Mauldin High School – summer of 2005
Ninth Grade
English I CP:
Choose two from the following list
1. The Education of Little Tree Carter
2. A Solitary Blue - Voight
3. A Day No Pigs Would Die - Peck
4. White Fang - London
5. When Legends Die - Borlund
6. The Moves Make the Man - Brooks
7. The Hiding Place - Boom
8. Stargirl - Spinelli
9. Bad Boy: A Memoir - Meyers
10. I Know What You Did Last
Summer- Duncan
11. Walking Across Egypt – Edgerton
12. Ender’s Game - Card
13. The Hobbit – Tolkein
English I Honors:
Required: Alas Babylon – Pat Franks
Choose two more from the following
1. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
– Maya Angelou
2. To Kill a Mockingbird - Lee
3. Old Man and the Sea - Hemingway
4. The Hiding Place - Boom
5. I Heard the Owl Call My NameCraven
6. Animal Farm- Orwell
7. White Fang - London
8. Lord of the Flies - Golding
9. Walking Across Egypt - Edgerton
10. Heroes of the Challenger- Cohen
Tenth Grade:
English II CP:
Choose two from the following list:
1. I Have Heard the Owl Call My
Name – Margaret Craven
2. I Am the Cheese – Robert Cormier
3. The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan
4. A Connecticut Yankee in King
Arthur’s Court – Mark Twain
5. Something Wicked this Way Comes
- Ray Bradbury
6. Jaws – Peter Benchley
7. Durango Street - Bonham
8. Fallen Angels - Meyers
9. Profiles in Courage – John F.
Kennedy
10. Born Free - Adamson
11. A Gathering of Old Men - Gaines
12. Winter Dance - Paulsen
13. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter McCullers
14. The Crystal Cave - Stewart
15. A Separate Peace – Knowles
English II Honors:
Required: Fahrenheit 451- Ray
Bradbury
Choose two more from the following
1. A Gathering of Old Men – Ernest
Gaines
2. Cold Sassy Tree - Burns
3. The House on Mango Street Cisneros
4. Black Boy – Wright
5. Summer of my German Soldier Greene
6. The Crystal Cave - Stewart
7. Tom Sawyer - Twain
8. The Jungle- Sinclair
9. A Connecticut Yankee in King
Arthur’s Court - Twain
10. Raney - Edgerton
11. Profiles in Courage - Kennedy
12. A Death in the Family - Agee
13. The Once and Future King – White
Eleventh Grade
English III CP and CWP III:
Choose two from the following list:
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11.
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13.
14.
Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
A Lesson Before Dying – Ernest
Gaines
Narrative of the Life of Frederick
Douglass - Douglass
Into Thin Air - Krakauer
Wide Sargasso Sea - Rhys
Call of the Wild - London
The Water is Wide- Conroy
House on Mango Street - Cisneros
The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
Watership Down - Adams
Whale Talk - Crutcher
Jubilee – Walker
Growing up – Baker
Letters from a Slave Girl – Lyons
Advanced Placement Language and
Composition
Required: Nineteen Eighty-four–
Orwell
Choose two more from the following
1. Seabiscuit 2. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest
Hemingway
3. Grendel – John Gardner
4. L’Morte D’Arthur - Mallory
5. All Creatures Great and Small Herriot
6. To Sir With Love - Braithwaite
7. Roots - Alex Haley
8. Things Fall Apart - Achebe
9. Ten Little Indians (And Then There
Were None)- Christie
10. Picture of Dorian Gray - Wilde
11. The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail Lee
12. All the King’s Men - Warren
13. The Great Santini - Conroy
14. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Stevenson
15. Brave New World - Huxley
English III Honors
Required: Charles Dickens – A Tale of Two Cities
Choose two more from the following:
Jonathon Swift – Gulliver’s Travels
Shakespeare – Twelfth Night
Merchant of Venice
Much Ado About Nothing
James Herriott – All Creatures Great and Small
Agatha Christie – any mystery novel other than Ten Little Indians(And Then There Were None)
Charles Dickens – Oliver Twist
David Copperfield
Thomas Hardy – Return of the Native
Jude the Obscure
Mayor of Casterbridge
Jane Austin – Emma
Emily Bronte- Wuthering Heights
Persuasion
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
Virginia Woolf – Mrs. Dalloway
Charlotte Bronte – Jane Eyre
A Room of One's Own
To the Lighthouse
Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray
James Joyce - Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man
Chinua Achebe - Arrow of God
E.M. Forrester - A Room with a View or A Passage to India
Howard's End
Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day
Douglas Adams - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
John le Carre - The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
The Russia House
Twelfth Grade:
English IV CP and CWP IV
Choose two from the following list:
