for
Incoming 9th Graders
Hull High
School is committed to preparing all students for success in college and
career. We believe that strategic
reading is an essential skill for all students, and one that must be practiced in
order to be improved on. Research shows
that “summer reading programs can be effective in lessening summer learning
loss and increasing reading achievement” (www.cslpreads.org). To that end, all HHS students are required to
read over the summer in preparation of the upcoming school year.
** Honors students will be required to read two books: the
primary text and one choice from the secondary choice list.
** College Prep students will be required to read the primary
text. CP students also have the option
to read one choice from the secondary choice list for extra credit.
Incoming
9th Grade – “Overcoming Obstacles”
Required
primary text: The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of
resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply
dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette's brilliant and
charismatic father captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics,
geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was
dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who abhorred the idea
of domesticity and didn't want the responsibility of raising a family.
The Walls children learned to take care of themselves. They fed, clothed, and protected one another, and eventually found their way to New York. Their parents followed them, choosing to be homeless even as their children prospered.
The Glass Castle is truly astonishing--a memoir permeated by the intense love of a peculiar but loyal family.
The Walls children learned to take care of themselves. They fed, clothed, and protected one another, and eventually found their way to New York. Their parents followed them, choosing to be homeless even as their children prospered.
The Glass Castle is truly astonishing--a memoir permeated by the intense love of a peculiar but loyal family.
--Goodreads.com
Assignment:
College Prep
students must read the required text assigned for their grade. Honors students must read both the required
text and one choice from the secondary text list below. While reading, students will take notes in
two-column note format (template is attached).
Notes will be collected on the first day of school and will be used for
an in-class writing assessment during the first week of school.
College Prep
students may choose to read a text from the secondary list below to receive
extra credit. If the extra credit option
is chosen, students should also fill out the set of two-column notes for the
secondary text.
Secondary
text choices:
Thirteen Reasons Why - Jay Asher
Speak – Laurie Halse Anderson
Keep Quiet – Lisa Scottoline
The Book of Lost Things – John Connolly
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier - Ishmael Beah
Summer
Reading Book Assignments
for
Incoming 10th Graders
Hull High
School is committed to preparing all students for success in college and career. We believe that strategic reading is an
essential skill for all students, and one that must be practiced in order to be
improved on. Research shows that “summer
reading programs can be effective in lessening summer learning loss and
increasing reading achievement” (www.cslpreads.org). To that end, all HHS students are required to
read over the summer in preparation of the upcoming school year.
** Honors students will be required to read two books: the
primary text and one choice from the secondary choice list.
** College Prep students will be required to read the primary
text. CP students also have the option
to read one choice from the secondary choice list for extra credit.
Incoming
10th Grade – “The Hero’s Journey”
Required
primary text: Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark
Haddon
Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the
world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to
animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be
touched. And he detests the color yellow.
Although gifted with a superbly logical brain, for fifteen-year-old Christopher everyday interactions and admonishments have little meaning. He lives on patterns, rules, and a diagram kept in his pocket. Then one day, a neighbor's dog, Wellington, is killed and his carefully constructive universe is threatened. Christopher sets out to solve the murder in the style of his favorite (logical) detective, Sherlock Holmes. What follows makes for a novel that is funny, poignant and fascinating in its portrayal of a person whose curse and blessing are a mind that perceives the world entirely literally.
Although gifted with a superbly logical brain, for fifteen-year-old Christopher everyday interactions and admonishments have little meaning. He lives on patterns, rules, and a diagram kept in his pocket. Then one day, a neighbor's dog, Wellington, is killed and his carefully constructive universe is threatened. Christopher sets out to solve the murder in the style of his favorite (logical) detective, Sherlock Holmes. What follows makes for a novel that is funny, poignant and fascinating in its portrayal of a person whose curse and blessing are a mind that perceives the world entirely literally.
--Goodreads.com
Assignment:
College Prep
students must read the required text assigned for their grade. Honors students must read both the required
text and one choice from the secondary text list below. While reading, students will take notes in
two-column note format (template is attached).
Notes will be collected on the first day of school and will be used for
an in-class writing assessment during the first week of school.
College Prep
students may choose to read a text from the secondary list below to receive
extra credit. If the extra credit option
is chosen, students should also fill out the set of two-column notes for the
secondary text.
Secondary
text choices:
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the
Taliban - Malala Yousafzai
Neverwhere – Neil Gaiman
Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman – Jon Krakauer
Monster - Walter Dean
Myers
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian – Sherman Alexie
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Summer
Reading Book Assignments
for
Incoming 11th Graders
Hull High
School is committed to preparing all students for success in college and
career. We believe that strategic
reading is an essential skill for all students, and one that must be practiced
in order to be improved on. Research
shows that “summer reading programs can be effective in lessening summer
learning loss and increasing reading achievement” (www.cslpreads.org). To that end, all HHS students are required to
read over the summer in preparation of the upcoming school year.
** Honors students will be required to read two books: the
primary text and one choice from the secondary choice list.
** College Prep students will be required to read the primary
text. CP students also have the option
to read one choice from the secondary choice list for extra credit.
Incoming
11th Grade – “The American Experience”
Required
primary text: Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
The author of Bird in Hand and The
Way Life Should Be delivers
her most ambitious and powerful novel to date: a captivating story of two very
different women who build an unexpected friendship: a 91-year-old woman with a
hidden past as an orphan-train rider and the teenage girl whose own troubled
adolescence leads her to seek answers to questions no one has ever thought to
ask.
