9th Grade Summer Reading Questions
Summer 2008

 

Please type (double-spaced) your responses in paragraph form to the following summer reading assignments and be prepared to discuss. Please number your responses.

Guiding questions for Ender's Game:

  1. Please go to the following publisher’s link for a reader’s guide that includes 26 “Questions for Discussion.” Choose 15 of the questions and answer them, typing your responses. The link is:
    http://hbpub.vo.llnwd.net/o16/readersguides/9780765342294RG.pdf
     
  2. PLEASE NOTE: B-CC was honored two years ago to have composer Eric Richards produce a musical selection based on Ender’s Game. If possible, we’ll post a link to the piece on B-CC’s website; otherwise, students will hear the selection in their English classes.
       

Guiding questions for the book of your choice:

  1. Identify a scene that could not be left out of the book and explain why.
  2. Identify a scene that could be left out of the book and explain why.


See these sites for lists of recommended books for teens:

The Montgomery County Public Library Teensite
http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/ltstmpl.asp?url=/content/libraries/teensite/issuesbooklist.asp

The Black-Eyed Susan Book Nominees
http://mdedmedia.org/bes0607.html

The American Library Association's Teens' Top Ten Books
http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/teenreading/teenstopten/teenstopten.htm

 

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