Summer Reading 2004
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.
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 Pearl - Steinbeck
8. The Hiding Place - Boom
9. Stargirl - Spinelli
10. Bad Boy: A Memoir - Meyers
11. Flowers for Algernon - Keyes
12. I Know What You Did Last
Summer- Duncan
13. Walking Across Egypt – Edgerton
14. Ender’s Game - Card
15. The Hobbit – Tolkein
English I Honors:
Required: To Kill a Mockingbird - Lee
Choose two more from the following
1. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
– Maya Angelou
2. Alas Babylon – Pat Franks
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:
English II Honors:
Choose two from the following list:
Required: Cold Sassy Tree – Burns
1. I Have Heard the Owl Call My
Choose two more from the following
Name – Margaret Craven
1. A Gathering of Old Men – Ernest
2. I Am the Cheese – Robert Cormier
Gaines
3. The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan
2. Fahrenheit 451- Ray Bradbury
4. A Connecticut Yankee in King
3. The House on Mango Street Arthur’s Court – Mark Twain
Cisneros
5. Something Wicked this Way Comes
4. Black Boy – Wright
- Ray Bradbury
5. Summer of my German Soldier 6. Jaws – Peter Benchley
Greene
7. Durango Street - Bonham
6. The Crystal Cave - Stewart
8. Fallen Angels - Meyers
7. Tom Sawyer - Twain
9. Profiles in Courage – John F.
8. The Jungle- Sinclair
Kennedy
9. A Connecticut Yankee in King
10. Born Free - Adamson
Arthur’s Court - Twain
11. A Gathering of Old Men - Gaines
10. The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
12. Winter Dance - Paulsen
11. The Scarlet Letter - Hawthorne
13. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 12. Raney - Edgerton
McCullers
13. Profiles in Courage - Kennedy
14. The Crystal Cave - Stewart
14. A Death in the Family - Agee
15. A Separate Peace – Knowles
15. The Once and Future King – White
Eleventh Grade
English III CP and CWP III:
Choose two from the following list:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
A Lesson Before Dying – Ernest
Gaines
Narrative of the Life of Frederick
Douglass - Douglass
Into Thin Air - Krakauer
Of Mice and Men - Steinbeck
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. Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan
Paton
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
Twelfth Grade:
English IV CP and CWP IV
Advanced Placement Lit and Composition
Choose two from the following list:
Required: The Awakening – Chopin
1. Speak – Laurie Halse Anderson
Choose two more from the following
2. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
1. Their Eyes Were Watching God –
3. The Andromeda Strain – Michael
Zora Neale Hurston
Crichton
2. The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
4. Rebecca – Daphne DuMaurier
3. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
5. Grendel – John Gardner
4. A Day in the Life of Ivan
6. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Denisovich – Solzhenitsyn
– Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
5. Cold Mountain - Frazier
7. The Painted House – John Grisham
6. The Poisonwood Bible –
8. The Way to Rainy Mountain – Scott
Kingsolver
Momaday
7. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 9. The Bean Trees – Barbara
Kesey
Kingsolver
8. The Crossing - McCarthy
10. Profiles in Courage – John F.
9. Out of Africa- Dinesen
Kennedy
10. The Way to Rainy Mountain 11. How the Garcia Girls Lost their
Momaday
Accent - Alvarez
11. Wuthering Heights - Bronte
12. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – R.L.
12. Emma - Austin
Stevenson
13. Ordinary People – Judith Guest
13. To Sir with Love - Braithwaite
14. Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan
14. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
Paton
15. Ten Little Indians (And Then Were
15. Demian – Herman Hesse
None There)- Agatha Christie
Assessment Question Options
English I, English II, English IIICP, CWP III, English IV, CWP IV
All students should be prepared to answer one of the following questions for each novel
read. Your teacher has the option of selecting the question your class will respond to
from the list below. You may have a different question for different novels:
1. Briefly describe the conflict (central struggle) in the novel. How are the other
characters drawn into this conflict by the main character?
2. Who is your favorite character in the novel? Why? Which character in the novel
reminds you of someone in your life? Explain your answer. Which character
seems to change the most in the novel? Explain your answer.
3. If you were the author, how would you have ended the book differently? Why?
4. How did the author maintain your interest throughout the book? Give examples
to support your answer.
English I Honors, English II Honors, AP Language and AP Literature
All students should be prepared to answer one of the following questions for each novel
read. Your teacher has the option of selecting the question your class will respond to
from the list below. You may have a different question for different novels.
1. Many novels present two or more contrasting settings to represent opposing
forces or ideas that are central to the meaning of the work. Explain how the
settings differ, what each setting represents, and how their contrast contributes to
the meaning of the work.
2. Some novels seem to advocate changes in social and political attitudes or in
traditions. Identify the particular attitudes or traditions the author wishes to
change. Then analyze the techniques the author uses to influence the reader’s
views.
3. Choose a character whose mind is pulled in conflicting directions by two
compelling desires, ambitions, obligations, or influences. Explain how this
conflict within the character illuminates the meaning of the work as a whole.
4. Select a quote that reflects a significant moment, and discuss the significance of
the quote to the work as a whole.