Supply List:
Mechanical Pencils
Erasable Pens
Notebook with 5 Dividers
Pencil Pouch that clips in Notebook
Box of Regular Size Tissue
Regular Size Bottle of GERM-X
Highlighters
Composition Notebook - No Spiral Notebook Substitute
Notebook Paper
Bible
Dictionary - Age appropriate and not from $ Store
5 Folders with Pocket and Prongs
Lock for Locker
Summer Reading List for Grades 7 – 12
All research demonstrates conclusively that reading is the key to academic success. Teachers have always known that reading proficiency is the best indicator of classroom success, but we now know that reading proficiency is also the best predictor of success in college itself.
Therefore, we expect our students to continue with meaningful reading through the summer, confident that such reading will significantly enhance their current and future academic well being.
Students should consider the required summer reading as an assignment on which they will be tested during the first weeks of school.
We encourage students to read "actively," that is with pen in hand and notebook close by, marking passages that seem important and making margin notes so that the book becomes a viable tool for use during the school year.
7th – Treasure Island
8th – Tom Sawyer
9th – Huck Finn
10th-12th – Flowers for Algernon and David Copperfield
Students are expected to turn in a book review of the required book and will complete both in class and out of class assignments, during that first week of school. Students are to choose two additional books to read during the summer of their choosing, later assignments with be issued.
Our summer reading goals are to encourage students to enjoy reading as a pleasurable pastime, to build on what has already been read, to prepare for what is to follow and to become aware of certain aspects of life, which are outside the realm of their own experience.
Thank you for taking the time to look over the complete scope of this recommended reading. Perhaps some parents will want to choose one or more books for their own reading pleasure. It is our hope that this guide will fulfill the purpose of providing a structured, yet flexible program of student involvement with the life-long reward of reading good books.
"From now on I will tell you of new things, of hidden things unknown to you."
-Isaiah 48:6b