eSTEM Summer Reading Assignment 2018
This assignment is optional preparation for students to complete over the summer. If you choose to complete one of these books and the optional assignment with it, you can earn extra credit with you English class when you arrive to school in August. This does not apply to Columbus State Courses.
Optional Assignment
●Double Sided Journals
○Select 5-10 key passages and discuss the significance the passage has within the whole context of the book.
○Responses should include page numbers and summaries of the passage as well as a well constructed critique.
○The more detailed and deep you dive into the meaning, the better the score for you!
Book Choices (Choose 1 to do your journal over)
Parents should review the choices and select content they find suited for their children from the following sections. We try to think of books that will introduce students to knew genres and disciplines that will be relevant to their courses. We also try to include books that students will love reading. Reading consistently makes someone a better reader, for school, for work, for fun, it all works to make students stronger!
●March
○Books 1, 2, & 3 (Must read all 3) By John Lewis
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○Summary: Discover the inside story of the Civil Rights Movement through the eyes of one of its most iconic figures, Congressman John Lewis. March is the award-winning, #1 bestselling graphic novel trilogy recounting his life in the movement, co-written with Andrew Aydin and drawn by Nate Powell. This commemorative set contains all three volumes of March in a beautiful slipcase.
■#1 New York Times and Washington Post Bestseller
■First graphic novel to receive a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award
■Winner of the Eisner Award
■A Coretta Scott King Honor Book
■One of YALSA's Outstanding Books for the College Bound
■One of Reader's Digest's Graphic Novels Every Grown-Up Should Read
●Continued on the back
●Behind the Beautiful Forevers
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○Summary: In this brilliant, breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport. As India starts to prosper, the residents of Annawadi are electric with hope. Abdul, an enterprising teenager, sees “a fortune beyond counting” in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Meanwhile Asha, a woman of formidable ambition, has identified a shadier route to the middle class. With a little luck, her beautiful daughter, Annawadi’s “most-everything girl,” might become its first female college graduate. And even the poorest children, like the young thief Kalu, feel themselves inching closer to their dreams. But then Abdul is falsely accused in a shocking tragedy; terror and global recession rock the city; and suppressed tensions over religion, caste, sex, power, and economic envy turn brutal. With intelligence, humor, and deep insight into what connects people to one another in an era of tumultuous change, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, based on years of uncompromising reporting,carries the reader headlong into one of the twenty-first century’s hidden worlds—and into the hearts of families impossible to forget.
●Warcross
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○Summary: For the millions who log in every day, Warcross isn’t just a game—it’s a way of life. The obsession started ten years ago and its fan base now spans the globe, some eager to escape from reality and others hoping to make a profit. Struggling to make ends meet, teenage hacker Emika Chen works as a bounty hunter, tracking down Warcross players who bet on the game illegally. But the bounty-hunting world is a competitive one, and survival has not been easy. To make some quick cash, Emika takes a risk and hacks into the opening game of the international Warcross Championships—only to accidentally glitch herself into the action and become an overnight sensation. Convinced she’s going to be arrested, Emika is shocked when instead she gets a call from the game’s creator, the elusive young billionaire Hideo Tanaka, with an irresistible offer. He needs a spy on the inside of this year’s tournament in order to uncover a security problem . . . and he wants Emika for the job. With no time to lose, Emika’s whisked off to Tokyo and thrust into a world of fame and fortune that she’s only dreamed of. But soon her investigation uncovers a sinister plot, with major consequences for the entire Warcross empire.
●The Story of Stuff
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○Summary: A classic exposé in company withAn Inconvenient Truth and Silent Spring, The Story of Stuff expands on the celebrated documentary exploring the threat of overconsumption on the environment, economy, and our health. Leonard examines the “stuff” we use everyday, offering a galvanizing critique and steps for a changed planet. From sneaking into factories and dumps around the world to visiting textile workers in Haiti and children mining coltan for cell phones in the Congo, Leonard, named one of Time magazine’s 100 environmental heroes of 2009, highlights each step of the materials economy and its actual effect on the earth and the people who live near sites like these. With curiosity, compassion, and humor, Leonard shares concrete steps for taking action at the individual and political level that will bring about sustainability, community health, and economic justice. Embraced by teachers, parents, churches, community centers, activists, and everyday readers, The Story of Stuff will be a long-lived classic.