B-CC HS English Grade 9 (On-level and Honors) Summer Reading Assignments
Background
Choose two books to read from the genres in the list provided with this handout by B-CC HS Media Specialist, Mr. Baczkowski, and the B-CC Grade 9 English teachers. To help you determine how to choose a book you would enjoy reading, please view the [...]
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Titanic
The movies Titanic and The Notebook are two of the most heart-wrenching films of all time. Both are romantic tragedies structured the same way, in which an old person tells the story of a poor boy and a rich girl who fall in love, but are prohibited from seeing each other. [...]
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Country Living
It’s 9pm. You walk outside and look up at the stars… except you can’t see them. Welcome to the city, where it takes half an hour to drive three blocks and where the lifeless urban sprawl surrounds you. When people go on vacation or want to escape from their hectic, dramatic lives, where [...]
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Halloween
Halloween is one of western civilization’s most ancient and cherished holidays. Beginning thousands of years ago as Samhain, a Celtic celebration of the harvest, Halloween evolved over the centuries into the fascinating social phenomenon that now dominates American society and culture. Valentines Day on the other hand remains a cheap, superficial excuse for a [...]
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More Devastating
“Great Depression” of the 1930′s
Up to this point in the competition, most of the two sides have been relatively evenly matched; Winter Olympics v. Summer Olympics, Star Wars v. Star Trek, and Stewart v. Colbert are all arguments in which either side could conceivably prevail. But when asked which is more devastating, the [...]
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Essay Tests
Essay tests are a more effective and accurate test of a student’s knowledge than multiple choice tests. I am sure that everyone has had the experience of accidentally circling or copying down the wrong answer to a question on a multiple choice test, and then feeling terrible or angry afterward.
A good test tests [...]
