Please find below:
1)WRUS school supply list for the 2008-09 school year. Use of each item varies between classes. Faculty may request additional supplies in individual classes throughout the year.
2) 2008 Summer Reading List - the entire school is expected to read the all school read. Students may choose from the other suggestions or choose a title of their own. Audio versions are encouraged where appropriate.
Supply List
- Apple laptop in good working order. New students should purchase the Apple MacBook, the minimum specs are adequate, and have Microsoft Office for Mac loaded on it. http://www.apple.com/macbook/ You may order online or at the Apple store closest to you.
- Compact Discs . A pack of 10 should be sufficient for the first term.
- Flash Drive- recommended 2GB or larger. A strap and cap is preferable to no strap or cap, otherwise they are easily misplaced or misconstrued.
-Student day planner - will be provided at school
- Student organizer/binder - Meade usually makes the most durable and supportive of student organization.
- Loose leaf paper, any rule, dependent upon student preferences
- Dividers, pack of 8 or 10
- a year's supply of pencils and pens - these can be stored in the student's homeroom for safe keeping and access
- two composition notebooks
- Bookbag-
Recommended/suggested resources and/or supplies:
-iPods are a great way to listen to downloaded audio text - books, podcasts, etc. They are not required, but may come in handy...possible holiday gift idea.
-Accordion pleated file folder (a great support to less organized students)
-separate carrying case for laptop - a soft sided carrying case that can fit into a larger bookbag helps to protect the laptop, with or without handles.
-if your student is prone to forgetting dress code items, we encourage you send in a spare set to keep at school- for ex., belts, proper shoes
-duffel or gym bag to contain soiled athletic attire
-personal e-mail address for student use - to enable faculty to communicate if appropriate with student's regarding assignments and activities.
-please assist your student in marking all supplies and all clothing items.
Please check back prior to school in case this list lengthens.
2008 Summer Reading
All School Read – Captains Courageous by R. Kipling (This can be downloaded from iTunes in audio form. Be sure to order the unabridged version for $18.95.) Any book in audio form is encouraged if appropriate.
Students must turn in projects on day one for three books, including Captains Courageous. Projects may be reports, posters, slide shows, character analysis, letters to or from a character. Projects will count toward term grade
Suggested Choices
Rising Ninth Grader
Rocket Boys, Homer Hickam
Holes, Louis Sachar
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
The Story of My Life, Helen Keller
Mythology, Edith Hamilton
Arabian Nights (Sinbad, Ali Baba, Alladin, etc.)
Homesick, My Own Story, Jean Fritz
My Brother Sam is Dead, Collier Brothers
Of Mice and Men - Steinbeck
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
Rising Tenth Grader
The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara
My Bondage, My Freedom, Frederick Douglass
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
Gifted Hands, Ben Carson
Roots, Alex Haley
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Anne Brashares
Hiroshima, John Hersey
Lost Horizon, James Hilton
Goodbye, Mr. Chips, James Hilton
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
Watership Down – Richard Adams
Chronicles of Narnia – C.S. Lewis
The Hobbitt - Tolkien
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
Lost Horizon – James Hilton
Rising Eleventh Grader
A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Anne Brashares
“To Build a Fire” and other stories by Jack London
Code Talkers, Joseph Bruchac
The Story of B – Daniel Quinn
Forrest Gump – Winston Groom
The Lord’s Oysters – Gilbert Byron
Marley and Me – John Grogan
Ishmael – Daniel Quinn
Arthurian Tales
Lost Horizon – James Hilton
Enrique’s Journey – Sonia Nazario
Rising Twelfth Grader
Angels and Demons Dan Brown
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, John LeCarre
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Arthurian Tales
“The Luck of Roaring Camp” and “The Outcasts of Poker Flats,” Bret Harte
Up From Slavery, Booker T. Washington
Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
Crime & Punishment - Dostoevsky
Sirens of Titan - Vonnegut
A Heartbreaking Work of a Staggering Genius - David Eggers
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert M. Pirsig
The Sot-weed Factor – Barth
Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt
My Boy Jack – Rudyard Kipling
Marley and Me – John Grogan
Ishmael – Daniel Quinn
Enrique’s Journey – Sonia Nazario
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