2014-2015 West All incoming FRESHMAN who are scheduled for honors English at either Scranton High School or West are required to read a total of TWO BOOKS over the summer. One of the two books is noted below as the common requirement for all honor students. Students must choose their other selection from the comprehensive list beneath the required selection. Freshmen Honors: Common Required Selection: Black Like Me by Howard Griffin A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens The Turn of the Screw Henry James Profiles in Courage John F. Kennedy Joy Luck Club Amy Tan The Hobbit J. R. R. Tolkien Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Inherit the Wind Jerome Lawrence and Robert Lee
2014-2015 West All incoming SOPHOMORES who are scheduled for honors English II at either Scranton High School or West are required to read a total of TWO BOOKS over the summer. One of the two books is noted below as the common requirement for all honor students. Students must choose their other selection from the comprehensive list beneath the required selection. Sophomore Honors: Common Required Selection: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Lewis Stevenson Captains Courageous Rudyard Kipling The Count of Monte Cristo (abridged) Alexandre Dumas The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls The Life of Pi- Yann Martel October Sky Homer Hickam One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Alexander Solzhenitsyn The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde Schindler s List Thomas Keneally Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
2014-2015 West All incoming Juniors who are scheduled for honors English III at either or West are required to read a total of TWO BOOKS over the summer. One of the two books is noted below as the common requirement for all honor students. Students must choose their other selection from the comprehensive list beneath the required selection. Junior Honors: Common Required Selection: The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry Bomb : the race to build and steal the world's most dangerous weapon- Steve Sheinkin The Last of the Mohicans James Cooper Invisible Man Ralph Ellison Tender is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway On the Road Jack Kerouac The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers
A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams
2014-2015 West All incoming Seniors who are scheduled for honors English IV at either or West are required to read a total of TWO BOOKS over the summer. One of the two books is noted below as the common requirement for all honor students. Students must choose their other selection from the comprehensive list beneath the required selection. Senior Honors: Common Required Selection: Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad Emma Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen Iliad - Homer Brave New World Aldous Huxley A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce Obasan Joy Kogawa Angela s Ashes Frank McCourt Dracula Bram Stoker Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Tom Stoppard The Piano Lesson August Wilson The Jungle Upton Sinclair
2014-2015 West All incoming SENIORS to both and West who elect to take AP LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION are required to read a total of SIX TITLES. Two titles must be selected from the common required selections. Upon returning to school in September, students will be assessed using a district standardized assessment tool on the common required selections. These will be averaged, not curved or dropped. Students must choose their other selections from the comprehensive list beneath the required selection. Depending upon the individual teacher s units, one or more selections from the Comprehensive List may be encouraged. Assessments will be at the discretion of the teacher. second quarter will have the entire first quarter to complete all books. Common Required Selections: Mythology, Edith Hamilton and Dracula, Bram Stoker OR Frankenstein, Mary Shelley Comprehensive List: The Odyssey, Books 1-12 Pride and Prejudice Emma Heart of Darkness Brave New World Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man Obasan Angela s Ashes Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead The Piano Lesson Death of a Salesman Ceremony Tess of the D Urbervilles Song of Solomon How to Read Literature Like a Professor Texts and Contexts