Summer Reading – Freshmen

Freshmen at Delmarva Christian High School participate in a summer reading program designed to build interest and motivation for every reader. This program, called SIZZLE (Summer Infusion of Zeal Zooming in on Literacy Effectiveness) consists of 50 choices of literacy-related activities, each with a point value and required documentation. A total of 50 points is required, worth one “A” unit grade in English I.

How to Sizzle

1. You have 50 options, each has a point value. View the worksheet here (opens in a new window).
2. Your points must add up to at least 50.
3. Save “evidence” in a folder, binder or scrapbook. Your mini-posters and diagrams should be 8.5 x 11”.
4. Try new things (see #3, 9, 16, 39): bartleby.com, the library, a live play, etc.
5. Turn in your work to the Freshmen English teacher rooms during the first week of school.

Important Notes

1. Save your Sizzle checklist for reference.
2. This is part of your English I grade.
3. If you do not reach your goal, or in the discretion of the teacher, your evidence is inadequate, points may be deducted from the grade.
4. View the Cinquain worksheet here (opens in a new window).

Short Stories – #34 on the SIZZLE list

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Young Goodman Brown
The Minister’s Black Veil
Wakefield
The Birthmark

Herman Melville

Bartleby, the Scrivener

Mark Twain

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
The Story of the Good Little Boy

Willa Cather

A Wagner Matinee
Paul’s Case

Hamlin Garland

Under the Lion’s Paw

Stephen Crane

Do Not Weep, Maiden, for War is Kind
A Man Said to the Universe
An Open Boat

Jack London

To Build a Fire

James Joyce

Eveline

O. Henry

The Ransom of Red Chief

Ernest Hemingway

Soldier’s Home
Big Two-Hearted River

William Faulkner

A Rose for Emily

Frank Stockton

The Lady, or the Tiger?

Bret Harte

The Outcasts of Poker Flat

Ambrose Bierce

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

Kate Chopin

The Story of an Hour
A Respectable Woman
The Storm

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Yellow Wallpaper

Poets – #33 on the SIZZLE list

William Shakespeare
John Donne
Ben Johson
John Milton
William Blake
Robert Burns
William Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
John Keats
Elizabeth Barrett
Browning
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Robert Browning
Christina Rossetti
Thomas Hardy
William Butler Yeats
Dylan Thomas
Edgar Allan Poe
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
John Greenleaf Whittier
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Emily Dickinson
Walt Whitman
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edgar Lee Masters
Robert Frost
Carl Sandburg
Seamus Heaney