This page showcases a "book trailer," or teaser, for each title chosen for summer reading. Each trailer has been created by LHS students and students world-wide!
Which title (or titles!) will you choose?
Summer Reading Assignment Options
Each LHS student is required to read a minimum of one novel from the approved options.
NEW FOR 2012 -- You may choose ANY of the titles on the list. There are no longer grade level restrictions!
Students entering an HONORS or ADVANCED PLACEMENT level course are given required readings in addition to the general options.
All students are required to complete the "Alphabet Soup" assignment. In addition to this, there are a variety of extra credit options from which students may choose. All assignments will be due in September and will count as two test grades in the first marking period.
"Troy Maxson is an angry man. He is an embittered ex-con who has built inner fences around his emotions that no one—neither his son Gory, his wife, Rosa Lee, nor his best friend, Jim—can cross. A proud and bitter man who was prevented by racism from playing major league baseball, Maxson is at fifty- three years of age a garbage collector. While his job allows him to successfully provide for his family, handling garbage represents for him a grim metaphor of his life. As he did during a bit in prison, he once again feels confined, and those who love him most, who depend on him most, suffer most for it." (Barnes & Noble)
Speak (Lexile - 680)
Metamorphoses (AP) (Lexile - Unknown)
"Ovid’s sensuous and witty poem brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation—often as a result of love or lust—where men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, Ovid interweaves many of the best-known myths and legends of ancient Greece and Rome, including Daedalus and Icarus, Pyramus and Thisbe, Pygmalion, Perseus and Andromeda, and the fall of Troy. Erudite but light-hearted, dramatic and yet playful, the Metamorphoses has influenced writers and artists throughout the centuries from Shakespeare and Titian to Picasso and Ted Hughes." (Amazon)
Go Ask Alice (Lexile - 1010) (Trailer Created by Taylor Randall - Class of 2011) **Warning: Mature Content**
A Saint on Death Row (Lexile - 690)
"On October 26, 2004, Dominique Green, thirty, was executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas. Arrested at the age of eighteen in the fatal shooting of a man during a robbery outside a Houston convenience store, Green may have taken part in the robbery but always insisted that he did not pull the trigger. The jury, which had no African Americans on it, sentenced him to death. Despite obvious errors in the legal procedures and the protests of the victim’s family, he spent the last twelve years of his life on Death Row.When Cahill found himself in Texas in December 2003, he visited Dominique at the request of Judge Sheila Murphy, who was working on the appeal of the case. In Dominique, he encountered a level of goodness, peace, and enlightenment that few human beings ever attain. Cahill joined the fierce fight for Dominique’s life, even enlisting Dominique’s hero, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, to make an historic visit to Dominique and to plead publicly for mercy. Cahill was so profoundly moved by Dominique’s extraordinary life that he was compelled to tell the tragic story of his unjust death at the hands of the state. A Saint on Death Row will introduce you to a young man whose history, innate goodness, and final days you will never forget. It also shines a necessary light on America’s legal system. A Saint on Death Row is an absorbing, sobering, and deeply spiritual story that illuminates the moral imperatives too often ignored in the headlong quest for justice." (Barnes & Noble)
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Lexile - 930)
Someday This Pain will be Useful to You (Lexile - 1010)
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