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English Department
High School Reading List
2014-2015
Westminster Academy® is a Christ-centered, biblically-based college preparatory school dedicated to
equipping covenant students to excel by using their gifts and talents for God’s glory.
The required reading selections are listed for the 20142015 school year. Students are required to begin their
outside reading during the summer.
Evaluations of each book in the core lists and each outside
reading selection will be accomplished during the school
year by one of these methods:
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Teacher constructed test
Book report/critique
Related project
Another approved evaluation
Index
9th Grade Reading List
10th Grade Reading List
11th Grade Reading List
12th Grade Reading List
English 9 Reading List
Summer Reading Assignment All students enrolled in English 9 are required to read one of the following novels: God’s Smuggler by Brother Andrew Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis Thunder of Heaven by Tedd Dekker Students will be assessed on their summer reading during the first week of school. This assessment will be a test grade. All students enrolled in English 9 Honors are required to read Hard Times by Charles Dickens. Students will be assessed on their summer reading during the first week of school. This assessment will be a test grade. English 9 Core List Students will read each of the following books during the academic year. Title Author ISBN # The Odyssey Homer 9780140268867 Out of the Silent Planet C. S. Lewis 0743234901 Antony and Cleopatra Shakespeare 9780300124736 English 9 Honors Core List Honor students will read each of the following books during the academic year. Title Author ISBN # The Iliad Homer 9780140445923 The Odyssey Homer 9780374525743 The Republic Plato 9780465069347 Antony and Cleopatra Shakespeare 9780300124736 Oedipus the King Sophocles 9780226768687 The Aeneid Virgil 9780679729525 The Portable Dante (The Divine Comedy) Dante 9780142437544 English 10 Reading List
Summer Reading Assignment All students enrolled in English 10 are required to read one of the following novels: In the Shadow of the Sun King by Parson Blood of Heaven by Myers Return with Honor by O’Grady Students will be assessed on their summer reading during the first week of school. This assessment will be a test grade. All students enrolled in English 10 Honors are required to read one of the following novels: Lord of the Flies by Golding In the Court of the Sun King by Parson Blood of Heaven by Myers Alas Babylon by Frank A Separate Peace by Knowles The Testament by Grisham The Street Lawyer by Grisham The Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy The Atonement Child by RIvers Sons of Hamas by Yousef Students will be assessed on their summer reading during the first week of school. This assessment will be a test grade. English 10 Core List Students will read each of the following books during the academic year. Title Author ISBN # Romeo & Juliet Shakespeare 9780374525743 The Hound of the Baskervilles Doyle (Ballantine) 9780842377508 Cyrano de Bergerac Rostand (Signet Classic) 0451528921 Lord of the Flies Golding 0399501487 English 10 Honors Core List Honors students will read each of the following books during the academic year. Title Author ISBN # The Prince Machiavelli 9780140449159 King Lear Shakespeare 9780300122008 The Tempest Shakespeare Don’t buy Paradise Lost Milton 9780451529183 Cyrano de Bergerac Rostand (Signet Classic) 0451528921 Crime and Punishment Dostoyevsky 9780553211757 English 11 Reading List Summer Reading Assignment All students enrolled in English 11 are required to read The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway. All students enrolled in English 11 Honors are required to read The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck. All students enrolled in English 11 AP are required to read starred (*) books listed in the AP section below during the summer. These novels will be discussed during the first week of school. Students will be assessed on their reading. This assessment will be a test grade. English 11 Core List Students will read each of the following books during the academic year. Title Author ISBN # Fitzgerald (Scribner & 9780743273565 The Great Gatsby (Scribner & Sons) Sons) The Color of War McBride 9781594481925 Of Mice and Men Steinbeck 978014017739-­‐8 The Scarlet Letter Hawthorne 9780812504835 Merchant of Venice Shakespeare 9780743477567 The Glass Menagerie Williams In literature book The Crucible Miller 9780140481389 English 11 Honors Core List Honors students will read each of the following books during the academic year. Title Author ISBN # The Great Gatsby (Scribner & Sons) Fitzgerald 9780743273565 The Scarlet Letter Hawthorne 9780812504835 The Glass Menagerie Williams 9780811214049 The Color of War McBride 