Lynn Vocational Technical Institute’s
ALL-SCHOOL READ
SUMMER 2014
Summer: A beach and a book…
What else is there?
James Patterson’s book for adults entitled Against Medical Advice
tells the story of one teenager’s courage, sacrifice, and triumph in
confronting an agonizing medical condition. Now this deeply personal
account of Cory Friedman’s intense struggles with Tourette Syndrome
and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder--as well as depression, anxiety,
and alcohol addiction--is available for teen readers.
(source: www.amazon.com)
Lynn Vocational Technical Institute
80 Neptune Boulevard
Lynn, MA 01902
Tel. 781-477-7420
Fax 781-477-7415
Diane M. Paradis, Director
Robert Buontempo, Assistant Director
Emily Spinucci, Interim Assistant Director
Dear Students, Parents, and Guardians,
L.V.T.I. will continue its summer tradition of offering a shared reading experience to all
students (entering grades 9-12) and staff. Before school is dismissed in June, students
will be given Med Head, a book written by popular teen and adult author James Patterson.
Please encourage your child to read often this summer, and perhaps even read along
with them. Feel free to email the ELA Department Head, Noelle Beaulieu, at beaulieun@
lynnschools.org, if you or your child has any questions.
All of the information needed to be successful this summer will be posted on our school
website (www.lvti.us) at the beginning of July. In addition to the required reading of
Med Head, students will be responsible for completing a set of assignments to
demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of the book. Each vocational program
and academic area—English, math, science, and history--will post assignments online
that connect to the reading. Students are required to submit all completed work on
Monday, September 8, 2014. (Note: Hard copies of assignments will also be available
for pickup in our main office throughout the summer.) Please also note that students
entering Honors and AP classes are expected to read additional books as well.
This shift in our approach to summer reading is meant to increase participation, promote
cross-content collaboration, and strengthen our school community as a whole. We thank
you for your support and hope you have a wonderful summer.
Sincerely,
Diane Paradis, on behalf of the L.V.T.I. Faculty
All Students Grades 9-12
Students enrolled in all English classes are required to read Med Head.
Students enrolled in Honors and AP English classes should see additional
requirements on opposite page. (**Any other interested readers are encouraged
[not required] to select additional titles from this list as well!)
Additional Requirements
Students entering Grade 9
Honors English
Students entering Grade 10
Honors English
REQUIRED: Minimum of Two
REQUIRED: Minimum of Two
Divergent Series by Veronica Roth
How They Croaked (NF) by Georgia Bragg
Unwind by Neal Shusterman
13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher
The Fault In Our Stars by John Green
When Plague Strikes: The Black Death,
Smallpox, AIDS (NF) by James Cross Giblin and
David Frampton
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
Trouble by Gary Schmidt
Dear Bully: Seventy Authors Tell Their Stories (NF)
by numerous authors
Paper Towns by John Green
First They Killed My Father (NF)
by Loung Ung
Forgotten Fire by Adam Bagdasarian
Feed by M.T. Anderson
Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
Please Stop Laughing At Me by Jodee Blanco
The Impossible Knife of Memory
by Laurie Halse Anderson
Leviathan by Scott Westerfield
A Blessing Over Ashes: The Remarkable Odyssey
of My Unlikely Brother by Adam Fifield
In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle (NF)
by Madeline Blais
Students entering Grade 11
Honors English
Students entering Grade 12
Honors English
REQUIRED: Minimum of Two
REQUIRED: Minimum of Two
Witch-Hunt: Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials
(NF) by Marc Aronson
Twelve Years a Slave (NF) by Solomon Northup
The Diviners by Libba Bray
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (NF)
by Rebecca Skloot
The Circle (NF) by Dave Eggers
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
by Stephen Chbosky
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival,
Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates (NF)
by Wes Moore
Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice,
Slavery, Freedom, and Science (NF)
by Marc Aronson
Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan
Became an American Boy (NF) by Andrea Warren
Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith
(NF) by Deborah Heiligman
I Am Malala (NF) by Malala Yousafzai
A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Outliers (NF) by Malcolm Gladwell
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Til We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
I Am The Messenger by Marcus Zusak
Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth’s
Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa (NF)
by Mark Mathaban
Students entering Grade 11
AP Language and Composition
Students entering Grade 12
AP Literature and Composition
REQUIRED: Minimum of Five
REQUIRED: All
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by Dave Eggers
When You Are Engulfed in Flames
by David Sedaris
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Franny & Zooey by J.D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat