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  • Choose it. Read it.

mystery.adventure.history.sports. biography.science.hollywood.classics.poetry.famous. explorers.medicineartists.music.

2. Choose it. Write it.

Choose a way to share your reflections on the text you read. Use one of the reflection questions provided, or come up with your own!

Hold on to your response until school starts in the fall. Your English teacher next year will collect your work and use it to get to know you as a student!

Summer Reading

newspaper

magazine

book

graphic novel

blog

“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.” - M. Cooley

Need a book? Check out this MCPS Collection of e-book sites: https://bit.ly/MCPSTeenREAD or scan the QR Code!

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How has your text affected you as a reader?

How has your reading process been improved or changed?

What personal connections are you making with your text?

What would you ask or tell the author of your text if you met them?

How has your understanding of the complexity of human relationships increased?

ReFlection

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How have you improved as a reader by reading your text?

What connections do you draw between your text and other texts you’ve read?

In what ways has the text helped you develop empathy?

What have you learned about culture or society or history from your text?

What does your choice of text reveal about you as a person?

What would you tell another student to get them interested in your book?

How has your book impacted the way you think about a specific subject or topic?

After reading the text you chose, pick one of the reflection prompts below to respond to. Save your work and be prepared to share it with your English teacher next school year.