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As part of the accelerated English courses, students are required to complete a summer reading assignment. Research shows that students who read over the summer experience higher scholastic achievements during the school year and have stronger vocabularies than students who do not. In an effort to make summer reading more enjoyable and beneficial for students, we have created a web based summer reading program that allows students the opportunity to read high-interest pieces and connect them to events currently taking place in our society. We took in to consideration the need for students to have break and tried to respect that need while still providing a meaningful way for students to continue to practice their reading and analysis skills.

Students will read one novel/non-fiction book and will then participate in online discussions three times over the course of the summer. Beginning on June 12th, teachers will post one article every two weeks with a discussion prompt to which students will respond. Students will have two weeks to submit each response. Then, they will read the next article and repeat the process for a total of three articles and responses. There will be no additional summer assignment turned in when students return to school in the fall. The student responses will be graded based on the quality of the responses and will count as one grade. After students have the opportunity to discuss the novels in their Accelerated English class, they will also write a teacher guided analysis essay on the piece.

Teachers will be available via Remind to answer questions over the summer or students may email any questions they have to their teacher. All teacher information and information on how to sign up for Remind will be available on the on the individual grade level pages.

Thank you in advance for supporting your student's educational efforts!

**If you do not have access to the internet at home over the summer, Wayne County High School is opened Monday-Thursday from 8:00 to 3:00 and the Wayne County Library also has computers with internet access available free to the public.**

Novel Lists:

Students will need to obtain a copy of the book that is assigned for the grade level they are going in to for the upcoming year. These can be borrowed, checked out of the local Wayne County Library, downloaded to an e-reader, or purchased at most any retail book store.

Literature and Composition II (9th grade)- Fahrenheit 451 By, Ray Bradbury

Literature and Composition III (10th grade)- In Cold Blood By, Truman Capote

American Lit (11th grade)- The Devil in the White City By, Eric Larson

British Lit (12th grade)- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Due Dates:

Article #1: Will be posted June 10th Due June 24th

Article #2: Will be posted June 24th Due July 8th

Article #3: Will be posted July 8th Due July 22nd

Additional Resources:

~ Tips for managing summer reading:

http://www.fastweb.com/college-search/articles/summer-reading-tips-for-high-school-students

~"50 books to read in High School" This is a general list of good books to read in high school if you or your student would like additional book ideas:

http://www.lexpublib.org/50BooksInHighschool

~The Lexile “Find a Book GA” website can help identify books that students are interested in and are able to read. This tool can be found at:

http://georgia.lexile.com or http://www.lexile.com/fab/ga.

~The Georgia Department of Education’s Lexile initiative information can be found at:

http://www.gadoe.org/lexile.aspx.

~More Lexile information can be found on the Georgia Standards.org site at:

https://www.georgiastandards.org/Resources/Pages/Tools/LexileFrameworkforReading.aspx

~The following are articles that discuss the "summer slide" and why it is important for students to read during the summer:

https://go.learningally.org/summer-reading/

http://blog.ed.gov/2011/08/why-summer-reading-pays-off-year-round/