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Summer Reading: 9th, 10th, and 11th Graders

Posted by Luke Zeller on Wednesday, June 21, 2017 at 11:38 am
​Students and Families,

Click on the links below to view the 2017 summer reading directions for your grade level.

1) Incoming 9th Graders

2) Rising 10th and 11th Graders

Happy Reading!
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Rising 10th and 11th Grade Summer Reading

Posted by Luke Zeller on Thursday, June 23, 2016 at 9:55 am

SLA@Beeber

Rising 10th and 11th* Grade Summer Reading


An important goal of the English curriculum at SLA Beeber is for students to become lifelong readers. Reading should be fun because it opens up new experiences to us and allows us to think more critically about more familiar experiences. It is a form of entertainment and life-long education that we hope you will value!


For your summer reading you must read two books from the list below. You must choose books that you have not read in the past. If you are a rising 11th grader, one of your books must come from the “classic” category.*


For each book, you must complete a response to the book from among the following choices. You must complete a different response for each book:


1) 2 Page Double Entry Journal: Draw a line down the middle of a page. For one column, label it “Notes from the Text.” Here, you should write down notes from the text that stand out to you as important (Be sure to label it with the page number). For the other column, label it “My Response.” In this column, you write what you are thinking about the text or the questions that you have about the text.


Page #

Notes from Text

My Response/Analysis


2) Body Biography of a Character: Draw an outline of a character, this could just be a stick figure. Then, for each major body part: hands, heart, eyes, nose, arms, feet, knees, stomach, head, ears, etc. you should make a metaphorical body part that would represent a part of the character’s identity. For example, the eyes could be closed shutters if they are not able to see and appreciate their friends or family. This is a characterization activity. On the back, or on a separate paper, explain how and why you chose each body part to represent the character you chose.


3) It Says, I Say, And So Inference: This is a process for making inferences about what you read based on your own questions. You go through the following process. The total word count should be 400-500 words:

  • 1) Question: Ask a deep, open-ended question about the text I am reading?

  • 2) It Says: What details and information from the text will help me answer this question?

  • 3) I Say: What do I have to say about the topic of this question that comes from my own knowledge and experience from the world?

  • 4) And So: By combining the references to the text with my own knowledge and experience, what is my inference, my answer to my question?

  • 5) So What?: What is the broader connection of my inference to humanity or society in general?

4) Create a High Quality Book Trailer that will be shown the first week of school. This should include information about setting, characters, and the initial conflict. Be sure not to give away the ending! Sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWrNyVhSJUU


Here are choices of novels that you can choose from. If you would like to read another book, just email your English teacher from last year.


