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All students will have 25-30 point reading quizzes on each of these works at the start of school
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AP students will have the quizzes and also be required to do written responses as instructed
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Copies of all summer reading books may be borrowed and are available in the school office
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College-Preparatory Class
To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee)
Honors Class
To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee)
Great Expectations (Dickens) Be sure to borrow a copy of the
PMCA class textbook and read the abbreviated version of Great
Expectations found there.
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College-Preparatory Class
Things Fall Apart (Achebe)
Honors Class
Things Fall Apart (Achebe)
All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque)
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College-Preparatory Class
The Crucible (Miller)
Honors Class
The Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck)
The Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne)
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College-Preparatory Class
Lord of the Flies (Golding)
Honors Class
Lord of the Flies (Golding)
Dubliners (Joyce)
Advanced Placement Class
Lord of the Flies (Golding)
Dubliners (Joyce)
Tess of the D’Urbervilles ( Hardy )
Amadeus (Shaffer)
Introductory Chapter of
Perrine’s Literature

The PMCA Literary Forum springs from the English Department’s desire to expose students to a wide variety of literature not able to be covered in our classroom curricula. This is also the Department’s response to students’ desire for English extra credit – each Forum brings with it 10 points of extra credit. Eight Monday evenings a year, teachers and students meet for a 90-minute session to discuss great literature. Finalized dates will be assigned in September in line with our school calendar, but typically Forums are held on the fourth Monday of each month.
These are the titles we will be reading this year:
September The Island of Dr. Moreau - H.G. Wells
October The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
November The Skin of Our Teeth - Thornton Wilder
January Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
February The Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks
March Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
April Julius Caesar William Shakespeare
May The Color Purple - Toni Morrison
Any high school student is welcome at any Literary Forum and 10 points extra credit in English per forum is possible if all criteria are met. There is no requirement for how many forums a student may attend – one, all, or none. However, two
Forums are required for English AP students.
For full credit, students must:
 Read the assigned piece and attend a forum on the scheduled Monday evening from 7-8:30.
 Take a brief reading quiz.
 Participate at least briefly in the 90-minute discussion.
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Write a thoughtful typed essay to teacher-provided questions within the next week (250 words minimum) . This should be submitted to your English teacher via email or myPMCA.