Secaucus Board of Education

This packet, which is also available at http://www.sboe.org, contains the information you need to complete your Summer Reading Project. The instructions for this assignment are as follows:

With your parents, choose two age/level-appropriate books from one of the websites below. If you cannot find something on these websites, we encourage you and your parents to find two appropriate books. Make sure your choices are not on the Curriculum List - see below.
Read the books.
Complete one Readers Guide Form for each book. Attach additional pages, if necessary. You may write or type your responses.
Return them on the days corresponding to your grade in the English Wing:

Grades 9 and 10 will submit on September 15, 2009;
Grades 11 and 12 will submit on September 17, 2009.

Note to Advanced Placement Students: Advanced Placement Literature and Composition students have an alternate reading assignment as a replacement for this project. Students taking Advanced Placement Language and Composition must complete this assignment in addition to the teacher-assigned project. Check with your AP teacher if there is a question about your specific assignment.

The following are approved websites on which to find books:

American Library Association’s Outstanding Books for the College Bound
http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/
booklistsawards/ outstandingbooks/outstandingbooks.htm

American Library Association’s Special Lists & Features: Youth
http://www.ala.org/ala/booklist/
speciallists/speciallistsandfeatures1/
youthspecial.htm

ATN Booklist
http://nancykeane.com/rl

The College Board’s Top 101 Books for the College Bound
http://www.collegeboard.com/student/ plan/boost-your-skills/23628.html

New York Public Library’s TeenLink
http://teenlink.nypl.org/index.html

The New York Times Book Review
http://teenlink.nypl.org/index.html

The Noble Prize in Literature Award Winners 1901-2005
http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/index.html

The Pulitzer Prize Award Winners 1917-2006
http://www.pulitzer.org/

U.Cal-Berkley Summer Reading Lists for Incoming Freshmen
http://reading.berkeley.edu/index.html

Please do not read books contained on The Curriculum Lists below.

9th Grade
The Odyssey
Summer of My German Soldier
Night
Romeo and Juliet
The Wave
The Chocolate War
Alas, Babylon
To Kill a Mockingbird
The House on Mango Street
Tale of Two Cities
Animal Farm
Gentlehands

10th Grade
The Crucible
The Scarlet Letter
Of Mice and Men
Inherit the Wind
A View from the Bridge
Fahrenheit 451
The Martian Chronicles
The Old Man and the Sea

11th Grade
Beowulf
The Canterbury Tales
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Legends of King Arthur
Frankenstein
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Lord of the Flies
Gulliver’s Travels
1984
Fast Food Nation

12th Grade
The Catcher in the Rye
Hamlet
A Streetcar Named Desire
Death of a Salesman
The Great Gatsby
The Stranger
Waiting for Godot
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Ordinary People
Metamorphosis
Dawn
Dante’s Inferno
Notes from Underground
Oedipus Rex
Siddhartha
The Power of Myth

Enjoy your Summer Reading Project. Everyone at Secaucus High School wishes you a safe and restful summer vacation.

Patrick Impreveduto, Principal	Lynn Hugerich, Language Arts Supervisor

	Thomas Tufaro, Chairman, Summer Reading Committee

For more information please contact Mr. Thomas Tufaro at ttufaro@sboe.org

The Secaucus Board of Education values your input. Please email your questions, comments and concerns to feedback@sboe.org. Along with your email commentary, please include your name, address and telephone so that we can respond to your remarks. Thank you.