English Department Reading Lists: Freshman Freshman Honors English I Required: Watership Down by Richard Adams A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur s Court by Mark Twain A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriott The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingslover The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Snow in August by Pete Hamill The Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson To be Young, Gifted and Black by Lorraine Hansberry Trouble by Gary Schmidt Freshman College Prep English I Required: Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary Schmidt. (purchase, read, and bring to class) A Bottle in the Gaza Sea by Valerie Zenatti April Morning by Howard Fast Black Like Me by J. H. Griffin Death Be Not Proud by John Gunther Ender s Game by Orson Scott Card Little Women by Louisa May Alcott The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury When Crickets Cry by Charles Martin The Yearling by M. K. Rawlings Freshman Foundations Required: Monster by Walter Dean Myers
English Department Reading Lists: Sophomore Sophomore Honors American Literature Required: My Antonia by Willa Cather Also choose TWO books to read from the following list (only one may be a play): A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath The Color of Water by James McBride The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (You may never eat meat again!) The Last of the Mohicans by J. F. Cooper (for the advanced reader) The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers Peace Like a River by Leif Enger The Scarlet Letter or The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Sophomore College Prep American Literature Required: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford (purchase, read, and bring to class) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain The Chosen by Chaim Potak Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury Hiroshima by John Hersey Jim, the Boy by Tony Earley Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck O, Pioneers by Willa Cather The Final Four by Paul Volponi The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel Sophomore Foundations No Required Summer Reading book Students are required to complete one independent reading assignment each semester.
English Department Reading Lists: Junior Honors British Literature Required: 1984 by George Orwell Also choose TWO books to read from the following list: (only one may be a play) A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt A Passage to India by E. M. Forster Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Dracula by Bram Stoker Emma by Jane Austin Heart of Darkness by Joseph Campbell Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier The Once and Future King by T. H. White The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene The Road to Avalon by Joan Wolf The Tragedy of Othello by William Shakespeare Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte College Prep British Literature Required: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 1984 by George Orwell A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie Dracula by Bram Stoker Emma by Jane Austin The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare The Time Machine by H. G. Wells The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins College Readiness Required reading: Night by Elie Wiesel
English Department Reading Lists: Senior AP English Literature and Composition Required: A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway The Things They Carried by Tim O Brien (purchase, read both, and bring to class) Also choose TWO books to read from the following list (only one may be a play): A Doll s House by H. Ibsen A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by J. Joyce A Streetcar Named Desire by T. Williams A Thousand Acres by J. Smiley Catch 22 by J. Keller Crime and Punishment by T. Dostoevsky Don Quixote by M. Cervantes For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende The Iliad by Homer The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan One Hundred Years of Solitude by G. G. Marquez The Poisonwood Bible by B. Kingsolver Slaughterhouse-Five by K. Vonnegut Jr. The Taming of the Shrew by W. Shakespeare Their Eyes Were Watching God by Z. N. Hurston The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak HACC Dual Credit Required: The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver The Things They Carried by Tim O Brien Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston College Prep College Composition Required reading: The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak The Things They Carried by Tim O Brien (purchase, read both, and bring to class)
Dramaturgy Honors Required reading: Inherit the Wind by J. Lawrence and R. Lee 2007 ed.) The Tempest by William Shakespeare (purchase, read both, and bring to class) Required reading: Acting Technique I The Act of Acting by Stella Adler The following books are required textbooks that must be purchased prior to the first day of class: Creative Writing On Writing by S. King The Elements of Style by W. Strunk and E. B. White
Honors Theology 3 Morality Summer Reading Requirement Mrs. N Martin Students enrolled in Honors Theology 3 are required to read: A Voice in the Wind by Francine Rivers Students will be tested on this reading once we are back in school. As you read, be mindful of the discussion questions found in the back of the book, and be able to identify in depth with one or two of the characters. Honors Theology 2 Sacred Scripture: Summer Reading Requirement 2017 Dr. Michael W. Hayes Students who are enrolled in Honors Religion II: Sacred Scripture are required to read the following books during the summer: Genesis Numbers Exodus Deuteronomy [n.b. the book of Liviticus is deliberately not listed; it will be studied within the course.] Students may use any modern bible translation for these readings (but not a children s bible or an abridged version, such as the Reader s Digest Bible). There will be a test on these books during the first week of September. The test will focus on the major characters (e.g. the Patriarchs, their wives, sons, daughters) about whom stories are told. 1. Do NOT get bogged down in the genealogies in Genesis and the beginning chapters of Numbers 2. DO jot down questions you have while reading 3. Read for enjoyment and knowledge 4. Read prayerfully Mrs. Cotchen 2017-2018 Summer Reading Honors Theology IV All students are to read Acts of the Apostles before the beginning of the school year. Pay particular attention to the missionary journeys of St. Paul. It would be helpful to take notes as you read to track the places and people that St. Paul visited on his journeys. There will be a graded class discussion as well as a project assignment based on the reading.