SUMMER READING LIST 2015
English 102 & 103 - Grade 9
Read one of the following books:
Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson
Where the Heart Is, Billie Letts
The Chocolate War, Robert Cormier
Elsewhere, Gabrielle Zevin
Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury
They Cage the Animals at Night, Jennings
Michael Burch
The Other Wes Moore, Wes Moore
Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
English 142 & 143 - Grade 11
Read one of the following books:
Animal Farm, George Orwell
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
1984, George Orwell
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
Dracula, Bram Stoker
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas
Adams
About a Boy, Nick Hornby
English 122 & 123 - Grade 10
Read one of the following books:
The Pact, Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, Rameck Hunt
Room: A Novel , Emma Donoghue
Unwind , Neal Shusterman
Before I Fall, Lauren Oliver
English 162 & 163 - Grade 12
Read one of the following books:
The Good Earth, Pearl Buck
The Stranger, Albert Camus
Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel
Zen in the Art of Archery, Eugen Herrigel
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke
HONORS AND AP SUMMER READING
All Honors and AP level English students must read all of the assigned books by the first day of school and expect an
assessment on the works in addition to other projects/presentations that will be assigned at the teachers’ discretion.
English 101 – Grade 9 Honors
Read all of the following books:
Heroes, Gods and Monsters of the Greek Myths,
Bernard Evslin
Anthem, Ayn Rand
English 121 – Grade 10 Honors
Read all of the following books:
The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
Catcher in The Rye, J.D. Salinger
The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
English 141 – Grade 11 Honors
Read all of the following books:
Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas
Adams
About a Boy, Nick Hornby
English 140 - AP English – Language And
Composition – Grade 11
Read How to Read Literature like a Professor by
Thomas C. Foster
b. Read two books of your choosing from the SPHS
Junior Honors Summer Reading List
c. Read two works of nonfiction from the following list:
1. The Grand Design- Stephen Hawking and
Leonard Mlodinow
2. The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are
Used Against Women- Naomi Wolf
3. This Is Your Brain on Music- The Science of a
Human Obsession- Daniel J. Levitin
4. Assassination Vacation- Sarah Vowell
5. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores
the Hidden Side of Everything- Stephen Levitt
and Stephen J Dubner
6. Alone Together: Why We Expect More from
Technology and Less from Each Other- Sherry
Turkle
You will write a five paragraph essay based on one of
the nonfiction books you read. Your essay will be graded
according to the attached AP Language Rubric and will
be due, PRINTED, on the first day of school. Set up your
paper according to MLA guidelines (heading in top left
corner, unique title, double spaced 12 point font etc.) Do
not arrive asking to print in the computer lab- part of
your assignment and your success in this class requires
planning ahead.
PROMPT:
Works of nonfiction, whether implicitly or explicitly,
present an argument to the reader and support this
argument with different types of evidence and rhetorical
techniques. Select one work you read and identify the
work’s central argument. Then analyze the evidence and
techniques the author uses to support his or her
argument. Finally, in the conclusion, evaluate the
argument as a whole. Avoid summary and focus on
analyzing and evaluating evidence.
English 161 – Grade 12 Honors
Read all of the following books:
The Good Earth, Pearl Buck
The Stranger, Albert Camus
Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
English 160 - AP English – Literature and
Composition – Grade 12
a.
Read all of the following books:
The Good Earth, Pearl Buck
Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
1984, George Orwell
The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
In addition to reading all of these texts, AP English
Literature students must also complete an MLA-style essay
on The Fountainhead that complies with the requirements
for the 2016 Ayn Rand essay contest. The essay is due on
the first day of class in September. See the instructor for
further directions.