High School Supplemental Reading Requirement
The NorthPointe Christian High School English department requires
extracurricular reading (“Supplemental Reading”) to accomplish the following
four objectives:
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To encourage the enjoyment of reading
To improve students’ reading comprehension—and writing—skills
To afford students the opportunity to develop and exercise their ability
to discern what is true and Godly in what they read
To prepare students for the expectations of the colleges they will
attend.
We have tried to select books of intellectual and educational merit, books
that are part of the Western literary canon or esteemed by academics and
scholars as essential reading for the college-bound student. Because many
of the books on the list do not represent a Christian world view and may
contain language, sexual content, or philosophy contrary to the beliefs and
values of your family, it is very important that you help your child select
books that reflect those values. Please preapprove the novels that your
child reads and then confirm that your child has completed the reading by
providing the appropriate signatures on the forms.
Students may begin their Supplemental Reading on the first day of summer
vacation and may read ahead of the deadlines. Students must select at least
three books—that they have not already read—from the reading list. 9th
and 10th grade students may also read from the 11th and 12th grade list.
Any book not on the list must be preapproved by your English teacher in
order for the student to receive credit. The completion of each segment of
the Supplemental Reading will account for 10% of a student’s quarterly
grade.
Summary of Procedures
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Each student must read at least three books from the list for his/her
grade level—or higher.
The remaining book may be selected by the student but must be
preapproved by the student’s English teacher if it is not on the list.
Students will get a parent’s approval and signature on the form prior
to reading any book.
After reading a book, students must complete the report form for their
grade level.
Parents must sign the form once the student completes the book and
report.
Students will turn in the forms to their teacher by the deadline.
Any sources (such as websites) that are consulted must be
acknowledged on the student’s work—but all work must be original.
*Please note that the student and parent signatures indicate that the
student has read the work in its entirety. (Books must be read and not
listened to unless expressly permitted by the Student Union.)
** Students not reading the novel or turning in work that is not original (is
plagiarized) will receive no credit for this assignment.
*** Students may not use novels read in another class or more than one
book in a series.
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Grades:
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9 – 10 Grade
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Number of books required during the 2nd quarter:
Deadline: The last week of the 2nd quarter
10% of 2nd quarter grade
1
1
1
Number of books required during the 3rd quarter:
Deadline: The last week of the 3rd quarter
10% of 3rd quarter grade
1
1
1
Number of books required during the 4th quarter:
Deadline: Last day of regular class before exams
10% of 4th quarter grade
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Total 1
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Number of books required in the 1st quarter:
Deadline: The last week of the 1st quarter
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10% of 1 quarter grade
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TheSupplementalReadingList
9thand10thGrade
Author Adams,Douglas
Bronte,Emily Buck,Pearl
Card,Orson
Carter,AsaEarl
Conrad,Joseph Dumas,Alexander
Eliot,George Eliot,George Eliot,George Greenberg,Joanne
Lewis,C.S.
NordoffandHall
Orczy,Baroness
Orwell,George Rand,Ayn
Rawlings,Marjorie
Richter,Conrad
Richter,Conrad
Richter,Conrad
Steinbeck,John
Steinbeck,John
Stevenson,R.L. Stevenson,R.L. Stevenson,R.L. Swift,Jonathan
Tolkien,JRR
Twain,Mark Verne,Jules Verne,Jules Wells,HG
Wells,H.G.
11thand12thGrade
Author Achebe,Chinua
Angelou,Maya Austen,Jane Austen,Jane Austen,Jane Austen,Jane Austen,Jane Bernanos,Georges
Bronte,Emily Bunyan,John Butler,Samuel Buechner,Frederick
Title
TheHitchhiker’sGuidetotheGalaxy
WutheringHeights
TheGoodEarth
Ender'sGame
TheEducationofLittleTree
LordJim
TheThreeMusketeers
SilasMarner
Middlemarch
TheMillontheFloss
INeverPromisedYouaRoseGarden
TheScrewtapeLetters
MutinyontheBounty
TheScarletPimpernel
AnimalFarm
Anthem
TheYearling
TheLightintheForest
TheFields
TheTrees
TheRedPony
OfMiceandMen
TreasureIsland
TheStrangeCaseofDr.JekyllandMr.Hyde
TheBlackArrow
Gulliver'sTravels
TheLordoftheRings(studentscanreadoneforcredit)
ThePrinceandThePauper
TwentyThousandLeaguesUndertheSea
AroundtheWorldin80Days
TheIslandofDr.Moreau
WaroftheWorlds
Title
ThingsFallApart
IKnowWhytheCagedBirdSings
PrideandPrejudice
SenseandSensibility
Emma
LadySusan
Persuasion
DiaryofaCountryPriest
JaneEyre
Pilgrim'sProgress
TheWayofAllFlesh
Godric
Buechner,Frederick Buechner,Frederick Bunyan,John Campbell,Will Cather,Willa Cather,Willa Cather,Willa Chekhov,Anton
Chevalier,Tracy
Conrad,Joseph CooperJamesFennimore
CooperJamesFennimore
Defoe,Daniel Dickens,Charles
Dickens,Charles
Dickens,Charles
Dickens,Charles
Dillard,Annie Dillard,Annie Dumaurier,Daphne
Dostoyevsky,Fyodor Dostoyevsky,Fyodor Eliot,George Eliot,George Eliot,T.S.
