SUMMER READING AND PROJECT LIST
English


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Academic programs

 

 

2009      

 

Summer Reading is not required for all courses.

 

Grade 9:   

Read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith.       

   

Grade 9 Honors:

Students will read Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier. Students must be prepared to give an oral or written response on the first day of classes.

 

Grade 10:

Students will read Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks. Fall semester teachers will have the students respond to the summer reading in class.  Students must be prepared to give an oral or written response on the first day of classes.

 

Grade 10 Honors:

Students will read either Frankenstein by Mary Shelley or Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. Fall semester teachers will have the students respond to the summer reading in class.  Students must be prepared to give an oral or written response on the first day of classes.

 

Grade 11:

Students will read The Glory Cloak: A Novel of Louisa May Alcott and Clara Barton by Patricia O’Brien (ISBN 978-0-74-325750-3, Paperback, Touchstone, 2004.) Fall semester teachers will have the students respond to the summer reading in class.  Students must be prepared to give an oral or written response on the first day of classes.

 

Grade 11 Honors:

Students will read The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Fall semester teachers will have the students respond to the summer reading in class.  Students must be prepared to give an oral or written response on the first day of classes.

 

A.P. English Language and Composition:

Students will read The Glory Cloak: A Novel of Louisa May Alcott and Clara Barton by Patricia O’Brien (ISBN 978-0-74-325750-3, Paperback, Touchstone, 2004) and also complete the following assignment: read six editorials or op-ed pieces from the newspaper. Cut and paste these articles on pieces of paper, or print the articles off the internet. For each article, write a brief summary of the writer's ideas and discuss the strategies the writer uses to create a successful (or unsuccessful) argument. Organize the articles and your responses and submit on the first day of class.

 

Grade 12:

Students will read one of the following: Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton; O Pioneers! by Willa Cather; or, Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. Fall semester teachers will have the students respond to the summer reading in class.  Students must be prepared to give an oral or written response on the first day of classes.

 

A.P. English Literature:

During the summer all students must read Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, and a second novel from the list below. 

 

Albert Camus

 

The Stranger

Willa Cather

 

My Antonia

E.M. Forster

 

A Passage to India  

Thomas Hardy

 

The Return of the Native

Joseph Heller

 

Catch-22

Ayn Rand

 

The Fountainhead 

Henry James

 

Daisy Miller  

D.H. Lawrence

 

Sons and Lovers

Anne E. Proulx

 

The Shipping News

Leo Tolstoy

 

Anna Karenina

Evelyn Waugh

 

Brideshead Revisited

   

Assignments:

 

1. After reading Crime and Punishment write an unresearched essay which connects one of the themes of the novel with a dominant technique the author uses in his work.

 

2. Visit a museum and find a work of art which reflects a dominant theme of one of the works you’ve read for this assignment. In an essay, determine and discuss the relationship between the work of art and your reading. Remember you are looking for a work with the same theme, not an illustration of the subject of the novel. Please include a copy or a photograph of the work of art under discussion. This assignment is not to be done on the internet.

 

Please note : Each essay examines a different novel – two novels, two essays.

 

These activities are to be bound together in an appropriate way. This portfolio will constitute the first grade of the quarter and accounts for 10% of the first quarter grade.