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Reading Log for

Name: ___________________________________

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Just a Reminder!

There are many factors that affect the relationship between a reader and text, including content, age-appropriateness, reader interests, suitability of the text, and text difficulty. The Lexile

measure of a book—a measure of text difficulty—is a good starting point in the book-selection

process, with other factors then being considered. The Lexile measure should never be the only factor considered when selecting a book.

Parents, please help your child choose appropriate reading this summer.

2013 High School

Summer Reading Program

Grades 9-12

Savannah-Chatham County Public School System

Office of Curriculum and Instruction

208 Bull Street, Room 208

Savannah, GA 31401

Phone: 912.395.5544 Fax: 912.201.4166

Name:__________________________________

High School Assignments

Students will read 2 books from the suggested reading list

for their grade level/course for the upcoming year.

All students will keep a Reading Log of time spent read-

ing 2 books and have the log signed by a parent.

When students return to school in the fall, they will be

required to complete a writing assessment related to their

summer reading.

Students may also elect to read a book that is not on the

list, if it is within their Lexile range or within their grade

level Lexile Band (see below).

***A Lexile range is included to help students select

books that correspond with the Lexile score found on their

8th grade CRCT report.

Students enrolled in an Advanced Placement Course will select

readings from the list based on the recommendations from their

individual schools.

Sample Reading Log

Date Title of Book Pages Read Time Spent

Reading

6-30-10 The Alchemist Pgs. 8-40 30 min.

7-4-10 Z for Zachariah Pgs. 1-30 35 minutes

Typical Text Measures by Grade

Grade Grade Level Lexile Bands

9 1050L to 1260L

10 1080L to 1335L

11-12 1185L to 1385

The official Lexile website is an amazing resource for finding ap-

propriate summer reading material (for free!).

To use this resource go to www.lexile.com and follow these steps.

1. At the top or the web page, click on “Find a Book”

2. Type in your child’s Lexile score in

the appropriate box. The Lexile

Range will automatically be calcu-

lated. Click Submit.

3. Next, you will be able to check

various categories about which your

child may wish to read. When fin-

ished, click Submit.

4. Now you will be presented with a

list of books that are in your child’s

areas of interest and within his or her

Lexile range.

Clicking the “WorldCat” button next to each book will allow you to see if that

book is available in the Live Oak Public Libraries. If the library does carry

that book, you can request a hold online. You can also request the book be

sent to your local library branch.

Students enrolled in an Advanced Placement Course will select readings from the list

below based on the recommendations from their individual schools.

AP Human Geography

Author Title Lexile

Blij, Harm de Why Geography Matters: ~

Diamond, Jared Collapse: How Societies Choose

To Fail or Succeed*** ~

Diamond, Jared Gun, Germs, & Steel*** 1440L

Friedman, Thomas The World is Flat: A Brief History

of the 21st Century*** ~

Orwell, George 1984 1090L

AP Government

Author Title Lexile

Bowen, Catherine Miracle at Philadelphia *** ~

Ceaser, James Epic Journey: The 2008 Elections***~

Fineman, Howard 13 American Arguments*** ~

Healy, Gene The Cult of the American Presidency***

Matthews, Chris Hardball: How Politics is Played***~

Rehnquist, William The Supreme Court*** ~

Rosen, J. The Personalities and Rivalries

That Defined America*** ~

Stewart, David The Summer of 1787*** ~

Sullivan, Joan An American Voter*** ~

Williams, Juan Eyes on the Prize *** 1140L

AP European History/World History

Author Title Lexile

Boccaccio, Giovanni Decameron 1500L

Dickens, Charles A Tales of Two Cities 990L

Forster, E.M. Passage to India 950L

Machiavelli, Niccolo The Prince 1510L

More, Thomas Utopia 1390L

Remarque, Erich All Quiet on the Western Front 830L

Voltaire Candide 1110L

***Denotes a work of nonfiction

~ Lexile not available Lexile scores are often not available for poetry, plays, and picture books.

SCCPSS High School Summer Reading List

What is a Lexile? Lexiles can range from approximately 100 to 2000.

Lexiles rate the complexity of a book.

A student’s Lexile is the level of text that he or she can read

with 75% comprehension.

Which book should my child read?