Ellison,Ralph Endo,Shusaku Endo,Shusaku Endo,Shusaku Euripides
Faulkner,William
Faulkner,William
Faulkner,William
Faulkner,William
Faulkner,William
Fitzgerald,F.Scott
Forester,C.S. Forester,C.S. Forester,C.S. Forster,E.M. Frazer,JamesGeorge Frazier,Charles
Gardner,John Goldsmith,Oliver
Greene,Graham
Hardy,Thomas Hardy,Thomas Hardy,Thomas Hardy,Thomas Hardy,Thomas Hawthorne,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Nathaniel Brendan
TheSonofLaughter
Pilgrim’sProgress
BrothertoaDragonfly
DeathComesfortheArchbishop
MyAntonia
OPioneers!
TheCherryOrchard
GirlwithaPearlEarring
HeartofDarkness
DeerSlayer
LastoftheMohicans RobinsonCrusoe
DavidCopperfield
GreatExpectations
ATaleofTwoCities
PickwickPapers
AmericanChildhood
PilgrimatTinkerCreek
Rebecca
TheIdiot
TheBrothersKaramazov
AdamBede
Romola
MurderintheCathedral
InvisibleMan
Silence
TheSamurai
Volcano
Medea
Absalom,Absalom!
AsILayDying
IntruderintheDust
LightinAugust
SoundandtheFury
ThisSideofParadise
HornblowerandtheHotspur
HornblowerandtheAtropos
CaptainfromConnecticut
APassagetoIndia
TheGoldenBough
ColdMountain
Grendel
VicarofWakefield
ThePowerandtheGlory
MayorofCasterbridge
TheReturnoftheNative
FarfromtheMaddeningCrowd
TessoftheD'Urbervilles
JudetheObscure
BlithedaleRomance
HouseofSevenGables
Hemingway,Ernest
Hemingway,Ernest
Hilton,James Homer Homer Hosseini,Khaled
Hosseini,Khaled
Hugo,Victor Hurston,ZorahNeale Ibsen,Henrik James,Henry James,Henry James,Henry Kipling,Rudyard
Kipling,Rudyard
Kipling,Rudyard
Kipling,Rudyard
Lewis,C.S.
Lewis,C.S.
Lewis,C.S.
Lewis,C.S.
