Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science
Summer Reading for Senior English Courses
2007-2008
Listed below are some of the book-length works included in the syllabi for senior English
courses in the order they are taught by each instructor. Although students do not have to
have read all the works by the beginning of school, it will help with time management to
read as many as possible during the summer.
While Mr. Carter and Mrs. Richardson teach many of the same titles, a few works are
different. Since students do not receive their class schedules until school begins, they are
advised to read the common works first and then the ones separately assigned.
Sometimes students like to buy their own copies of the texts, but all the books will be
provided for students at school. Students might check out copies from their local libraries
for summer reading.
EN 200 – University English II
Mr. J. Carter
First Semester:
Second Semester:
Beowulf (translated by Seamus Heaney)
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Macbeth (William Shakespeare)
Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)
King Lear (William Shakespeare)
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
Paradise Lost, Bks. I-V, IX, and XII (John Milton)
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Gulliver’s Travels, Bks. I-IV (Jonathan Swift)
(Douglas Adams)
Mrs. E. Richardson
First Semester:
Beowulf (translated by Seamus Heaney)
Macbeth (William Shakespeare)
Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
Paradise Lost, Bks. I, III, V, and XII (John Milton)
Second Semester:
Gulliver’s Travels, Bks. I and II
(Jonathan Swift)
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)
EN 234 – Conflict between Literature and Science
Mr. J. Carter
The reading list for this course will be posted on Mr. Carter’s webpage.
EN 214 – Selected Works of British Literature
Mr. J. Carter
First Semester:
Beowulf (translated by Seamus Heaney)
Macbeth (William Shakespeare)
Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
Second Semester:
Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens)
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
Mrs. E. Richardson
First Semester:
Beowulf (translated by Seamus Heaney)
Macbeth (William Shakespeare)
Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
*Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
(J.K. Rowling)
Second Semester:
Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens)
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
*Please note that this is the original British edition of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. It
will be used as part of Mrs. Richardson’s “history/development of the English language” and
dialect study. Don’t worry if you can’t find this British edition over the summer; time to read this
novel will be taken into consideration in the syllabus assignments.
EN 235 – Southern Writers
(English elective, Second Semester)
Mrs. E. Richardson
Cold Mountain (Charles Frazier)
Ellen Foster (Kaye Gibbons)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
All Over But the Shoutin’ (Rick Bragg)
Raney (Clyde Edgerton)
After All, It’s Only a Game (Willie Morris)