9781594481925 Merchant of Venice Shakespeare 9780743477567 The Sun Also Rises Hemingway 9780684801223 Of Mice and Men Steinbeck 978014017739-­‐8 The Red Badge of Courage Crane 9781580495868 Our Town Wilder 9780060512637 English 11 AP Core List AP students will read each of the following books during the academic year. Title Author ISBN # *The Scarlet Letter Hawthorne 9780812504835 *Billy Budd Melville 9780553212747 The Grapes of Wrath Steinbeck 9780143039433 The Glass Menagerie Williams 9780811214049 Old Man and the Sea Hemingway 9780684801223 The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald 9780743273565 Our Town Wilder 9780060512637 *The Chosen Potok 9780449213445 The Red Badge of Courage Crane 9781580495868 English 12 Reading List Summer Reading Assignment All students enrolled in English 12 are required to read at least one book from the Outside Reading List below. Each student is to do a three-­‐part project on the book. 1) Read fully and annotate key plotline elements of the selected book. 2) Turn in signed Honor Statement. 3) Prepare and submit a type-­‐written, original description of the plotline and one of the characters. This will include four paragraphs (4-­‐5 sentences each). The first paragraph will discuss the conflict, the second paragraph will discuss the climax, and the third will discuss the resolution. The fourth paragraph will describe one of the major characters. The written description must be in New Times Roman font, 12 point type, and double-­‐spaced. The terms conflict, climax, and resolution are defined as follows: CONFLICT= MAN VS. MAN MAN VS. NATURE MAN VS. SOCIETY MAN VS. SELF MAN VS. GOD CLIMAX= TURNING POINT IN THE ACTION RESOLUTION= HOW THE CONFLICT IS FINALLY DECIDED ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. Part 1 will be due during the first week of school. Parts 2 and 3 will be due during Semester 1. All students enrolled in English 12 Honors and AP are required to read 4 books from the English 12 Honors and AP Core List These novels will be discussed during the first week of school. Students will be assessed on their reading. This assessment will be a test grade. English 12 Core List Students will read each of the following books during the academic year. Title Author ISBN # Beowulf Unknown In literature book Canterbury Tales Chaucer In literature book Macbeth Shakespeare In literature book The Screwtape Letters Lewis (Macmillian) 780684831176 Bunyan (rewritten 0882707574 Pilgrim’s Progress in Modern English by Hazelbaker) 9781300179535 Animal Farm Orwell English 12 Honors and AP Core List Honors and AP students will read each of the following books during the academic year. Title Author ISBN # Hamlet Shakespeare 9780393929584 Night Weisel (Bantam) 9780374500016 Hardy (Penguin 0553211684 Tess of the D’Urbervilles Classic/Amsco) Heart of Darkness Conrad (Bantam) 0553212141 Orwell (Signet 0451524934 1984 Classic) The Screwtape Letters (Honors only) Lewis (Macmillian) 780684831176 The Awakening Invisible Man(AP only) English 12 Outside Reading List Chopin (Bantam) Ellison 055321330X 0679732764 Students in Advanced Placement and Honors may choose any book EXCEPT those marked (R) from the following list for their critical analysis (paper) Title Great Expectations Six classics by C.S. Lewis Pilgrim’s Progress (original) Wuthering Heights Any title by SigmoundBrouwer (R) Author Dickens Lewis Bunyan Bronte Title Frankenstein Looking Backward The Way of All Flesh Alice in Wonderland Author Shelley Bellemy Butler Carroll Brouwer Celtic Crusader’s book series Lawhead A Tale of Two Cities Dickens Midsummer Night’s Dream Why the Caged Bird Sings Vanity Fair Pride and Prejudice One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Their Eyes Were Watching God or any other title Things Fall Apart Slaughterhouse Five Light in August or any title by Faulkner The Novelist The Stranger Catch 22 On the Beach Portrait of the Artist… Any title by Virginia Woolf The Assassins or any title by North Kensington Chronicles book series (R) Gulliver’s Travels From Sea to Shining Sea or any title by Marshall Shakespeare Mill on the Floss Angelou Tom Jones (Bantam) Thackeray Power and the Glory Austen Jude the Obscure Return of the Native or any Kesey other title by Hardy Marshall Eliot Fielding Greene Hardy Hardy Hurston The American James Achebe Vonnegut Sons and Lovers Of Human Bondage Lawrence Maugham Faulkner Paradise Lost Milton Hunt Camus Heller Shute Joyce Woolf Any play by Shakespeare Reading Lolita in Tehran Any title by Dekker Any title by Higgs Self Incrimination(R) A Constant Heart(R) Shakespeare Nafisi Dekker Higgs Singer Mitchell North The Kite Runner Hosseini Crow A Thousand Splendid Suns Hosseini Swift The American One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich The Women of Brewster Place James The Help (R) Stockett Sister Carrie Dreiser Obasan Kogawa Solzhenitsyn Naylor