Summer Reading Extra Credit Assignment -

Summer Reading Extra Credit Assignment

6/12/2011

English Summer Reading: This summer choose to read one of the following books" Go Ask Alice, Lord of the Flies, Red Scarf Girl, The Outsiders, Purple Hibiscus, or The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. See Fred or Kia for a copy of the book. In order to get extra credit, you will need to read the book, and as you read the book answer weekly posts. In order to receive full credit, you will need to respond to at least 5 of my post and then respond to 5 of your classmates' posts throughout the summer.

If you decide to do this assignment, comment to this post by:

1) Telling me your name and a little bit about you.
2) Write the name of the book you are choosing to read (it should be a book you have not read yet).
3) Explain why you are interested in reading this book.

Summer reading will begin July 11th and end on September 2nd. Happy reading!

26 Comments

Tashi Palmo

06/14/2011 13:10

Hi Ms. Shahzia,
My name is Tashi and I will be one of your student next year. For summer break, i want to read "the red scarf gir" because I read couple chinese traditional books before and liked it. therefore, i am hoping that i will like this book as well. HVE A GREAT SUMMER. looking forward to be your student next year.
Tashi

Abdouramane Barry

06/14/2011 13:10

Hi! Shahzia
My name is Abdouramane Barry from Guinea, West Africa. I am going to be a senior in the fall and I am very excited. I hope we will have a very good time together. Have a great summer! Thank you!

David Conneely

06/14/2011 13:12

Hi Shahzia,

My name is David Conneely. I am an 11th grade science teacher at your school. I think you are going to be very happy with the students next year. They are a great group of students!

One of my favorite books is One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. What is one of your favorite books?

Have a great summer.

Sincerely,
David

Tony Huang

06/14/2011 13:12

Hi Miss Shahzia
My name is Tony a 11th grade student. Have a great summer and hope you will get good student next year like me.

imad kassim

06/14/2011 13:12

hello shahzia.

im in 11th grade and im from yemen and this year my favorite book was the giver. and whats your favorite book. have a good summer

Mariam

06/14/2011 13:13

hello shahazi,

my name is Mariam and I will like to be to call Brittny, and am 16 years old and I can wait to get to 12 grade.

Mobasera Bagum

06/14/2011 13:15

Hi, Shahzia

How are you? I love reading a lot. I love reading interesting stories and books. I enjoy reading about mysteries and fairy tales. I read the book Achemist by Paulo Cohelo, he is a great author that has lesson in all his books. Achemist is one of my favorite book that I read more then 3 times. Did you read the book? What is one of you're favorite book?

Vanessa Soanze

06/14/2011 13:15

Hi Shahzia my name is Vanessa Soanze i'm from West Africa, Ivory Coast. I've been in the coutry for 2 year and my goal for the future is to be an Scientist and create medicine for people in need i love Science and Biology i also love English too. One of my favorite books is of mice and men because it taught me alot about friendship what do you think about this book? enjoy ur summer and see you next fall

Sarah Bouhara

06/14/2011 13:16

Hey my name is Sarah im an 11 grade student at your school i am very proud that you going to be my teacher and i cant wait to meet you in 11 grad i rad to many books but my favoriate book is The Giver by Lowis Lowry and Lord of the flies i said is my favoriate because they really interested and very good books but i still wonder why they give the tittel the Lord of the flies and why do you think they choose that tittle for it. Thank you have a great summer
Sarah.

Yvenet Alcius

06/14/2011 13:17

Hi Shahzia,
My name is Yvenet Alcius an 11th grade student from your school, BIHS. I am going to read the Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. I am very interested in the book because at the end of the school I see a presentation about it and it was very cool.
I hope you are happy with the student you have next year.

Mahamuda Begum

06/14/2011 13:18

Hi Shahzia,
My name is Mahamuda. I am so happy that you give us the opportunity to do extra credits before our class start. I think I will be happy to have you as our 12th grade English teacher. For this summer I chose to read the book call speak.
Have a good summer
Bey:)

imad kassim

06/14/2011 13:18

hi mrs shahzia.

i hope you have fun this year and congratulation for the baby sorry its late but i never got the chance to till you. im in 11th grade and im from yemen.

Shuhua Chen

06/14/2011 13:19

Hi Shahzia,
Hi, this is Shuhua Chen from China. I am nervous and excited about going to 12th grade. I am happy that you will be my English teacher next school year.^^
I don't really like reading because my English isn't that good. But I would like to try my best.
What is your favorite book? can you suggested me some books isn't hard but meaningful?
Have a great summer..See you September.

Sincerely.
Shuhua

Chotso Chotso

06/14/2011 13:20

Hi Shahzia,
my name is Chotso Chotso, i am 11 grade and i am from the Tibet. i was litter nervous about going to the12 grade because i know my english not good. but i hope i can still improve my english in next year...
i like to reading the book but because my english very poor, so i can't understand well. so i want improve this in next year....(PS: my grammar is so poor, so dont laugh to me =_= )
thank you...
have a good summer...

