{"id":61,"date":"2017-02-24T11:44:12","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T16:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.gstboces.org\/svelibrary\/?page_id=61"},"modified":"2017-02-24T11:58:28","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T16:58:28","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.gstboces.org\/svelibrary\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-38\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.gstboces.org\/svelibrary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/163\/2017\/02\/sun-reading-300x247.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"85\" height=\"70\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.gstboces.org\/svelibrary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/163\/2017\/02\/sun-reading-300x247.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.gstboces.org\/svelibrary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/163\/2017\/02\/sun-reading.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 85px) 100vw, 85px\" \/>Academic research indicates that continued reading throughout the summer reinforces and refines literacy skills.&nbsp; As a means of giving our students this advantage the English Department, along with the librarian,&nbsp;has created a summer reading requirement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Summer Reading Guidelines<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All students in grades 9-12 are expected to complete a summer reading activity, consisting of <strong>1 book of nonfiction <em>and<\/em> 1 book of fiction<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Fiction <\/strong>book is&nbsp;<strong>open\/free choice<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Students will select the <strong>Nonfiction <\/strong>texts from book lists generated for their respective grade level.<\/li>\n<li>Within the first five school days of the first marking period, students will complete an on-demand writing task which will require them to reflect upon both texts.<\/li>\n<li>This task will count as 15% of the student\u2019s first marking period average.<\/li>\n<li>The writing task will be assessed using a scoring rubric that will measure a student\u2019s comprehension of both texts.<\/li>\n<li>Failure to complete the task in a timely fashion will result in a forfeiture of the 15% established for the task.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-39\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.gstboces.org\/svelibrary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/163\/2017\/02\/lWUyXZ7QMBixq-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\">&nbsp;&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-40\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.gstboces.org\/svelibrary\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/163\/2017\/02\/t4ZOmcumflO7YU-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Academic research indicates that continued reading throughout the summer reinforces and refines literacy skills.&nbsp; As a means of giving our students this advantage the English Department, along with the librarian,&nbsp;has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.gstboces.org\/svelibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.gstboces.org\/svelibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.gstboces.org\/svelibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.gstboces.org\/svelibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.gstboces.org\/svelibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.gstboces.org\/svelibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66,"href":"https:\/\/sites.gstboces.org\/svelibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61\/revisions\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.gstboces.org\/svelibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}