CARROLLWOOD DAY SCHOOL PREP
Summer 2009 Reading List & Instructions
All Students entering Grades 9, 10, and 11 in August 2009
MANDATORY SUMMER READING CREDIT ASSIGNMENTS
• All in-coming 9th graders are required to read J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit for Mr. Garavuso
• All rising 10th graders are required to read J. R. R. Tolkien’s Fellowship of the Ring for Mr. Garavuso
o NOTE: Neither of the two additional summer books for tenth graders from the attached reading list may be a
continuation of the Lord of the Rings series (per Mr. G).
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• All rising 11 graders must read & own copies to bring to class in August of the following TWO BOOKS
1. Metaphors We Live By - by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson [ISBN 0-226-46801-1 • University of Chicago Press]
2. Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Other Writings by Jorge Luis Bores [New Directions Press (May 30, 2007)
ISBN 10: 0811216993 OR 13: 978-0811216999/Paperback] Third book is free choice from the list with Criteria Responses
General Comments
You are requested to read a minimum of three (3) books over the summer months. Of course, you may read more
than three books and all others of your choice that are not on this list.
However, you must read the above book noted as “required” for your grade level plus two (2) additional books
from the attached list. Please do not ask permission to substitute any book for one from this list.
For each of the three books that you read for Summer Reading Credit, please respond in essay format to the nine
(9) writing prompts listed on the next page (Bloggers may post responses in separate messages).
Current rising tenth and eleventh grade students who previewed blogging with Dr. Hallett are invited to join the
CDS Prep Summer Blog Community by blogging their book responses and entering into on-going conversations.
If you choose not to blog (or blog sufficiently), you must write the three essay responses.
In-coming 9th grade students, all students of any grade level who are new to CDS Prep, and any continuing
students who choose not to join the Blogging Community or who do not blog sufficiently – All these students must
submit their responses in document format, due on the first day of classes. Correct paper formatting includes:
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Each document-response is to be typed, equally double-spaced throughout (NO extra spaces between
paragraphs), with 1-inch margins, in Times New Roman Regular 12-point font (no large print or fancy fonts).
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The student’s name and class level must appear double-space at top left of page one of each paper, with the
title of the book and the author’s name as the third line of this of the primary information. Example:
Liam Garavuso
English 9
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
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Contents are to reflect close editing for correct Standard American grammar, punctuation, spelling, and
vocabulary (no slang expressions, text messaging “lingo,” or email abbreviations)
All summer reading-response work (blogging and/or papers) will count as one English TEST grade.
Please keep in mind that these papers will also be used to assess your writing and analytical skills, so take these
writing assignments seriously and submit your best work.
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CARROLLWOOD DAY SCHOOL PREP
Summer 2009 Reading List & Instructions
All Students entering Grades 9, 10, and 11 in August 2009
Critical Criteria
Begin your response (critique) paper with a quote of no more than thirty (30) words from the work,
something that best illustrates one of the measures listed below. Let your discussion begin and flow from
the chosen quote. While all of the points/elements below must be addressed in your critical response, they
need not be addressed in chronological order.
1. Beginning: What method does the author use to draw you into the story? How soon are you hooked,
and why? If not, what prevents you from getting into it?
2. Point of View (POV): What point of view is used in the story, and is it consistent? Why do you
think the writer chose this point of view? What kind of relationship does it help to establish with the
reader?
3. Characterization: What methods does the author use to convey a sense of character (physical
description/appearance, psychological profile, action, speech/dialogue, thought)? When and how is
this information about the characters delivered? Identify one or two specific moments in the story
where you find yourself forming an opinion about the characters.
4. Structure: Is the story told in chronological order? If not, how is it structured? How is time
structured within the story? Are some periods of time summarized while others are presented as “real
time” scenes? Why do you think the writer structured the story this way? What are the effects?
5. Place/Setting: What and where is the setting of this story? How does the piece reflect its place in
history, if it does at all? What role does “place” play in relation to the characters or the action? How
well does the author describe the setting?
6. Language: How does the author feed you with language? Are the word choices challenging, often
causing you rush to your dictionary, or, does he starve you with sparse offerings emaciated prose and
shallow concepts, and if so, for what purpose?
7. Dialogue: What kind of ear does the author have for dialogue? Will the reader be able to distinguish
between each character’s spoken words, or do all of the characters speak the same way, using the
same language? Can you envision the dialogue being spoken in real conversation, or do the verbal
encounters fail to engender a feeling of veracity?
8. Intent: To the extent that it can be discerned, discuss the author’s intent. What is the author trying to
do in this piece? Enlighten the reader? Experiment with form? Tell a moral tale?
9. Ending: Endings can be the most difficult part of a story to write.
How does the author pull it off?
Does it work, or does it appear that there is something just not right about it?
