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=Welcome to the Lesley Summer Institute=

Assignments for Credit
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Schedule
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**Resources**


Here ae some suggestions from an eighth grade teacher:
 * Books Suggested by participants** at the institute including grade level and a brief description of how they were used.
 * 1) __Boy: Tales of Childhood__, by Roald Dahl. The famous children's author recounts memories from his youth, ages 6-20. Students who enjoyed Dahl's books like reading about his offbeat adventures, whether it be incidents which took place during summer vacations spent on an isolated island in Norway or tales of the rigors of English boarding schools. Dahl occasionally comments on sources of his fiction. The book includes photographs and excerpts from letters he wrote to his mother during those years.
 * 2) __ Left for Dead: A Young Man's Search for Justice __, by Peter Nelson. This book tells 2 true stories. The first is of the //USS Indianapolis,// the Navy vessel which delivered the atomic bomb to the //Enola Gay.// Following the successful completion of the mission, the //Indianapolis wa//s sunk by a Japanese submarine, with huge loss of life. The second story is that of a middle school student, Scott Hunter, who campaigned to clear the name of the captain of the //Indianapolis,// the only Naval captain court martialed in World War II for the loss of his vessel.
 * 3) __The Story of a Ship-wrecked Sailor__, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Before he achieved fame as a novelist, Marquez worked as a journalist in Bogota, Colombia. He recounts the story of Luis Velasco, a crewman on a Colombian destroyer who was washed overboard and survived for 10 days at sea. Marquez describes the sailor's battles with starvation, shark attacks, hallucinations, and loneliness.
 * 4) __Into Thin Air__, by John Krakauer. Journalist Krakauer gives his first person account of the attempts by two competing expeditions to summit Mount Everest on the same day in 1996, with tragic results. In addition to presenting fascinating insights into the world of elite high altitude mountain climbers, Krakauer has a case to make, and he discusses his journalistic methods as well as alternate accounts of the event.
 * 5) __Behind Rebel Lines: The Incredible Story of Emma Edmonds, Civil War Spy,__ by Seymour Reit. Emma Edmonds first disguised herself as a man to join the Union Army and fight in the Civil War. She later adopted additional disguises and risked her life to go behind rebel lines as a spy to gather information about Confederate troops and battle plans.