2013 Summer English Reading Assignments

It is expected that the grade level books listed below will be read and the students will be prepared to write about these novels on the first day of school. 

Grade 7

Esperanza Rising- Munoz

Hatchet-Paulsen

Grade 8

Touching Spirit Bear- Mikaelsen

Freak the Mighty- Philbrick

Grade 9

Of Mice and Men- Steinbeck

Grade 10

Bean Trees- Kingsolver

Grade 11

Glass Menagerie- Williams

Raisin in the Sun- Hansberry

AP Literature

Dante's Inferno- Pinsky version

The Chosen- Potok

The Great Gatsby- Fitzgerald

The Kite Runner- Hosseinii

The Glass Menagerie- Williams

English 12

Sunset Boulevard- Watch the film from 1950

AP Language

Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach us about the Art of Persuasion- Heinrichs

The Glass Castle- Wells

Nickel and Dimed: On Not Getting By in America- Ehrenreich

Baghdad Without a Map- Horowitz

They Say, I Say: The Moves that Matter in Academic Writing- Gragg and Birkenstein