Summer Assignments

Please read:

To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee 

Be prepared to discuss and write about this book during the first weeks of class.

Please read:

To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee 

Be prepared to discuss and write about this book during the first weeks of class.

Please read ONE of the following:

In The Time of the Butterflies, Alvarez

Wild Swans, Chang

Great Expectations, Dickens

Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky

Lord of the Flies, Golding

A Thousand Splendid Suns, Hosseini

The Kite Runner, Hosseini

One Hundred Years of Solitude, Marquez

First Person Singular, Murakami

Reading Lolita in Tehran, Nafisi

The Joy Luck Club, Tan

The Kitchen God's Wife, Tan

Anna Karenina, Tolstoy

Night, Wiesel

The Orphanage, Zhadan

Be prepared to discuss and write about these books during the first weeks of class.

 

 

Please read ONE of the following:

In The Time of the Butterflies, Alvarez

Wild Swans, Chang

Great Expectations, Dickens

Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky

Lord of the Flies, Golding

A Thousand Splendid Suns, Hosseini

The Kite Runner, Hosseini

One Hundred Years of Solitude, Marquez

First Person Singular, Murakami

Reading Lolita in Tehran, Nafisi

The Joy Luck Club, Tan

The Kitchen God's Wife, Tan

Anna Karenina, Tolstoy

Night, Wiesel

The Orphanage, Zhadan

Be prepared to discuss and write about these books during the first weeks of class.

 

Please read BOTH:

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Angelou

AND

Firekeeper's Daughter, Boulley

Be prepared to discuss and write about these books during the first weeks of class.

 

 

Please read:

The Awakening, Chopin

Plus ONE from of the following:

Little Women, Alcott

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Angelou

The House on Mango Street, Cisneros

Behold the Dreamers, Mbue

Girl in Translation, Kwok

Firekeeper's Daughter, Boulley

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain

 

Be prepared to discuss and write about these books during the first weeks of class.

 

 

 

Please read a minimum of one independently selected work of fiction or nonfiction that you genuinely enjoy.  (You may have to try a few books before you discover a new favorite summer read!)  

Please be prepared to share and describe this recommendation with the class on our first day of school.

 

Please read:

Atonement, McEwan

Plus ONE from of the following:

Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Hardy

Wuthering Heights, Bronte

Jane Eyre, Bronte

Heart of Darkness, Conrad

Tale of Two Cities, Dickens

 

 

Be prepared to discuss and write about these books during the first weeks of class.