If you are going into 9th grade:
English I Standard (E.C.)/Honors (3 Required Your choice from list)
Summer Reading
Catcher in the Rye -J.D. Salinger
The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton
The Martian Chronicles- Ray Bradbury
The Old Man and the Sea -Ernest Hemingway
Cold Sassy Tree -Olivia Ann Burns
Stotan! -Chris Crutcher
If you are going into 10th grade:
English II Standard (E.C.)/Honors (3 Required)
Summer Reading- Choose any 3
Ender’s Shadow -Orson Scott Card
Life of Pi- Yang Martel
I am the Cheese- Robert Cormier
Fahrenheit 451- Ray Bradbury
If you are going into 11th grade:
English III Standard (E.C.)/Honors (One Required & One other from AP Lang. selection)/AP Lang. (3 Required)
Summer Reading
The Last of the Mohicans-James Fenimore Cooper (AP Lang)
The Age of Innocence- Edith Wharton (AP Lang.)
Scarlet Letter- Nathaniel Hawthorne (Honors/AP Language)
English III IB (3 Required)
Summer Reading
The Awakening Norton Critical Edition
This Boy’s Life-Tobias Wolff
Poisonwood Bible-Barbara Kingsolver
If you are going into 12th grade:
English IV Standard (E.C.)/Honors (2 Required) Must write journals
Summer Reading
The Metamorphosis -Franz Kafka
Maus a Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History-Art Spiegelman
And Then There Were None-Agatha Christie
The Last Lecture- Randy Pausch
Three Cups of Tea- Greg Mortensen & David Oliver Relin
English IV IB (4 Required)
Summer Reading (Students read one selection of each numbered choices.
1. A Farewell to Arms- Hemingway or Johnny Got His Gun- Trumbo or
Catch 22- Heller or Slaughter House Five- Vonnegut or The Things they Carried- O’Brien (Fiction)
2. Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965- Williams or The Children- Halberstam or Silent Spring- Carson (nonfiction)
3. Student’s Free Choice- Read two works of the same genre and compare and explore the works in your journal. The works can be fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, essays. Enjoy the choice. The works may be related to your extended essay or your historical investigation. They may not be works that are required for other subjects.
AP English Literature & Composition (4 Required) Journals (4) and Assessments
Summer Reading
Crime and Punishment- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
How to Read Literature Like a Professor-Thomas Foster
Choose 2 from below
The Picture of Dorian Gray -Oscar Wilde
The Metamorphosis- Franz Kafka
Black Boy- Richard Wright
Assignment (AP Eng. Lit./ENG IVHonors/IB classes): These questions will help to focus reading and will provide a guideline to help better understand the text. All answers, except those that specifically call for lists, should be in paragraph form (minimum 5 complete sentences). The answers do not have to be typed, although they should be readable, and they should also be numbered. Journals are due on Monday, August 25th. AP Language will have assessments in lieu of journals, on that same day.
& Title, author, and number of pages read
& What is the setting of the text? Is it significant? Why or why not?
& What are the turning points? (such as shifts in point of view, plot, character development, mood or tone)
& Decide who the main character is and then trace his/her development through the novel. You should be sure to note specific instances in the text where character traits are revealed or events in the plot cause a change in the character.
& List five of the major literary elements in the novel and describe how they are used to develop the plot. (Literary elements could include, but are not limited to, the following: metaphor, simile, personification, irony, tone, diction, foreshadowing, imagery, parallelism, and satire.)
& What symbols and images are developed in the text? Explain through which types of literary devices these symbols and images are developed.
& What conflicts are present in the book? Describe them.
& Give your response to the ending of the text.
& What is the author’s message or theme, and what relevance does it have for contemporary society?
& Choose one significant passage (6-12 sentences) and copy on the left half of a page. On the right side, respond to the passage. Why did you view it as significant? Did it cause you to recall a memory? Another book? Etc.