English 3-Honors/D. Collett
Summer Reading 2015
You will read two novels for your summer reading assignment. On day one of class, you need to bring notes/annotations for each title; the first
lesson and term paper/ course evaluation will be based on this work. (See other side for an example of annotations.) I strongly advise purchasing
these titles. I will provide you with a bookmark to assist you during the reading.
Summer Reading #1 “Mandatory” Selection- Fahrenheit 451. You will take notes (annotate) on: important vocabulary, theme, characterization
(important quotes), stylish use of language and symbolism as they relate to the themes on the bookmark. You will be graded on these notes and they
will be useful as you prepare to write about the novel and take a test on the novel. (See other side for an example of how to take notes.) You will
also participate in an online seminar at http://www.nicenet.org where we will have several discussions (with imminent due dates) on this novel as
we read DURING THE SUMMER. Check in during the first week of the summer and see the assignments so you can pace yourself.
Class Name: 2015-6 English 3 Honors
Class Key: S36754Z2ZZ
Summer Reading #2 “Choice” Selection
In addition to Fahrenheit 451 you must read ONE major work by an author from the list below (or a major American author you select with teacher
approval). The list includes poets, playwrights, essayists, short story and science fiction authors, and novelists. Choose within a genre you enjoy.
You will take notes (annotate) on: important vocabulary, theme, characterization (important quotes), stylish use of language and symbolism as they
relate to the themes on the bookmark. (See other side for an example of how to annotate.) These notes will be graded. Take careful notes because
you will be writing an essay and eventually a term paper about this book. Be sure to select an AMERICAN author that will interest you, as he/she
will be the subject of your junior year research paper; you will have to read two more major works by this author during the course of the year.
Another important element to consider is that there must be literary criticism on each of your author’s titles since you will be required to use literary
criticism in each paper you write on this author (total is 3 books by one author to be analyzed for the course’s enduring understandings).
* means that another title by this author is used in the junior or senior curriculum and you need to make sure you don’t chose it as one of your titles
Edward Albee
The Sandbox
Sherwood Anderson
Death in the Woods
Isaac Asimov
Foundation
WH Auden
The Dyer’s Hand
James Baldwin
Going to Meet the Man
Toni Cade Bambara
Gorilla, My Love
Ray Bradbury
*TheMartian Chronicles
Gwendolyn Brooks
The Bean Eaters
Willa Cather
O Pioneers!
Paddy Chayefsky
The Hospital
Sandra Cisneros
Woman Hollering Creek
Tom Clancy
The Hunt for Red October
Lucille Clifton
Good Times
James F Cooper
The Deerslayer
Stephen Crane
Maggie, a Girl of the Streets
Michael Crichton
Jurassic Park
Countee Cullen
Color
EE Cummings
The Enormous Room
Philip K Dick Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
EL Doctorow
Ragtime
John Dos Passos
USA Trilogy
Rita Dove
Thomas and Beulah
Lonnie Elder
Ceremonies in Dark Old Men
TS Eliot
Murder in the Cathedral
Ralph Waldo Emerson May Day and Other Pieces
William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury
F Scott Fitzgerald
*This Side of Paradise
Robert Frost
North of Boston
Alan Ginsberg
The Fall of America
Susan Glaspell
Alison’s House
William Goldman
Temple of Gold
John Guare
Six Degrees of Separation
Alex Hailey
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Lorraine Hansberry To Be Young, Gifted, and Black
Ursula Hegi
Stones From the River
Lillian Hellman
Little Foxes
Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms
Beth Henley
The Miss Firecracker Contest
Susan Howatch
The Rich are Different
Langston Hughes
Shakespeare in Harlem
Zora Neal Hurston
*Dust Tracks On A Road
Susan Isaacs
Compromising Positions
Henry James
Washington Square
Jack Kerouac
The Subterraneans
Barbara Kingsolver
*Animal Dreams
Wally Lamb
I Know This Much is True
Louis L’Amour
Jubal Sackett
Chang-Rae Lee
Native Speaker
Sinclair Lewis
Main Street
Archibald MacLeish
Conquistador
Norman Mailer
American Dream
Bernard Malamud
The Fixer
David Mamet
Glengarry Glen Ross
Edgar Lee Masters
Spoon River Anthology
Cormac McCarthy
All the Pretty Horses
Herman Melville
Redburn
John Michener
Hawaii
Arthur Miller
All My Sons
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Collected Poems of . . .
Marianne Moore
The Complete Poems
Toni Morrison
*Jazz
Frank Norris
McTeague
Eugene O’Neill
The Hairy Ape
Chaim Potok
The Chosen
Anna Quindlen
One True Thing
Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead
Anne Rice
A Cry to Heaven
EA Robinson
The Children of the Night
Theodore Roethke
Praise to the End!
Phillip Roth
American Pastoral
Carl Sandburg
The People, Yes
Sam Shepard
Buried Child
John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath
William Styron
Sophie’s Choice
Amy Tan
The Hundred Secret Senses
Anne Tyler
Accidental Tourist
Kurt Vonnegut Welcome to the Monkey House
Alice Walker
The Color Purple
Wendy Wasserstein
The Heidi Chronicles
EB White
The Lady is Gold
Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass
Thornton Wilder
Our Town
August Wilson
Piano Lesson
Tom Wolfe
Bonfire of the Vanities
Herman Wouk
Marjorie Morningstar
Richard Wright
Black Boy