Summer Reading Assignments
for Students and Staff

It is our tradition to have students and staff do summer reading work.

Summer Reading Home

Summer Reading for Middles-3rd

Summer Reading for Middles-4th

Summer Reading Upper Middles-5th & 6th

Assignment for Upper Middles- 5th

Assignment for 6th Grade Upper Middles

Reading List for 7th grade Uppers

Reading List for 8th grade Uppers

Assignment for 7th & 8th grades (Upper Middles and Uppers)

Staff Assignment

Summer Work for
7th & 8th Grade Students at GCS

It is our tradition to have students do summer work. In the 3rd through 6th grade, that takes the form of reading and writing. In the 7th and 8th grade, we continue to ask them to do reading and we add a project component. Here are the 7th and 8th grade summer assignments for the 2008-2009 year.

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One of the Uppers' classes is Projects.  This class has 2 goals:

1. To help you figure out how to get great ideas
2. To help you figure out how to make those ideas happen.

Your assignment for the summer is very simple to describe:
DO SOMETHING GREAT!!!!!

Notice that we are using the word DO, not MAKE.

You can still make something for the summer project.  Many students make things: a movie, a 7-course dinner, a solar oven, a series of paintings, a 3 hole mini-golf course, etc.  But also consider DOING something: living in a tent in your backyard for 2 days without any companionship, learning an instrument, working in the Food Bank garden, climbing Mt. Everest, etc. If you choose doing instead of making, be sure you document your project in some way.

This course is designed to help move you from being told what and how to do things toward finding out what - for you - is worth doing, and then how to get it done.

This assignment is, therefore, purposely very wide open. It gives you a chance to show us:

a) what kinds of things you care about,
b) how much effort you put into things you like to do,
c) how well you can pull off a project of your own design.

Bring this project with you when you come to your August pre-school conference. 
Have fun!

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