This is, in essence, a re-post from March of this year.
For those students headed to Wheeler High School in August, you must be sure to read the texts outlined in the link below:
From March 2015:
I just received information about the Summer Reading Requirements for the students attending Wheeler HS next school year and have copied and pasted them below. Please do not hesitate to get these books sooner than later. Besides, it will make for a more restful summer. 🙂
9th Grade Honors
- All students must read and prepare outline (provided on Wheeler’s web site) on The Woman in White by Wilkie
Collins. ****All students must prepare a TYPED outline for submission to Turnitin.com the first week of the semester on this book.- Each heading and subheading must have at least two parts. Do not exceed 2 pages typed using 1”
margins and Times New Roman 12 point font. - Be consistent. Use either complete sentences or brief phrases, but do not use both.
- This outline will be submitted to www.turnitin.com once information is provided by the teacher at the beginning of class.
- Be prepared to discuss this novel and participate in novel-related activities the first two weeks of the
semester.
- Each heading and subheading must have at least two parts. Do not exceed 2 pages typed using 1”
- All students will select a second book to read from the On-Level 9th Grade Reading List (see below), then be prepared to write an in-class essay on the novel the first week of the semester.
- During the essay, students may use one handwritten 4 x 6 index card containing notes on
characters, plot, setting, etc. The card is NOT required, but if students use a card, it will be
collected and kept at the end of the essay test. Typed and/or cut and pasted notes are NOT acceptable.
- During the essay, students may use one handwritten 4 x 6 index card containing notes on
9th Grade Reading List
- Hole in My Life—Jack Gantos
- Bless Me, Ultima—Rudolfo A. Anaya
- Monster—Walter Dean Myers
- Speak—Laurie Halse Anderson
- Tears of a Tiger—Sharon Draper
- The Afterlife—Gary Soto
- The Beast—Walter Dean Myers
- The Skin I’m In—Sharon Flake
- Sara’s Key—Tatiana de Rosnay
Should I receive or find information about the summer reading requirements for any of the other Magnet schools, I will be sure to update and republish this post–links and all!
-Ms. W.
Summer Reading for the 2015-2016 School Year
I just received information about the Summer Reading Requirements for the students attending Wheeler HS next school year and have copied and pasted them below. Please do not hesitate to get these books sooner than later. Besides, it will make for a more restful summer. 🙂
9th Grade Honors
- All students must read and prepare outline (provided on Wheeler’s web site) on The Woman in White by Wilkie
Collins. ****All students must prepare a TYPED outline for submission to Turnitin.com the first week of the semester on this book.- Each heading and subheading must have at least two parts. Do not exceed 2 pages typed using 1”
margins and Times New Roman 12 point font. - Be consistent. Use either complete sentences or brief phrases, but do not use both.
- This outline will be submitted to www.turnitin.com once information is provided by the teacher at the beginning of class.
- Be prepared to discuss this novel and participate in novel-related activities the first two weeks of the
semester.
- Each heading and subheading must have at least two parts. Do not exceed 2 pages typed using 1”
- All students will select a second book to read from the On-Level 9th Grade Reading List (see below), then be prepared to write an in-class essay on the novel the first week of the semester.
- During the essay, students may use one handwritten 4 x 6 index card containing notes on
characters, plot, setting, etc. The card is NOT required, but if students use a card, it will be
collected and kept at the end of the essay test. Typed and/or cut and pasted notes are NOT acceptable.
- During the essay, students may use one handwritten 4 x 6 index card containing notes on
9th Grade Reading List
- Hole in My Life—Jack Gantos
- Bless Me, Ultima—Rudolfo A. Anaya
- Monster—Walter Dean Myers
- Speak—Laurie Halse Anderson
- Tears of a Tiger—Sharon Draper
- The Afterlife—Gary Soto
- The Beast—Walter Dean Myers
- The Skin I’m In—Sharon Flake
- Sara’s Key—Tatiana de Rosnay
Should I receive or find information about the summer reading requirements for any of the other Magnet schools, I will be sure to update and republish this post–links and all!
-Ms. W.
Web Resources to Know (GoodReads)
I hope you all are enjoying your break (even you, parents) and are getting some much-needed rest!
In between a conference and a couple of workshops, I have been working to test out new web-based resources that will make ELA/Reading more interactive within my classroom next year. Over the next few weeks, I will be publishing posts highlighting some of the resources I have come to know that will be of benefit to you as students, parents, and other educators. Today’s focus is GoodReads.
GoodReads: This is a social networking site centered around books. Connect with your classmates, teachers, and other friends by ranking books you have read and leaving reviews for these books. You can comment on the reviews of others, but what I love the most is that after you input 20 book rankings (by highlighting stars ranging from 1-5 stars to show how much you liked the books), GoodReads will start suggesting books you may like.
- Below are a couple examples of reviews I have written:
- “Bernice Bobs Her Hair” by F. Scott Fitzgerald (short story)
- Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter by Seth Graeme-Smith
Once you sign up on GoodReads, you can even link your account with your Twitter account so you can let others know what you read and liked, what you didn’t like, what you are in the process of reading, and what you want to read next. Of course, I welcome you to connect with me. As I am sure you have guessed, my username is MsWillipedia.
Stay tuned for the next installment of Web Resources to Know!
-Ms. W.