You can choose from this list of things to read and summarize:

http://www.schekker.de/start and then choose an article under the “Start” or “Themen” tabs

OR

News with glossary on Deutsche Welle: either at  http://www.dw.de/dw/0,,8031,00.html or at http://www.goethe.de/lhr/mat/deindex.htm and then on the bottom right, in the box labeled “Link-Tipps”, click on the link “Deutsche Wellen Nachrichten mit Glossar”. Choose any article featured here. (Bonus: these can also be listened to as you read.)

OR

a literary text from Gutenberg.org (the text must be one that you are not reading in another German class – read 5+ pages per week).

Each week, you will write a one paragraph summary of what an article (or the 5 pages in a literary work) that you have read. By midterm, you will have read 5 articles (or 25 pages) and written 5 summaries. By the final, the same (5 articles or 25 pages, equaling 5 summaries).