The purpose of our program is to encourage students to maintain and develop their reading skills over the summer. As with any other skill, reading must be practiced. The program is entirely voluntary.  The required summer reading should be the first priority.

The list below is intended primarily for students registered in CPI and CP2 English classes this fall. Honors classes already have sufficient required summer reading.   We have selected books that we feel are of appropriate quality and difficulty level. We have determined by polling previous students that our choices are rarely read in grade schools. We will use multiple-choice tests to satisfy ourselves that students indeed read the books. Still, we cannot guarantee that a student who has read a book will pass the test. This is one reason for the voluntary nature of the program. Keep in mind that the primary objective is to read a book and thereby gain skill practice. Extra credit points are merely an attractive bonus.

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TESTS AND EXTRA CREDIT AWARDS Each book will be tested by a multiple choice test of 18 to 30 items. All test items deal with factual material, such as characters and incidents. In the interest of fairness, no interpretive questions are included. A 70% is a passing score. Beyond a 70% the grade is irrelevant. The program is pass/fail.

 A passing grade will earn a student one or two extra report card points to be added to his first quarter English grade. All English teachers have agreed to this arrangement. The department will award the points, not the individual teacher. In all other respects, individual teachers have their own policies regarding extra credit. If a student reads a second book and passes the test, one or two points will be awarded and added to his second quarter English grade. Note: this is a summer reading program only. It does not apply during the actual school year. Earned points will be applied as described above. They may not be manipulated to apply to other quarters.

TESTING ARRANGEMENTS The Department chairperson, Mr. Keener, will do all testing and reporting.  Some dates are offered during the summer.  Testing will also take place upon start of classes in August. Stop in before or after school.  Location is room 223. Check Below for updates and changes. Tests should take less than 20 minutes to complete.  Complete all tests by Aug 31st.

Testing:      June 27   9 AM;      July 9   9:30 - 10:15  AM
Once classes begin, come to 223 after school or during M Block.  Deadline is Aug 31.

Note: copies of some books are available from Moeller and may be checked out. Return a book on the day of a test.  Ice Station Zebra,  And And Then There Were None,  Tex,  Follow the River, Lost Horizon and The Maltese Falcon are in stock. Check books out at the same times and dates listed for testing.

TESTING RESULTS   

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2008  NOVELS ELIGIBLE

Incoming 9th graders  CP1: Ice Station Zebra (Alistair McClean) A high-adventure story in which a submarine races to an Arctic rescue. The drama soon becomes a spy thriller as well. Two points. And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie) A classic murder mystery. Two points

Tenth graders   CP1:  Ice Station Zebra, or And Then There Were None may be read by any CPI student who did not do so the previous year. The Maltese Falcon (Dashiell Hammett)  A classic detective novel.  Two points

Eleventh graders  CP1: Lost Horizon. (James Hilton) An exotic adventure story about a crash landing near Shangri-la, an unusual city in the wilderness of the Himalayas. Challenging vocabulary. Two points. The Maltese Falcon, Ice Station Zebra, or And Then There Were None may be read by any CPI student who did not do so the previous year. The Awakening may be obtained from a local library.  But the recommended version is on-line text.  An edited (shortened) edition may be obtained on line from Mr. Keener through e-mail (kkeener@moeller.org).   two points 
Follow the River (James Thom).   An historical novel based on the life of Mary Ingels, who was captured by Shawnees in 1755.  She escaped and made her way back from Big Bone Lick in Kentucky to her home in Virginia, hundreds of miles:  an amazing journey full of incredible hardships.  The book is well researched and faithful to history.  Part I goes to page 204  (two points).  Part 2 goes to page 406 (two points). Read the author's notes at the end.  You are not required to read part 2, though I don't see how you could stop.

Twelfth graders  CP1:  The Awakening, The Maltese Falcon, and Follow the River may be read by any student who did not do so during a previous summer.

CPII English

Grade 9:    Tex 
 
Grades 10,11, and 12
Ice Station Zebra, And Then There Were None, The Maltese Falcon, and Follow the River

TIPS Students who lack confidence in factual recall may wish to take brief notes on characters in order to keep them straight, as well as notes on important incidents. Films based on these novels vary considerably from the books. To view them would only serve to confuse a reader. If you wish to see a movie version, do so after taking the test. We recommend that a test be taken as soon as possible after a book is read in order to maximize recall of facts. In And Then There Were None a 48-page reader’s supplement appears in the middle of the novel. The supplement need not be read. The test does not refer to it.

Results are listed below. 

Students who did not pass a test are not named.  See Mr. Keener for your scores.

Don't forget to return books that you got from Moeller!!!

Summer optional reading program results    2008     

Date	Name	Novel  test	Points earned	Comments
6/27/0	C. Wacker	And Then...None	+2	High Score
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