleventh  Grade  List  Animal  Dreams,  Barbara  Kingsolver  (C)  Black  &  White,  Paul  Volponi  (C)  Coffee  Will  Make  You  Black,  April  Sinclair  (C)  Company,  Max  Barry  (C)  A  Death  in  the  Family,  James  Agee  (C)  Dinner  at  the  Homesick  Restaurant,  Anne  Tyler  (C)  For  the  Love  of  Venice,  Donna  Jo  Napoli  (R)  Friday  Night  Lights,  H.G.  Bissinger  (Sp)  Gifted  Hands,  Ben  Carson  (B)  Go  Tell  It  on  the  Mountain,  James  Baldwin  (HI)  Going  Bovine,  Libba  Bray  (HI)  Hanging  on  to  Max,  Margaret  Bechard  (C)  Hate  List,  Jennifer  Brown  (C)      How  I  Live  Now,  Meg  Rosoff  (F)  Hunger  Games,  Suzanne  Collins  (F/A)  Iron  Heart:  The  True  Story  of  How  I  Came  Back  from  the  Dead,  Brian  Boyle  (B)    Jubilee,  Margaret  Walker  (HI)  King  of  the  Mild  Frontier,  Chris  Crutcher  (B)  Love  in  the  Driest  Season,  Neely  Tucker  (C)  The  Lord  of  the  Flies,  William  Golding  (SF)  Mama  Day,  Gloria  Naylor  (C)  The  Man  Who  Was  Poe,  Avi  (M)  Marcelo  in  the  Real  World,  Francisco  Storck  (C)  Mare’s  War,  Tanita  Davis  (C  /HI)    Nickel  and  Dimed,  Barbara  Ehrenreich  (NF)  A  Northern  Light,  Jennifer  Donnelly  (M)  Peeps,  Scott  Westerfeld  (F)  Persepolis  1  and  2,  Marjane  Satrapi  (G)  Son  of  the  Mob,  Gordon  Korman  (C)  Waiting  for  June,  Joyce  Sweeney  (C)  The  Water  Is  Wide,  Pat  Conroy  (C)  When  I  Was  a  Soldier,  Valerie  Zenatti  Wolf  by  the  Ears,  Ann  Rinaldi  (HI)  

Twelfth  Grade  List  An  Abundance  of  Katherines,  John  Green  (C)  The  Andromeda  Strain,  Michael  Crichton  (M)  Angela’s  Ashes,  Frank  McCourt  (B)  Animal,  Vegetable  or  Miracle,  Barbara  Kingsolver,  (NF)  Beekeeper’s  Apprentice,  Laurie  R.  King  (M)  Black  Hawk  Down,  Mark  Bowden  (NF)  Cane  River,  Lalita  Tademy  (L)  Discworld  series,  Terry  Pratchett  (F)  Double  Helix,  Nancy  Werlin  (S)  Dracula,  Bram  Stoker    Eva,  Peter  Dickinson  (SF)  Fast  Food  Nation,  Eric  Schlosser  (NF)  A  Gathering  of  Old  Men,  Ernest  Gaines  (L)  Graceling,  Kristin  Cashore  (F)  Grendel,  John  Gardner  (H)  The  Hitchhiker’s  Guide  to  the  Galaxy,  Douglas  Adams  (SF)  If  Beale  Street  Could  Talk,  James  Baldwin  (C)  Interstellar  Pig,  William  Sleator  (SF)  Invisible  Man,  Ralph  Ellison  (C)  Maze  Runner,  James  Dashner  (F)    Methland,  Nick  Reding  (NF)  Mortal  Engines,  Philip  Reeve  (SF)  The  Omnivore’s  Dilemma:  the  Secrets  Behind  What  You    The  Other  Boleyn  Girl,  Philipa  Gregory  (HI)  Paper  Towns,  John  Green  (C)  The  Poisonwood  Bible,  Barbara  Kingsolver  (R)  The  Queen’s  Man,  Sharon  K.  Penman  (HI)  Roots,  The  Saga  of  an  American  Family,  Alex  Haley  (HI)  Song  of  Solomon,  Toni  Morrison  (C)  The  Spy  Who  Came  in  from  the  Cold,  John  LeCarre  (S)  Twilight,  Stephanie  Meyer  (S)    Wait  for  Me,  An  Na  (C)  World  War  Z:  An  Oral  History  of  the  Zombie  War,  Max  Brooks  (SF)    

