1 Summer Reading Project: 2017 Incoming Sophomores Dear Incoming Sophomores, In this packet you will find the instructions for your Summer 2017 Reading Project. As a team, your English teachers believe that summer reading is a valuable way for you to carry on learning independently and to prepare you for the content and expectations you will have during the new school year. As sophomores, you are continuing to develop and understand both yourselves and the world in which you live. With this in mind, we will be focusing all year on answering the question: How do you fit into the world? In order to best answer this, we will spend the upcoming year understanding the world in which we currently live, and looking at how characters fit into their worlds and societies. This all begins this summer for you! YOU WILL READ 2 BOOKS. First, we have chosen a nonfiction book, Discovering Wes Moore or The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore, in which he tells his own story and the story of another young man with the same name who lived nearby, but led a very different life. As you read his story, think about how he and the other Wes Moore both fit into their societies, or not. For the first book, please make sure that you: Carefully read the directions for the Wes Moore Book Project on page 2. Complete the reading journal found on pages 4-7. Come prepared to take a quiz and discuss this novel on the first day of school in August. You may use your double entry reading journal while taking the quiz. Your English teachers will be ready for you! In addition, you will select a second book based on the following criteria: The book must be 150 pages or more. It must be written at an appropriate reading level for high school students. Other than that, what you choose to read for the second book is up to you! Ask your current English teacher or your classmates for recommendations. Speaking of recommendations, we surveyed students for their favorite summertime “good reads.” They came up with a list of over 100 titles. Check pages 15 -16 to see what your classmates suggested. When you have finished the second book, complete either Project A or Project B listed on pages 8-14. Have questions? Need help? Email [email protected]for more information! Happy reading! Your Grade 10 English teacher team
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Summer Reading Project: 2017 Incoming Sophomores
Dear Incoming Sophomores,
In this packet you will find the instructions for your Summer 2017 Reading Project. As a team,
your English teachers believe that summer reading is a valuable way for you to carry on learning
independently and to prepare you for the content and expectations you will have during the new school
year.
As sophomores, you are continuing to develop and understand both yourselves and the world in
which you live. With this in mind, we will be focusing all year on answering the question:
How do you fit into the world?
In order to best answer this, we will spend the upcoming year understanding the world in which
we currently live, and looking at how characters fit into their worlds and societies.
This all begins this summer for you! YOU WILL READ 2 BOOKS. First, we have chosen a
nonfiction book, Discovering Wes Moore or The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes
Moore, in which he tells his own story and the story of another young man with the same name who
lived nearby, but led a very different life. As you read his story, think about how he and the other Wes
Moore both fit into their societies, or not.
For the first book, please make sure that you:
Carefully read the directions for the Wes Moore Book Project on page 2.
Complete the reading journal found on pages 4-7.
Come prepared to take a quiz and discuss this novel on the first day of school in August.
You may use your double entry reading journal while taking the quiz. Your English
teachers will be ready for you!
In addition, you will select a second book based on the following criteria:
The book must be 150 pages or more.
It must be written at an appropriate reading level for high school students.
Other than that, what you choose to read for the second book is up to you! Ask your current
English teacher or your classmates for recommendations. Speaking of recommendations, we surveyed
students for their favorite summertime “good reads.” They came up with a list of over 100 titles. Check
pages 15 -16 to see what your classmates suggested.
When you have finished the second book, complete either Project A or Project B listed on pages 8-14.
Have questions? Need help? Email [email protected] for more information!
Happy reading!
Your Grade 10 English teacher team
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WES MOORE BOOK PROJECT
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
Discovering Wes Moore
DIRECTIONS: Please read the following directions to complete the Wes Moore Book Project.
1) Purchase one of the two following books: The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates or
Discovering Wes Moore. Both books are written by Wes Moore.
NOTE: Some resources for purchasing your book include: your local library (free!),
local bookstores, Amazon.com, thriftbooks.com and Goodwill/Salvation Army stores.
2) Read the book!
3) Complete the required assignment: a double entry reading journal. You may use the journal
that is provided in this packet or you can make your own using lined paper.
4) As you read, pay attention to passages that focus on these four areas:
Character development: What do we learn about the characters? How do they
change throughout the story?
Plot: What major events happen in the story?
Theme: What passages help the reader understand what the author is trying to
teach the reader about life, society, or growing up?
Vocabulary words: Find new words that you don’t know, but seem important to
the story.
5) When you find a passage that seems to fit one of these areas, do the following:
Step Action
1. On the left side of the reading journal, copy the passage
down along with the page number.
NOTE: Each quoted passage should be between 20-50
words in length.
2. On the right side of the reading journal, explain what the
passage means and why it is important.
3. Continue to jot down passages until you have written
20 total passages.
Need a visual? Check out the sample on page 3!
Have questions? Need help? Email [email protected] for more information!
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WES MOORE BOOK PROJECT SAMPLE
PASSAGE/QUOTATION (PAGE NUMBER) EXPLANATION
“I struggled to explain the purpose of my letter
and posed a series of naive questions that had
been running through my mind: Who are
you?” (xii)
Vocabulary Naive: adjective, showing a lack of
experience or wisdom
Wes (author) is explaining how he felt that his
questions for the other Wes were silly because
he didn’t know how to connect to someone
whose life is so different from his own.
“‘Listen,’ he went on. ‘Your father wasn’t
there because he couldn’t be, my father wasn’t
there because he chose not to be. We’re going
to mourn their absence in different ways.’” (3).
Character Development Both Wes Moores have grown up in a single
parent home, but for different reasons. Wes
Moore, the author, lost his father because he
died, but Wes Moore, the prisoner, had no
father because his father abandoned him.
These different circumstances change how
each man deals with the childhood they had
and how they understand how to be a father
and adult man themselves.
“The idea of becoming a father depressed Wes,
but he wasn’t sure why. He didn’t have to
worry about feeling alone or like a pariah. Wes
and Alicia’s situation was anything but
exceptional.” (100)
Plot Wes (prisoner) has just found out that his
girlfriend, Alicia, is pregnant. They are both
just teenagers at this point, and this is a huge
change for him, but he isn’t really sure why
because he hasn’t ever seen what fatherhood
really entails.
“As I started to think seriously about how I
could become the person I wanted to be, I
looked around at some of the people who'd had
the biggest impact on my life. Aside from
family and friends, the men I most trusted all
had something in common: they all wore the
uniform of the United States of America.”
(132)
Theme In this section, Wes is identifying one of the