Trinity Catholic High School
Summer Reading Program
Trinity Catholic High School will be initiating its first Summer
Reading Program. The purpose of this summer reading program is to encourage
students to be life-long readers and to help them maintain reading and
thinking skills. This reading program is required of all returning students
and the incoming freshmen.
All students will be required to read a minimum of two books. One
is a required title and the second must be chosen from a recommended book
list. The required book will be given to all Sophomore, Junior, and Senior
students. Freshmen will be required to purchase the book from Amazon or a
local bookstore. Freshmen will be using this book in Social Studies and
English classes. Sophomore, Junior and Senior honors students will be asked
to read a third book assigned by the individual teacher.
Assessment of the summer reading program is multifaceted.
Assessment of the required book will be done in class during the first two
weeks of school in August. Part of this may include some written work over
the summer. Assessment of the free choice book will be the completion of
the �Summer Reading Program Assignment Form� which will be posted on the LMC
page of the Trinity Website. The completed assignment form must be
submitted during the first week of school, it will be graded, and will count
as a unit test.
Freshmen
All freshmen are required to read The Everything Classical Mythology
Book by Lesley Bolton. Purchase information: ISBN number is
158062653X. Prices are $11.21 new from Amazon (cheaper used copies
available) and $14.95 new from Borders and Barnes and Noble.
Freshmen
The form for the Freshman assignment can be found at the following link:
Freshman Form
Sophomores
All sophomores are required to read The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Your
Carbon Footprint by Nancy S.Grant.
Sophomore Form
Juniors
All juniors are required to read What Would the Founders Do? By
Richard
Brookhiser.
The form for the Junior assignment can be found at the following link:
Junior Form
Seniors
All seniors are required to read Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas.
Senior Form
All students � Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors
All students must choose a second book from the annotated list found at the
link below.
The form for the Free Choice Book assignment for all students can be found
at the following link:
General Form
For information on how your free-choice reading assignment will be scored,
use the following link:
General Assignment Rubric
An annotated list of approved books for summer reading, in MS Word format,
is available at the following link.
Note:Address for booklist is Annotated Book List