Carencro  High  Summer  Reading  Requirements  

✓The  lists  included  in  this  brochure  are  recommendations  from  teachers  and  students.  ✓Regular  students  are  encouraged  to  choose  books  that  interest  them.  They  may  choose  to  do  a  postcard  project  for  up  to  two  books  to  earn  bonus  points.  ✓Honors  students  must  read  at  least  two  books  during  the  summer.  They  may  choose  books  from  this  recommended  list  or  any  other  age-­‐appropriate,  parent-­‐approved  books.  Honors  students  must  complete  a  postcard  project  for  each  selection.  These  projects  are  due  the  first  day  of  class  and  will  be  part  of  the  first  six  weeks  grade.  Postcard  project  requirements  are  included  in  this  brochure.    A=Adventure; B=Biography; C=Contemporary; F=Fantasy; H=Humor; HI=Historical; L=Louisiana; M=Mystery; NF=Non-Fiction; P=Poetry; R=Romance; S-Suspense; SF= Science Fiction; SP=Sports; SS=Short Stories

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Make  a  4x6  postcard  to  the  author.  One  side  of  the  postcard  should  be  visual;  the  other  side  must  be  addressed  to  the  author.    

Select  ONE  of  these  questions  to  inspire  your  postcard.    

• How  did  the  setting  and/or  character(s)  and/or  conflict  mirror  your  life  or  the  life  of  someone  you  know?    • What  strengths  or  flaws  do  you  share  with  a  character  or  characters  in  the  book?    • As    you  were  reading,  what  past  experience  did  you  remember  about  yourself  or  someone  you  know?  Comment  on  the  

significance  of  the  experience.  

On  the  visual  side  of  the  card,  create  a  collage  that  responds  to  your  question.  Keep  your  materials  flat-­‐  magazines,  scrapbook  paper,  old  phonebooks  &  receipts,  photos,  or  anything  paper  will  work.  Or,  you  may  want  to  prepare  a  Photoshop  collage.  Abstract  work  is  fine,  but  remember  that  the  visual  side  should  respond  to  one  of  the  questions  about  your  book.  

On  the  written  side,  divide  the  card  in  half  (like  a  postcard).  On  the  right  side,  write  the  author’s  address.  You  can  invent  the  address  if  you  like  –  Be  creative!    On  the  left  side,  write  a  short  letter  to  the  author,  answering  one  of  the  questions.    

Turn  this  card  in  with  a  short  journal  (about150  words).  Put  your  MLA  heading  on  the  journal  and  title  it  “Summer  Reading  Postcard.”  Your  journal  must  be  at  least  two  paragraphs.  In  the  journal,  state  the  question  that  is  the  subject  of  your  card  and  how  what  you  read  in  your  book  inspired  you  to  choose  that  question.  In  the  second  paragraph,  explain  how  you  created  the  visual  side  of  your  postcard  and  how  your  “artwork”  responds  to  the  question  you  chose.    

 

QUESTIONS?    A  member  of  the  CHS    English  Department  will  take  your  emails  beginning  July  11th.    Write  to  [email protected]    with  your  concerns.  

SUMMER  READING  PROJECT  

Postcard  Grading  Rubric  

Postcard  follows  instructions  for  size  and  visual/text  component      ___/10  

Journal  states  question,  gives  reason  why  question  was  chosen,  identifies  materials,  and  explains  how  the  visual  responds  to  the  question  chosen.      ___/15  

Visual  is  thoughtful  and  effectively  responds  to  question.      ___/10  

Short  letter  to  author  is  thoughtful  and  effectively  responds  to  question.      ___/10