CRLS Summer Reading Discussions

Our weekly book discussions for each of the required CRLS summer reading books has begun!  Last week we met and talked about The Contender.  This Thursday we'll be dishing on The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.



Thursday, August 8
2:00PM
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Discussion followed by movie.


Thursday, August 15
2:00PM
The Namesake
Discussion followed by movie.

Thursday, August 22
2:00PM
The Kite Runner
Discussion followed by movie.

CRLS Summer Reading Discussions

Our weekly book discussions for each of the required CRLS summer reading books has begun!  Last week we met and talked about The Contender.  This Thursday we'll be dishing on The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.



Thursday, August 8
2:00PM
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Discussion followed by movie.


Thursday, August 15
2:00PM
The Namesake
Discussion followed by movie.

Thursday, August 22
2:00PM
The Kite Runner
Discussion followed by movie.

Volunteers needed for Cambridge Family Literacy Fun Day!

Community service, literacy and fun all in one event!  It's like a Reece's Peanut Butter Cup of helpful good times.

CRLS student volunteers are needed to help run the annual Cambridge Family Literacy Fun Day!

This Saturday

November 3

10:30 - 2:30

Cambridge City Hall

Central Square

Volunteers needed beginning at 8AM for the setup until end of the event and clean up.

For more information call: 617-349-6492 or email dbonilla@cpsd.us

Kite Runner Book Discussion Tomorrow

Summer is almost over, and tomorrow all Class of 2013ers are welcome to meet here in the Teen Room to discuss The Kite Runner.  We'll have popsicles, because literary analysis makes one thirsty.

Haven't read the book yet?  It's still okay to stop by -- and we can put a copy on hold for you.

THE CONTENDER

Have you read it? Are you reading it? Do you have a copy of it staring you down but you haven't cracked it yet? Do you have no idea what I'm talking about? If you're starting 9th grade at CRLS this year you and all your classmates should be reading this book this summer. If you don't have a copy come and ask a librarian!

While you're here, stop in at our 9th grade book discussion THIS THURSDAY (Aug 2) at 2:00pm! Talk to you classmates, talk to us, and stick around for a loosely-related boxing movie. 

Book discussions for other classes in the weeks to follow:
Grade 10: Thursday, Aug 9, 2:00pm
Grade 11: Thursday, August 16, 2:00pm
Grade 12: Thursday, August 23, 2:00pm

Robot Regionals

CRLS's own FIRST Robotics Team is going to be competing in the upcoming regional competition in Boston! Come cheer on your classmates and their mighty robots (and watch as they tweak and improve them between matches)!

When: March 23rd and 24th 9am - 5pm
Where: Agannis Arena at BU

Look for Team #97, the Bionic Beef! If you can't make it, it looks like you can view the match results here.

GOOD LUCK!

CRLS Roundup!

Credit: Chapel Hill Memories

Because even librarians don't have all the answers...
CRLS Homework Center
The CRLS Homework Center is in the CRLS Pearl K Wise Library. The center is open Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays (Friday also as needed) from 2:30 - 4:00 pm. All students are invited to drop in for help with their assignments.

I'm sure something about you is nifty.
Attention High School Seniors
Navigating the college admission process is a challenge and the college essay is the one place on your application where you can present yourself to an admission officer. This is where you can shine, which makes the essay, and the topic you choose, an exciting challenge.

Margaret McNally, M. Ed, a college counselor with a private practice in Cambridge, is holding individual workshops to brainstorm the college essay and help students find their personal story. Margaret is a former journalist and English teacher as well as an admissions director at a private school. Scholarships are available.


Look both ways.

Credit: Funny-Accident.com

Drivers Education Fall Class
Info & registration session will take place on Wednesday Oct. 5th at 2:30 in the main cafeteria. Classes meet on Mondays and Wednesdays starting Oct.17th. All classes are held in the Solomons Transportation Ctr, 456 Broadway, across the street from the high school.

