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2016 Summer Reading Anchor List
Incoming 9th - Food and Health
Anchor Book:
Chew on This
by Charles Wilson and Eric Schlosser
Additional or Alternative Texts:
How I Live Now
by Meg Rosoff
The Omnivore's Dilemma: Young Reader's
Edition by Michael Pollan
World without Fish
by Mark Kurlansky and Frank Stockton
Food and Health Poetry Packet (come pick up in the GHS library)
Media Links:
Eric Schlosser - If You Eat, You're Responsible
Michael Pollen - A plant’s eye view
Incoming 10th - Nurturing Kindness and Compassion
Anchor Book: Dea
r Bully: Seventy Authors Tell Their Stories
by Dawn Metcalf
Additional or Alternative Texts:
Wonder
by R. J. Palacio
Thirteen Reasons
Why by Jay Asher
The Book Thi
ef by Markus Zusak
Nurturing Kindness and Compassion Poetry Packet (come pick up in the GHS library)
Media Links:
Ken Goldberg - 4 lessons from robots about being human
Shane Koyczan - To This Day ... for the bullied and beautiful
Incoming 11th - Creativity and Careers
Anchor Book: Grit:
The Power of Passion and Perseverance
by Angela Duckworth
Additional or Alternative Texts:
Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide
by Sean Covey
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work by Matthew B. Crawford
Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be: An Antidote to the College by Frank Bruni
Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That’s Transforming Education
by Ken Robinson
Creativity and Careers Poetry Packet
(come pick up in the GHS library)
Media Links:
Angela Lee Duckworth -Grit: The power of passion and persistence
Ken Robinson- Do schools kill creativity?
Incoming 12th - Resilience and Resourcefulness
Anchor Book: David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell
Additional or Alternative Texts:
I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World
(Regular or Young Readers Edition) by Malala Yousafzai
SuperBetter: A Revolutionary Approach to Getting Stronger, Happier, Braver and More Resilient--Powered by the Science of Games
by Jane McGonigal
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
Small as an Elephant
by Jennifer Richard Jacobson
The Outsiders
by S. E. Hinton
Media Links:
Malcolm Gladwell - The unheard story of David and Goliath
Ziauddin Yousafzai: My daughter, Malala