High School Supplemental Reading Requirement

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1 High School Supplemental Reading Requirement (updated 2017) The NorthPointe Christian High School English department requires extracurricular reading ( Supplemental Reading ) to accomplish the following four objectives: 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 worldview 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 pre-approve 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 10 th grade students may also read from the 11 th 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 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.)

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3 ** 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. Complete Overview and Instructions for the Supplemental Reading requirement High School List of Books to Read 9-12th Grade Reading Report Form for Fiction 9-12th Grade Reading Report Form for Drama 9-12 th Grade Reading Report for Nonfiction Grades: 9 th 11 th Grade 12 th Grade Number of books required in the 1 st quarter: 1 1 Deadline: The last week of the 1 st quarter 10% of 1 st quarter grade Number of books required during the 2 nd quarter: 1 1 Deadline: The last week of the 2nd quarter 10% of 2nd quarter grade Number of books required during the 3 rd quarter: 1 1 Deadline: The last week of the 3rd quarter 10% of 3 rd quarter grade Number of books required during the 4 th quarter: 1 Deadline: Last day of regular class before exams 10% of 4 th quarter grade Total 4 3

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5 The Supplemental Reading List 9 th and 10 th Grade Suggested Fiction Reading List 11 th and 12 th Grade - Suggested Fiction Reading List 9 th -12 th Grade - Suggested Non-Fiction Reading List 9 th and 10 th Grade - Fiction Author Adams, Douglas Bronte, Emily Buck, Pearl Card, Orson Carter, Asa Earl Conrad, Joseph Dumas, Alexander Eliot, George Eliot, George Eliot, George Greenberg, Joanne Lewis, C.S. Nordoff and Hall Orczy, Baroness Orwell, George Rand, Ayn Rawlings, Marjorie Remarque, Erich Richter, Conrad Richter, Conrad Richter, Conrad Steinbeck, John Steinbeck, John Stevenson, R.L. Stevenson, R.L. Stevenson, R.L. Tolkien, J.R.R. Twain, Mark Verne, Jules Verne, Jules Wells, H G Wells, H.G. Title The Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy Wuthering Heights The Good Earth Ender's Game The Education of Little Tree Lord Jim The Three Musketeers Silas Marner Middlemarch The Mill on the Floss I Never Promised You a Rose Garden The Screwtape Letters Mutiny on the Bounty The Scarlet Pimpernel Animal Farm Anthem The Yearling All Quiet on the Western Front The Light in the Forest The Fields The Trees The Red Pony Of Mice and Men Treasure Island The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde The Black Arrow The Lord of the Rings (students can read one for credit) The Prince and The Pauper Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Around the World in 80 Days The Island of Dr. Moreau War of the Worlds

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7 11th and 12 th Grade Fiction *AP English ** On both 11 th /12 th grade and AP lists Author Title *Achebe, Chinua Things Fall Apart *Aeschylus The Eumenides *Aeschylus The Orestia Angelou, Maya I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Austen, Jane Emma Austen, Jane Lady Susan Austen, Jane Persuasion Austen, Jane Pride and Prejudice Austen, Jane Sense and Sensibility *Beckett, Samuel Waiting for Godot Bernanos, Georges Diary of a Country Priest Bernanos, George Diary of a Country Priest **Bronte, Charlotte Jane Eyre **Bronte, Emily Wuthering Heights Butler, Samuel The Way of All Flesh Buechner, Frederick Godric Buechner, Frederick Brendan Buechner, Frederick The Son of Laughter Bunyan, John Pilgrim s Progress Campbell, Will Brother to a Dragonfly Cather, Willa Death Comes for the Archbishop Cather, Willa My Antonia Cather, Willa O Pioneers! **Chekhov, Anton The Cherry Orchard Chevalier, Tracy Girl with a Pearl Earring **Conrad, Joseph Heart of Darkness *Conrad, Joseph Lord Jim Cooper, James Fennimore Deer Slayer Cooper, James Fennimore Last of the Mohicans Defoe, Daniel Robinson Crusoe *Defoe, Daniel Moll Flanders **Dickens, Charles A Tale of Two Cities *Dickens, Charles Bleak House Dickens, Charles David Copperfield **Dickens, Charles Great Expectations Dickens, Charles Pickwick Papers Dillard, Annie American Childhood Dillard, Annie Pilgrim at Tinker Creek *Drieser, Annie Sister Carrie Dumaurier, Daphne Rebecca *Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Crime and Punishment Dostoyevsky, Fyodor The Brothers Karamazov Dostoyevsky, Fyodor The Idiot Eliot, George Adam Bede Eliot, George Romola

