Memorial High School 2007 Summer Reading

Gr. 9 Eng I Pre AP, GT 
Required Choose ONE from "Challenging Good Reads" list

Gr. 9 Eng I Academic
Required Choose ONE from either the "Challenging Good Reads" or "Good Reads" lists

Good Reads 
Twilight      Meyer
A Northern Light     Donnelly
Skellig      Almond
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes   Crutcher
Al Capone Does My Shirts    Choldenko
Silent to the Bone     Konigsburg
Chinese Cinderella Yen    Mah

Challenging Good Reads
Ender’s Game    Card
Isaac’s Storm    Larson 
Joy Luck Club   Tan 
The Glass Castle   Walls

Grade 10. Eng. II. Academic
Required   Ironman (Crutcher)

Gr. 10 Eng II Academic
Required Select one of the following:

Sheltered Tex (Hinton)
Rebecca(DuMaurier)
Ender’s Game (Card)
The House on Mango Street (Cisneros)

Note: As each student will be required to read at least one critical article on The Scarlet Letter for an essay in the first six weeks, we recommend buying either the Bedford or Norton critical edition of the novel.

Required Select at least one work from this list below. Read the novel and annotate at least ten passages from it so that we can use these passages for discussion and writing when the new school year begins. Students may use these works as the basis for their second six weeks’ research papers. Austen, Jane   Emma or Sense and Sensibility
Chopin, Kate   The Awakening
Cooper, James Fenimore    The Prairie, The Last of the Mohicans
Dickens, Charles   Hard Times or Bleak House
Eliot, George   Silas Marner, Daniel Deronda, The Mill on the Floss, or Middlemarch
Hawthorne, Nathaniel   The House of Seven Gables, Blithedale Romance, or The Marble Faun James, Henry   The Portrait of a Lady ,The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl, or The Wings of the Dove
Melville, Herman   Moby Dick
Ruiz de Burton, Maria Amparo   Who Would Have Thought It?
Stowe, Harriet Beecher   Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Dred, or The Minister’s Wooing
Wharton, Edith   The House of Mirth or The Age of Innocence

Gr.11 Eng III Academic
Required Select one book from either list: "Good Reads or Challenging Reads"  

Good Reads
Shadow Divers Kurson
Devil in the White City Larson
Whale Talk Crutcher
Bag of Bones King
Kitchen Confidential Bourdain 
In the Time of the Butterflies Alvarez
Hole in My Life Gantos

Challenging Good Reads
The Lovely Bones Sebold
Cold Mountain Frazier
Emma’s War Scroggins
1776 McCullough
Bel Canto Patchett
Five People You Meet in Heaven Alborn 
The Things They Carried    O’Brien
The Greatest Generation  Brokaw
Slaughterhouse-Five Vonnegut

Gr.11 Eng III Sheltered
Recommended Select one of the following:
The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
The Red Badge of Courage (Cooper)

NOTE: We recommend buying the Penguin Classics, Norton, or Vintage translation of Crime and Punishment and either the Norton or Penguin Classics edition of Tess.
Teachers will select individual titles during the six-week periods for outside reading – titles will be left to the discretion of each teacher.

Gr. 12 Eng IV Academic
Required Select one of the following:
Eaters of the Dead    Crichton

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