SUMMER
READING
9TH GRADE
Your Choice of
FL Teen Reads novel
10TH GRADE
Keeping Corner
Or
A Long Way Gone
WHEN
Summer 2017
11TH GRADE
WHERE
A car, a plane, your bed!
12TH GRADE
WHY
To keep up your skills and get
you ready for the next course
HOW
See attached documents for
specific instructions
WHO
[email protected]
with questions
Of Mice and Men
Your Choice of Florida Teen
Reads Novel
AP LANG
Your Choice from Selected
Nonfiction List
AP LIT
A Thousand Splendid Suns
9TH GRADE HONORS AND HONORS GIFTED
Coming of Age
In 9th grade, students will explore the coming-of-age theme through literature and film.
Coming of age is a person’s journey from childhood or adolescence to adulthood. Over
the summer, students will explore a novel of their choice from the Florida Teen Reads list.
Mills, Wendy. All We Have Left. Bloomsbury, 2016.
Thomas, Kara. The Darkest Corners. Delacorte, 2016.
Tash, Sarvenaz. Geek’s Guide to Unrequited Love. Simon & Schuster, 2016.
Whaley, John Corey. Highly Illogical Behavior. Dial Books, 2016.
Niven, Jennifer. Holding Up the Universe. Knopf, 2016.
Arnold, David. Kids of Appetite.Viking, 2016.
Kennedy, Katie. Learning to Swear in America. Bloomsbury, 2016.
Hand, Cynthia, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows. My Lady Jane. HarperTeen, 2016.
Hamilton, Alwyn. Rebel of the Sands. Viking, 2016.
Sepetys, Ruta. Salt to the Sea. Philomel, 2016.
Turner, Pamela S. Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yishune. Charlesbridge, 2016.
Shusterman, Neal. Scythe. Simon & Schuster, 2016.
Zentner, Jeff. The Serpent King. Crown Books, 2016.
Buxbaum, Julie. Tell Me Three Things. Delacorte, 2016.
Blake, Kendare. Three Dark Crowns. HarperTeen, 2016.
An annotated list can be found at
http://www.floridamediaed.org/uploads/6/1/4/2/61420659/ftr_20172018_annotated_list.pdf
10TH GRADE HONORS AND HONORS GIFTED
Cultural Conversations
In 10TH grade, students study how culture shapes an individual’s perception of the world.
Over the summer, students will have a choice between two books to read and use to
complete a journaling assignment.
Keeping Corner by Kashmira Sheth
A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
First, choose one of the books (or both if you’re feeling up for a challenge). Then, students
will read the book and keep track of elements of culture in the book. Explain how each
example of a cultural element might influence or impact the main characters.
NOTE: **If the student is in a gifted class, additional assignments will be added when
school is in session along with an assessment.
Directions:
In a composition book:
1. While reading, look for elements of culture: food, clothing, language, traditions,
religions, politics, economy, family structures, gender roles, etc.
2. While reading, write down evidence of where you see those elements (12 quotes
from the novel, spread evenly throughout)
3. Write a short explanation of each piece of evidence (commentary)
4. Please write neatly!
Example: from To Kill a Mockingbird
Evidence #1:A day was twenty-four hours long but seemed longer. There was no hurry, for
there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, noting to see outside
the boundaries of Maycomb County.
Explanation:
These sentences demonstrate the elements of leisure time and
economics for Maycomb. The town has a depressed economy and few opportunities for
interesting activities. This might lead the town members to participate in gossip, and it
probably means the children go out looking for things to do/trouble to get into.
11TH GRADE HONORS
English III Honors prepares students to master the Florida Standards in reading, writing,
listening, viewing, and speaking through the thematic concept of the American Dream.
Through the study of short stories, poetry, novels, drama, and nonfiction, students will
explore the historical definition of the dream and its contemporary relevance. This course
uses College Board’s Springboard curriculum to frame units that will prepare students for
success on standardized tests, high school, and beyond. This course provides more rigor
and a more extensive range of study than the regular course.
Over the summer, students will read John Steinbeck’s novel, Of Mice and Men to prepare
them to engage in this course of study.
