The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho plus one from this list:

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1 Summer reading assignments for English courses in the year: Incoming 9 th Graders: HUMANITIES (Social Studies AND English): 1 On the Teaching and Writing of History by Bernard Bailyn 2. A Little History of the World by E.H. Gombrich 3. The Laughing Sutra, Mark Salzman 4. How to Read Literature Like A Professor, Thomas C. Foster Please use the following code to join our Google Classroom site: dzieei ENGLISH 9: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho plus one from this list: The Girl with the Pearl Earring+ Chevalier Blink Gladwell Year of Wonders+ Brooks The Secret Life of Bees Into Thin Air Krakauer Freakonomics or Superfreakonomics Sue Monk Kidd Levitt The Outliers McCreight King of the World Remnick The Wave*+ Strasser The Radioactive Boy Scout* Silverstein Unwind * Shusterman Wolf in White Van Darnielle Stargirl* Spinelli The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Kamkqamba and Mealer

2 Nothing But the Truth* Avi All the Light We Cannot See Doerr Bingo s Run Levine The Good Thief Tinti Twisted* Anderson Confessions Minato, translated by Snyder Wintergirls* Anderson Everything I Never Told You Ng The Water Wars Stracher Lock In Scalzi The First Part Last Johnson The Terrorist s Son: A Story of Choice I Kill Giants Kelly Those Who Wish Me Dead Ebrahim, Giles Koryta *Represents books that are quick reads. +Represents books that relate to the Freshman English/Western Civilization Curriculum. 10 th Grade:

3 SELECTED WORLD LIT: See Dr. Harvey or Google Classroom for packet of materials. AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Montana 1948, Larry Watson - plus 3 short pieces on Google Classroom 11 th and 12 th Grade: WRITING SKILLS 11 Ender s Game, Orson Scott Card EXPOSITORY WRITING/GRAMMAR Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris CREATIVE WRITING Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott Nonfiction Writing Choice of one of these books: The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown, Unbroken by Lauren Hillenbrand, Deep Down Dark by Hector Tobar, or Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer MODERN PROSE The Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie EXPLORING LITERATURE The Age of Miracles, Karen Thompson Walker UNDERSTANDING FICTION War, Sebastian Junger Texts and Contexts Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi MYTHOLOGY Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman

4 SEARCH FOR SELF Autobiography of a Face, Lucy Grealy SURVIVAL IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD Not Fade Away, Rebecca Alexander OR The Other Wes Moore, Wes Moore GREAT WORKS OF LITERATURE The Sweet Hereafter, Russell Banks TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE For Whom The Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway SHAKESPEARE The World as a Stage, Bill Bryson AP LITERATURE: AP ENGLISH LITERATURE: SUMMER READING Rather than assign you a lengthy novel, we have decided to allow you a broader selection. All of the following titles will complement the AP English Lit syllabus that you will read next year. Please choose any TWO books from the following list of titles and read it this summer. You will be assessed on it when you return in September. (Note: Several titles are taught in other pre-ap courses. Show some initiative and select something that you haven t read.) The Age of Innocence-Wharton All the Pretty Horses-McCarthy Arcadia-Stoppard As I Lay Dying-Faulkner Atonement-McEwan The Awakening-Chopin Beloved-Morrison Brave New World-Huxley Candide-Voltaire Cat on a Hot Tin Roof-Williams Ceremony-Silko The Cherry Orchard-Chekhov Cold Mountain-Frazier Cry, the Beloved Country-Paton Death of a Salesman-Miller A Doll s House-Ibsen

5 Don Quixote-Cervantes Dubliners-Joyce Fences-Wilson Frankenstein-Shelley Going after Cacciato-O Brien The Grapes of Wrath-Steinbeck The Great Gatsby-Fitzgerald The Hairy Ape-O Neill The Handmaid s Tale-Atwood Hard Times-Dickens Heart of Darkness-Conrad The Heart of the Matter-Greene Henry IV, pts I and II-Shakespeare The House of Mirth-Wharton The Iceman Cometh-O Neill The Iliad-Homer The Importance of Being Earnest-Wilde Invisible Man-Ellison Jane Eyre-Bronte The Joy Luck Club-Tan The Jungle-Sinclair The Kite Runner-Hosseini Light in August-Faulkner The Little Foxes-Hellman MacBeth-Shakespeare Main Street-Lewis Master Harold and the Boys-Fugard Medea-Euripides The Merchant of Venice-Shakespeare The Mill on the Floss-Eliot The Misanthrope-Moliere Mrs. Warren s Profession-Shaw Native Son-Wright 1984-Orwell Oedipus Rex-Sophocles One Hundred Years of Solitude-Marquez One Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest-Kesey Othello-Shakespeare Persuasion-Austen The Piano Lesson-Wilson The Plague-Camus Pride and Prejudice-Austen Reservation Blues-Alexie Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead-

6 Stoppard The Scarlet Letter-Hawthorne Sister Carrie-Dreiser Six Characters in Search of an Author- Pirandello A Streetcar Named Desire-Williams The Sun Also Rises-Hemingway A Tale of Two Cities-Dickens Tartuffe-Moliere The Tempest-Shakespeare Tess of the D Urbervilles-Hardy The Things They Carried-O Brien A Thousand Acres-Smiley To the Lighthouse-Woolf The Trial-Kafka Volpone-Jonson Waiting for Godot-Beckett The Wide Sargasso Sea-Rhys Wise Blood-O Connor The Woman Warrior-Hong-Kingston Wuthering Heights-Bronte The Zoo Story-Albee AP LANGUAGE: Selected English The Little Stranger, Sarah Waters Modern Euro: The Plague, Albert Camus Selected American: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass, plus the short stories Wakefield and The Birthmark by Nathaniel Hawthorne English Novel: The Collector, John Fowles