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CARROLLWOOD DAY SCHOOL PREP
Summer 2009 Reading List & Instructions
All Students entering Grades 9, 10, and 11 in August 2009
Accidental Tourist – Ann Tyler
The Color Purple– Alice Walker
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
Crime and Punishment — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain
Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
Crystal Cave – Mary Stewart
All the Pretty Horses — Cormac McCarthy
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
– Mark Haddon
All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich M. Remarque
The Day of the Jackal – Frederick Forsyth
The Andromeda Strain ! Michael Crichton
Deception Point – Dan Brown
Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt
Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller
Animal Farm – George Orwell
Digital Fortress – Dan Brown
Anna Karenina — Leo Tolstoy
Don Quixote — Cervantes
Antelope Wife – Louise Erdrich
Devil in a Blue Dress – Walter Mosley
As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner
Dracula ! Bram Stoker
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
– James Weldon Johnson
Dune – Frank Herbert
The Awakening — Kate Chopin
East of Eden – John Steinbeck
Babylon Revisited – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Emma– Jane Austin
The Bear — William Faulkner
Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
Bee Season - Myla Goldberg
Fahrenheit 451 ! Ray Bradbury
The Bell Jar — Sylvia Path
Fantastic Voyage ! Isaac Asimov
Beloved – Toni Morrison
Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keyes
Black Boy — Richard Wright
For Whom the Bell Tolls — Ernest Hemingway
Black Elk Speaks ! John Gneisenau Neihardt
The Fountain Head – Ayn Rand
Bless Me, Ultima – Rudolfo Anaya
Frankenstein — Mary Shelley
The Bluest Eye " Toni Morrison
Fried Green Tomatoes " Fannie Flagg
The Bonesetter’s Daughter ! Amy Tan
Going After Cacciato — Tim O’Brien
Brian’s Song ! William Blinn
The Good Earth —- Pearl S. Buck
Brave New World ! Aldous Huxley
Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
Breakfast of Champions — Kurt Vonnegut
The Grapes of Wrath — John Steinbeck
Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Cane – Jean Toomer
Grendel – by John Gardner (based on Beowulf)
Cat’s Eye — Margaret Atwood
Gulliver’s Travels — Jonathan Swift
Ceremony — Leslie Marmon Silko
The Handmaid's Tale – Margaret Atwood
Cold Sassy Tree – Olive Ann Burns
The House on Mango Street – Sandra Cisneros
Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis DeBerniers
The House of Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
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CARROLLWOOD DAY SCHOOL PREP
Summer 2009 Reading List & Instructions
All Students entering Grades 9, 10, and 11 in August 2009
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents – Julia Alvarez
Reservation Blues – Sherman Alexie
How to Make an American Quilt – Whitney Ott
Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
The Hunchback of Notre Dame ! Victor Hugo
Robinson Crusoe ! Daniel Defoe
Illustrated Man – Ray Bradbury
Running in the Family –Michael Ondaatje
Indian Killer – Sherman Alexie
Saving Fish from Drowning – Amy Tan
Into Thin Air " Jon Krakauer
The Shipping News – Annie Proulx
Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
Siddhartha — Hermann Hesse
Islands in the Stream – Ernest Hemingway
Silas Marner – George Eliot
Jane Eyre — Charlotte Brontë
Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut
The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan
Snow Country – Yasunari Kawabata
Kidnapped ! Robert Louis Stevenson
The Stolen Child ! Keith Donohue
A Lesson before Dying – Ernest J. Gaines
The Stranger – Albert Camus
Last of the Mohicans – James Fennimore Cooper
Stone Angel — Margaret Laurence
The Life of Pi – Yann Martel
The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
Light in August — William Faulkner
The Swiss Family Robinson – Johann D. Wyss
Love Medicine – Louise Erdrich
A Tale of Two Cities — Charles Dickens
The Martian Chronicles – Ray Bradbury
Their Dogs Came with Them – Helena Maria Viramontes
The Mayor of Casterbridge — Thomas Hardy
Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
Metamorphoses – Ovid
The Time Machine – H. G. Wells
Middle Passage - Charles Johnson
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven –
Sherman Alexie
The Mosquito Coast – Paul Theroux
My Antonia – Willa Cather
The Toughest Indian – Sherman Alexie
Native Son — Richard Wright
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn ! Betty Smith
1984 – George Orwell
Trinity – Leon Uris
Obasan – Joy Kogawa
2001: A Space Odyssey ! Arthur C. Clarke
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest — Ken Kesey
Watership Down ! Richard Adams
The Optimist’s Daughter – Eudora Welty
The Way to Rainy Mountain " N. Scott Momaday
A Passage to India – E. M. Forster
White Oleander ! Janet Fitch
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
White Fang ! Jack London
The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
The Wide Sargasso Sea — Jean Rhys
A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
The Woman Warrior ! Maxine Hong Kingston
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
The Yearling – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane
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