Choose books with a Lexile from 100 below to 50 above

their score. For example, if my student reads at 830L, he

should pick a book with a Lexile range of 730L-880L.

Where can I find this score? On prior CRCTs for students entering Grade 9.

See example below.

From the student’s ITBS scores

*Lexile is a registered trademark of Metametrics, Inc.

Entering Ninth Grade Literature

Author Title Lexile

Bowers, Rick Spies of Mississippi*** 1290L

Brown, Dee Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee 1080

Coelho, Paul The Alchemist 910L

Carroll, Lewis Through the Looking Glass 890L

Covey, Stephen Seven Habits of Highly Effective 870L

Teens***

Cruthcher, Chris Stotan 1020L

Donoghue, Emma Room: A Novel HL730L

Foster, Thomas C. How to Read Literature

Like a Professor*** ~

Gunther, John Death Be Not Proud 1060 Guterson, David Snow Falling on Cedars 1080

Herriott, James All Creatures Great and Small*** 990L

Kipling, Rudyard Captains Courageous 1020

Murray, Liz Breaking Night: A Memoir of

Forgiveness, Survival, and My

Journey from Homeless to

Harvard *** ~

Twain, Mark The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 950L

Vreeland, Susan The Girl in Hyacinth Blue 950L

Waters, Daniele Generation Dead 820L






AP Literature and Composition

Author Title Lexile

Austen, Jane Pride and Prejudice 770L

Bronte, Emily Wuthering Heights 880L

Conrad, Joseph Heart of Darkness 1050L

Dostoevksy, Fyodor Crime and Punishment 990L

Ellison, Ralph Invisible Man 950L

Falkner, William As I Lay Dying 870L



Gaarder, Jostein Sophie’s World ~

Hardy, Thomas Jude the Obscure 1060L

Heller, Joseph Catch-22 1140L

Hosseini, Khaled Kite Runner 840L

Hurston, Zora Neale Their Eyes Were Watching God 1300L

McCarthy, Cormac All the Pretty Horses 940L

Morrison, Toni Beloved 870L

Warren, Robert Penn All the King’s Men ~

Wilde, Oscar The Picture of Dorian Gray 920L

Wolff, Tobias Old School ~

McCullough, David 1776*** 1300L

McLaurin, Melton Celia: A Slave*** ~

Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher Good Wives: Image and Reality*** ~

AP Statistics/Calculus

Author Title Lexile

Livio, Mario Is God a Mathematician?*** ~

AP Psychology Nasar, Sylvia A Beautiful Mind ~

Heller, Joseph Catch 22 1140L

Keyes, Daniel Flowers for Algernon 910L

Kesey, Ken One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest 1110L

Guest, Judith Ordinary People 600L

Grisham, John Bleachers 840L

Hosseini, Khaled Kite Runner 840L






AP Language and Composition

Author Title Lexile

Capote, Truman In Cold Blood*** 1040L

Cather, Willa My Antonia 1010L

Chopin, Kate The Awakening 960L

Du Bois, W.E.B The Souls of Black Folks*** 1280L

Ellison, Ralph Invisible Man 950L

Hemingway, Ernest The Sun Also Rises 610L

Hemingway, Ernest A Moveable Feast*** ~

Hemingway, Ernest A Farewell to Arms 730L

Kingston, Maxine Hong The Woman Warrior 880L

Malcolm X/Alex Haley Autobiography of Malcolm X*** 1120L

O’Brien, Tim The Things They Carried 880L

Sams, Ferrol Run with the Horseman ~

Spielman, Art Maus: A Survivor’s Tale ~

Skloot, Rebecca The Immortal Life of Henrietta 1140L

Lacks

Steinbeck, John The Grapes of Wrath 680L

Stephen King On Writing*** 1110L

Walls, Jeanette The Glass Castle 1010L

Yesierska, Anzia Bread Givers ~

AP US History

Author Title Lexile

Ambrose, Stephen Undaunted Courage*** 1190L

Denton, Sally Pride and Principle ~

DiLorenzo, Thomas The Real Lincoln *** ~

Hickey, Donald 187 Things You Should Know

About the War of 1812*** ~

Jakes, John The Rebels ~

McCullough, David John Adams *** ~

McCullough, David 1776*** 1300L

McCullough, David Brave Companions ~

McLaurin, Melton Celia: A Slave*** ~

Rehnquist, William The Supreme Court *** ~

Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher Good Wives: Image and Reality*** ~

