Samohi Summer Reading 2012 Dear Parents,
Over the summer, Samohi students are required to read two books—three for HP/AP. Please help get the books from a library or bookstore. (Santa Monica Public Library branches will have many copies.) Then help your child make time to read them—a daily half-hour is perfect—and ask your child regularly about what’s happening. Parents, if you too read the assigned books, the experience will be especially rewarding—for both of you!
Reading the two or three summer books will make your child a better reader, a better writer, and a better thinker; enlarge his or her understanding of people and the world; and help him or her start strongly in English in the fall. And, of course, there are the adventures, discoveries, shocks, laughs, tears, terrors, victories! Reading is sweet and intense.
In order to remember each book, your child should record passages, with page number, followed by comments or questions, for:
important events and changes
parts that show why things happen, why characters do what they do
favorite passages and scenes
parts that are confusing or puzzling
Students may write these comments on paper, on Post-It notes stuck to the pages, or in the book’s margins (if you own the book).
We wish you a sweet, intense summer!
The Santa Monica High School English Department
Here are all of our All-Samo summer reading selections to date:
• 2011 Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
• 2010 A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
• 2009 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
• 2008 Enrique's Journey by Sonia Nazario
• 2007 Fast Food Nation/Chew On This by Eric Schlosser
• 2006 Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas
• 2005 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
• 2004 A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris
1. The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
The Glass Castle is a 2005 memoir by Jeannette Walls. The book is an autobiographical memoir that recounts Walls' and her siblings' unconventional, poverty-stricken upbringing at the hands of their deeply dysfunctional parents.
GENESIS Ch 1 to 9; 11, 22
EXODUS Ch 1-14; 19 to 20
JUDGES Ch 13 to 16
RUTH Ch 1 to 4 JOB Ch 1 to 3; 8 to 10; 38, 42 ECCLESIASTES Ch 1 to 3; 12 SONG OF SOLOMON Ch 1 to 4
JONAH Ch 1 to 4
New Testament
MATTHEW Ch 1 to 7; 24 to 28
LUKE Ch 24
JOHN Ch 20 to 21
Dear Parents,