 


I can't think of anything witty to say about Upward Bound, it is just neat-o.

The MIT/Wellesley Upward Bound Program is currently recruiting 9th and 10th graders. 

Our program is a year-round (from time of entrance until graduation from high school), federally sponsored, educational program serving seventy (75) low-income and/or first generation eighth and high school college-bound students from the Cambridge community. The Program stresses the development of academic skills and motivation for students who might not traditionally be considered college-bound.

The MIT/Wellesley Upward Bound Program is having a Fall Open House for CRLS freshmen, sophomores and their parents on Monday, October 17th from 3:00-6:00 p.m. Come learn about the Upward Bound Program, Meet the staff and current students and participate in a fun Upward Bound Trivia. Please RSVP by Friday, October 14th at 617-253-5124 or email: lpires@mit.edu.

For more information about Upward Bound please contact: 617-253-5124 or email lpires@mit.edu.


Oh, my Science...
MIT Exploring Majors Fair 
MIT is pleased to invite the students of Cambridge Rindge and Latin School to participate in an exciting annual event presented by the MIT Society of Women Engineers: The Exploring Majors Fair.



What: Through this interactive, engaging event, high school students will have the opportunity to explore a diverse number of science, math, and engineering fields and work on career development. The students will be able to network with current MIT students in a casual environment and discuss how MIT students chose their respective majors, research and internship experiences, and college in general.

Where/When: This year the date is set for Saturday, October 29, 2011, from 2:30 to 4:00 pm in Lobby 10 at MIT.

How: Students can fill out the registration form at http://swe.mit.edu/highschool/exploringmajors.php If you have any questions or concerns, please email exploringmajors2011@mit.edu

Hate List by Jennifer Brown

Some of you may have read this as a summer reading elective, but those who haven't should pick up a copy for a little extracurricular reading. This is definitely a good read for the beginning of the school year! The characters deal with very realistic issues concerning friendships and emotions, and puts one's actions towards others into perspective. At the risk of sounding corny, I don't want to get into how important it is to be nice to people, no matter their appearance...so I won't go any further. Just trust me, I'm sure you'll identify with someone in this book and then struggle with who to side with.

"The first rule of Book Club is..."

Announcing "So You Think You Like Books," a book club formed by the combined force and astounding powers of Cambridge Rindge and Latin students and the Cambridge Public Library! Meeting weekly "to read, discuss, and LOVE books!"

When: Wednesdays, 2:45 -3:45
Where: Ms. Leekeenan's room (2313)

It is going to be singularly fantastic! Don't miss it!

CRLS Summer Reading

We have the CRLS Summer Reading list! There is a table in the Teen Lounge dedicated to the summer reading books so stop on by and pick up your reading selections before everyone else does. For your reference we have posted the list on our blog and have a copy available for perusal in the Teen Lounge. If you can't find what you are looking for, please please please ask us and we'll find it for you, even if it's at another library.

CRLS Grade 12 Summer Reading

Required Reading: The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini

CP and Honors classes choose ONE and AP classes choose TWO additional books from the following lists:

Beach Reads
Love Sick, Jake Coburn
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, Chris Crutcher
Little Brother, Cory Doctorow
Waiting to Exhale, Terry McMillan
The Dying Ground, Nichelle D. Tramble

Classics
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
The Good Earth, Pearl Buck
Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
Fail Safe, Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler

Historical Fiction
A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest Gaines
The Good Negress, A.J. Verdelle
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon
Caucasia, Danzy Senna
Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier

Contemporary Fiction
The Pact, Jodi Picoult
The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
Bel Canto, Ann Patchett
Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
Double Helix, Nancy Werlin

Sci-Fi / Fantasy
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
V for Vendetta, Alan Moore and David Lloyd
A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

Non-fiction
The World is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman
A Civil Action, Jonathan Harr
Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
The Perfect Storm, Sebastian Junger
Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich

