Outside+Reading

=Competencies:=
 * __Vocabulary:__ Students will apply and acquire vocabulary through speaking, listening, reading, writing, and the use of vocabulary strategies.


 * __Reading Literacy Competency:__ Students will demonstrate the ability to comprehend, analyze, and critique a variety of increasingly complex print and non-print literary texts.


 * __Reading Informational Texts Competency:__ Students will demonstrate the ability to comprehend, analyze, and critique a variety of increasingly complex print and non-print informational texts, including texts for science, social studies, and technical subjects.

=Essential Questions:=
 * **How do effective readers infer or read between the lines?**
 * **How do we know our ideas about a piece of writing are valid?**
 * **How do we know what the author is trying to communicate to the reader?**
 * **What is the message?**
 * **How and why do individuals, events and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text?**
 * **How do we make meaning out of the written word?**
 * **How do organization and format lead to an understanding of a text?**
 * **Why is point of view and purpose important?**
 * **What do effective readers do?**
 * **Why read?**

=100 Greatest Novels of All-Time= [|The List]

=Reading Log Template= [|Template for Independent reading] (HONORS)

[|Multi-Genre Reading Log Template (General 9)]

[|Reading Log Rubric]

Example Reading Logs
[|Example Honors]

[|Example English 9]

[|Example Reading Log]

[|Example Reading Log] = = =RESOURCES:= [|Good Reads]

[|http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/booklistsawards/booklistsbook.cfm]  This website is packed with great book lists such as: Best Books for Young Adults, Best Fiction for Young Adults, Printz Award Books, Great Graphic Novels, Outstanding Books for the College Bound and more.
 * YALSA-Young Adult Library Services Organization. **

[|http://www.teenreads.com/reviews]  Teenreads has many book reviews and you can search by title, author, genre or date. Check out the list "Adult books you want to read" for some challenging titles.
 * Teenreads.com **

[|http://www.readingrants.org/] Reading Rants: Out of the Ordinary Teen Book Lists. This site categorizes books by subject or interest area and includes lists such as: Inquiring Minds Want to Know, Nailbiters, Gods and Monsters, and The Coolest Classics You Never Heard of.
 * Reading Rants **

[|http://overbooked.com/booklists/abya/index.html] Overbooked calls itself “a website for ravenous and omnivorous readers” and with a collection of reading lists under the title Adult Books for Teens, even the most ravenous middle school reader can find challenging titles.
 * Overbooked **

[|http://figment.com/features] Figment is a community where you can share your writing, connect with other readers, and discover new stories and authors. Whatever you're into, from sonnets to mysteries, from sci-fi stories to cell phone novels, you can find it all here.
 * Figment **

[|http://www.makeliterature.com/forums/] Make Literature online is a reading and writing forum. Under the //Fiction Books// tab they have interesting lists such as //Top 100 Interesting Novels of All Time// and //Single Most Important Book in Your Life// as well as a wealth of book reviews.
 * Make Literature Online **

=Reading Strategies:=
 * 1. ** ** Summarize: **
 * What is happening?
 * What is your book about?
 * 2. Make ** ** Connections (text to self, text to text, text to world): **
 * Pick **ONE** of these to address. Explain the connection
 * How can you relate to the book, an event or character (text to self)?
 * How does this book, an event or character relate to another text (text to text)?
 * How does this book relate to a world event (text to world)?


 * 3. Ask Questions: **
 * What is confusing?
 * What do I not understand?


 * 4. ** ** Choose ** ** Themes: **
 * What are the themes or issues (world peace, friendship, good vs. evil, family, overcoming odds, achievement, etc.)?
 * What lessons or ideas was the writer trying to communicate to the reader?
 * What is the message?
 * Why are these important?


 * 5. ** ** Identify an ** ** Emotional Response: **
 * Identify a specific part of the book that caused an emotional response and explain how it made you feel and why (something confusing, disturbing, humorous, etc.).


 * 6. ** ** Analyze a ** ** Quote: **
 * What is a thought-provoking quote (excerpt from the book)?
 * Copy the excerpt with the page number and who said it (this could be the narrator)
 * Explain why the excerpt stood out for you.


 * 7. ** ** Critique: **
 * Did you like or dislike the book? Explain.
 * Would you recommend this book to someone else? Why or why not?

=Lexile Information:= [|Lexiles]

=READING ASSIGNMENTS:=

[|Admissions Ticket:]
Rubric:

[|Speaking & Listening Rubric]

Example Admissions Tickets:
[|Example Honors]

[|Example English 9]

More examples:

EXAMPLE REVISION:
[|Revised Admissions Ticket]

=SUMMER READING:=

[|In-class essay model] 1 - Honors [|In-class essay model] 2 - Honors

[|In class essay model] 1 - General 9 [|In class essay model]2 - General 9

=*HONORS SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENTS*:=

Q2: Choice Book Assignment (Honors)
[|The Reading Minute Assignment] [|Reading Minute Log]

[|To Kill A Mockingbird Text Set]

[|Q3: Banned Book Assignment (Honors)]
=Banned Book Research Paper Assignment:= [|List of books]

Banned Book Research information:
[|American Library Association]

[|Banned Book Mini Research]

[|Book Book Reasons Template]

[|Banned Book Analysis]
[|Example analysis 1]

[|Example analysis 2]

[|Example analysis 3]

Q1: Choice Book Assignment (Honors)
[|Alexandria Book Review Assignment & Examples]

[|Alexandria Book Review Rubric]

[|How to write a Book Review]

[|Submit a book review]

[|Tracking your thinking] with Reading log

[|Outside Reading Project Honors "Think Like a Teacher"]
[|Example Project]

[|Example Research]

[|Example Test]

Banned Book Research Assignment (Honors only)
=[|Banned Book List]=



English 9[|: Choice Book: Text or Comic Assignment]
Comic Assignment: [|Rubric] [|Planning Sheet] [|Comic Creator] [|History of Comics] [|Text Message Conversation generator]

Examples: Comic Example [|Text Example] [|Text Example 2] = =