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 Dreher High School - 2009

Grades 9-12—Honors English Summer Reading Assignments

 When you begin your English class, you will participate in several activities related to your summer reading.  Take detailed notes while you are reading each selection.  You are required to complete your summer reading assignment before the beginning of school.

  Honors 9 Summer Reading List: 2009 

*Select 3 of the 5 listed. Either purchase or take detailed notes on each.

      1.  Friday Night Lights—Bissinger (American snapshot)

     2.  Watership Down— Adams (social commentary)

     3.  The Chosen—Potok (pursuit of truth)

     4.  The Secret Life of Bees—Kidd (friendship)

     5.  A Separate Peace—Knowles (adolescence)

 Honors 10 Summer Reading List: 2009 

*Select 3 of the 5 listed. Either purchase or take detailed notes on each. 

  1. Their Eyes Were Watching God-Hurston (Harlem Renaissance)
  2. The Death of a Salesman-Miller (drama/social criticism)
  3. The Innocent Man—Grisham (nonfiction)
  4. The Alchemist—Coehlo (fable)
  5. The Catcher in the Rye-Salinger (coming of age)

 Honors 11 Summer Reading List: 2009

*Select 3 of the 5 listed. Either purchase or take detailed notes on each.

  1. The Picture of Dorian Gray—Wilde (failed attempt to remain forever young)
  2. Tess of the D’Urbervilles—Hardy (social criticism)
  3. Brave New World—Huxley (dystopian novel)
  4. Jane Eyre—Bronte (Victorian Gothic tale)
  5. The Year of Wonders—Brooks (historical fiction)

 Honors 12 Summer Reading List: 2009

*Select 3 of the 5 listed. Either purchase or take detailed notes on each.

1.  Beloved—Morrison (effects of slavery)
2  The Things They Carried—O’Brien (Vietnam War)
3. Waiting for Godot—Becket (Theater of the Absurd)
4. The Grapes of Wrath—Steinbeck (social tragedy)
5. One Hundred Years of Solitude—Marquez (Latin American literature)

 AP Language and Composition Summer Reading List: 2009 (11th)

Select 3 of the 5 listed. Either purchase or take detailed notes on each.

British Literature-Choose two from this list.

  1. Pride and Prejudice-Austen (gentle satire/love and money)
  2. Heart of Darkness-Conrad (psychological journey/social criticism)
  3. The Power and the Glory—Greene (inner conflict)
  4. The Picture of Dorian Gray—Wilde (failed attempt to remain forever young)
  5. Brave New World—Huxley-(dystopian novel)

 Nonfiction-Choose one from this list.

  1. A Walk in the Woods—Bryson (Appalachian Trail)
  2. Mountains Beyond Mountains—Kidder (humanitarian activism)
  3. The Perfect Mile—Bascomb (strength of the individual)
  4. Nine Hills to Nambonkaha—Erdman (memoir)
  5.  Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in Boom-Time America—Ehrenreich (political perspective)  

 AP Literature and Composition Summer Reading List: 2009 (12th)

*Select 3 of the following.  Be prepared to take a test on all three the first day of school.

 Portrait of an Artist As a Young Man, Joyce               Fathers and Sons, Turgenev

Lord Jim, Conrad                                                        Sanctuary, Faulkner

Moby Dick, Melville                                                    Babbitt, Lewis

Hard Times, Dickens                                                  Wise Blood, O’Connor

A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway                               Mayor of Casterbridge, Hardy

Dead Souls, Gogol                                                      Mill on the Floss, Eliot

All Quiet on the Western Front, Remarque                 Possession, Byatt

Brave New World, Huxley                                          No Country for Old Men, McCarthy

In Cold Blood, Capote                                                            Madam Bovary, Flaubert

If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler, Calvino                 The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck

                                                            

Dreher High School-2009

Grade 11--English Summer Reading Assignment (CP/Regular)

 You are REQUIRED to read TWO books: the required reading for your grade level and one other on the list. When you begin your English class, you will participate in two activities related to your summer reading.  You are required to complete your summer reading assignment before the beginning of school. 

  1. Required—A Lesson Before Dying—Ernest Gaines
  2. Catcher in the Rye—J.D. Salinger
  3. Cat’s Cradle—Kurt Vonnegut
  4. Native Son—Richard Wright
  5. Prince of Tides—Pat Conroy
  6. A Farewell to Arms—Ernest Hemingway
  7. The Killer Angels—Michael Shaara
  8. Makes Me Wanna Holla—Nathan McCall
  9. Bailey’s Café—Gloria Naylor
  10.  Biography or autobiography of a well-known person (i.e. politician, athlete, etc.)

 Grade 12—English Summer Reading Assignmen (CP/Regular)

 You are REQUIRED to read TWO books: the required reading for your grade level and one other on the list. When you begin your English class, you will participate in two activities related to your summer reading.  You are required to complete your summer reading assignment before the beginning of school. 

  1. Required—The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time—Haddon*
  2. Pride and Prejudice—Jane Austen
  3. Slaughterhouse Five—Kurt Vonnegut
  4. The Kite Runner—Khaled Hosseini
  5. White Noise—Don DeLillo
  6. Cold Mountain—Charles Frazier
  7. Dracula—Bram Stoker
  8. Biography or autobiography of a well-known person (i.e. politician, athlete, etc.)

 *This book contains a few instances of language that may be objectionable.  You may read selection #2 as an alternate.

 Grade 9—English Summer Reading Assignment (CP/Regular)

You are REQUIRED to read TWO books:  the required reading for your grade level and one other on the list. When you begin your English class, you will participate in two activities related to your summer reading.  You are required to complete your summer reading assignment before the beginning of school. 

  1. Required—We Beat the Street—Davis, Jenkins, Hunt (Draper)  
  2. The Water is Wide—Conroy
  3. House on Mango Street-- Cisneros
  4. I Hadn’t Meant to Tell You This—Woodson
  5. All American Girl—Cabot
  6. The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise to Fulfill a Dream— Davis, Jenkins, Hunt
  7. Soldier Boys— Hughes
  8. Dunk— Lubar
  9. Biography or autobiography of a well-known person (i.e. politician, athlete, etc.)

 Grade 10--English Summer Reading Assignment (CP/Regular) 

You are REQUIRED to read TWO books:  the required reading for your grade level and one other on the list. When you begin your English class, you will participate in two activities related to your summer reading.  You are required to complete your summer reading assignment before the beginning of school. 

  1. Required—The Last Lecture—Pausch

2.  The Lords of Discipline--Conroy

3   I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings— Angelou

4   Catcher in the Rye— Salinger

5.   The Lovely Bones— Seibold

6.   Eragon-- Paolini

7.  House of the Scorpion— Farmer

8.  Tuesdays with Morrie--Albom

9.  Hawksong— Atwater-Rhodes

10. Biography or autobiography of a well-known person (i.e. politician, athlete, etc.)

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