SUMMER READING FOR INCOMING 9TH - SUMMER OF 2021

SUMMER
 READING FOR
INCOMING 9TH
    GRADERS
      SUMMER OF 2021

BOOK CHOICES FOR CURRENT 8TH GRADE STUDENTS

                                       Inherit the
      Educated      Black Panther
                                          Wind
     (Westover)     (Coates, GN)
                                    (Lawrence, Lee)

           And Then There      Alice in
             Were None       Wonderland
             (Christie)       (Carroll)

EDUCATED
A MEMOIR

•Tara Westover grew up in a fundamentalist
Mormon family of survivalists in Idaho.
•Her father didn’t allow her to attend public
school. She helped her midwife mother,
stockpiled food, and dealt with violent
outbursts from family members.
•Tara decided to educate herself. She learned
enough to enter Brigham Young University.
She eventually attended Harvard and
Cambridge, where she earned a Ph.D.

Tara Westover talks in interviews about her book and her
relationship with her family

Interview with Ellen DeGeneres
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is635n6RNR0&ab_channel=TheEllenShow
Interview with Oprah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS0P1ovIRos&ab_channel=OWN
Interview with CBS This Morning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTLK5AEVCEc&ab_channel=CBSThisMorning

BLACK PANTHER

•Ta-Nehisi Coates, illustrated by Brian Stelfreeze

•Graphic novel that tells the story of the kingdom of Wakanda and its
rulers, the Black Panthers. The current ruler, T’Challa, confronts a
violent uprising led by a superhuman terrorist group in this first
installment of a series.
•Ta-Nehisi Coates’ website https://ta-nehisicoates.com/about/
•Book trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVqAnQe_xGw&ab_channel=
MarvelEntertainment

TA-NEHISI COATES TALKS ABOUT THE
     ROLE OF COMICS IN HIS LIFE AND
WRITING BLACK PANTHER FOR MARVEL
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                  TWO GUYS TALKING ABOUT THE COMIC AND SHOWING THE ART
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•The writers based the story on the case of The State of
                      Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes (1925), commonly known
                      as the Scopes Monkey Trial. Scopes was charged with
                      teaching the theory of evolution at a high school in Dayton,
INHERIT THE WIND      Tennessee, in violation of Tennessee’s law.
                      •The case was seen as pitting science against religion.
JEROME LAWRENCE and   •The play was first produced in 1955.
ROBERT LEE            •The writers changed names and some of the details of
                      Scopes’ story to respond to McCarthyism in the 1950s.
                      •One reader’s response to reading the play:
                      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kgflgFEhzM&ab_channel=CallMeIshm
                      ael

INHERIT THE WIND

•A movie version of the play was
released in 1960.
•Some scenes from the movie:
•https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQL
XXM-nktc&ab_channel=Movieclips
•https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YU
nOHihAU0&ab_channel=Movieclips

AND THEN THERE WERE NONE

•By Agatha Christie

•Published in 1939
•Classic whodunnit that set the standard

AND THEN THERE WERE NONE
ADAPTATIONS

•There have been many film and TV series adaptations since
Christie’s book was published in 1939.

•A Lifetimes series produced in 2016 was aired on PBS also.
Many consider it the most faithful adaptation to date.

•Trailer for 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srOKFpdNOSk&ab_cha
nnel=AcornMediaUS

ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN
WONDERLAND
BY LEWIS CARROLL

• Lewis Carroll is the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodson, an
  Anglican clergyman and lecturer in logic and mathematics at
  Christ Church Oxford.
• He published Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in 1865. Alice
  Liddell, the daughter of the dean of Christ Church, is thought
  by some to be the inspiration for Carroll’s Alice books.