LES ÉTUDES ET LE SPORT---USA VS QUÉBEC

[mctru 68]

Ça m'a bouleversé, c'est pourquoi je vous l'écrit.

Voici ce que mon gars a reçu de Vermont Academy il y a deux semaines:

 

Required for all students - Headmaster’s Choice - This I Believe II: More Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women by Jay Allison and Dan Gediman

Required for all 9th Graders – Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Required for all 10th Graders – Night by Elie Wiesel

Required for all 11th Graders: House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday

Required for all 12th Graders – Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

 

New Students: The English department has carefully selected the books above for required summer reading. You should read the required book for your grade level and choose one more from the list below if you are a 9th or 10th grader or two more if your are an 11th or 12th grader. Bring your summer reading books to school with you in the fall.

 

Returning 10th graders: Choose one more book from this list to read this summer.

 

All other returning students: Choose two books from this book to read this summer.

 

We encourage all students to discuss these titles with family, friends, and teachers in order to make summer reading an appropriate and enjoyable experience. Students who would like to earn extra credit in their fall English course may write an essay on one or both of the books they read over the summer. Then those students may submit the essay to their English teacher in the fall. Choose a significant feature of the book and explain why it captures your interest, for instance, a character relationship, a conflict, writing style, structure or theme. Since this is an optional exercise, if you choose to do it, do it well. No book reports please.

 

Classics

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

A Separate Peace - John Knowles

Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse

Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka

Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitsen

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman - Ernest Gaines

Hiroshima - John Hersey

Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austin

Candide - Voltaire

The Good Earth - Pearl Buck

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

Demian - Hermann Hesse

The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

Dandelion Wine - Ray Bradbury

The Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane

 

Adventure

Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson

Set Free in China - Peter Niels Heller

White Fang - Jack London

Endurance - Alfred Lansing

Killer Angels - Michael Shaara

The Hungry Ocean - Linda Greenlaw

Perfect Storm - Sebastian Junger

The King Must Die - Mary Renault

The Virginian - Owen Wister

 

Biography and Memoir

A Movable Feast - Ernest Hemingway

All Over But the Shoutin’ - Rick Bragg

Manchild in the Promised Land - Claude Brown

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou

The Road from Coorain - Jill Kerr Conway

Zlata’s Diary-Zlata Filipovic

Tuesdays with Morrie – Mitch Albom

Into Thin Air – Jon Krakauer

The Color of Water – James McBride

It’s Not About the Bike - Lance Armstrong

Between a Rock and a Hard Place - Aron Ralston

 

Science Fiction and Fantasy

The Golden Compass Trilogy - Philip Pullman

A Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein

The Lord of the Rings - R. R. Tolkien

The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. LeGuin

The War of the Worlds - H. G. Wells

Frankenstein - Mary Shelly

The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula K. LeGuin

The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

The Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis

The Once and Future King - T. H. White

Watership Down - Richard Adams

Dune - Frank Herbert

Wicked - Gregory Maguire

Timeline - Michael Crichton

Ender’s Game - Orson Scott Card

Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll

 

Contemporary

The Color Purple - Alice Walker

The Coming of Age in Mississippi - Anne Moody

Disobedience - Jane Hamilton

Cat’s Eye - Margaret Atwood

How the Garcia Girls Got Their Accents - Julia Alvarez

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café - Fannie Flag

The Bluest Eye –Toni Morrison

Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan

Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver

God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy

The Hours - Michael Cunningham

Atonement – Ian McEwan

Winesburg, Ohio – Sherwood Anderson

The Girl with a Pearl Earring – Tracy Chevalier

Fever Pitch - Nick Hornby

 

Lectures obligatoires durant l'été, camps fortement suggérés de football et hockey aux USA et entraînement supervisé par internet!!!

[sisu 0]

ici, c'est

 

cours d'été obligatoire pour cause d'échec !!

[tya72 0]

Je trouve que c'est une très bel initiative.

 

Contrairement au camp (non hockey) de jour de mon fils qui lui avait défendu de lire son livre durant le période libre parce que les autres enfants faisait d'autre chose.

 

Il n'y a pas assez de jeunes (surtout garçons) qui font la lecture pour le PLAISIR et non le besoin (études)

[123456 0]

C'est fantastique.....comme parents, on peut faire notre part aussi...Pour un francophone de 15-16 ans, j'espère qu'il connait ''sa'' culture, avant celle des autres.

 

''Faut savoir d'où ont vient, pour savoir où ont va!''

[mctru 68]

123456, explique nous ton post SVP?