GFHS Language Arts

English 9 Honors Reading
Home
English 9
English 9 Honors
English 10
Advisory
Parent Newsletter
Classroom Library
Community Bulletin
Photo Album
Links
Ms. Reistad-Schwartz

 
Sustained Silent Reading (SSR)
Every Friday our class will participate in SSR for twenty minutes. Students are asked to bring a book or other reading selection or select a book from our classroom library. Any kind of text is acceptable as long as it is reading level appropriate. The 20 minutes of SSR reading does not count towards the two hours of independent reading required each week

Reading Requirements

Independent Reading:
Two hours of reading must be documented in the Reader's Response Journal every Monday or the first day of the week. Journal entries should also include a weekly reading goal, two interesting or new words and definitions, and written response.

Click here to learn more about Reader's Response Journals.

Need a book? Click here for book lists.
Blue Book, Turning

Quarterly Book Projects
Each quarter students must read a college-bound or classic text and complete one of the six book projects. Students may only do a project once and must choose a different option each quarter.

Book Project Options

Book Project Rubrics