A.P. SUMMER READING
2015-2016
Honors English 9: All students must read TWO outside reading selections. Those assigned selections are listed
below:
Non-academy students:
1.
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
2.
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Engineering Academy:
1.
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
2.
Peak by Roland Smith
Health and Biomedical Sciences Academy:
1.
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
2.
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser - Introduction and Chapters 1, 5, 8, and 9
Law and Public Safety Academy:
1.
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
2.
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Honors English 10: All students must select any TWO of the four novel selections for summer reading:
**Note requirements below for Linked Learning Academies & AP Euro**
* If you are in the Engineering Honors English 10 course, one of your novels is preselected for you and
labeled (Engineering).
* If you are in the Law & Public Safety Honors English 10 course, one of your novels is preselected for
you and labeled (LPS).
* If you are in the Health and Biomedical Sciences Honors English 10 course, one of your novels is
preselected for you and labeled (HBS).
* If you requested AP European History, one of your novels is preselected for you and labeled (AP Euro).
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2.
3.
4.
Brunelleschi’s Dome How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture by Ross King (Engineering)
Catch – 22 (LPS)
A Separate Peace by John Knowles (HPS)
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (AP Euro)
A.P. English 11: Read F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby AND all of the following essay selections from the
Norton Reader:
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5.
Maya Angelou “Graduation” - page 32
Frederick Douglass “Learning to Read” - page 408
N. Scott Momaday “The Way to Rainy Mountain” - page 192
E.B. White “Once More to the Lake” - page 851
Nancy Mairs “On Being a Cripple” - page 58
A.P. English 12: Read Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex