Dear Rising Eighth Grade Student,
Reading is crucial to your continuing academic success and we believe that recreational reading enriches your personal life. Summer is a time to relax and experience books that you did not have time for during the busy school year. Although we hope that you will read with gusto many many books this summer, we request that each of you read a minimum of four books of your own choosing. You may choose books from the 2015 Summer Recommended Reading for Rising 7th and 8th Grade Students and the Recommended Book Series lists, prepared by Mrs. Feldman, or explore bookstores and libraries for great new titles and classics. The High School Library’s summer reading recommendations is a good place to look for solid summer reads, too!
Please keep track of the books you read, and we will ask that you share your reading log with us in the fall.
We also require that every student must also have finished reading Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid before the beginning of the new school year in preparation of in-depth discussion during English.
We wish you a wonderful summer and look forward to seeing you this fall!
Sincerely,
Joshua Bachrach and Andrea DeJesus
8th Grade English Teachers
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