Nearly eighteen, Molly Ayer knows she has one last chance. Just months from "aging out" of the child welfare system, and close to being kicked out of her foster home, a community service position helping an elderly woman clean out her home is the only thing keeping her out of juvie and worse.
Vivian Daly has lived a quiet life on the coast of Maine. But in her attic, hidden in trunks, are vestiges of a turbulent past. As she helps Vivian sort through her possessions and memories, Molly discovers that she and Vivian aren't as different as they seem to be. A young Irish immigrant orphaned in New York City, Vivian was put on a train to the Midwest with hundreds of other children whose destinies would be determined by luck and chance.
The closer Molly grows to Vivian, the more she discovers parallels to her own life. A Penobscot Indian, she, too, is an outsider being raised by strangers, and she, too, has unanswered questions about the past. As her emotional barriers begin to crumble, Molly discovers that she has the power to help Vivian find answers to mysteries that have haunted her for her entire life - answers that will ultimately free them both.
Rich in detail and epic in scope, Orphan Train is a powerful novel of upheaval and resilience, of second chances, of unexpected friendship, and of the secrets we carry that keep us from finding out who we are. --Goodreads.com
Nearly eighteen, Molly Ayer knows she has one last chance. Just months from "aging out" of the child welfare system, and close to being kicked out of her foster home, a community service position helping an elderly woman clean out her home is the only thing keeping her out of juvie and worse.
Vivian Daly has lived a quiet life on the coast of Maine. But in her attic, hidden in trunks, are vestiges of a turbulent past. As she helps Vivian sort through her possessions and memories, Molly discovers that she and Vivian aren't as different as they seem to be. A young Irish immigrant orphaned in New York City, Vivian was put on a train to the Midwest with hundreds of other children whose destinies would be determined by luck and chance.
The closer Molly grows to Vivian, the more she discovers parallels to her own life. A Penobscot Indian, she, too, is an outsider being raised by strangers, and she, too, has unanswered questions about the past. As her emotional barriers begin to crumble, Molly discovers that she has the power to help Vivian find answers to mysteries that have haunted her for her entire life - answers that will ultimately free them both.
Rich in detail and epic in scope, Orphan Train is a powerful novel of upheaval and resilience, of second chances, of unexpected friendship, and of the secrets we carry that keep us from finding out who we are. --Goodreads.com
Assignment:
College Prep
students must read the required text assigned for their grade. Honors students must read both the required
text and one choice from the secondary text list below. While reading, students will take notes in
two-column note format (template is attached).
Notes will be collected on the first day of school and will be used for
an in-class writing assessment during the first week of school.
College Prep
students may choose to read a text from the secondary list below to receive
extra credit. If the extra credit option
is chosen, students should also fill out the set of two-column notes for the
secondary text.
Secondary
text choices:
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – Rebecca Skloot
Zeitoun – Dave Eggers
Devil in the White City - Erik Larsen
The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy
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Summer
Reading Book Assignments
for
Incoming 12th Graders
Hull High
School is committed to preparing all students for success in college and
career. We believe that strategic
reading is an essential skill for all students, and one that must be practiced
in order to be improved on. Research
shows that “summer reading programs can be effective in lessening summer
learning loss and increasing reading achievement” (www.cslpreads.org). To that end, all HHS students are required to
read over the summer in preparation of the upcoming school year.
** Honors students will be required to read two books: the
primary text and one choice from the secondary choice list.
** College Prep students will be required to read the primary
text. CP students also have the option
to read one choice from the secondary choice list for extra credit.
Incoming
12th Grade – “World Perspectives: Beyond the Rotary”
Required
primary text: The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
Sussex, England. A middle-aged man returns to his childhood
home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn
to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a
most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother. He
hasn't thought of Lettie in decades, and yet as he sits by the pond (a pond
that she'd claimed was an ocean) behind the ramshackle old farmhouse, the
unremembered past comes flooding back. And it is a past too strange, too
frightening, too dangerous to have happened to anyone, let alone a small boy.
Forty years earlier, a man committed suicide in a stolen car at this farm at the end of the road. Like a fuse on a firework, his death lit a touchpaper and resonated in unimaginable ways. The darkness was unleashed, something scary and thoroughly incomprehensible to a little boy. And Lettie—magical, comforting, wise beyond her years—promised to protect him, no matter what.
A groundbreaking work from a master, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is told with a rare understanding of all that makes us human, and shows the power of stories to reveal and shelter us from the darkness inside and out. It is a stirring, terrifying, and elegiac fable as delicate as a butterfly's wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark.
Forty years earlier, a man committed suicide in a stolen car at this farm at the end of the road. Like a fuse on a firework, his death lit a touchpaper and resonated in unimaginable ways. The darkness was unleashed, something scary and thoroughly incomprehensible to a little boy. And Lettie—magical, comforting, wise beyond her years—promised to protect him, no matter what.
A groundbreaking work from a master, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is told with a rare understanding of all that makes us human, and shows the power of stories to reveal and shelter us from the darkness inside and out. It is a stirring, terrifying, and elegiac fable as delicate as a butterfly's wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark.
--Goodreads.com
Assignment:
College Prep
students must read the required text assigned for their grade. Honors students must read both the required
text and one choice from the secondary text list below. While reading, students will take notes in
two-column note format (template is attached).
Notes will be collected on the first day of school and will be used for
an in-class writing assessment during the first week of school.
College Prep
students may choose to read a text from the secondary list below to receive
extra credit. If the extra credit option
is chosen, students should also fill out the set of two-column notes for the
secondary text.
Secondary
text choices:
Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
Kitchen God’s Wife – Amy Tan
Girl in Translation – Jean Kwok
All the Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr
The Alchemist - Paulo
Coelho