Malamud,Bernard
Malamud,Bernard
Malamud,Bernard
Melville,Herman
Melville,Herman
Miller,Arthur Miller,Walter Milton,John Mitchel,Margaret
Morrison,Toni O'Connor,Flannery
Paton,Alan
Plath,Sylvia Salinger,J.D. ClarkandScanlan
Scott,SirWalter
Shakespeare,William Shakespeare,William Shakespeare,William Shakespeare,William Shute,Nevil Solzhenitsyn,Alexander
Sophocles
Steinbeck,John
Steinbeck,John
Steinbeck,John
StrunkandWhite
Tan,Amy
Thackeray,William
Thoreau,HenryDavid Tolkien,J.R.R. ForWhomtheBellTolls
TheSunAlsoRises
GoodbyeMr.Chips
TheOdyssey
TheIliad
TheKiteRunner
AThousandSplendidSuns
LesMisérables
TheirEyesWereWatchingGod
HeddaGabler
ThePortraitofaLady
DaisyMiller
TheTurnoftheScrew
TheLightthatFailed
Kim
PhantomRickshaw
SevenSeas
TillWeHaveFaces
OutoftheSilentPlanet
Perelandra
ThatHideousStrength
TheNatural
TheAssistant
TheFixer
BillyBudd
MobyDick
DeathofaSalesman
ACanticleforLeibowitz
SamsonAgonistes
GoneWiththeWind
Beloved
WiseBlood
CrytheBelovedCountry
TheBellJar
TheCatcherintheRye
America’sBestNewspaperWriting
Ivanhoe
TheMerchantofVenice
Hamlet
Othello
TheTempest
OntheBeach
OneDayintheLifeofIvanDenisovich
OedipusRex
CanneryRow
EastofEden
GrapesofWrath
TheElementsofStyle TheJoyLuckClub
VanityFair
Walden
TheSilmarillion
Twain,Mark AConnecticutYankeeinKingArthur'sCourt
Twain,Mark LifeontheMississippi
Tyler,Anne
TheAccidentalTourist
Virgil TheAeneid
Vonnegut,Kurt SlaughterHouse-Five
Wilde,Oscar ThePictureofDorianGray
Wilder,Thornton
OurTown
Williams,Charles
AllHallowsEve
Williams,Charles
DescentIntoHell
Williams,Charles
TheGreaterTrumps
Williams,Charles
ManyDimensions
Wright,Richard
NativeSon
SuggestedreadingfromtheSocialStudiesDepartment:
Adams,Henry TheEducationOfHenryAdams
BeecherStowe,Harriet UncleTom’sCabin Boorstin,Daniel
TheImage
Catton,Bruce AStillnessatAppomattox
Douglass,Fredrick
NarrativeoftheLifeofFredrickDouglass
Griffin,JohnHoward BlackLikeMe Haley,Alex
Roots LewisAllen,Frederick OnlyYesterday
Lewis,Sinclair Babbit MacDonald,George
Lilith
MacDonald,George
Phantastes
MacDonald,George
ThePortent
MalcolmXandAlexHaley
TheAutobiographyOfMalcolmX
Michener,James
TheBridgesatToko-ri
O’Brien,Tim TheThingsTheyCarried
Reynolds,Quentin
TheyFoughtfortheSky
Rolvaag,Ole GiantsintheEarth
Sinclair,Upton TheJungle
Steffins,Lincoln
TheShameoftheCities
Tuchmann,Barbara
TheGunsofAugust Washington,BookerT UpFromSlavery
Westheimer,David
VanRyan’sExpress SuggestedreadingfromtheArtDepartment:
Picasso,Marina
PicassomyGrandfather
Pollitzer,Anita AWomanonPaper;GeorgiaO’Keeffe Potok,Chaim MyNameisAsherLev Rookmaaker,HR
ModernArtandtheDeathofCulture Stone,Irving DepthsofGlory;abiographicalnovelofCamillePissaro Stone,Irving TheAgonyandtheEcstasy;anovelofMichelangelo
VanLoon,HendrikWillem
R.V.R;thelifeofRembrandtvanRijn SuggestedreadingfromtheBibleDepartment:
Bonhoeffer,Dietrich TheCostofDiscipleship
Chesterton,G.K.
Orthodoxy
Colson,Charles
HowShouldWeNowLive
Fee,Gordon HowtoReadtheBibleforAllit’sWorth
James,William TheVarietiesOfReligiousExperience
Keller,Timothy
King’sCross
Keller,Timothy
ProdigalGod
Lewis,C.S.
MereChristianity
Lewis,C.S.
TheGreatDivorce
Lewis,C.S.
ThePilgrim'sRegress
McKnight,Scot
OneLife
Michener,James
TheSource
Miller,Donald AMillionMilesinaThousandYears
Ortberg,John Everybody’sNormalUntilYouGettoKnowThem
Ortberg,John TheMeIWanttoBe
Packer,J.I.
KnowingGod
Piper,John
Don’tWasteYourLife
Postman,Neal AmusingOurselvestoDeath
Sire,James
TheUniverseNextDoor
St.Augustine Confessions
Strobel,Lee
TheCaseforChrist
Strobel,Lee
TheCaseforFaith
Willard,Dallas TheDivineConspiracy
Yancey,Philip What’sSoAmazingAboutGrace
Zacharias,Ravi JesusAmongtheOthergods
SuggestedreadingfromtheMathandScienceDepartments:
Behe,Michael Darwin’sBlackBox
DevlinandLorden
TheMathBehindNumb3rs
Stewart,Ian Flatterland
Strobel,Lee
TheCaseforaCreator
9th / 10th Grade Reading Form (Fiction)
Your Name:
Book Title:
Author:
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Parental Pre-Approval of Book
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Date of approval
______________________________
Teacher Pre-Approval of Book (if not on list)
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Date of approval
Thisreportisfor:
1 QuarterReadingReport
2ndQuarterReadingReport
3rdQuarterReadingReport
4thQuarterReadingReport
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Answer the following questions thoroughly and in complete sentences. Be sure to use as much
of the allotted space as possible to complete your answer.
