8th Grade:
They Call Me Guero by David Bowles
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
They Call Me Guero by David Bowles
The Call of the Wild By Jack London
They Call Me Guero by David Bowles
Description: They Call Me Guero is an award winning novel. Canelo Alvarez is a Mexican boxer. He shares how being mexicano is and he is also a reader, gamer and musician. Canelo is friends with different groups of people and expresses himself in a bilingual way.
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Description: The Call of the Wild is a short adventure novel. Buck is taken from his home and he is taken on a journey that he is not prepared for. At the end he struggles to either stay grounded or leave everything he has ever known.
All 8th graders are required to read both books listed above.
Click on the link to access the summer reading assignments:
8th Grade Summer Reading Assignment_They Call Me Guero
8th Grade Summer Reading Assignment_The Call of the Wild
The summer reading assignment will be graded as a quiz grade.
Your journals are due on the first day of school, August 13.