Silent Sustained Reading
10th Honors English
Goals:
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Students will read for pleasure.
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Students’ reading fluency will improve through an increase in frequency.
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Students will interact with the text through maintaining a reading log.
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Students will increase their literacy through exposure to a wide variety of classic and
contemporary texts.
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Students will develop their speaking and presentation skills through sharing information about
what they have read.
Requirements:
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You must read at least 250 pages from non-curricular fiction or non-fiction works each six week
period.
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You must keep a reading log that documents what you read. Each six week period you must
complete four short entries in which you summarize what you read, four short entries in which you
write an observation about what you read, and one entry in which you make a connection
between something you read and your life, another text, or something in the world. Each
summary is worth two points, each observation is worth two points, and the connection is worth
four points for a total of twenty points.
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Each trimester one of the books that you read must be from the provided list of recommended
books for college bound students. Each student must sign-up for a date to give an oral
presentation for the required book that he/she read. The grade for the oral presentation will be in
the second six week period of the trimester regardless of when the presentation is given. See the
attached sheet for a list of possible oral presentations. You must read the entire book for which
you are doing your oral project. You may not use the same book for both trimesters.
SSR Reading Logs #3 Due
Friday, January 15
20 points
SSR Reading Logs #4 Due
Friday, March 4
20 points
SSR Oral Project
(Sign-up to present on one of the available presentation days)
20 points
Oral SSR Projects
1. Present a 3-5 minute book talk to the class. Your book talk should include a read aloud of your
favorite scene. This is primarily a review of the book. Tell what you liked or did not like about the
book. Do not simply give a summary of the book’s plot.
2. Create a comparison and contrast chart of the novel and a movie version of the text. The chart
must have at least 20 comparison and contrast items. You need to give an oral presentation of
the chart.
3. Write a screen play for a scene from your book and film it. The script must be typed and double
spaced and at least 4 pages in length. The script will be handed in along with the movie. The
movie must be done in an appropriate manner and suitable to show the entire class.
4. Create a power point presentation for the novel. You must include pictures, highlights of the story,
and your own opinion of the text. You will need to present the power point to the class and
summarize the story.
216 Books For College Bound Readers (rev, 11/29/15)
A Brief History of Time
A Death in the Family
A Farewell to Arms
A Good Man is Hard to Find
A Handful of Dust
A Hope in the Unseen
A Lesson Before Dying
A Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earth
A Man of the People
A Painted House
A Passage to India
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Sand Count Almanac: And Sketches Here and
There
A Separate Peace
A Tale of Two Cities
A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings of
Martin Luther King Jr.
Age of Innocence, The
All Quiet on the Western Front
All the Pretty Horses
An American Childhood
An American Tragedy
An Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Animal Dreams
Anna Karenina
Anthem
As I Lay Dying
Ascent of Man, The
Autobiography of Malcom X, The
Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, The
Awakening, The
Babbit
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
Bean Trees, The
Bell Jar, The
Beloved
Black Like Me
Bless Me, Ultima
Book Thief, The
Born on the 4th of July
Brave New World
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Call it Sleep
Call of the Wild
Cat’s Cradle
Cat’s Eye
Catch 22
Catcher in the Rye
Chosen, The
Cold Mountain
Color of Water, The
Color Purple, The
Coming of Age in Mississippi
Count of Monte Cristo, The
Stephen Hawking
James Agee
Ernest Hemmingway
Flannery O’Connor
Evelyn Waugh
Ron Suskind
Ernest Gaines
David Attenborough
Achebe Chinua
John Grisham
EM Forester
James Joyce
Aldo Leopold
John Knowles
Charles Dickens
Martin Luther King Jr.
Edith Wharton
Erich Maria Remarque
Cormac McCarthy
Annie Dillard
Theodore Dreiser
Benjamin Franklin
Barbara Kingsolver
Leo Tolstoy
Ayn Rand
William Faulkner
Jacob Bronowski
Alex Haley
Ernest Gaines
Kate Chopin
Sinclair Lewis
James McPherson
Barbara Kingsolver
Sylvia Plath
Toni Morrison
John Howard Griffin
Rudolfo Anaya
Markus Zusak
Ron Kovic
Aldous Huxley
Dee Brown
Henry Roth
Jack London
Kurt Vonnegut
Maragaret Attwood
Joseph Heller
JD Salinger
Chaim Potak
Charles Frazier
James McBride
Alice Walker
Anne Moody
Alexandre Dumas
Crime and Punishment
Cry the Beloved Country
curious incident of the dog in night-time, The
Dandelion Wine
David Copperfield
Days of Grace
Dead Man Walking
Death Be Not Proud
Death in Venice
Death of Artemio Cruz, The
Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in New
England, The
Diary of a Young Girl, The
Doctor Zhivago
Don Quixote
East of Eden
Elephant Man, The
Ethan Frome
Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years,
1954-65
Fallen Angels
Farewell to Manzanar
Fixer, The
Flags of Our Fathers
Flowers for Algernon