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9 **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, James George Frazier, Charles Gardner, John Goldsmith, Oliver Greene, Graham **Hardy, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Hardy, Thomas **Hardy, Thomas **Hardy, Thomas Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hemingway, Ernest **Hemingway, Ernest *Heller, Joseph Hilton, James **Homer **Homer Hosseini, Khaled Hosseini, Khaled Hugo, Victor **Hurston, Zorah Neale *Ibsen, Henrik **Ibsen, Henrik *Ibsen, Henrik **James, Henry James, Henry **James, Henry *Joyce, James Kipling, Rudyard Kipling, Rudyard Kipling, Rudyard Kipling, Rudyard *Kogawa, Joy Murder in the Cathedral Invisible Man Silence The Samurai Volcano Medea Absalom, Absalom! As I Lay Dying Intruder in the Dust Light in August Sound and the Fury This Side of Paradise Hornblower and the Atropos Hornblower and the Hotspur Captain from Connecticut A Passage to India The Golden Bough Cold Mountain Grendel Vicar of Wakefield The Power and the Glory Mayor of Casterbridge The Return of the Native Far from the Maddening Crowd Tess of the D'Urbervilles Jude the Obscure Blithedale Romance House of Seven Gables For Whom the Bell Tolls The Sun Also Rises Catch-22 Goodbye Mr. Chips The Odyssey The Iliad The Kite Runner A Thousand Splendid Suns Les Misérables Their Eyes Were Watching God A Doll s House Hedda Gabler An Enemy of the People The Portrait of a Lady Daisy Miller The Turn of the Screw Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man The Light that Failed Kim Phantom Rickshaw Seven Seas Obasan

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11 Landon, Margaret Lewis, C.S. Lewis, C.S. Lewis, C.S. Lewis, C.S. Lewis, C.S. MacDonald, George MacDonald, George MacDonald, George Malamud, Bernard Malamud, Bernard Malamud, Bernard *Marlowe, Christopher *McCarthy, Cormac **Melville, Herman **Melville, Herman **Miller, Arthur *Miller, Arthur Miller, Walter Milton, John Mitchell, Margaret **Morrison, Toni *Morrison, Toni *Morrison, Toni **O'Connor, Flannery Pasternak, Boris Paton, Alan Plath, Sylvia Potok, Chaim *Rhys, Jean Salinger, J.D. Salinger, J.D. Scott, Sir Walter Scott, Sir Walter *Shaffer, Peter *Shakespeare, William *Shakespeare, William Shakespeare, William *Shakespeare, William **Shakespeare, William *Shakespeare, William *Shakespeare, William **Shakespeare, William *Shakespeare, William *Shakespeare, William Shakespeare, William **Shakespeare, William *Shakespeare, William *Shakespeare, William *Shaw, George Bernard Anna and the King of Siam Out of the Silent Planet Perelandra That Hideous Strength The Great Divorce Till We Have Faces Lilith Phantastes The Portent The Natural The Assistant The Fixer Doctor Faustus All the Pretty Horses Billy Budd Moby Dick Death of a Salesman The Crucible A Canticle for Leibowitz Samson Agonistes Gone with the Wind Beloved Song of Solomon Sula Wise Blood Doctor Zhivago Cry, the Beloved Country The Bell Jar The Chosen Wide Sargasso The Catcher in the Rye Franny and Zoey Ivanhoe Rob Roy Equus Antony and Cleopatra As you Like It Hamlet Henry IV, parts I and II Othello Midsummer Night s Dream The Life of Henry V The Merchant of Venice Much Ado About Nothing Richard III The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Twelfth Night Winter s Tale Major Barbara

