2016-2017 Northwood Academy
Upper School Summer Reading List
GRADE
6 required
TITLE
AUTHOR
Old Yeller
Fred Gipson
6 pre-AP recommended
The Cay
Theodore Taylor
7 required
Hatchet
Gary Paulsen
Number the Stars
Lois Lowry
Peak
Roland Smith
The Young Traveler’s Gift
Andy Andrews
Thr3e
Ted Dekker
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
The Cross and the Switchblade
David Wilkerson
Safely Home
Randy Alcorn
The Crucible
Arthur Miller
Directed Verdict
Randy Singer
This Present Darkness
Frank Peretti
12 AP Literature required
The Great Divorce
C.S. Lewis
12 AP Literature required
How to Read Literature Like a Professor
Thomas C. Foster
7 pre-AP recommended
8 required
8 pre-AP recommended
9 required
9 pre-AP required
10 required
10 pre-AP required
11 CP and AP Language required
11 AP Language required
12 CP required
BE PREPARED! Summer Reading Assignment and Test
Tuesday, August 16!
High School Summer Reading Assignment
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Students entering grades 9-12 must answer the following questions for the required summer novel.
Students earning Honors/Pre-AP credit must also answer these questions for the Pre-AP novel.
Junior and Senior Advanced Placement English students will receive an assignment packet and are not required to complete
this assignment.
1. Discuss the main conflict in the novel. Is it internal or external? Support your argument in 6-7 well-developed sentences.
2. A novel oftentimes contains more than one theme. Write a paragraph explaining one of the novel’s themes.
3. Fill out the following chart for 4 quotes you find particularly important or that stood out to you in some way.
Quote, speaker and
page number
Context (What is happening?)
Significance (Why is this quote important to the novel?)
Middle School Summer Reading Assignment
Grades 6-8 must answer the following questions for the required summer novel.
The Pre-AP summer novel is recommended but not required.
Write 2 - 3 sentences for each item below. Answers for each item should include such details as description, quotations, events, clue words,
traits, attributes, or ideas that summarize the following elements.
1. Describe the setting (time and place of the story).
2. Describe the protagonist (the main character or hero in the story).
3. Describe the antagonist (the adversary or opponent fighting against the hero in the story; the villain or negative force in the story).
4. What is the conflict (the problem that triggers the action or the problem the main character has to solve)?
5. What is the point of view (the angle from which a story is told; depends upon who is telling the story)?
6. What is the theme (the message being written about; the life lesson that you learned from the story)?
7. Describe the resolution (the satisfying end of a story; that part in which the problem is solved).
8. Would you recommend this book to others? Why or why not?
*All answers for High School and Middle School must be in complete sentences
and may be typed or handwritten.*