Summer Reading Assignments
Elementary School (Updated for 2022-23)
Contact: Ms. Lisa Sirgo
- Kindergarten – English | Spanish
- Grade 1 – English | Spanish
- Grade 2 – English | Spanish
- Grade 3 – English | Spanish
- Grade 4 – English | Spanish
- Grade 5 – English | Spanish
Middle School (Updated for 2022-23)
Contact Mr. Ryan Ruyle
- Grade 6: Google Docs | PDF
- Grade 7: Google Docs | PDF
- Grade 8: Google Docs | PDF
High School: Grades 9-12 (Updated for 2022-23)
Contact Ms. Gretchen Bohlke.
The first step in selecting the correct summer reading text is knowing which English class you will be taking in 2022-2023. Typically, the course sequence is 1) Grade 9: English I, 2) Grade 10: English II, 3) Grade 11: English III, and 4) Grade 12: English IV.
Please note these important details:
- Some students take two English courses in a single year.
- Some rising 10th-grade students elected honors English classes. Honors students must read the designated honors-level text, although any student may also elect to read this text.
- Some rising 11th & 12th graders have elected the full IB Diploma Programme (DP) or a DP Language & Literature class.
If you are not certain what English course you will take in the fall, please email Anna Evans, Dean of Academic Affairs at aevans@morrisjeffschool.org for assistance.
Choose the ASSIGNMENT for the course you will take in Fall 2022.
- English I – Read The Giver by Lois Lowry
- English II
- Regular – Brave New World by Aldous Huxley or Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson AND The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. Review teacher notes here.
- Honors – Read The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- English III – Read The Declaration of Independence,The U.S. Constitution and all amendments, The Gettysburg Address (Lincoln), Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Chapter 1-V, and The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus.
- English IV – to be determined
- DP Biology I – Complete the following assignment: Topic 1 – Independent Study
- DP Biology II – Complete the following assignments: Topic 5 – Independent Study
- DP Language & Literature Year 1– Read How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster. Read teacher notes here for assignment.
- DP Language & Literature Year 2 – Read Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- DP Math Interpretations Year 2 – Complete this assignment.
- DP Psychology – Complete this assignment.
- Statistics – Complete this assignment.