Summer Reading Assignment
“Never judge a person until you've walked a mile in their shoes.”
In life, it is often difficult to truly understand another person’s perspective on life. Choose a book that you would like to read or another from the list on the back (which you can borrow from Ms. Byrne) for your summer reading – either way, it must be at a grade 12 level. Approval of any books not on this list is at Ms. Byrne’s discretion.
Once you have selected a book, it is your task to keep a reading journal.
Ten journal entries must be completed of an approximate length of one page double-spaced.
· A diary entry should be in first person (I or We) as they should be from your point of view.
· Choose three different quotations to respond to
· One that was a plot point that surprised you
· One that you think is amazing language
· One that made you think – whatever it brought up, explain
Collection:
As this is something you will be doing throughout the class, I will collect this journal on July 18 (four entries) and August 2 (six entries).
ASSESSMENT
Your diary will be marked based on its accuracy, as well as your ability to explore the point of view of your character.
Content and Writing Style. /7 (Was the message clear and intelligent? Were your quotations relevant?)
Conventions /3 (Grammar and spelling)
10 * 10 journals = 100 marks. Any entries not handed in will be given a 0.
The following must be filled out and approved by Ms. Byrne by Thursday, July 4th .
My novel is: __________________________________________________
In order to have four journals done by July 16th, I will read _____ pages every day. This
means that I will have finished _______ pages by the 16th. I will write a journal entry
after every _____ pages. I will have finished the novel by _______________________.
I will have finished all of my journals by ___________________________________.
Canadian Fiction
Fall on Your Knees
Ann-Marie Macdonald
Through Black Spruce
Joseph Boyden
Alone in the Classroom
Elizabeth Hay
The Wonder
Emma Donoghue
Son of a Trickster
Eden Robinson
HappinessTM
Will Ferguson
New(er) Fiction
The Little Giant of Aberdeen County
Tiffany Baker
The Tiger’s Wife
Tea Obreht
The Weird Sisters
Eleanor Brown
White Tiger
Aravind Adiga
The Golem and the Jinni
Helene Wecker
No One Can Pronounce My Name
Rakesh Satyal
Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens
Classic Fiction
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
The Princess Bride
William Goldman
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
Nearly True Fiction
Things that must not be Forgotten
Michael David Kwan
When Heaven and Earth Changed Places
Le Ly Hayslip
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini
Infidel
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Historical Fiction
The Song of the Jade Lily
Kirsty Manning
The Book of Negroes
Lawrence Hill
Learned by Heart
Emma Donoghue
The Princes of Ireland
Edward Rutherford
Frog Music
Emma Donoghue
Where the Light Enters
Sarah Donati
The Golden Mean
Annabel Lyon
Dystopian Fiction
This Little Light
Lori Lansens
Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood
Moon of the Crusted Snow
Waubgeshig Rice
The Handmaid’s Tale
Margaret Atwood
When She Woke
Hillary Jordan
Iron Widow
Xiran Jay Zhao
Fiction about Fiction
I, Iago
Nicole Galland
Lost
Gregory Maguire
Wicked
Gregory Maguire
Mirror, Mirror
Gregory Maguire
Looking Glass Wars
Frank Beddor