1. GRADE 10 SUMMER READING LIST

2. Read to Cure the “Summer Slide”
When school starts in the fall, students who don’t read over the summer “slide” backwards.
Studies show that the effect of reading four to five books over the summer is enough to stop a decline in reading achievement from spring to fall.

3. What should you do to be a part of the program?
Read TWO books: the required book for English 2/Honors and an additional book (some books are suggested).
You must complete an activity in the booklet (which you will turn in, in the fall) for each book. When school starts you will be participating in a collaborative class activity that focuses on the books you read.

4. Can I Read Other Books?
Of course! After you finish the required books, read as many books as you can, and read any book that interests you. You can complete other activities to earn other incentives. Or just read for fun!

5. Grade 10 Theme: Exploring Cultures
As you read these books, think about similarities and differences among cultures.
What universal themes are present?

6. Wolff details her childhood growing up in an all-black Seattle neighborhood with a white father who wanted to be black in this amusing memoir. Wolff never quite fit in with the neighborhood kids, despite her father's urgings that she make friends with the sisters on the block. Just as Wolff finds her footing in the local elementary school, her mother, recently divorced from her father and living as a Buddhist, decides to enroll Wolff in the Individual Progress Program, a school for gifted children. Once again, Wolff finds herself the outcast among the wealthy white kids who own horses and take lavish vacations. e&view=detail&mid= F94D2833DA F94D2833DA 402&FORM=VIRE
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7. Gives a fictionalized account of four sisters in the Dominican Republic under the dictatorship of General Trujillo.

8. https://youtu.be/rbLTiA35d6Q
The author, a Rhodes scholar and combat veteran, analyzes the various sociocultural factors that influenced him as well as another man of the same name and from the same neighborhood who was drawn into a life of drugs and crime and ended up serving life in prison, focusing on the influence of relatives, mentors, and social expectations that could have led either of them on different paths.

9. Memoir of the author's miserable childhood growing up in the perpetually damp country of Ireland, with the stereotypically long-suffering mother and drunken father who nurtures in his son an appetite for stories.

10. The great-granddaughter of Iran's last emperor and the daughter of ardent Marxists describes growing up in Tehran in a country plagued by political upheaval and vast contradictions between public and private life.

11. Provides an account of the boys’ soccer season of the Woodburn High School Bulldogs, an all- Hispanic team, and the challenges they faced as they worked towards winning the Oregon state championship after nineteen years of making it to the playoffs.

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