CRLS Grade 11 Summer Reading

Required Reading: The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm X and Alex Haley

CP and Honors classes choose ONE and AP classes choose TWO additional books from the following lists:

Beach Reads
Maximum Ride series, James Patterson (choose one)
The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
A Time To Kill, John Grisham
The Gospel According to Larry, Janet Tashjian
That Summer, Sarah Dessen

Classics
Light in August, William Faulkner
On the Road, Jack Kerouac
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
The Color Purple, Alice Walker
Native Son, Richard Wright

Historical Fiction
Jesse, Gary Soto
Copper Sun, Sharon Draper
The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien
Killer Angels, Michael Shaara
The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd

Contemporary Fiction
Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris
The Life of Pi, Yann Martel
The Host, Stephanie Meyer
Rucker Park Setup, Paul Volponi

Sci-Fi / Fantasy
Watchmen, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
Kindred, Octavia Butler
Moonfall, Jack McDevitt
Blood and Chocolate, Annette Curtis Klause
The Andromeda Strain, Michael Crichton

Non-fiction
Our America, LeAlan and Lloyd Newman
Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser
A Hope in the Unseen, Ron Suskind
The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou

CRLS Grade 10 Summer Reading

Required Reading: After the First Death, Robert Cormier

CP and Honors classes choose ONE and AP classes choose TWO additional books from the following lists:

Beach Reads:
Uglies series, Scott Westerfeld (choose one)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison
Senioritis, Tate Thompson

Classics
Nectar in a Sieve, Kamala Markandaya
Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway

Historical Fiction
The Glory Field, Walter Dean Myers
The Samurai's Garden, Gail Tsukiyama
Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Julia Alvarez
The Book Thief, Markus Zusak

Contemporary Fiction
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Mark Haddon
My Sister's Keeper, Jodi Picoult
Every Time a Rainbow Dies, Rita Williams-Garcia
The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
Monster, Walter Dean Myers

Sci-Fi / Fantasy
His Dark Materials series, Phillip Pullman (choose one)
How I Live Now, Meg Rossof
Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
The Lord of the Rings series, J.R.R. Tolkien (choose one)

Non-fiction
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World, Mark Kurlansky (This is the 2010 Cambridge Reads book!)
The Color of Water, James McBride
Mountains Beyond Mountains, Tracy Kidder
Dreams from my Father, Barack Obama
Roots, Alex Haley

CRLS Grade 9 Summer Reading

Required Reading: The Contender, Robert Lipsyte

CP and Honors classes choose ONE and AP classes choose TWO additional books from the following lists:

Beach Reads
Small Steps, Louis Sachar
Jazmin's Notebook, Nikki Grimes
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Ann Brashares
Twilight series, Stephanie Meyer (choose one)
The Killer's Cousin, Nancy Werlin

Classics
The Pearl, John Steinbeck
A Separate Peace, John Knowles
The Chocolate War, Robert Cormier
Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte

Historical Fiction
Under the Blood-Red Sun, Graham Salisbury
Catherine Called Birdy, Karen Cushman
Fallen Angels, Walter Dean Myers
Fever 1793, Laurie Halse Anderson
Chain of Fire, Beverley Naidoo and Eric Velasquez

Contemporary Fiction
Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian, Sherman Alexie
Forged by Fire series, Sharon Draper (choose one)
Kendra, Coe Booth
If You Come Softly, Jacqueline Woodson

Sci-Fi / Fantasy
Feed, M.T. Anderson
Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling (choose one)
A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L'Engle
The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
Interstellar Pig, William Sleator

Non-fiction
We Beat the Streets, Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, Rameck Hunt, and Sharon Draper
Farewell to Manzanar, James D. Houston and Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
When I Was Puerto Rican, Esmeralda Santiago
The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne Frank
Letters to a Bullied Girl, Olivia Gardner, Emily Buder, and Sarah Buder