English class Summer Reading for all students

Due: first week of English class
Length: approximately 4 pages, typewritten

Pick three or more books to read and write a response using the following guidelines:
 
(a) Write a one-page reaction statement to the book that you read.
Be specific in your thoughts about points that you liked or didn’t like about the book, ideas that intrigued you, etc. Be sure to include specific textual references. Include page numbers.

(b) Cite a memorable passage of no more than one page the book. Include page number(s). Explain why you have chosen this passage from the book.

(c) Describe your first impression of one character or event that you find interesting in one page. Give at least three examples of textual evidence that supports or generates this impression. Be sure to include the page numbers.

(d) Identify what causes a significant change in one character, and describe the results of that change. This change may be the consequence of a choice, a conflict of some kind that has to be resolved, a display of some outstanding trait like courage, or even the result of an action or event that occurs during the story in one page.
 

Entering grade 9—Summer Reading Assignment
1.  Friday Night Lights—Bissinger (American snapshot)
2.  Watership Down— Adams (social commentary)
3.  The Chosen—Potok (pursuit of truth)
4.  The Secret Life of Bees—Kidd (friendship)
5. A Separate Peace—Knowles (adolescence)
6. We Beat the Street—Davis, Jenkins, Hunt (Draper)  
7. The Water is Wide—Conroy
8. House on Mango Street-- Cisneros 
9. I Hadn’t Meant to Tell You This—Woodson 
10. All American Girl—Cabot 
11. The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise to Fulfill a Dream— Davis, Jenkins, Hunt 
12. Soldier Boys— Hughes 
13. Dunk— Lubar  
14. Hatchet by Gary Paulsen 
15. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson 
16. Drive by Larry Bird and Bob Ryan  
17. Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson 
18. The Alchemist by Paula Coelho 
19. Eleven Seconds by Travis Roy 
20. Invasion: Story of D-Day by Bruce Bliven 
21. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King 
22. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult 
23.  Yes We Can: A Biography of President Barack Obama  , Garen Thomas
 

Entering grade 10-- Summer Reading Assignment
1. The Last Lecture—Pausch
2.  The Lords of Discipline--Conroy
3   I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings— Angelou
4   Catcher in the Rye— Salinger
5.   The Lovely Bones— Seibold
6.   Eragon-- Paolini
7.  House of the Scorpion— Farmer
8.  Tuesdays with Morrie--Albom
9.  Hawksong— Atwater-Rhodes
10. Biography or autobiography of a well-known person (i.e. politician, athlete, etc.)
11. Their Eyes Were Watching God-Hurston (Harlem Renaissance) 
12.  The Death of a Salesman-Miller (drama/social criticism) 
13. The Innocent Man—Grisham (nonfiction)   
14.  The Alchemist—Coehlo (fable) 
15,  The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien 
16.  Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer  .
17.  A Good Walk Spoiled: Days and Nights on the PGA Tour by John Feinstein  18.  The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan 
19. It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life by Lance Armstrong 
20. For One More Day by Mitch Albom
21. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 
22. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
23.  Dreams from My Father or The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama

Entering grade 11- Summer Reading Assignment.
1. The Picture of Dorian Gray—Wilde (failed attempt to remain forever young)
2. Tess of the D’Urbervilles—Hardy (social criticism)
3. Brave New World—Huxley (dystopian novel)
4. Jane Eyre—Bronte (Victorian Gothic tale)
5. The Year of Wonders—Brooks (historical fiction)
6. Pride and Prejudice-Austen (gentle satire/love and money) 
7. Heart of Darkness-Conrad (psychological journey/social criticism)
8. The Power and the Glory—Greene (inner conflict)
9. The Picture of Dorian Gray—Wilde (failed attempt to remain forever young) 
10. A Walk in the Woods—Bryson (Appalachian Trail)
11. Mountains Beyond Mountains—Kidder (humanitarian activism) 
12. The Perfect Mile—Bascomb (strength of the individual) 
13. Nine Hills to Nambonkaha—Erdman (memoir) 
14.  Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in Boom-Time America—Ehrenreich (political perspective)
15.  Brave New World—Huxley-(dystopian novel) 
16. My Jim by Nancy Rawles 
17. Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain
18.  Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom 
19. Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway 
20. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd 
21. A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines 
22. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane 
23. Last Shot by John Feinstein 
24. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Entering  grade 12- Summer Reading Assignment.
1.  Beloved—Morrison (effects of slavery)
2  The Things They Carried—O’Brien (Vietnam War)
3. Waiting for Godot—Becket (Theater of the Absurd)
4. The Grapes of Wrath—Steinbeck (social tragedy)
5. One Hundred Years of Solitude—Marquez (Latin American literature)
 6, Portrait of an Artist As a Young Man, Joyce              
7. Fathers and Sons, Turgenev
8. Lord Jim, Conrad                                                     
9.  Sanctuary, Faulkner
10. Moby Dick, Melville                                                  
11. Babbitt, Lewis
12. Hard Times, Dickens                                                 
13.Wise Blood, O’Connor
14.A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway                             
15. Possession, Byatt
16. Brave New World, Huxley                                        
17.  No Country for Old Men, McCarthy
18. In Cold Blood, Capote                                                         
19.   Madam Bovary, Flaubert
20.  The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
21. Alive by Piers Paul Read
22. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold  
23.  Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut