Winter Springs High School
2017-2018 Summer Reading
9th Grade Standard
Suggested titles for you to choose from:
The Future of Us by Jay Asher & Carolyn Mackler
The Maze Runner by James Dashner
Tears of a Tiger by Sharon Draper
Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
OR ANY book of choice
9th Grade Honors
Animal Farm by George Orwell
See School Website for Assignment
9th Grade Gifted
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Pre-IB English
Animal Farm by George Orwell and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
See School Website for Assignment
10th Grade Standard
Choose ONE of the following:
Unwind by Neal Schusterman
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
Night by Elie Wiesel
10th Grade Honors
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
10th Grade Gifted
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak AND
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
10th Grade AP Language and Composition (IB Program)
1984 by George Orwell (must be a hard copy of the novel). The assignment for the novel will be posted on the school website.
11th Grade Standard and Honors
Read each of the following short stories:
“Eve’s Diary”- Twain
“The Mouse”- Saki
“One Friday Morning”- L. Hughes
“The Hanging Stranger”- Philip Dick
“The Dry Branch”- Ana Maria Matute
“A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”- Gabriel Marquez
12th Grade Standard
Choose ONE of the following:
The Pact by George Jenkins, Rameck Hunt, & Sampson Davis
Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
The Fault in our Stars by John Green
12th Grade Honors
Beowulf Interpreted by Seamus Heaney. Students should expect a test on Beowulf. Take notes in the book while reading.
11th Grade AP Language and Composition
The Things They Carried by Tim O' Brien (must be a hard copy of the novel). The assignment for the novel will be posted on the
school website.
AP Literature
1. Read The Poisonwood Bible. Focus your annotations on character development. Your goal is to discover what influences/changes
each girl to make the decisions she does. Annotations will be checked the first week of school. Annotate the text while reading,
carefully considering characters in the novel, especially as they become archetypes for ideas. Bring your annotated text with you on
the first day of school.
2. Read the following chapters from How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Revised Edition. Annotate the text for main
ideas/suggestions for what to look for while reading literature. Our classwork during the first few weeks will be based off these
chapters, and others assigned when school begins, and you will be expected to have a copy of the book in class.
Please note, the previous version, while similar, is lacking some of the new chapters. Be sure to have the revised edition.
Introduction – How’d He Do That?
Ch. 1 – Every Trip is a quest (Except When It’s Not)
Ch. 6 – …Or the Bible
Ch. 10 – Never Stand Next to the Hero
Ch. 12 – Is That a Symbol?
Ch. 14 – Yes, She’s a Christ Figure, Too
Ch. 18 – If She Comes Up, It’s Baptism
Ch. 24 – Don’t Read with Your Eyes
Ch. 26 – Is He Serious? And Other Ironies
Postlude – Who’s In Charge Here?