English 8 Accelerated: Periods 1 and 3 Mrs. Dudley-Olsen

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1 English 8 Accelerated: Periods 1 and 3 Mrs. Dudley-Olsen August 2013 Parents and Guardians, Each nine week period, every student will participate in the Reading Program. I am requiring that the eighth grade accelerated students choose reading books from a list for the college-bound student. The list follows this letter, and it covers many interest levels as well as several degrees of difficulty. When a student has completed reading the book, he/she will complete an Accelerated Reader online test in class for that book before he/she will be given credit for the book. Credit will only be given if the student receives 80% or higher on the test. The student will be able to take a test on most Fridays or after school when scheduled ahead of time. The student is also required to have the book in class, daily. Since there are so many titles from which to choose, and since many of the books are for more mature students, I am asking you, as parents and guardians, to review the list with your child. Please monitor the books listed, and if there are books to which you object, please inform your child that you will not permit him/her to read that book at this time. Then, help your child choose another book that will please both of you. As the parent, you have the final say as to whether a book is acceptable for your child. I hope you will support me in this endeavor. Please make sure that the book is on AR Book Finder. Each student will be required to read a determined number of AR points per quarter depending on individual ability level. Thank you for your help in the education of your child. Please sign below, and return the bottom section of this letter to school with your child so that I know you have seen this list, the Reading Program requirements, and this letter. The signed section will be kept in my files. Sincerely, Linda Dudley-Olsen ************************************************************* Yes, I have read through the English 8 ACC book list and agree to monitor my child s reading choices. I have also read the Reading Program requirements and understand them. (Parent s/guardian s Signature and date) Student s Name 1

2 BOOK LIST SOLDIERS, PIRATES, AND KNIGHTS TALES OF ADVENTURES AND SURVIVAL Born Free The Red Badge of Courage The African Queen The Call of the Wild A Night to Remember Moby Dick Never Cry Wolf All Quiet on the Western Front Ivanhoe Treasure Island The Once and Future King The Virginian Lorna Doone The Pilgrim s Progress The Heart of Darkness Two Years Before the Mast The Three Musketeers Lord of the Flies Dove Kon-Tiki A Walk Across America Kidnapped Joy Adamson Stephen Crane C.S. Forester Jack London Walter Lord Herman Melville Farley Mowat Erich Maria Remarque Sir Walter Scott Robert Lewis Stevenson T.H. White Owen Wister R.D. Blackmore John Bunyan Joseph Conrad Richard Henry Dana Alexander Dumas William Golding Robin Lee Graham Thor Heyedahl Peter Jenkins Robert Louis Stevenson COMING OF AGE THE MATURATION OF SELF When the Legends Die Jane Eyre Great Expectations The Summer of My German Soldier Tex The Metamorphosis A Separate Peace Christy The Heart is a Lonely Hunter The Member of the Wedding The Chosen The Catcher in the Rye Shane Rabbit, Run Midnight Hour Encores The Stranger David Copperfield Oliver Twist Silas Marner The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Carrie I Will Call It Georgie s Blues Hal Borland Charlotte Bronte Bette Greene S.E. Hinton Franz Kafka John Knowles Catherine Marshall Carson McCullers Carson McCullers Chaim Potok J.D. Salinger Jack Schaefer John Updike Bruce Brooks Albert Camus George Elliot James Joyce Stephen King Suzanne Newton 2

