FRESHMAN SUMMER 2010 READING LIST

Advanced English Genre: A test will be given on the required reading(s) during the first full week of school. For the” Choice Book”, the student will be required to create a project to be turned in the first full week of class. Text substitutions are NOT permitted.

Three Readings
Required Reading:
The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
Empire - Orson Scott Card

Read any ONE of the following:
Tuesdays with Morrie – Mitch Albom
For One More Day – Mitch Albom
Five People You Meet in Heaven– Mitch Albom
A Separate Peace – John Knowles
Chasing the Dream – Joe Torre and Tom Verducci
It’s Not about the Bike: My Journey Back to Life – Lance Armstrong
The Last Lecture – Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
Castaway Kid – r.b. Mitchell
The Legend of Bagger Vance – Steven Pressfield
Growing Up– Russell Baker
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café– Fannie Flagg
Walking with Friends: An Inspirational Year on the PGA Tour -- D. J. Gregory , Steve Eubanks
How Reading Changed My Life by Anna Quindlen

English 1 Genre: A test will be given on the required reading during the first full week of school. For the “Choice book”, the student will be required to create a project, to be turned in the first full week of class. Text substitutions are NOT permitted.

Two Readings
Required Reading:
The Time Machine - H.G. Wells

In addition to the Advanced Genre list, students may also read any ONE of the following:
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
Nightfall – Isaac Asimov and Ron Silverberg
My Dog Skip– Willie Morris
A Wrinkle in Time – Madeline L’engel
Empire By Orson Scott Card

 
SOPHOMORE SUMMER 2010 READING LIST


Advanced English Genre: A test will be given on the required reading(s) during the first week of school. For the “Choice Book”, the student will be required to create a project to be turned in first full week of school. Text substitutions are NOT permitted.

Three Readings
Required:
The Time Machine –H.G. Wells
Empire –Orson Scott Card

Read any ONE of the following:
Tuesdays with Morrie – Mitch Albom
For One More Day – Mitch Albom
Five People You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom
A Separate Peace- John Knowles
Chasing the Dream – Joe Torre and Tom Verducci
It’s Not About the Bible: My Journey Back to Life –Lance Armstrong
The Last Lecture – Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
Castaway Kid – r.b. Mitchell
The Legend of Bagger Vance – Steven Pressfield
Growing Up – Russell Baker
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café – Fannie Flagg
Walking with Friends: An Inspirational Year on the PGA Tour –D.J .Gregory, Steve Eubanks
How Reading Changed My Life – Anna Quindlen

American Literature 10: A test will be given on the required reading(s) during the first full week of school. For the “Choice Book”, the student will be required to create a project, to be turned in the first full week of class. Text substitutions are NOT permitted.

Two Readings
Required Reading:
A Raisin in the Sun – Lorraine Hansberry

Read one of the following:
The Story of My Life: An Afghan Girl on the Other Side of the Sky – Farah Ahmedi with Tamin Ansary
The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd
Chocolate Wars – Robert Cormier
Izzy Willy Nilly - Cynthia Voight
God on the Starting Line: The Triumph of a Catholic School Running Team and Its Jewish Coach – Marc Bl


JUNIOR SUMMER 2010 READING LIST

JUNIORS: A test will be given on the required reading(s) during the first full week of school. For the” Choice Book, the student will be required to create a project to be turned in the first full week of class. Text substitutions are NOT permitted.

British Literature Honors: All readings are required; a separate journal is required for each reading.

Required Reading:
Rebecca – Daphne DuMaurier
Jane Eyre – Emily Bronte
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

British Literature:
Two Readings
Required Reading:
To Sir with Love – E.H. Braithwaite

Read at least ONE of the following:
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Once and Future King – T.H. White
‘Tis: A Memoir - Frank McCourt
Angela’s Ashes - Frank McCourt
Teacher Man: A Memoir - Frank McCourt
2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
World Without End - Ken Follett
Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett



SENIOR SUMMER 2010 READING LIST

SENIORS: A test will be given on the required reading(s) during the first full week of school. For the” Choice Book” the student will be required to create a project, to be turned in the first full week of class. Text substitutions are NOT permitted.

Advanced Placement English: All readings required; journal required for all readings. Tests will be given on the readings during the first three weeks of school.

Othello – Shakespeare
Gulliver’s Travels – Swift
An Enemy of the People – Ibsen
Death of a Salesman – Miller
Glass Menagerie – Williams
Native Son – Wright
Things Fall Apart – Achebe
The Importance of Being Earnest – Wilde
A Doll House – Ibsen
Their Eyes Were Watching God – Hurston

World Literature 12 Honors Three Readings
Required Readings:
The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini – required reading; test during the first week of school
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe – required reading; test during the first week of school

Read one of the following:
A Child Called It – Dave Pelzer
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents – Alvarez
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
The Inheritance of Loss – Kiran Desai
1984 – George Orwell
The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien

World Literature 12: Two Readings
Required Reading:
The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini – required reading; test during the first week of school

Read one of the following:
A Child Called It – Dave Pelzer
Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents – Alvarez
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
The Inheritance of Loss – Kiran Desai