Williams, Juan Eyes on the Prize 1140L




Entering Tenth Grade

Author Title Lexile

Bok, Francis Escape From Slavery*** 990L

Buck, Pearl S. The Good Earth 1530L

Crowe, Chris Getting Away with Murder*** 1210L

Dickens, Charles Oliver Twist 990L

Dickens, Charles David Copperfield 1070

Euripides Medea 1120L

Esquival, Laura Like Water for Chocolate 1030L

Frank, Pat Alas, Babylon 870L

Gibbons, Kaye Ellen Foster 870L

Haddock, Mark The Curious Incident of 1180L

a Dog in the Night-Tim

Hansberry, Lorraine To Be Young, Gifted, 1160L

and Black

Hersey, John Hiroshima*** 1190L

Lichtmam, Wendy Secrets, Lies, and Algebra 1050L

Michener, James Bridges at Toko-Ri 1140

Mowat, Farley Never Cry Wolf 1330L

McBride, James The Color of Water 1240L

McCourt, Frank Angela’s Ashes 1110L

Shakespeare, William Twelfth Night ~

Stowe, Harriet Beecher Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1050L

Tan, Amy Joy Luck Club 930L

Verne, Jules Around the World in 80 Days 1080

Verne, Jules Journey to the Center of the Earth 1040

Walls, Jeannette The Glass Castle*** 1010L

Winthrop, Elizabeth December ~




Entering 11th Grade (American Literature)

Author Title Lexile

Bragg, Rick All Over But the Shoutin’*** 1160L

Capote, Truman In Cold Blood*** 1040L

Davidson, Susanna The Holocaust*** 1040L

Faulkner, William Light in August ~

Frazier, Charles Cold Mountain 1210L

Johnson, James W. The Autobiography of 1100L

an Ex-Colored Man

Larson, Erik The Devil in White City*** 1170L

London, Jack Sea Wolf 1020L Malamud, Bernard The Natural 1060L

McCullough, David Truman*** ~

McCullough, David John Adams*** ~

Melville, Herman Moby Dick 840L

Morrison, Toni Beloved 870L

Poe, Edgar Allen The Tell Tale Heart 1350L

Sams, Ferrol Run with the Horseman ~

Silko, Leslie Marmon Ceremony 890L

Steinbeck, John The Grapes of Wrath 680L

Steinbeck, John IV Other side of Eden 1080L

Twain, Mark Conn. Yankee in King Arthur’s 1080L

Court

Vonnegut, Kurt Slaughterhouse 5 850L

Welty, Eudora One Writer’s Beginnings 1200L

Wharton, Edith The House of Mirth 1230L

Williams, Tennessee A Streetcar Named Desire ~

Zinn, Howard A People’s History of the US*** 1030L




Entering 12th Grade (British Literature)

Author Title Lexile

Bronte, Emily Wuthering Heights 880L

Carroll, Lewis Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland 940L

Chevalier, Tracy Girl with a Pearl Earring 770L Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Rime of the Ancient Mariner ~

Defoe, Daniel Robinson Crusoe 1360L

Dickens, Charles A Tale of Two Cites 990L

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan Hound of the Baskervilles 1170L

Du Maurier, Daphne Rebecca 880L



Frazier, Charles Cold Mountain 1210L

Garcia Marquez,Gabriel One Hundred Years 1410L

of Solitude

Grahame– Smith, Seth Pride and Prejudice and Zombies 1070L

Greene, Graham The Power and the Glory 710L

Ishiguro, Kazou The Remains of the Day 1210L

Kipling, Rudyard The Jungle Book 1140L

Lewis, C.S. The Great Divorce ~

Lewis, C.S. The Screwtape Letters 1250L

Moore, Thomas Utopia 1370L

Nafisi, Azar Reading Lolita in Tehran*** ~

Shakespeare, William The Taming of the Shrew 1340L

Stewart, Mary The Crystal Cave 960L

Stoker, Bram Dracula 860L

Swift, Jonathan Gulliver’s Travels 1210L




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