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.
"Everyone who is called by my name whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made." Isaiah 43:7