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English Department Summer Reading Lists
9th Grade English Summer Reading Lists All incoming freshmen should continue to read throughout the summer. (Think of it like the marathon. If you don’t train, you will have trouble reaching the finish line next year.) Please read at least one novel from the list below. It is suggested you read an online summary of the novel if you aren’t sure which one to choose. Please do not read the same book you have already read in the past or assume that if you read one before, you don’t need to read this summer. Please choose wisely in finding something that you enjoy, but that is not too easy. These novels vary greatly in length and difficulty.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum
9th Grade Pre-AP Summer Reading Lists It is expected that you read at least 3 novels this summer. (Think of it like the marathon. If you don’t train, you will have trouble reaching the finish line next year.) You will need to make sure each novel is on a different list from those below. It is suggested you read an online summary of the novel if you aren’t sure which one to choose. Please do not read the same book you have already read in the past or assume that if you read some of these before, you don’t need to read this summer.
Children’s Classics Everyone Should Read
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
Multicultural Literature Joy
Luck Club
Amy Tan
Classic Canon (Books you should read before heading off to college) Red
Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane
Student Recommended (9th grade students 2007-2008) The
Lovely Bones Alice
Sebold
10th Grade World Literature Novels This summer, explore the World though literature without leaving your home in Round Rock!! Choose one novel to read over the summer Classic Cry
the Beloved Country Alan Paton
(South Africa)
Modern The
Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini
(Afghanistan) 10th Grade Pre-AP Summer Reading Lists Each student must read one of the following three books listed below as the summer reading requirement. Mythology by Edith Hamilton Once and Future King by T.H. White Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver When reading, keep in mind the following: theme, conflict, point of view, and characterization. Also you must read How to Read Literature like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster. This material will be assessed the first week of school.
AP English III – English Language and Composition Students preparing to enter Advanced Placement English Language and Composition (AP English III) should read one of the following pairs of books in preprarion for the beginning of the semester: 1. Grapes of Wrath with Nickel and Dimed 2. The Jungle with Fast Food Nation 3. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn with Into the Wild This reading will be used during the beginning of the semester as the basis for a written response.
Please choose at least two books from the following:
1. Life of Pi by Yann Martel: How would you like to spend 227 days in a small boat with a tiger? Read to find out what happens.
2. Things Fall Apart by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe: What would it be like to be in a society where a foreign government controlled your life?
3. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini: Read to find out what it is like to be a woman living in modern Afghanistan with a husband you hate.
4. A Long Way Gone; Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah: What does war look like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer? How does one stop? Read to find out the answers to these questions.
AP English IV – English Literature It is strongly recommended that students entering Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition have read, at some time before they begin the course:
Mythology, by Edith Hamilton:
Genesis Matthew Psalms Stories of Old Testament Heroes from the Bible or another source.
The Once and Future King and The Book of Merlyn, by T.H. White. or The Hollow Hills, The Crystal Cave, The Last Enchantment, and The Wicked Day, by Mary Stewart. or King Arthur and His Knights, by John Steinbeck. or from another source, with prior approval.
The Chronicles of Narnia or the Perelandra trilogy, by C. S. Lewis.
Julius Caesar and Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare.
The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain.
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck.
You may have noted that many of these works are part of the school's English courses. These works form part of the foundation of our literary tradition or are used as examples or as a basis for discussion of other works. It is therefore important that students be familiar with them at the beginning of the senior year.
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