MARIA SKALA |
English 9-2 ESL, Advanced English (10/11/12) ESL, World History, US History, Alaska Studies |
| Homeroom: G204 |
| Phone: (907) 742-6200 |
| Email: skala_maria@asdk12.org |
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Welcome to the summer reading lists. I assembled reading lists for groups 9 and 10 then 11 and 12. Each contains books,
short stories, poetry and movies. I would like students to read the newspaper as well.
ELL Summer Reading List
Grades 9 and 10
I expect all students to read a newspaper at least once a week and a magazine, even if it is People magazine at least every
other week.
In addition, select one (1) book to read and be ready to discuss from the list below. If none of these excite you, please see me
before the end of school and we will find an alternative, academically challenging book for you that better fits your preference or
style.
Books
The Old Man and the Sea
Red Scarf Girl
Princess Bride
War of the Worlds
The Hobbit
China Son
Saving Juliet
Shakespeare Stealer
Romiette and Julio
Any book from these series: Twilight, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings
Short Stories
Pick one short story from this list and read it over the summer. If you cannot find a copy, please see me before school is out so
that I can help you.
“The Necklace”
“The Open Window”
“The Celebrated Frogs of Calaveras County”
“ The Washer Woman”
“The Second Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor”
“My English”
“A Man Called Horse”
Poetry
Pick a poem from the list, try to figure out why it is included in most anthologies.
‘Death Be Not Proud”
“The Seven Ages of Man”
“Stopping by a Wood, on a Snowy Evening”
‘Gunga Din”
“The Cremation of Sam McGee”
“The Raven”
“Annabel Lee”
“Dreams Deferred”
“Casey at the Bat”
Movies
These are classic movies. Pick one or two and see if you can determine why these are considered to be classics.
“Diary of Anne Frank”
“The Sound of Music”
‘City of Ember”
“10 Things I Hate About You”
“Clueless”
“October Sky”
“West Side Story”
“The Rookie”
“Volcano”
“Dante’s Peak”
“The Sandlot”
ELL Summer Reading List
Grades 11 and 12
I expect all students to read a newspaper at least once a week and a magazine, even if it is People magazine at least every
other week.
In addition, select one (1) book to read and be ready to discuss from the list below. If none of these excite you, please see me
before the end of school and we will find an alternative, academically challenging book for you that better fits your preference or
style.
Conrad, Joseph
Heart of Darkness
The novel's narrator journeys into the Congo where he discovers the extent to which greed can corrupt a good man.
(Note: The movie, “Apocalypse Now” with Marlon Brando and Martin Sheen, is based on this story.)
Criddle, Jan. D. and Teeda Butt Mam
To Destroy You Is No Loss: The Odyssey of a Cambodian Family
After the 1975 Communist takeover of Cambodia, Teeda's upper-class life is reduced to surviving impossible conditions.
Williams, Juan
Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-65
From Brown vs. the Board of Education to the Voting Rights Act, Williams outlines the social and political gains of African-
Americans
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksander
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Ivan Denisovich Shukhov endures one more day in a Siberian prison camp and finds joy in survival.
Hemingway, Ernest
A Farewell to Arms
During World War I, an American lieutenant runs away with the woman who nurses him back to health.
O’Brien, Tim
The Things They Carried
A collection of related stories by Tim O'Brien, about a platoon of American soldiers in the Vietnam War,
Tolkein, J.R.
Lord of the Rings
Read any one of the three books in this fantasy trilogy. Try to see how it tells about his feelings about World War II.
Hosseini , Khaled.
The Kite Runner.
Years after he flees Afghanistan, Amir, now an American citizen, returns to his native land and attempts to atone for the
betrayal of his best friend before he fled Kabul and the Taliban
Zusak , Marcus.
The Book Thief.
Living in Nazi Germany, young Liesel and her family choose to lie and steal to protect a Jewish refugee hiding in their
basement. Narrated by Death, this is not your typical World War II story.
Short Stories
Pick one short story from this list and read it over the summer. If you cannot find a copy, please see me before school is out so
that I can help you.
“The Open Boat’ Stephen Crane
“The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky” Bierce
‘The Quiet Man” O’Connor
“The Man Who Would Be King” Kipling
“A Modern Cinderella” Alcott
“On Being Seventeen, Bright, and Unable to Read” Raymond
Poetry
Pick a poem from the list, they are ALL long and try to read and understand at least one section.
“Paradise Lost” Milton
“The Waste Land” Eliot
“The Inferno” Dante
“Song of Hiawatha” Longfellow
Movies
These are classic movies. Pick one or two and see if you can determine why these are considered to be classics.
“Citizen Kane”
“Gone With the Wind”
‘The Rear Window”
“The Best Years of Our Lives”
“Godzilla” (the original not the later films)
“How Green Was My Valley”
“It Happened One Night”
“White Christmas”
“The Music Man”
“The Sound of Music”
“A Patch of Blue”
“West Side Story”
“Journey to the Center of the Earth” (1950’s version)
“Imitation of Life” (the one with Lana Turner and John Gavin)
“King Kong” –the ORIGINAL not the remake.
