Fiction BooksI Have Lived a Thousand Years: GrowingUp in the Holocaust  by L. BittonJackson

Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos

Maus by Art Spiegleman  

Once Upon A Quinceañera:Coming of Age in the USA by JuliaAlvarez

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhoodby Marjane Satrapi

Relentless: From Good to Great toUnstoppable by Tim S. Grover

Relentless: The Stories behind thePhotographs by Neil Leifer                       

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up forEducation and Was Shot by the Talibanby Malala Yousafzai

Your own choice

Draw a map showing thelocation(s) and thehistorical significance ofthe locations where theselected text takes place.

Make an illustratedtimeline showingevents in the text youselected.

Divide a piece of poster board into 3equal sections. Illustrate three scenesfrom the text using two or more of thefollowing media: paint, crayons,chalk, paper, ink, real materials.

Write a diary that one of the characters mighthave kept before, during, or after the book'sevents. Remember that the character'sthoughts and feelings are very important in adiary. Write a different ending for the text. This ending

should be true to the way events and characters inthe text are developed, but also creative.

Part I: Required

Choose one

(or more) texts

from either

list.

Speak by Laurie Halse AndersonEmako Blue by Brenda WoodsBless Me Ultima by Rudolpho AnayaThe Red Pony by John SteinbeckTwisted by Laurie Halse AndersonAnimal Farm by George OrwellLegend by Marie LuCut by Patricia McCormickAutobiography of My Dead Brother by Walter Dean MyersBeige by Cecil CastellucciDairy Queen by Catherine MurdockTyrell by Coe BoothFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburySaving Francesca by Melina MarchettaThe Truth About Forever by Sarah DessenJude by Kate MorgenrothTouching Spirit Bear by Ben MikaelsenThe Chocolate War by Robert CormierCall of the Wild by Jack LondonLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottYour own choice

Part 2: (Optional) Complete no more than3 assignments for extra credit (10 points apiece). Give to teacher first day of school.

Freshman Summer ReadingSouth Oldham High School

Nonfiction Books

Write a literary essay thatdiscusses the themes of thebook.

Coming of Age

Participate in the OldhamCounty Public Library'sSummer Reading Program