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K-Grade 5 Summer Reading
Summer Workbook
All students in grades Kindergarten through 5th will receive a specially designed summer workbook, packed with engaging activities and skill-building exercises to reinforce learning and keep their minds sharp throughout the summer break.
Summer Reading on SORA
In an effort to decrease the effect of a Summer Slide, we encourage families to continue with daily reading and seek out learning opportunities in the community and in your travels. Below are some suggestions and ideas for families to keep up the great reading and learning we have seen all year.
- Students have access to SORA throughout the summer. Have them log-on a few times per week to check out and read books. Access through students’ district class link
- Students have access to SORA throughout the summer. Have them log-on a few times per week to check out and read books. Access through students’ district class link
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Grades 6-8 Summer ReadingAll CSD students entering grades 6 through 8 will be provided the required book: "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
Best-selling author Rick Riordan introduces this adventure by Roshani Chokshi about twelve-year-old Aru Shah, who has a tendency to stretch the truth in order to fit in at school.
While her classmates are jetting off to family vacations in exotic locales, she'll be spending her autumn break at home, in the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture, waiting for her mom to return from her latest archeological trip. Is it any wonder that Aru makes up stories about being royalty, traveling to Paris, and having a chauffeur?
One day, three schoolmates show up at Aru's doorstep to catch her in a lie. They don't believe her claim that the museum's Lamp of Bharata is cursed, and they dare Aru to prove it. Just a quick light, Aru thinks. Then she can get herself out of this mess and never ever fib again. But lighting the lamp has dire consequences. She unwittingly frees the Sleeper, an ancient demon whose duty it is to awaken the God of Destruction. Her classmates and beloved mother are frozen in time, and it's up to Aru to save them. The only way to stop the demon is to find the reincarnations of the five legendary Pandava brothers, protagonists of the Hindu epic poem, the Mahabharata, and journey through the Kingdom of Death. But how is one girl in Spider-Man pajamas supposed to do all that?
Summer Project
This year, as part of the reading experience, students will be required to complete a project on the summer reading novel.
For more details, please read the Summer Reading Memo
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Grades 9-12
All CSD students entering grades 9 through 12 will be provided the required book: Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri
A sprawling, evocative, and groundbreaking autobiographical novel told in the unforgettable and hilarious voice of a young Iranian refugee. It is a powerfully layered novel that poses the questions: Who owns the truth? Who speaks it? Who believes it?
In an Oklahoman middle school, Khosrou (whom everyone calls Daniel) stands in front of a skeptical audience of classmates, telling the tales of his family's history, stretching back years, decades, and centuries. At the core is Daniel's story of how they became refugees—starting with his mother's vocal embrace of Christianity in a country that made such a thing a capital offense, and continuing through their midnight flight from the secret police, bribing their way onto a plane-to-anywhere. Anywhere becomes the sad, cement refugee camps of Italy, and then finally asylum in the U.S. Implementing a distinct literary style and challenging western narrative structures, Nayeri deftly weaves through stories of the long and beautiful history of his family in Iran, adding a richness of ancient tales and Persian folklore.
Like Scheherazade of One Thousand and One Nights in a hostile classroom, Daniel spins a tale to save his own life: to stake his claim to the truth. EVERYTHING SAD IS UNTRUE (a true story) is a tale of heartbreak and resilience and urges readers to speak their truth and be heard.
Summer Project
This year, as part of the reading experience, students will be required to complete a project on the summer reading novel.
For more details, please read the Summer Reading Memo
