Summer Reading List 2016** Freshmen Please check your COURSE NUMBER carefully to assure that you are choosing the correct book(s). Course #0199 Reading, Writing and Oral Communication Course #0211 Reading Lab Staying Fat For Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher Course #0256 Written and Oral Communication Choose ONE work from the following l ist Breakthrough: How One Teen Innovator is Changing the World by Jack Andraka Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson Staying Fat For Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher Course #0399 Honors Written and Oral Communication Choose TWO works from the following list. B e sure you have access to both of your books for the first two weeks of school. The Breadwinner Trilogy by Deborah Ellis A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah ( NOTE: This book is set in wartime and contains many violent scenes) I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai Sophomores Please check your COURSE NUMBER carefully to assure that you are choosing the correct book(s). Course #0383 World Literature and Composition Course #0384 World Literature and Composition Choose ONE work from the Sophomore Summer Reading List below. Course #0385 Honors World Literature and Composition Required: The Color of Water by James McBride 1. Annotate the book for examples of how the main characters’ identities are shaped (through race, culture, personal experience, etc.) You will need your annotations for the first paper. 2. Choose ONE ADDITIONAL work from the Sophomore Summer Reading List. Sophomore Summer Reading List One Shot at Forever by Chris Ballard
Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson
I Am the Weapon by Allen Zadoff
The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken
Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel Brown
Spare Parts by Joshua Davis
The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo
Revised 3/11/16 Boy 21 by Matthew Quick Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Anderson Positive by Paige Rawl All the Light We Can Not See by Anthony Doerr Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Suzanne Callahan Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by B.A. Saenz
Juniors Please check your COURSE NUMBER carefully to assure that you are choosing the correct book(s). Course #0347 American Literature and Composition Please read ONE book of your choice this summer. It may be fiction or non­fiction, and it can be on any topic and in any genre (but no comic books or graphic novels). If you start reading a book and decide you don't like it, please stop and get a new one. We want you to enjoy this assignment. The first week of school you will participate in a book talk with one of your teachers. If it helps you, please consider annotating your copy, writing on sticky notes, writing a summary, or otherwise bringing notes with you for the book talk. (This is encouraged but not required.) You must also bring a copy of the book. If you have any questions this summer, please contact Mr. Love: [email protected] Course #0348 American Literature and Composition ●
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Read ONE novel from the ALC Summer Reading List. While it may be useful to annotate the text, it is not required. Assessment will occur within the first two weeks of the semester and may take the form of a book talk, multiple choice test, or short essay. Assessments are specifically designed with the movie or SparkNotes versions in mind; therefore, students must read the book version to do well on the assessment. ALC Summer Reading List The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver Unwind by Neal Shusterman The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury The Natural by Bernard Malamud A Separate Peace by John Knowles Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey House Rules by Rachel Sontag Course #0397 AP English Language and Composition Required: read the following and complete the assignment: The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien Assignment: For B
OTH books, try to determine one of the arguments that the author is trying to make with the text. Annotate at least 7­10 places in which you find evidence that appears to support the argument that you feel the author is attempting to make. Annotations may be written in the text, on post­it notes, or submitted as a double­entry journal. Annotations should show demonstrate your critical thinking about the connection between the evidence and the argument. You should not simply highlight or underline. Course #0418 American Literature and Composition: Integrated (American Studies) Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer Revised 3/11/16 Seniors If you are taking one or more of these senior English electives, choose one book from the Senior Electives Summer Reading List. Course #0208 Practical Writing Course #0298 Media Analysis Course #0309 Film Study Course #0328 Advanced Composition Course #0357 British Literature Survey Course #0360 Humanities/Fine Arts 1 Course #0362 Contemporary Literature Course #0374 Popular Literature Course #0391 Creative Writing Senior Electives Summer Reading List Friday Night Lights by H. G. Bissinger My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich About A Boy by Nick Hornby The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea Course #0405 Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition Required: Othello by William Shakespeare
Mythology by Edith Hamilton Bible – Genesis, Exodus (Chapters 1­20, 25, and 32 only), Job, Psalms (choose 10, including the 23rd), Jonah, Matthew, John, Acts, and Revelation. Choose ONE of the following novels: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Dracula by Bram Stoker Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 1984 by George Orwell **A note to parents: Some of these selections contain mature subject matter and/or explicit language. We strongly encourage you to help your son or daughter make an appropriate choice for this assignment, both in terms of content and level of difficulty. Many resources exist to help make this decision, including your student’s English teacher, a school librarian, or published reviews and reader comments from websites such as Amazon.com. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact one of the following teachers before the end of the school year. Freshmen : Tim McDermott
Juniors : Nicholas Lussow Sophomores : Karen Kruse
English Division Head : Adam Levinson Revised 3/11/16