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Gateway 2015-16 Preliminary List
Gateway Readers Award The purpose of the Gateway Readers Award is to promote literature, literacy and reading in Missouri high schools, and to recognize authors and illustrators of books that are favorites of Missouri students in these grades. Each year, Missouri students in grades 9-12 vote for their favorite book from a list of nominated titles. The Gateway Readers Award is awarded to the author of this book by the Missouri Association of School Librarians.
The Naturals by Jennifer (Jennifer Lynn) Barnes Seventeen-year-old Cassie, who has a natural ability to read people, joins an elite group of criminal profilers at the FBI in order to help solve cold cases. All the Truth That's in Me by Julie Berry Judith can't speak. But when her close-knit community of Roswell Station is attacked by enemies, Judith is forced to choose: continue to live in silence, or recover her voice. Thousand Words by 1972- Brown Talked into sending a nude picture of herself to her boyfriend while she was drunk, Ashleigh became the center of a sexting scandal and is now in court-ordered community service, where she finds an unlikely ally, Mack. The Rules for Disappearing by Ashley Elston High school student "Meg" has changed identities so often that she hardly knows who she is anymore, and her family is falling apart, but she knows that two of the rules of witness protection are be forgettable and do not make friends--but in her new home in Louisiana a boy named Ethan is making that difficult. Proxy by Alex London Knox was born into one of the City's wealthiest families. A Patron, he has everything a boy could possibly want--the latest tech, the coolest clothes, and a Proxy to take all his punishments. When Knox accidentally kills a friend, he and his proxy, Syd, are thrown together to overthrow the system. Escape from Eden by Elisa Nader Since the age of ten, Mia has lived under the iron fist of the fundamentalist preacher who lured her mother away to join his fanatical family of followers. In Edenton, a supposed 'Garden of Eden' deep in the South American jungle, everyone follows the Reverend's strict but arbitrary rules - even the mandate of whom they can marry. Now sixteen, Mia dreams of slipping away from the armed guards who keep the faithful in, and the curious out. Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits--smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try. Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson At age eight, David watched as his father was killed by an Epic, a human with superhuman powers, and now, ten years later, he joins the Reckoners--the only people who are trying to kill the Epics and end their tyranny. Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys Josie, the seventeen-year-old daughter of a French Quarter prostitute, is striving to escape 1950 New Orleans and enroll at prestigious Smith College when she becomes entangled in a murder investigation. Winger by Andrew Smith Two years younger than his classmates at a prestigious boarding school, fourteen-year-old Ryan Dean West grapples with living in the dorm for troublemakers, falling for his female best friend who thinks of him as just a kid, and playing wing on the Varsity rugby team with some of his frightening new dorm-mates. All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill Em must travel back in time to prevent a catastrophic time machine from ever being invented, while Marina battles to prevent the murder of the boy she loves. In the Shadow of Blackbirds by Cat Winters In San Diego in 1918, as deadly influenza and World War I take their toll, sixteen-year-old Mary Shelley Black watches desperate mourners flock to séances and spirit photographers for comfort and, despite her scientific leanings, must consider if ghosts are real when her first love, killed in battle, returns. The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey Cassie runs from Them. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see. Who have scattered Earth's last survivors. To stay alone is to stay alive, Cassie believes, until she meets Evan Walker. Beguiling and mysterious, Evan Walker may be Cassie's only hope for rescuing her brother--or even saving herself. But Cassie must choose: between trust and despair, between defiance and surrender, between life and death. To give up or to get up. The Program by Suzanne Young When suicide becomes a worldwide epidemic, the only known cure is The Program, a treatment in which painful memories are erased, a fate worse than death to seventeen-year-old Sloane who knows that The Program will steal memories of her dead brother and boyfriend. I am the Weapon by Allen Zadoff Sixteen-year-old Boy Nobody, an assassin controlled by a shadowy government organization, The Program, considers sabotaging his latest mission because his target reminds him of the normal life he craves. |
English II Reading Workshop 15% of grade * Read 1 new Gateway selection each quarter with a goal of reading 50 pages each week; the other selection is reader's choice! Reading Workshop Procedures and Requirements 1) Your first entry for a book needs to include title and author, and after this entry you need to only record the date and pages read. 2) As you read, record on a sticky note the information for the assigned reading strategy. After you read, place sticky note under recorded date and pages read. 3) Answer a question from the Reading Log Prompts handout using a specific example from your book with MLA citation. 4) Every Friday you will add a summary of what you want to remember from the week's reading - 8 to 12 line minimum. After you finish a book.... 1) Using "Reading Log Assignment for High School Students" handout, answer each question under setting, characters, conflict, and theme. Make sure you restate the questions in your responses - you may use heading for this portion of the essay. Cite specific examples using MLA citation format. The final portion of the essay is a 250 word minimum on why you like the novel using specific examples. The paper must have a MLA heading, Times New Roman font, 12 size font, double spaced, including a title. You must do this for each book you read. 2) Fill out the Reading Checklist and attach the reading response essay, and hand it in to me for evaluation. 3) For your first Gateway novel, one that must be from the 2014-2015 list, you will ask me for the quiz, take it during reading time, and return it to me for grading along with Reading Checklist so that I can record your score. 4) For your second novel, you may read what you want; however, you must choose a project and complete it using the rubric. This will be turned in with the Reading Checklist so that points can be recorded. Do not lose your Reading Checklist or other completed work because it is not recorded until the end of the quarter. The same checklist will be used again for the 4th quarter. All requirements for 2 novels must be handed in on March 2! 1. Date - Title of Book - Author - Page numbers read for each day. 2. A sticky note using a variety of reading strategies. Label each within the journal: Strategies *Making Connections *Context Clues *Predictions *Questioning *Synthesizing *Inference *Literary Elements *Imagery 3. Response to Daily Journal Prompt 4. On Friday -A one page summary of the week's reading. Summarize what events were important to you. Example of a daily entry: 1/9/15 Divergent by Veronica Roth; pages 18-30 (Sticky Note goes here) Making Connection: T-S The connection I made in this text is when she felt embarrassed because she was different than the other kids. I sometimes feel that I don't say the right things to others and they seem me as different. Prompt: After reading the short story "To Be or Not to Be" I believe the tone of the story is sad and mournful, because the main character cannot see her mother again. This is shown when she say, "I watched her face get smaller through the back window as my father drove us away in the car" (2). On Friday, you will do the summary of 8-12 lines of what you want to remember of your week's reading. |
Independent Reading Projects
independent_book_project.pdf | |
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book_cover_example_travel_team.docx | |
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map_example_the_hunger_games.docx | |
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greeting_card_example.docx | |
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comic_strip_example.docx | |
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journal_example.docx | |
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Short Story Texts
a_hanging-orwell.docx | |
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shooting_an_elephant-orwell.docx | |
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the_principles_of_newspeak_orwell.pdf | |
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respectable_woman-_chopin.pdf | |
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desirees_baby-chopin.pdf | |
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the_story_of_an_hour-chopin.docx | |
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the_yellow_wallpaper-gilman.pdf | |
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Introduction Project
3_choice_words_project.pdf | |
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intro_project_know_thyself.pdf | |
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know__thyself__part_2_reflection.docx | |
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know_thyself_project_example.docx | |
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know_thyself_inside_example.docx | |
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