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Reading@ICS: MYP Summer Reading 2020

A description of the Summer Reading task for upcoming grade 6 students at ICS, as well as the list of books that they can choose from.

List of Books

Purpose & Procedure

The summer reading project requires you to do these tasks:

  • Read the required book during your summer break. You know how you like to read - your goal is to finish it at least a week before school starts.

  • Create a reading response poster about your summer reading book. It must be a paper, not a digital poster. Use colour, images and written text to create a visually attractive poster.

  • Allocate a section of your poster to each of the exercises below. Your poster needs to present all NINE EXERCISES shown in the grid below.

  • Resources: you may take an A3 piece of paper home--you could also consider using recycled materials. 

  • Bring your book and poster to your first English class.

NINE EXERCISES
Select a meaningful quote from the book. Why did you consider this a powerful passage? How it is important to the story? Stories often have minor characters who serve important roles in the development of a story. Who was that character in your story and why? Select an object that plays an important role in the book. Why it is important?
Consider a gift (object or idea) that you might give to a character in the book. What would it be and why? Select one symbolic word that represents your book. Why it is such a significant word for this particular story? Use five strong adjectives to describe the settings of your book. List those words and write about how they represent the setting.
As a reader, we don’t always feel that characters make the ‘right’ choices. Consider the choices that your characters made. Is there something that you would do differently? How and why?

Sketch or map the setting of your book on your poster. It can be a background if you like.

 Whose point of view do you hear in the story? How does this help you understand how a character developed? Would your understanding have been different if you had heard a different point of view? Why?

​​*adapted with permission from https://pds.libguides.com/mssummerreading

Questions? Contact: Gretha Wocke, Librarian or Claire Cosentino, Head of Language A

Grade 6 (upcoming grade 7)

This book is required reading. Use this book to complete the tasks described above in poster format.

These books are recommended reading. You should plan to read at least one of these during the summer.

The books are available on Sora as ebooks and/or audiobooks.

Grade 7 (upcoming grade 8)

You were issued a book of your choice from the list below. This is your required reading for the summer.

Use this book to complete the tasks described above in poster format. You can also click on the "Suggestions" tab for more ideas about books to read.

These books are recommended reading. You should plan to read at least one of these during the summer. They are available on Sora as ebooks and/or audiobooks. 

The task above should be completed after reading the book you chose from the "Required Books" list.

Grade 8 (upcoming grade 9)

This book is required reading. Use this book to complete the tasks described above in poster format.

These books are recommended reading. You should plan to read at least one of these during the summer.

They are available on Sora as ebooks and/or audiobooks.

Grade 9 (upcoming grade 10)

Both Of Mice and Men and The Omnivore's Dilemma are required reading.

Use Of Mice and Men to complete the tasks described above (as a poster)

(EAL students must please scroll down for information about the version they will be reading.)

This simplified version of Of Mice and Men is prescribed for EAL students. This book was be posted to students' home addresses during the last week of school.

This book is required reading for the grade 10 Individuals and Societies course.

Scroll down for the associated task sheet.

The following books are suggested reading. They are available on Sora as ebooks or audiobooks.