| 1. Discuss your reading plans with your parent or guardian. Your parent's signature must be on your sheet to verify your accomplishments.(If you lost or need a new Sign Up Sheet, click here). |
| 2. Read the ten books you have selected from the book list this summer. You may use books that are required summer reading for your upcoming honors class.You may not use a work read previously as a book report, for summer reading, a class novel, or AR novel. |
| 3. After you read each book, write a response journal. The purpose of the journal is not only to verify you actually read the book but to provide practice in responding to the author's ideas using different writing domains. Journal should contain a mixture of these four kinds of responses. |
AUTOBIGRAPHICAL ENTRY: Vividly describe an incident on your life that the book helped you remember or understand more fully. Tell why the book prompted you to write it.
REFLECTIVE ENTRY: Explore some of the ideas that the book gave you. Consider writing as though you are a character in the book. Project the significance of the ideas and investigate the possibilities determining the "whys" and "why nots".
INTERPRETIVE ENTRY: Write what you believe the author is telling the reader about living, human desires, virtues, fears, dreams, etc.
EVALUATIVE ENTRY: Compare the book to another one you've read. It could be one on the list. Make sure you evaluate each on specidic criteria, which you clarify for the reader.
| 4. Responses should be in MLA format. Each response must be between 450-600 words. |
| 5. Have your parents sign the form verifying that you read the books listed. |
| 6. When school resumes in the fall, turn in your completed form and your Response Journal* to your current English teacher. The deadline for submission is the last school days in September. | *Journal must be on CD or disk only. No printed copies. All work subject to authentication via turnitin.com. Any violation of PHS Enlgish Department Academic Honesty Code shall result in disqualification from program. |