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13 *Shaw, George Bernard Shulman, Irving Shute, Nevil *Silko, Leslie Marmon *Sinclair, Upton Solzhenitsyn, Alexander Steinbeck, John Steinbeck, John **Steinbeck, John *Stoppard, Tom **Swift, Jonathan Strunk and White Tan, Amy Thackeray, William Thoreau, Henry David Tolkien, J.R.R. *Tolstoy, Leo Twain, Mark Twain, Mark Tyler, Anne **Virgil *Voltaire Vonnegut, Kurt *Warren, Robert Penn *Wharton, Edith *Wharton, Edith Wilde, Oscar Wilder, Thornton Williams, Charles Williams, Charles Williams, Charles Williams, Charles *Williams, Tennessee *Williams, Tennessee *Wilson, August **Wright, Richard Mrs. Warren s Profession West Side Story On the Beach Ceremony The Jungle One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Cannery Row East of Eden Grapes of Wrath Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Gulliver s Travels The Elements of Style The Joy Luck Club Vanity Fair Walden The Silmarillion Anna Karenina A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Life on the Mississippi The Accidental Tourist The Aeneid Candide Slaughterhouse-Five All the King s Men Age of Innocence Ethan Frome The Picture of Dorian Gray Our Town All Hallows Eve Descent into Hell The Greater Trumps Many Dimensions The Glass Menagerie A Streetcar Named Desire The Piano Lesson Native Son 9-12 th grade - Suggested Non-Fiction Social Studies Department: Adams, Henry Beecher Stowe, Harriet Boorstin, Daniel Catton, Bruce Douglass, Frederick Griffin, John Howard Haley, Alex Lewis Allen, Frederick Malcolm X and Alex Haley The Education of Henry Adams Uncle Tom s Cabin The Image A Stillness at Appomattox Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Black Like Me Roots Only Yesterday The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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15 Michener, James Reynolds, Quentin Rolvaag, Ole Sinclair, Upton Steffins, Lincoln Tuchman, Barbara Washington, Booker T. Westheimer, David The Bridges at Toko-ri They Fought for the Sky Giants in the Earth The Jungle The Shame of the Cities The Guns of August Up From Slavery Von Ryan s Express Math and Science Departments: Behe, Michael Darwin s Black Box Devlin and Lorden The Math Behind Numb3rs Stewart, Ian Flatterland Flannery, Sarah In Code Munroe, Randall What if? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions Shetterly, Margot Lee Hidden Figures Art Department: Picasso, Marina Picasso my Grandfather Pollitzer, Anita A Woman on Paper; Georgia O Keeffe Potok, Chaim My Name is Asher Lev Rookmaaker, HR Modern Art and the Death of Culture Stone, Irving Depths of Glory; a biographical novel of Camille Pissarro Stone, Irving The Agony and the Ecstasy; a novel of Michelangelo Van Loon, Hendrik Willem R.V.R ; the life of Rembrandt van Rijn Bible Department: Bonhoeffer, Dietrich Chesterton, G.K. Colson, Charles Fee, Gordon James, William Keller, Timothy Keller, Timothy Lewis, C.S. Lewis, C.S. Lewis, C.S. McKnight, Scot Michener, James Miller, Donald Ortberg, John Ortberg, John Packer, J.I. Piper, John Postman, Neil Sire, James St. Augustine Strobel, Lee Strobel, Lee Strobel, Lee The Cost of Discipleship Orthodoxy How Should We Now Live How to Read the Bible for All It s Worth The Varieties of Religious Experience King s Cross Prodigal God Mere Christianity The Great Divorce The Pilgrim's Regress One Life The Source A Million Miles in a Thousand Years Everybody s Normal Until You Get to Know Them The Me I Want to Be Knowing God Don t Waste Your Life Amusing Ourselves to Death The Universe Next Door Confessions The Case for Christ The Case for a Creator The Case for Faith

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17 Willard, Dallas Yancey, Philip Zacharias, Ravi The Divine Conspiracy What s So Amazing About Grace Jesus Among the Other gods 9 th - 12 th Grade Reading Form (Fiction) Your Name: Title: Author: Parental Pre-Approval of Book Teacher Pre-Approval of Book (if not on list) Date of approval Date of approval

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23 Teacher Pre-Approval of Book (if not on list) Date of approval 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. 1 st Paragraph 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.) 2 nd Paragraph 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. 3 rd Paragraph 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? Student signature Parental Confirmation of Completed Book/Report

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