3 Jacob Have I Loved Words by Heart Homecoming Katherine Patterson Ouida Sebestyen Cynthia Voigt OTHER WORLDS AND FUTURE TIMES TALES OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION The Fantastic Voyage Isaac Asimov Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury 2001: A Space Odyssey Arthur C. Clarke Alas, Babylon Pat Frank Stranger in a Strange Land Robert Heinlein Lost Horizon James Hilton Brave New World Aldous Huxley The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe C.S. Lewis A Canticle for Leibowitz Walter Miller The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien Watership Down Richard Adams Foundation Isaac Asimov The Last Unicorn Peter S. Beagle The Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine L Engle Z is Zachariah Robert C. O Brien The Hollow Hills Mary Stewart The Time Machine H.G. Wells THE IMAGINED PAST HISTORY IN FICTION Becket A Tale of Two Cities April Morning The Great Gatsby Johnny Tremain The House of the Seven Gables The Scarlet Letter The Country of the Pointed Firs Doctor Zhivago Exodus The Friendly Persuasion The Ox-Bow Incident Drums Along the Mohawk The Sun Also Rises Across Five Aprils Babbitt Gone With the Wind The Gates of Zion A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur s Court Jean Anouilh Howard Fast F. Scott Fitzgerald Ester Forbes Nathaniel Hawthorne Nathaniel Hawthorne Sarah Orne Jewett Boris Pasternak Leon Uris Jessamyn West Walter Van Tilburg Clark Walter D. Edmonds Ernest Hemingway Irene Hunt Sinclair Lewis Margaret Mitchell Bodie Thoene Mark Twain IN SEARCH OF CONSCIENCE THE LITERATURE OF SOCIAL ISSUES To Sir With Love The Good Earth The Chocolate War I Am the Cheese The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman E.R. Braithwaite Pearl Buck Robert Cormier Robert Cormier Ernest J. Gaines 3

4 Black Like Me A Raisin in the Sun To Kill a Mockingbird Main Street The Crucible Cry, the Beloved Country The Hiding Place Native Son Go Tell It on the Mountain Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Crime and Punishment Intruder in the Dust Farewell to Manzanar The Honorable Prison Kaffir Boy All the President s Men John Howard Griffin Lorraine Hansbury Harper Lee Sinclair Lewis Arthur Miller Alan Paton Corrie Ten Boom Richard Wright James Baldwin Dee Brown Fyodor Dostoyevsky William Faulkner Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston Lyll de Becerra de Jenkins Mark Mathabane Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein THE TOP OF THE LADDER STORIES OF PROFESSIONAL SUCCESS AND ACHIEVEMENT All Creatures Great and Small The Contender Death of a Salesman Pygmalion The House of Mirth Sister Carrie Up the Down Staircase Profiles in Courage The Natural West With the Night The Bell Jar The Picture of Dorian Gray James Herriot Robert Lipsyte Arthur Miller George Bernard Shaw Edith Wharton Theodore Dreiser Bel Kaufmann John F. Kennedy Bernard Malamud Beryl Markham Sylvia Plath Oscar Wilde WHO DONE IT??? TALES OF THE DARK AND MYSTERIOUS Where Are the Children? And Then There Were None The Mousetrap Rebecca Nine Coaches Waiting Mary Higgins Clark Agatha Christie Agatha Christie Daphne Du Maurier Mary Stewart RELIVED MEMORIES CHILDHOOD REMEMBERED A Death in the Family Little Women I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings My Antonia Cheaper by the Dozen How Green Was My Valley The Learning Tree A Day No Pigs Would Die Our Town The Glass Menagerie The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds James Agee Louisa May Alcott Maya Angelou Willa Cather Frank Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey Richard Llewellyn Gordon Parks Robert Newton Peck Thornton Wilder Tennessee Williams Paul Zindel 4

5 MOONLIGHT AND ROSES TALES OF LOVE AND ROMANCE Pride and Prejudice Wuthering Heights The Return of the Native Mistress of Mellyn Ethan Frome Jane Austen Emily Bronte Thomas Hardy Victoria Holt Edith Wharton REFLECTIONS OF FAMILY Pere Goriot Cold Sassy Tree Roots Tess of the D Urbervilles The Portrait of a Lady The Thorn Birds Giants in the Earth East of Eden Anna Karenina The Color Purple Honore de Balzac Olive Ann Burns Alex Haley Thomas Hardy Henry James Collen McCullough O.E. Rolvaag John Steinbeck Leo Tolstoy Alice Walker 5