Dystopian Novels


House of the Scorpion

Hunger Games Series

Divergent Series

Maze Runner Series

The Selection Series

Matched Series

Uglies Series

Delirium Series

Unwind Series

Gone Series

The 5th Wave Series

The Legend Series

Social Issues/Coming of Age

Thirteen Reasons Why

Everyday

Speak

One For the Murphy’s

Perks of Being a Wallflower

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night

Winter Girls

My Sister’s Keeper

This Song Will Save Your Life

Fat Kid Rules the World

Saint Iggy

Being Henry David

Smashed

The Future of Us

The Hate List

Historical Fiction


Roots

Code Name Verity

Between Shades of Gray

Out of the Easy

Chains

Copper Sun

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

When the Emperor Was Divine

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

The Girl With The Pearl Earring

Sarah’s Key

The Buddha in the Attic

Girl in Reverse


Memoir/Biography/Autobiography

The Color of Water

I Am Malala

Diary of Anne Frank

Black Boy

Born on a Blue Day

Steve Jobs

Tuesdays With Morrie

Into Thin Air

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

The Last Lecture

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Night

The Glass Castle

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Romance


The Fault in Our Stars

Looking For Alaska

Paper Towns

Anna and the French Kiss

This is What Happy Looks Like

The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

The Geography of You and Me

If I Stay/Where She Went

Just Listen

Fantasy/Sci Fi

Harry Potter Series

Ender’s Game

The Hobbit

Lord of the Rings Series

Cinder Series

Fallen Series

Twilight Series

Daughter of Smoke and Bone Series

Fahrenheit 451

Feed

I Am Number Four

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

Talon Series

Classic Books

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Eyre

Wuthering Heights

The Awakening

The Red Badge of Courage

Don Quixote

The Three Musketeers

The Scarlet Letter

Catch-22

Brave New World

The Metamorphosis

To Kill a Mockingbird

The Call of the Wild

Beloved

The Bell Jar

The Grapes of Wrath

Treasure Island

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Candide

Slaughterhouse -Five

The Color Purple

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Native Son

Frankenstein

Dracula

Heart of Darkness

Lord of the Flies

Things Fall Apart

Anthills of the Savannah

No Longer at Ease

Detective Fiction

Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Margery Allingham, The Tiger in the Smoke

Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest

A Hardy Boys, The Shore Road Mystery, and a Nancy Drew, The Secret in the Attic

Dorothy Sayers, Gaudy Night

Sara Peretsky, Hard Time

Barbara Neely, Blanche Among the Talented Tenth

Walter Mosley, Devil in a Blue Dress

Tony Hillerman, A Thief of Time

Henning Menkell, The White Lioness

Hoobler, Dorothy, and Thomas Hoobler. The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn.

Nixon, Joan Lowery. The Weekend Was Murder!

Rose, Malcolm. Framed!

Newman, Robert. The Case of the Baker Street Irregular: A Sherlock Holmes Story.

Agatha Christie, Murder in the Vicarage



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SLA@Beeber Incoming Freshmen Summer Reading!

Posted by Luke Zeller on Friday, June 17, 2016 at 3:06 pm

SLA Beeber 9th Grade Summer Reading 2016-2017


Dear Incoming Ninth Grader,


Welcome to SLA! Before coming to school in September we'd like you to read one of the following books: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Sherman Alexie), Everyday (David Levithan), or The House of the Scorpion (Nancy Farmer).


While you may get the book from the library, we strongly suggest that you purchase your

choice text, as we will be referring to it in English classes in September. We are selling all

three titles at discounted prices on New Family Night to make obtaining summer reading easy

and effortless. Of course, feel free to read them all! They are all so great!


Below are some questions to help you navigate your novel and help you prepare to discuss it

with your classmates and teachers. As you may already know, SLA utilizes guiding questions

that help focus our studies and make learning more meaningful for us all. As you read your

book, think about the following larger questions as they apply to the characters, action,

conflicts, and resolutions in your choice text and also as they apply to your life. Part of active

reading includes some writing. Prepare to hand in a journal consisting of at least eight entries,

each one longer than a half page. Before you write, consider the following questions to explore

in your journal. Each entry could be a response to a question as it relates to the book. Include

your own personal responses to these questions, and how these questions might apply to your

choice text. This will be collected in September.


• What is family?

• What is the power of friendship?

• What does it mean to be a caregiver/mother/father?

• What is education and where can it exist?

• What is love?

• How does a person become evil?

•In what ways can the line between good and evil be blurred?

• How do you justify the idea that a person can be both good and evil at the same time?

• Who is a survivor? Why?

• What does it mean to be human?

• How can children create their own paths in a world run by the adults?
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9th Grade Summer Reading 2015

Posted by Luke Zeller on Friday, June 19, 2015 at 10:14 am

SLA Beeber 9th Grade Summer Reading 2015


Dear Incoming Ninth Grader,


Welcome to SLA! Before coming to school in September we'd like you to read one of the following books: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Sherman Alexie), Everyday (David Levithan), or The House of the Scorpion (Nancy Farmer).


While you may get the book from the library, we strongly suggest that you purchase your

choice text, as we will be referring to it in English classes in September. We are selling all

three titles at discounted prices on New Family Night to make obtaining summer reading easy

and effortless. Of course, feel free to read them all! They are all so great!


