BRADENTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
2021 SUMMER READING PROGRAM
ENGLISH FACULTY: Chairman Mrs. Shirley Hudson, Mrs. Leah Kliewer,
Mrs. Deb Krikke, Mr. Vincent Corvino, Mrs. Cindy Ellis, Mrs. Laura Spanos
SCHOOL OFFICE:
(941) 792-5454
3304 43rd Street West
Bradenton, Florida 34209
TENTH GRADE AMERICAN LITERATURE
COLLEGE PREPARATORY AND HONORS
All students should read
Tuesdays with Morrie -- by Mitch Albom (ISBN#076790592X).
The companion writing assignment is enclosed. All written assignments will be submitted to
Turnitin during the first week of school. Please make sure that all work submitted is your
original work.
The due date for the assignment is Friday, August 13, 2021.
Honors students should also read second book from the Honors List
The due date for the in-class assignment is Friday, August 13, 2021.
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, 10th Grade Summer Reading Assignment: Learning Goal and Guidelines
Learning Goal: Develop our reading comprehension and critical thinking skills by providing thoughtful,
thorough and well-supported responses to questions about a novel.
Use the following description of a strong response to literature to guide the quality of your responses:
A strong response to a question about literature is analytical and/or explanatory and is clearly supported by
relevant and thoroughly interpreted and analyzed textual evidence when the question requires it.
The Cambridge Dictionary definition of the word, “analytical,” is:
Examining or liking to examine things in detail in order to discover more about them.
The Cambridge Dictionary definition of the word, “explanatory,” is:
Helping to make something clear or understandable.
Guidelines for Successful Responses to Literature:
1. Closely examine each question in order to determine what a thorough answer to the question might require.
In your response, be sure to meet or exceed the question's requirements.
2. Provide full explanations when providing your thoughts about a text. In addition to what your are thinking
about a text, explain why you are thinking this about a text.
3. When the question requires it, support your response with textual evidence. When doing so, provide your
thoughts about the textual evidence, and explain why and how the evidence that you selected supports the
observations and ideas that you provided in response to the question.
4. Review your responses to ensure that they are written clearly and that they represent your most current
knowledge of grammar and spelling. Upon reviewing your responses, make any and all necessary grammar and
spelling corrections.
Tuesdays with Morrie Writing Assignment
Synopsis: Maybe a grandparent, a teacher, or a colleague influenced you. Someone older, patient and wise
may have understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound
place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie
Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago.
Maybe, as Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded, and the world
seemed colder. Imagine you could see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you, receive
wisdom for your busy life today the way you once did when you were younger?
Mitch Albom had that second chance. He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man's life.
Knowing he was dying, Morrie visited with Mitch in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in
college. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final "class" of lessons in how to live.
Please proofread, edit, and revise the writing assignment carefully!
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2021 SUMMER READING PROGRAM
ENGLISH FACULTY: Chairman Mrs. Shirley Hudson, Mrs. Leah Kliewer,
Mrs. Deb Krikke, Mr. Vincent Corvino, Mrs. Cindy Ellis, Mrs. Laura Spanos
SCHOOL OFFICE:
(941) 792-5454
3304 43rd Street West
Bradenton, Florida 34209
TENTH GRADE AMERICAN LITERATURE
COLLEGE PREPARATORY AND HONORS
All students should read
Tuesdays with Morrie -- by Mitch Albom (ISBN#076790592X).
The companion writing assignment is enclosed. All written assignments will be submitted to
Turnitin during the first week of school. Please make sure that all work submitted is your
original work.
The due date for the assignment is Friday, August 13, 2021.
Honors students should also read second book from the Honors List
The due date for the in-class assignment is Friday, August 13, 2021.
1
, 10th Grade Summer Reading Assignment: Learning Goal and Guidelines
Learning Goal: Develop our reading comprehension and critical thinking skills by providing thoughtful,
thorough and well-supported responses to questions about a novel.
Use the following description of a strong response to literature to guide the quality of your responses:
A strong response to a question about literature is analytical and/or explanatory and is clearly supported by
relevant and thoroughly interpreted and analyzed textual evidence when the question requires it.
The Cambridge Dictionary definition of the word, “analytical,” is:
Examining or liking to examine things in detail in order to discover more about them.
The Cambridge Dictionary definition of the word, “explanatory,” is:
Helping to make something clear or understandable.
Guidelines for Successful Responses to Literature:
1. Closely examine each question in order to determine what a thorough answer to the question might require.
In your response, be sure to meet or exceed the question's requirements.
2. Provide full explanations when providing your thoughts about a text. In addition to what your are thinking
about a text, explain why you are thinking this about a text.
3. When the question requires it, support your response with textual evidence. When doing so, provide your
thoughts about the textual evidence, and explain why and how the evidence that you selected supports the
observations and ideas that you provided in response to the question.
4. Review your responses to ensure that they are written clearly and that they represent your most current
knowledge of grammar and spelling. Upon reviewing your responses, make any and all necessary grammar and
spelling corrections.
Tuesdays with Morrie Writing Assignment
Synopsis: Maybe a grandparent, a teacher, or a colleague influenced you. Someone older, patient and wise
may have understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound
place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie
Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago.
Maybe, as Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded, and the world
seemed colder. Imagine you could see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you, receive
wisdom for your busy life today the way you once did when you were younger?
Mitch Albom had that second chance. He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man's life.
Knowing he was dying, Morrie visited with Mitch in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in
college. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final "class" of lessons in how to live.
Please proofread, edit, and revise the writing assignment carefully!
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