Happy summer vacation!
A bit of exercise will keep your brain in great shape for the new season of learning that kicks off in September! What better to train your brain than a good book?
We bought the book for you, now all you have to do is pick it up so you can start exercising (a.k.a. reading and discussing)! For now we will use this blog as our means of communicating. Soon enough, we will have other activities in which you should participate as well, so check back here often for more details!
Freshmen - Entering 9th graders will receive a copy of Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson during UTC this July. Check out the details about this book on Anderson's Web site!
Students entering grades 10-12 will need to stop by the ITC office at 258 East Adams Street (435-4300) to pick up a copy of the assigned reading as follows:
Sophomores - Students entering 10th grade will be reading A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah. Check out the Web site for this book!
Juniors - Our newly promoted eleventh graders will read Unwind by Neal Shusterman. Shusterman has a great site that even includes a fanmade trailer!
Seniors - ITC's first ever 12th grade class will read State of Fear by Michael Crichton. More details can be found on the official Crichton site!
Be prepared to provide a reflection about the book to your Humanities (ELA/SS) teachers during the first days back from summer vacation in September!!
Questions? Click the comment link below this post. Then check back in a few days for a response. Happy summer vacation and happy reading!!!
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I'm reading the book "A Long Way Gone:Memoirs Of A Boy Soldier" and I am half way done. I actually listened to what I read and I was able to put myself in Ishmael Beah's shoes and see what he saw. By reading most of this book I have seen second hand that the world can hold many suprise many of which people believe can't , and won't happen to them which it surely can at any moment in time.
Lance,
I am finishing up A LONG WAY GONE now too. What a powerful book. Ishmael is an amazing human being. I cannot imagine goingnthrough all that as an adult much less as a young child. Thanks for posting.
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