MARIANAPOLIS PREPARATORY SCHOOL
Summer Reading 2015
English as a Second Language Required Reading
All New Beginner ESL:
No summer reading
All students entering Intermediate ESL
Jamestown
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The ISBN for the print version is: 9781438101170
All students entering Advanced ESL
Assignment through Canvas group
English Required Reading
(Grade 9) All students entering Literary Themes must read:
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
ISBN: 9780446600255
(Grade 10) All students entering Literary Genres and Literary Genres Honors must read:
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/the-joy-luck-club/id413134020?mt=11
(Grade 11) All students entering American Literature must read:
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
ISBN: 9780618706419
(Grade 12) All students entering 21st Century Literature must read:
Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness
at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
ISBN: 9780375725609
Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
ISBN: 9780385722193
All students entering English Literature and Composition must read:
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
ISBN: 9780767905923
The Madonnas of Echo Park by Brando Skyhorse
ISBN: 9781439170847
All students entering Advanced Placement English Language must read:
The Best American Essays (any from 2008-15)—Various authors
Print Version
Memoir Reading and Responses — Select, acquire, and read a memoir from the following list.
On Writing – Stephen King
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
An American Childhood – Annie Dillard
Autobiography of Malcolm X – Malcolm X / Alex Haley
The Glass Castle – Jeanette Walls
Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt
The Color of Water – James McBride
Three Cups of Tea – Greg Mortenson
All students entering Advanced Placement English Literature must read:
Atonement by Ian McEwan
ISBN: 9780385721790
iBooks link: https://itun.es/us/bw_bz.l
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
ISBN: 9780141439600
iBooks link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/a-tale-of-two-cities/id364514873?mt=11
AP History Required Reading
AP United States History:
Short History of the United States by Robert Remini (2006)
AP European History:
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
Utopia by Thomas More
ISBN: 9780061981999
http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Nicolo_Machiavelli/The_Prince/
http://literatureproject.com/utopia/index.htm - TOC_Section_1
AP World History:
Genghis Khan & the Making of the Modern World
http://www.amazon.com/Genghis-Khan-Making-Modern-World-ebook/dp/B000FCK206