1. Briefly summarize the plot of the story.
2. What is the setting (place and time)?
3. Identify the main characters by name. Who is the protagonist (central character(s))? Who is the
antagonist (opponent of the protagonist)?
4. What did you think of this book? How did it make you feel? Were you able to identify with
any of the characters? Explain.
5. What is the theme of the story? What is the author trying to say? What do you think is the
author’s purpose in writing this story? Explain.
6. Is the author’s point true? Do his/her views line up with your Christian beliefs? Why or Why
not? Explain, and be specific.
I read this book in its entirety. _____________ (initial the line if yes)
If you did not read the book in its entirety, what percentage did you read ______%, skim ______?
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Student signature
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Parental Confirmation of Completed Book /Report
11th/ 12th Grade Reading Form (Fiction)
Your Name:
Title:
Author:
______________________________
Parental Pre-Approval of Book
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Date of approval
______________________________
Teacher Pre-Approval of Book (if not on list)
________________
Date of approval
Thisreportisfor:
1stQuarterReadingReport
2ndQuarterReadingReport
3rdQuarterReadingReport
4thQuarterReadingReport
Following the guidelines below, write a one to two page paper on each book that you read. Your
paper should be in 12 font, Times New Roman, with one inch margins, typed, and single-spaced.
Staple this cover form to the top of your paper and turn it in to your English teacher.
1st Paragraph
Ø Plot Summary: Briefly (no more than ¼ page) describe the plot of the book.
2nd Paragraph
Ø Characterization: Identify and describe the main characters. Be sure to identify the
protagonist(s) and antagonist(s). Is the protagonist a sympathetic character? Are the
characters believable? Etc.
3rd Paragraph
Ø Theme: What is the author’s main idea(s)? What is he/she trying to say? How does he/she try
to make his/her point? What literary devices (symbols, motifs, allusions, etc.) are used to
convey his/her ideas? Etc.
4th Paragraph
Ø Reader response: What do you think of this book? How did it make you feel? Did you relate
to any particular character? Etc.
5th Paragraph
Ø Evaluation: Is the author’s point valid or true? Do you—as a Christian—agree with his/her
views? Why or Why not?
I read this book in its entirety. _____________ (initial the line if yes)
If you did not read the book in its entirety, what percentage did you read ______%, skim ______?
_____________________________________
Student signature
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Parental Confirmation of Completed Book /Report
9th - 12th Grade Reading Form (Nonfiction)
Your Name:
Title:
Author:
______________________________
Parental Pre-Approval of Book
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Date of approval
______________________________
Teacher Pre-Approval of Book (if not on list)
________________
Date of approval
Thisreportisfor:
1 QuarterReadingReport
2ndQuarterReadingReport
3rdQuarterReadingReport
4thQuarterReadingReport
st
Following the guidelines below, write a one to two page paper on each book that you read. Your
paper should be in 12 font, Times New Roman, with one inch margins, typed, and single-spaced.
Staple this cover form to the top of your paper and turn it in to your English teacher.
1st Paragraph
Ø Theme: Summarize the thesis, theme, or purpose of the book as well as the primary or main
supporting ideas. (What is the author’s main idea(s)? What is he/she trying to say? How does
he/she try to make his/her point? How does he/she develop his/her argument? Etc.)
2nd Paragraph
Ø Evaluation: (at least 1/3 page) Is the author’s point valid or true? Is the argument
persuasive? What are the book’s strengths and weaknesses? Do you—as a Christian—agree
with the author’s views? Why or Why not? In what way did this book change—or affirm—
your own views, attitudes, and/or behavior? Etc.
3rd Paragraph
Ø Personal response: (1 paragraph) Briefly describe your personal response to this book. Did
you like it? Why or why not?
I read this book in its entirety. _____________ (initial the line if yes)
If you did not read the book in its entirety, what percentage did you read ______%, skim ______?
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Student signature
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Parental Confirmation of Completed Book/Report