RATIONALE
To help students develop a life-long love of reading, to introduce students to literary themes that will be explored during this year’s English courses, and to provide an opportunity for students to practice independent reading
WHAT TO EXPECT IN SEPTEMBER
All summer reading must be completed by the first day of school. A conversation will take place during the first week of school in September in each English class. Following this, teachers will integrate the required summer reading text(s) throughout the first marking period of instruction (including, but not limited to integrated assignment(s), i.e., essay, summary, presentation, project). Classroom instruction will require students to use their summer reading text(s) as reference.
Note: All students MUST have a copy—new, used or borrowed—of the required text(s) for use in the classroom, and it is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED that notes be taken while reading for use during classroom discussion.
REQUIRED READING
All English 102, 103, 122, 123, 142, 143, 162, and 163 students will be required to read one (1) of the books listed for the grade level he or she will be entering in September.
English 102 & 103 - Grade 9
Bleachers, John Grisham
Where the Heart Is, Billie Letts
English 142 & 143 - Grade 11
Animal Farm, George Orwell
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Lewis Stevenson
Gathering Blue, Lois Lowry
Elsewhere, Gabrielle Zevin
Heat, Mike Lupica
Raven’s Gate, Anthony Horowitz
English 122 & 123 - Grade 10
Brian’s Song, William Blinn
The Natural, Bernard Malamud
Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen
Chbosky
The Pact, Sampson Davis, George
Jenkins, Remeck Hunt
It Happened to Nancy, Anonymous
Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt
Dracula¸ Bram Stoker
The DaVinci Code, Dan Brown
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling
English 162 & 163 - Grade 12
The Good Earth, Pearl Buck
The Stranger, Albert Camus
Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
Into the Wild, John Krakauer

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
Heroes, Gods and Monsters of the Greek
Myths, Bernard Evslin
Anthem, Ayn Rand
English 121 – Grade 10 Honors
The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
English 141 – Grade 11 Honors
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift
English 161 – Grade 12 Honors
The Good Earth, Pearl Buck
The Stranger, Albert Camus
Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
English 140 - AP English – Language And
Composition – Grades 11 and 12
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift
The Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven
Kids, Alexandra Robbins
English 160 - AP English – Literature and
Composition – Grade 12
The Good Earth, Pearl Buck
Lord of the Flies, William Golding
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 2014 Ayn Rand essay contest. The essay is due on the first day of class in September. See the instructor for further directions.