12TH GRADE HONORS/COLLEGE PREP
12th grade English prepares students to master the Florida Standards in reading, writing,
listening, viewing, and speaking by applying multiple perspectives to complex texts by
authors such as James Baldwin, Shakespeare, George Orwell, and George Bernard Shaw.
12th grade English frames units around concepts that will prepare students for success on
standardized tests, high school, and beyond.
Students should choose a novel from the Florida Teen Reads list to read over the summer.
This will allow students to apply what they are learning about critical perspectives
throughout the year to a popular, well-written, enjoyable text.
Mills, Wendy. All We Have Left. Bloomsbury, 2016.
Thomas, Kara. The Darkest Corners. Delacorte, 2016.
Tash, Sarvenaz. Geek’s Guide to Unrequited Love. Simon & Schuster, 2016.
Whaley, John Corey. Highly Illogical Behavior. Dial Books, 2016.
Niven, Jennifer. Holding Up the Universe. Knopf, 2016.
Arnold, David. Kids of Appetite.Viking, 2016.
Kennedy, Katie. Learning to Swear in America. Bloomsbury, 2016.
Hand, Cynthia, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows. My Lady Jane. HarperTeen, 2016.
Hamilton, Alwyn. Rebel of the Sands. Viking, 2016.
Sepetys, Ruta. Salt to the Sea. Philomel, 2016.
Turner, Pamela S. Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yishune. Charlesbridge, 2016.
Shusterman, Neal. Scythe. Simon & Schuster, 2016.
Zentner, Jeff. The Serpent King. Crown Books, 2016.
Buxbaum, Julie. Tell Me Three Things. Delacorte, 2016.
Blake, Kendare. Three Dark Crowns. HarperTeen, 2016.
An annotated list can be found at
http://www.floridamediaed.org/uploads/6/1/4/2/61420659/ftr_20172018_annotated_list.pdf
AP LANGUAGE
AP English Language is primarily a course in non-fiction. Choose at least one of the narrative non-fiction
works below to read over the summer. Be prepared to write about the work when you return in the fall:
Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
The story intertwines the true tale of the 1893 World's Fair and the cunning serial killer who used the fair to lure his victims to
their death. Erik Larson has crafted a narrative with all the wonder of newly discovered history and the thrills of the best fiction.
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by
blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no
clues. Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or selfdefense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung
oaks and shaded squares. John Berendt's sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative reads like a gripping piece of fiction.
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
In boyhood, Louis Zamperini was an incorrigible delinquent. As a teenager, he channeled his defiance into running,
discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics. But when World War II began, the athlete became
an airman. His Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean, and Zamperini survived, adrift on a foundering life
raft amid thousands of miles of open ocean, leaping sharks, thirst and starvation and enemy Warcraft.
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
A moving story about the abuses of law and enforcement in New Orleans immediately following the devastation of the city by
Hurricane Katrina as it bears upon a single Muslim family.
The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C.
There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent of its victims are dead. A secret military SWAT team of soldiers and scientists is
mobilized to stop the outbreak of this exotic "hot" virus. The Hot Zone gives a hair-raising account of the appearance of rare
and lethal viruses and their "crashes" into the human race.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa, a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells—taken without her
knowledge in 1951—became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene
mapping, and more. Henrietta's cells have been bought and sold by the billions, yet her family can't afford health insurance.
This bestseller tells a riveting story of the collision between ethics, race, and medicine; of scientific discovery and faith healing;
and of a daughter consumed with questions about the mother she never knew.
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Hers
is a story of triumph against all odds, but also a tender, moving tale of unconditional love in a family that despite its profound
flaws gave her the fiery determination to carve out a successful life on her own terms.
The Last Shot by Darcy Frey
It ought to be just a game, but basketball on the playgrounds of Coney Island is much more than that — for many young men it
represents their only hope of escape from a life of crime, poverty, and despair. In The Last Shot, Darcy Frey chronicles the
aspirations of four of the neighborhood’s most promising players.
Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
In this brilliant, breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is
made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the
shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport.
AP LITERATURE
Read and Digest
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Kahled Hosseini
**Be ready to write about and discuss when you return to school.