Abdouramane Barry

06/14/2011 13:20

My name is Abdouramane Barry. I chose to read The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao because I think it is a challenging and interesting book. Before I chose it I read the overview in the book and found it interesting since it is also about romance.

Mahamuda Begum

06/14/2011 13:24

Hi Shahzia,
I am mahamuda. I am so happy that you give us the opportunity to do extra credits and I am also happy to have you as our 12th grade English teacher.This summer I chose to read the book call speak.
Have a good summer
Bey :)

Dara Ross

06/15/2011 11:21

Hi Shahzia,
I wish I was a student in your class! This summer reading blog is fun!

Helen Samuels

06/17/2011 14:50

Hello Ms. Shahzia

Thank you for making this blog, it looks very interesting and I'm sure it will keep me a good company during this summer. My name is Helen Samuels, i came from Thailand in June 2008. I am 18 years old and the youngest one in my family. I like environmental science and historical studies. I read often but reading is not the first one on my hobbies list. My favorite authors are Nicholas Sparks, Curtis Sittenfeld, Kirsten Hannah and Sherman Alexie. Books of my memories are American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld, First the killed my father by Loung Ung, Along way gone by Ishmale Bah, The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie and Dear John by Nicholas Sparks.

I'm excited to be in your class this coming year. I hope you have a great summer! See you in September.

Sincerely,
Helen

Helen Samuels

06/17/2011 14:52

Helen Samuels

06/17/2011 14:57

Hello again,

I am sorry, i have technical trouble with commenting on the blog. My comment above was not completely.

This summer,for your blog i would like to read "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding. The reasons i want to read this book because i want to find out what happens to the characters as the struck on the island, and what does the title of this book mean. I hope that from reading this i will learn more about adventure and the characters including to the author.

Thank you,
Helen

Myrlene Etienne

06/24/2011 13:36

Hi Ms.Shahzia,
My name is Myrlene from Haiti,The book that i want to read for summer break is "Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson" because i would like to know the story more and understand it better. I can't wait to start reading it.

I love English and i hope i will have a good time with you next year and will be a good student for you also.
Enjoy your summer:)

Mizpa Anani Zoglo

06/30/2011 21:16

Hi Shahzia,
My name is Mizpa and will be a senior in the fall. I enjoy reading a lot including my junior year i enjoy all the books we read over the year. One of my favorite book is the Gathering blue by Lois Lowry. the book is about an orphan.
I hope we'll have fun next year. Enjoy your summer and the hot weather.

Guadalupe Gonzalez

07/10/2011 20:55

Hello Miss Shahzia

My name is Guadalupe, but everyone calls me 'Isa.' I am from Puebla, Mexico. I have six years in Brooklyn,New York. I enjoy to read novels, such as Eat, Pray, love by Elizabeth Gilbert and Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen. One of the things I enjoy to do during my free time is creative writing, but I never save none of my notes. As well I am very exited to be a Senior!
The book I will read for the summer assigment is Go Ask Alice by Anonymous. I choose to this book because I am interested in books which are in diary way. As well I get very interested to know the experiences of someone how has been addicted to drugs, specially a young teenager .

Hope you all the best during this summer!

Thank you
Isa

Andres Peguero

08/01/2011 23:35

Hello there Shahzia,

My name is Andres and I am from the Dominican Republic. I kind of got caught up in summer procrastination and lost the link to the blog, and well that explains my lateness. Hopefully, I can get the five weekly assignments done.
I am a person of many interests and I like to lead projects that I usually start with my friends. Among those projects or hobbies I write scripts that I would like to turn into comic books any time sooner, and my most recent project is a secret for now that I will reveal when "the time comes." As you probably realized I like to exploit my capacities because I believe that "With great power comes great responsibilities"-Uncle Ben, Spiderman.
As for the book, I chose Lord of The Flies by William Golding because I am fascinated with stories about people stranded in a place and forced to work together in order to survive.

I hope you enjoy the rest of the summer, it will be a pleasure having you as our teacher when school starts.
-Andres

Rigzin Wangyal

08/28/2011 17:07

Hi,
My name is Rigzin Wangyal. I am from Tibet. I have been in America for almost three years. I like to write poems, arts and many more. I am really excited to join new environment with new challenges that i will face. I book i chose to read is "The brief wondrous life of oscar wao" i chose this book because it seems really intresting and also Mr. Fred told me that this book is hard. So i chose this book to challenge myself during the summer.

Hope you'll have a great summer and see you soon.

Ibrahima Barry

09/09/2011 09:07

for the first day of school many thing happen that I really like. For example, I meet my new teacher's who was glad to have me and my friend this year. I also enjoy seen back my old friend who was very helpful to me last year. Actually, what I'm apprehensive of is my college application's and been accepted in the college that I wish to go. In addition, I'm also worry about the different exams that i will face during my signor year.

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