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Fountainhead, The
Fried Green Tomatoes
Glass Castle: A Memoir, The
Go Tell it on the Mountain
Good Earth, The
Great Expectations
Great Gatsby, The
Grendel
Growing Up
Gulliver’s Travels
Handmaid’s Tale, The
Having Our Say
Heart of Darkness
Hiroshima
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy , The (trilogy)
Hobbit, The
House Made of Dawn
House of Houses
House of Spirits
House on Mango Street, The
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent
Humboldt's Gift
I know Why the Caged Bird Sings
I Robot
In Cold Blood
In Country
In Pharoh’s Army
In the Time of Butterflies
Into the Wild
Invisible Man
Invisible Men: Life in Baseball’s Negro Leagues
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Alan Paton
Mark Haddon
Ray Bradbury
Charles Dickens
Arthur Ashe
Helen Prejean
John Gunther
Thomas Mann
Carlos Fuentes
Carol Karlsen
Anne Frank
Boris Pasternak
Miquel Cervantes
John Steinbeck
Christine Sparks
Edith Wharton
Juan Williams
Walter Dean Myers
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James Houston
Bernard Malamud
James Bradley and Ron Powers
Daniel Keyes
Ernest Hemmingway
Ayn Rand
Fannie Flagg
Jeannette Walls
James Baldwin
Pearl S. Buck
Charles Dickens
F. Scott Fitzgerald
John Gardner
Russell Baker
Jonathan Swift
Margaret Atwood
Delaney Sisters
Joseph Conrad
John Hersey
Douglas Adams
JRR Tolkein
N. Scot t Momaday
Pat Mora
Isabel Allende
Sandra Cisneros
Julia Alvarez
Saul Bellow
Maya Angelou
Isaac Asimov
Truman Capote
Bobbie Anne Mason
Tobias Wolff
Julia Alvarez
Jon Krakauer
Ralph Ellison
Donn Rogosin
It
Ivanhoe
Jane Eyre
Johnny Got His Gun
Joy Luck Club, The
Jungle, The
Kaffir Boy
Killer Angels
Kindred
Kiterunner, The
Lakota Woman
Last of the Mohicans, The
Learning Tree, The
Lies My Teacher Told Me
Life of Pi, The
Like Water for Chocolate
Look Homeward Angel
Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Rings, The (trilogy)
Madame Curie
Main Street
Member of the Wedding, The
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middle Passages
Mill on the Floss, The
Millenium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World
Moby Dick
My Antonia
Mythology
Native Son
Natural, The
Old Man and the Sea, The
On Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
On the Beach
On the Road
Once and Future King
One Flew Over the Cuckcoo’s Nest
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Ordinary People
Origin of the Species, The
Overcoat, The
Ox-Bow Incident, The
Parable of the Sower
Picture of Dorian Gray, The
Power of Myth, The
Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel
About the American Obsession
Red and the Black, The
Red Badge of Courage , The
Reviving Ophelia
Road from Coorain, The
Robinson Crusoe
Roots
Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools
Scarlet Pimpernel, The
Schindler’s List
Secret Life of Bees, The
Stephen King
Sir Walter Scott
Charlotte Bronte
Dalton Trumbo
Amy Tan
Upton Sinclair
Mark Mathabane
Michael Shaara
Octavia Butler
Khaled Hosseini
Crow Dog, Mary, and Richard Erdoes
James Fennimore Cooper
Gordon Parks
James Loewen
Yann Martel
Laura Esquivel
Thomas Wolfe
William Golding
JRR Tolkein
Eve Curie
Sinclair Lewis
Carson McCullers
Arthur Golden
Charles R. Johnson
George Elliot
David Maybury-Lewis
Herman Melville
Willa Cather
Edith Hamilton
Richard Wright
Bernard Malamud
Ernest Hemmingway
Aleksander Solhenitsyn
Neil Shute
Jack Kerouac
EB White
Ken Kesey
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Christopher Guest
Charles Darwin
Nikolai Gogl
Walter Clark
Octavia Butler
Oscar Wilde
Joseph Campbell
Studs Terkel
Stendahl
Stephen Crane
Mary Pipher
Jill Ker Conway
Daniel Defoe
Alex Haley
Jonathan Kozol
Baroness Orczy Emmuska
Thomas Keneally
Sue Monk Kidd
Seize the Day
Siddartha
Silent Spring
Slaughter House Five
Sons and Lovers
Sound and the Fury, The
Story of My Life, The
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The
Sula
Tess of the D’Ubervilles
The Prince
The Republic
The Stranger
The World Must Know: The History of the
Holocaust as told in the United States
There are No Children Here: The Story of Two
Boys Growing Up in Urban America
Things They Carried, The
This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou
Hamer
Three Musketeer, The
Time Machine, The
Tin Drum, The
To Destroy You is No Loss: The Odyssey of a
Cambodian Family
To the Lighthouse
Trial, The
Tuesdays with Morrie
Turn of a Screw, The
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Walden
War and Peace
Watership Down
Winesburg Ohio
Woman Warrior
Wuthering Heights
Yellow Raft in Blue Water
Ender’s Game
Wicked
Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich
Themselves at Government Expense
Saul Bellow
Hermann Hess
Rachel Carson
Kurt Vonnegut
DH Lawrence
William Faulkner
Helen Keller
Robert Louis Stevenson
Toni Morrison
Thomas Hardy
Niccolo Machiavelli
Plato
Albert Camus
Michael Berenbaum
Freedom
The Art of Happiness
This Changes Everything
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The Road
The Last Lecture
Lucky
The Lovely Bones
Fun Home
The Fault is in Our Stars
Harry Potter (the series)
Water for Elephants
The Shining
The Elephant Man
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
The Grapes of Wrath
Jonathan Franzen
Dalai Lama
Naomi Klein
Stephen Chomsky
Cormac McCarthy
Randy Pausch
Alice Sebold
Alice Sebold
Alison Bechdel
John Green
JK Rowling
Sara Gruen
Steven King
Christine Sparks
ishmael beah
John Steinbeck
Alex Kotlowitz
Tim O’Brein
Kay Mills
Alexandre Dumas
HG Wells
Gunter Grass
Jan Criddle & Teeda Butt Mam
Virginia Woolf
Franz Kafka
Mitch Albom
James Joyce
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Henry David Thoreau
Leo Tolstoy
Richard Adams
Sherwood Anderson
Maxine Hong Kingston
Emily Bronte
Michael Dorris
Orson Scott Card
Gregory McGuire
David Cay Johnston