Summer Reading List for Freshwomen
Students registered for English 9/Composition I
Required: THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES by Sue Monk Kidd
The Regina High School English Department encourages reading throughout the summer and provides
you with a list of recommended book titles to help enhance your ninth grade English classes. However,
The Secret Life of Bees is required reading and you will be tested in August on the contents and your
understanding of the novel.
Recommended:
THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME by Haddon
THE PEARL by Steinbeck
THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER by Twain
THE MIRACLE WORKER by Gibson
ROSA PARKS: MY STORY by Parks
JURASSIC PARK by Crichton
THE SAME SKY- A COLLECTION OF POEMS by Nye (Editor)
ANIMAL FARM by Orwell
LORD OF THE FLIES by Golding
HARRY POTTER by Rowling
THE SORCERER’S STONE
ORDER OF PHOENIX
CHAMBER OF SECRETS
HALF BLOOD PRINCE
PRISONER OF AZKABAN
DEATHLY HALLOWS
GOBLET OF FIRE
Summer Reading List for Freshwomen
Students registered for Honors English 9/Composition I & II
Required: THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES by Sue Monk Kidd
NIGHT by Eli Wiesel
The Regina High School English Department encourages reading throughout the summer and provides
you with a list of recommended book titles to help enhance your ninth grade English classes. However,
the above two titles are required reading and you will be tested in August on the contents and your
understanding of the novel and autobiography.
Recommended:
THE BOOK THIEF by Zusak
LIFE OF PI by Martel
2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY by Clarke
THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN by Crichton
THE MIRACLE WORKER by Gibson
ANNE FRANK: THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL (trans.) by Mooyaart
ANIMAL FARM by Orwell
Summer Reading List for Sophomores
Students registered for American Literature/Composition II
Required: OF MICE AND MEN by John Steinbeck
The Regina High School English Department encourages reading throughout the summer and provides you with a
list of recommended book titles to help enhance your English classes. However, you are required to read the book
listed above. You will be tested on the book in August by your English teacher. Happy Reading!
Recommended:
MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS by Christie
LORD OF THE FLIES by Golding
HIROSHIMA by Hersey
THE GREAT GATSBY by Fitzgerald
THE CHOSEN by Potok
SHADOW DIVERS by Kurson
THE THINGS THEY CARRIED by O’Brien
REBECCA by DuMaurier
MAUS - A SURVIVOR’S TALE by Spiegelman
BLUE HIGHWAYS by Least Heat Moon
THE HOBBIT by Tolkien
THE BONESETTER’S DAUGHTER by Tan
NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLAS (Autobiography)
GONE WITH THE WIND by Mitchell
Summer Reading List for Juniors
Students registered for World Literature/Composition III
Required: Choose one of these two titles:
MY ANTONIA by Willa Cather
THE BEAN TREES by Barbara Kingsolver
The Regina High School English Department encourages reading throughout the summer and provides you with a
list of recommended book titles to help enhance your English classes. However, you are required to read one book
of your choice from the two listed above. You will be tested on the book of your choice in August by your English
teacher. Happy Reading!
Recommended:
PICTURE BRIDE by Uchida
IN MY HANDS-MEMORIES OF A HOLOCAUST RESCUER by Opdike
AND THEN THERE WHERE NONE by Christie
HAVING OUR SAY-THE DELANEY SISTERS’ FIRST 100 YEARS by Delany
ELLEN FOSTER by Gibbons
CIRCLE OF FRIENDS by Binchy
FAHRENHEIT 451 by Bradbury
DRACULA by Stoker
Summer Reading List for Juniors
Students registered for Honors World Literature/Research Paper
Required:
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Animal Vegetable Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
Required: (Must read one of these pairs)
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitcheel and The Autobiography of Frederick Douglass
Pride and Prejudice and/or Sense and Sensibility and/or Emma (Novels by Jane Austin)
Other Suggested (Optional) Readings:
A biography of some monarch or near monarch, i.e.
Anne Boleyn
Henry VII
Elizabeth I
The Romanovs
Napoleon
Marie Antoinette
Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie
Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
Summer Reading List for Seniors
Students registered for Literature of the Screen/College Writing
Contemporary Authors/College Writing
Creative Writing
Journalism
Required: LEFT TO TELL by Immaculee Ilibagiza
The Regina High School English Department encourages reading throughout the summer and provides you with a
list of recommended book titles to help enhance your English classes. However, you are required to read the book
listed above. You will be tested on the book in August by your English teacher. Happy Reading!
Recommended:
See attached list of book titles recommended for the college-bound senior
compiled by Professor Harold Bloom. Have the pleasure of checking off all
the titles you have already read.
12th Grade Honors AP English Summer Reading
1. Select a minimum of three (3) titles from the extensive reading lists.
http://homepage.mac.com/mseffie/AP/APtitles.html/. You may read more than
the minimum. 2. In making your reading selections, try to get a variety and don’t read
things you’ve already studied or read before.
3. Do not read anything we will study in AP English. These titles are
listed in #9 of this assignment.
4. Since this is Honors AP Literature and Composition and Language
and Composition you really should read writers described on both
recommended lists published by the college board.
5. Email me at [email protected] no later than August 1 with your
choices of summer readings. When you return to school in August
you will take a specific test on one (1) of your selections.
6. You should be reading all summer long; moreover, so as not to forget
important and specific details of your selections, I would take many
notes on things you feel might be important aspects, characters,
details of the book itself. You should not have to consult any kinds of
summary materials including Cliff’s or Spark’s notes if you truly do
the reading and comprehend it and study it. You needn’t read on-line
analysis either.
7. Reading selections are taken from actual AP tests and are considered
works of literary merit which are the only acceptable things to read for
this class and this assignment.
8. This entire assignment will count for three grades- one will be an
assignment grade for e-mailing me with your selections. One will be a
quiz grade and test grade for how well you do on the assessment/test
you take upon your return to school.
9. The following titles will be read in class next year; therefore, do not
read these as part of your summer reading project. Drama: Othello,
Death of a Salesman, Antigone, and the Glass Menagerie
Novels: Their Eyes Were Watching God, The Old Man and The Sea,
The Metamorphosis, Tess of D’Ubervilles, Ethan Frome, The
Awakening, The Secret Sharer
10. You may not read the following titles either for your summer reading
project: The Color Purple, Of Mice and Men, A Raisin in the Sun,
Animal Farm, To Kill a Mockingbird.
I will check my e-mail periodically over the summer and keep track of
who is reading what. I will also customize testing. Have fun!!!