DEPARTMENTAL MISSION STATEMENT:
Our goal is to create student autonomy by producing active readers who connect to various texts through their personal experiences, and express themselves effectively through writing.

SUMMER WORK:
EHTHS SUMMER READING 2017-2018
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CP English I : CLICK HERE FOR ASSIGNMENT
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CHOOSE ONE:
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
The Body of Christopher Creed by Carol PlumbyUcci
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ADV English I: CLICK HERE FOR ASSIGNMENT
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CHOOSE ONE:
A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
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HN English I: CLICK HERE FOR ASSIGNMENT
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REQUIRED READING:
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Choose ONE:
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
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CP English II: CLICK HERE FOR ASSIGNMENT
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CHOOSE ONE:
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
I am Malala by Malala Yousafazi *
I’ve Lived a Thousand Years: Growing up in the Holocaust by Livia BittonbyJackson *
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson *
Sold by Patricia McCormick
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Wonder by R.J. Palacio
*nonfiction
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ADV English II: CLICK HERE FOR ASSIGNMENT
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CHOOSE ONE:
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
Escape From Camp 14 by Blaine Harden *
I am Malala by Malala Yousafazi *
I’ve Lived a Thousand Years: Growing up in the Holocaust by Livia BittonbyJackson *
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson *
Sold by Patricia McCormick
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander*
*nonfiction
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HN English II: CLICK HERE FOR ASSIGNMENT
To Kill a Mockingbird Assignment
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REQUIRED:
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960)
CHOOSE ONE:
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)
Fahrenheit 451by Ray Bradbury (1953)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (2010)
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (2014)
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CP/ADV English III: CLICK HERE FOR ASSIGNMENT
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CHOOSE ONE:
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
Life is So Good by George Dawson and Richard Glaubman
Money Hungry by Sharon Flake
Netherland by Joseph O’Neill
Freedom by Johnathan Franzen
Steve Jobs: the Man Who Thought Differentby Karen Blumenthal
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HN English III: CLICK HERE FOR ASSIGNMENT
NOVEL #1
NOVEL #2
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Select one novel from each list:
List #1
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
List #2:
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Native Son by Richard Wright
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
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AP English III: CLICK HERE FOR ASSIGNMENT
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REQUIRED:
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
CHOOSE ANY TWO of the following:
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowel
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll by Greil Marcus
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
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CP/ADV English IV: CLICK HERE FOR ASSIGNMENT
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The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow
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HN English IV: CLICK HERE FOR ASSIGNMENT
Choice Novel Assignment
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REQUIRED:
The Stranger, Albert Camus
CHOOSE ONE:
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Tunnel by Ernesto Sabato
With teacher approval, students may select a novel by one of the following authors or another World author: Kōbō Abe, Chinua Achebe, Edwidge Danticat, Simone de Beauvoir, Jhumpa Lahiri, Zadie Smith, and Virginia Woolf
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AP English IV: CLICK HERE FOR ASSIGNMENT
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REQUIRED:
The Stranger by Albert Camus
CHOOSE THREE:
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Five Quarters of the Orange Joanne Harris
The Sympathizer by Viet Than Nguyen
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
No Exit by Jean Paul Satre
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
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