HELLO. The list of storybooks for the English Holiday Assignment is already up on the ACP. Here it is:

Sec 1-3 Holiday Homework (Nov-Dec 2008)- 20% for CA in 2009
Read any two of the books* recommended and complete the following task:

- For one book, prepare a verbal sharing (about 5 min) on its synopsis, what you like best about the story and learnt from the book (in terms of moral issues / themes etc). Be prepared to be asked questions by your EL teacher!

* You should NOT choose a book that you have already read. If you will be a Literature student in Sec 3 in 2009, you must choose To Kill a Mockingbird as one of the texts.

- In addition, your EL teacher will give you a QUIZ in Term 1 Week 1 next year on the second book you selected to ascertain how closely you read the book! The quiz may consist of fill-in-the-blanks, matching exercises or simple structured questions.
HAVE FUN READING!!!

01) Z for Zechariah - Robert C O'Brien
02) Run Silent, Run Deep - Edward L Beach
03) Lord of the Flies - William Golding
04) Kidnapped - Robert L Stevenson
05) Midnight Hour Encores - Bruce Brooks
06) Words by Heart - Ouida Sebestyen
07) Homecoming - Cynthia Voigt
08) Them That Glitter and Them That Don’t - Bette Greene
09) The Last Unicorn - Peter S Beagle
10) The Honourable Prison - Lyll de Becerra de Jenkins
11) A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle
12) Fragments of Isabella - Isabella Leitner
13) Sing to the Dawn - Ho Minfong
14) The Inn of the Sixth Happiness - Alan Burgess
15) The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
16) The Stranger - Albert Camus
17) Maddy’s Song - Margaret Dickson
18) Silas Marner - George Eliot
19) The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
20) Giant Steps - Kareem Abdul-Jabaar & Peter Knobler
21) Up the Down Staircase - Bel Kaufmann
22) Anna and the King of Siam - Margaret Landon
23) The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
24) To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
25) Roots - Alex Harley
26) David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
27) Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
28) The Time Machine - HG Wells
29) The Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
30) Intruder in the Dust - William Faulkner
31) Kaffir Boy - Mark Mathabane
32) Other People’s Houses - Lore Segal

Elizabeth