Below are some questions to help you navigate your novel and help you prepare to discuss it

with your classmates and teachers. As you may already know, SLA utilizes guiding questions

that help focus our studies and make learning more meaningful for us all. As you read your

book, think about the following larger questions as they apply to the characters, action,

conflicts, and resolutions in your choice text and also as they apply to your life. Part of active

reading includes some writing. Prepare to hand in a journal consisting of at least eight entries,

each one longer than a half page. Before you write, consider the following questions to explore

in your journal. Each entry could be a response to a question as it relates to the book. Include

your own personal responses to these questions, and how these questions might apply to your

choice text. This will be collected in September.


• What is family?

• What is the power of friendship?

• What does it mean to be a caregiver/mother/father?

• What is education and where can it exist?

• What is love?

• How does a person become evil?

•In what ways can the line between good and evil be blurred?

• How do you justify the idea that a person can be both good and evil at the same time?

• Who is a survivor? Why?

• What does it mean to be human?

• How can children create their own paths in a world run by the adults?
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Sign Up to Volunteer for Summer Institute 2015!

Posted by Luke Zeller on Thursday, June 18, 2015 at 5:19 pm
If you would like to be a volunteer for our Summer Institute 2015 to welcome the new freshmen to our school, please sign up using the link below. You must be committed for all three days and be prepared to be great ambassadors for our school that is based around an ethic of care and respect for all community members. Please sign up to continue to promote and develop our school!
Summer Institute 2015 Volunteer Sign Up Form
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Summer Reading for Rising 10th and 11th Graders

Posted by Luke Zeller on Thursday, June 18, 2015 at 5:00 pm
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SLA@Beeber Express Myself! Videos: East Stream

Posted by Luke Zeller in ENGLISH 1 - Zeller - X on Sunday, November 30, 2014 at 5:00 pm
Welcome to the SLA@Beeber 9th Grade English Blog for East Stream. East Stream is one section of the 9th grade class. For these projects, the students have developed their own videos as individuals and as a part of their group. Please enjoy the videos and what the students have to say about their videos!
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SLA@Beeber Express Myself! Videos: North Stream

Posted by Luke Zeller in ENGLISH 1 - Zeller - E on Sunday, November 30, 2014 at 5:00 pm
Welcome to the SLA@Beeber 9th Grade English Blog for North Stream. North Stream is one section of the 9th grade class. For these projects, the students have developed their own videos as individuals and as a part of their group. Please enjoy the videos and what the students have to say about their videos!
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SLA@Beeber Express Myself! Videos: South Stream

Posted by Luke Zeller in ENGLISH 1 - Zeller - D on Sunday, November 30, 2014 at 4:58 pm
Welcome to the SLA@Beeber 9th Grade English Blog for South Stream. South Stream is one section of the 9th grade class. For these projects, the students have developed their own videos as individuals and as a part of their group. Please enjoy the videos and what the students have to say about their videos!
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SLA@Beeber Express Myself! Videos: West Stream

Posted by Luke Zeller in ENGLISH 1 - Zeller - A on Sunday, November 30, 2014 at 4:55 pm
Welcome to the SLA@Beeber 9th Grade English Blog for West Stream. West Stream is one section of the 9th grade class. For these projects, the students have developed their own videos as individuals and as a part of their group. Please enjoy the videos and what the students have to say about their videos!
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Boys' Soccer Team Goes 2-0

Posted by Luke Zeller on Friday, September 12, 2014 at 6:38 pm
SLA Boys' Soccer Team put in an impressive performance this afternoon defeating KIPP DuBois Collegiate Academy 12-0 on our home field. Congratulations to the team and have a great weekend!
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Boys' Soccer Win over Penn Treaty!

Posted by Luke Zeller on Wednesday, September 10, 2014 at 7:52 pm
SLA Boys' soccer team won its first game of the season defeating Penn Treaty High School 3-0. William Figeiredo, Malachai Johnson, and Jordon Gilles scored goals in the game and William Derry recorded his first shut out. Our next game is this Friday, September 12th at 44th and Haverford at 3:30pm. Come out and support!
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10th Grade Summer Reading

Posted by Luke Zeller on Tuesday, June 10, 2014 at 2:30 pm
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