Summer Reading Information

In order to help students enter this fall with a common experience and to promote discussions across curricula, all students and faculty have read one book for summer reading this year, A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines. Copies of the book were purchased for you by MRHS and mailed to you at the beginning of the summer if you did not recieve one during the last week of school back in May.

Participation in the summer reading program is mandatory. All English classes, as well as classes from other disciplines, will be participating in assignments and activities aligned with the novel to start the school year, so all students are expected to have read the book over the summer and be ready to participate. In this class, we will be starting activities and assignments surrounding the novel this Monday, August 24.

For more information about the book, check our MRHS' Summer Reading blog at http://www.onebookonemountain.blogspot.com/. This website contains supplementary information, an author bio, and several discussion questions about each chapter to guide your thinking. You will be asked to visit this site in the near future for a classroom assignment. Take a minute to check it out and review the questions before we jump into our activities!