Summer Reading Assignment for Students entering SGY1 The Saltus Grammar School English Department believes that one of the most important habits to develop as an educated and well-rounded person is a love of reading; therefore, we feel it is vital for students to continue reading throughout the summer. For this reason we require students to complete independent reading over the summer break. Students should be prepared to discuss, do a small creative project, and/ or write about both books within the first few weeks of school. Choose 5 novels, plays, collections of poetry or short stories to read over the summer. You should ensure that at least ONE of these is a pre 20 th century text. You are asked to keep a log of all of your reading using the attached template. With one of your texts you will be required to complete a more in-depth assignment in September so please be prepared to bring one of your text choices into school with your during the first week of term.
SGY Reading Log Format: Name of Text Author Genre of Writing 3 facts about the time period of the text and the author Summary of plot in 5 bullet points Main conflict of the text Who were the protagonist and antagonist of the story? Writer s message to the reader? Rating out of 10 and reason why.
SGY Reading List This is an excellent list of suggested reading for anyone entering the SGY in September. This is by no means a comprehensive list but should be viewed as a selection of challenging and rewarding texts. Students entering either Language or Literature Exams should aim to expand their reading base by exploring various texts, authors and literary periods. In addition, this list identifies suggestions for students entering specific courses by noting A. P. Language-specific recommendations are marked with an asterisk (*), and AS or A. P. Literature-specific recommendation with a dagger ( ). Students should aim to read 5-10 texts this summer. At least one text should be pre 20 th Century. Title A Long Walk to Freedom A Passage to India A Streetcar Named Desire A Tale of Two Cities An Enemy of the People Alias Grace All My Sons Antigone Anna Karenina As I lay Dying Atonement Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man Beloved Billy Budd Birdsong Brave New World Broken April Captain Corelli s Mandolin Author Nelson Mandela E.M. Forster Tennessee Williams Charles Dickens Henrik Ibsen Margaret Atwood Arthur Miller Jean Anouihl Leo Tolstoy William Faulkner Ian McEwan James Weldon Johnson Toni Morrison Herman Melville Sebastian Faulks Aldous Huxley Ismail Kadare Louis De Bernieres
Cat s Cradle Ceremony Chronicle of a death Foretold Crime and Punishment Crow Lake Cry, the Beloved Country The Crucible Daisy Miller Doctor Faustus A Doll s House Dubliners Ethan Frome Fences Fiela s Child Frankenstein Gone with the Wind Great Expectations Go Tell it on the Mountain Gulliver s Travels Half a Yellow Sun Jane Eyre Jude the Obscure King Lear Kamchatka Light in August Like Water for Chocolate Lord Jim Love in the Time of Cholera Madame Bovary Kurt Vonnegut Leslie Marmon Silko Gabriel Garcia Marquez Fyodor Dostoevski Mary Lawson Alan Paton Arthur Miller James Joyce Christopher Marlowe Henrik Ibsen James Joyce Edith Wharton August Wilson Dalene Matthee Mary Shelley Margaret Mitchell Charles Dickens James Baldwin Jonathan Swift Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Charlotte Bronte Thomas Hardy William Shakespeare Marcelo Figueras William Faulkner Lauara Esquivel Joseph Conrad Gabriel Garcia-Marquez Gustave Flaubert
The Merchant of Venice William Shakespeare Moby Dick Herman Melville Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf My Antonia Willa Cather Native Son Richard Wright 1984 George Orwell One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez Origin of the Species Charles Darwin Out Stealing Horses Per Petteron Portrait of a Lady Henry James Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man James Joyce Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw Regeneration Pat Barker Roots Alex Haley Slaughterhouse Five Kurt Vonnegut Sophie s Choice William Stryon Snow falling on Cedars David Guterson Song of Solomon Toni Morrison Sons and Lovers D.H. Lawrence The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton The Alchemist Paulo Caoehlo The Autobiography of Malcom X Malcom X and Alex Haley The Autobiography of Jane Pittman Ernest J Gaines The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood The Book Thief Markus Zusak The Cherry Orchard Anton Chekhov The Color Purple Alice Walker The English Patient Michael Ondaajte
The Fountainhead The Inheritance of Loss The Kite Runner The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass The Picture of Dorian Gray The Remains of the Day The Sound and the Fury The Sound of Waves The Stone Angel The Things they Carried The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession. The Zookeeper s Wife: A War Story The Sun Also Rises Tsotsi Tess of the D Urbervilles Things Fall Apart Their Eyes Were Watching God The Turn of the Screw To the Lighthouse Waiting for Godot War and Peace Wide Saragasso Sea Wuthering Heights Years of Impossible Goodbyes Zeitoun *Europe Unite: Speeches 1947 and 1948. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Sides of Everything The Grand Design non fiction Ayn Rand Kiran Desai khaled Hosseini, Frederick Douglass Oscar Wilde Kazuo Ishiguro William Faulkner Yukio Mashima Margaret l Knopf Tim O Brien Allison Hoover Bartlette Diane Ackermann Ernest Hemingway Athol Fugard Thomas Hardy Chinua Achebe Zorah Neale Hurston Henry James Virginia Woolf Samuel Beckett Leo Tolstoy Jean Rhys Emily Bronte Nyul Sook Choi Dave Egges Winston Churchill Steven D Levitt Stephen Hawkings and Leonard
Mlodinow The Story of Microsoft *Any Essays by Tom Wolfe *Black Boy Poetry Anthologies or Collections (Aim to read a range of poets, forms, and periods in order to develop a working knowledge of the poetic structures, forms, and devices associated with the poets.) Stories and Poems by Edgar Allen Poe Neil Musolf Tom Wolfe Richard Wright Emily Dickinson; W.B. Yeats; W. H. Auden; D. H. LaWRENCE; William Wordsworth; John Donne; Sylvia Plath; John Keats; T.S. Eliot; Alfred Lord Tennyson; Robert Frost; Adrienne Rich; Christina Rossetti; Robert Browning; Matthew Arnold; Elizabeth Bishop; E.E. Cummings; Langston Hughesl; and others. Edgar Allen Poe