1. Speak – Laurie Halse Anderson
2. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
3. The Andromeda Strain – Michael
Crichton
4. Rebecca – Daphne DuMaurier
5. Grendel – John Gardner
6. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
– Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
7. The Painted House – John Grisham
8. The Way to Rainy Mountain – Scott
Momaday
9. The Bean Trees – Barbara
Kingsolver
10. Profiles in Courage – John F.
Kennedy
11. How the Garcia Girls Lost their
Accent - Alvarez
12. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – R.L.
Stevenson
13. To Sir with Love - Braithwaite
14. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
15. Ten Little Indians (And Then Were
None There)- Agatha Christie
Advanced Placement Lit and Composition
Required: The Awakening – Chopin
Choose two more from the following
1. Their Eyes Were Watching God –
Zora Neale Hurston
2. The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
3. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
4. A Day in the Life of Ivan
Denisovich – Solzhenitsyn
5. Cold Mountain - Frazier
6. The Poisonwood Bible –
Kingsolver
7. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Kesey
8. The Crossing - McCarthy
9. Out of Africa- Dinesen
10. The Way to Rainy Mountain Momaday
11. Wuthering Heights - Bronte
12. Emma - Austin
13. Ordinary People – Judith Guest
14. Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan
Paton
15. Demian – Herman Hesse
English IV Honors World Literature
Required: Franz Kafka – Metamorphosis
Choose two more from the options below:
1. Elie Weisel – Night
2. Cervantes – Don Quixote
3. Gabriel Garcia Marquez – Love in
the Time of Cholera
4. Isabel Allende – Daughter of
Fortune
House of Spirits
5. Anton Chekhov – The Cherry
Orchard
6. Jamaica Kincaid – My Brother
7. Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart
8. Nadine Gordimer – July’s People
9. Victor Hugo – Les Miserables
Hunchback of Notre
Dame
10. Voltaire – Candide
11. Machiavelli – The Prince
12. Sophocles – Oedipus Rex
13. Tolstoy – Anna Karenina
14. Albert Camus – The Stranger
Summer Reading
2005
Mauldin High
School
During the 2002-2003 school year, the
Summer Reading Advisory Committee
developed a district wide summer
reading list and standard questions to be
used for assessment. This committee
included students, parents, community
members, teachers and department
chairs. The following guidelines were
adopted for all high schools in
Greenville County:
1. Every high school student will
participate in the summer reading
program. Students in English I
CP, English II CP, English III
CP, CWP III, English IV, and
CWP IV will read two books
during the summer. Students in
Honors and AP English classes
will read three books.
2. Books selected for our students
came from a master list approved
by the Summer Reading
Advisory Committee.
3. Students will take notes on each
novel they read. The notes are
limited to one page, and they will
be collected on the first day of
school for credit. Notes will be
returned prior to the essay
assessment.
4. Within the first ten days of
school, each student will respond
to one of the essay options listed
with his summer reading. The
student may not use his notes
while writing the essay.
5. The notes and the essay
assessments will equal 5% of the
report card grade for the first
nine weeks.
Note-Taking Strategies:
1. Focus your notes on the essay
questions you may have to answer.
2. Make sure you include the title of
the novel, the author’s name, and all
major characters’ names in your
notes.
3. Try writing a short plot summary
in less than 20 sentences. The
limitation will make you focus on the
most important events.
4. Take notes about the setting –
where is it? What time period?
Does the setting reflect in the
character’s dialect? Their customs?
5. Honors and AP students need to
select a quote that is significant to
the work. You may need it for one
of the questions.
6. Make notes about things you like
in the book.
7. Limit your notes to the front side
of one page for each novel. Notes
may be handwritten or typed.