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Summer Reading is mandatory for all grades and levels. Click on the enrolled course to access the assignment. |
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College Prep English I
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Choose one:
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The Pearl by John Steinbeck
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The Body of Christopher Creed by Carol Plum-Ucci
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Advanced English I
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Choose one:
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A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
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Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
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The Pearl by John Steinbeck
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Honors English I
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Required:
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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Choose one:
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Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
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College Prep English II
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Choose ONE. Nonfiction selections are marked with an asterisk (*)
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Escape From Camp 14 by Blaine Harden *
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I am Malala by Malala Yousafazi *
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Sold by Patricia McCormick
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The Help by Kathryn Stockett
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The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
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Wonder by R.J. Palacio
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Advanced English II
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Choose ONE. Nonfiction selections are marked with an asterisk (*)
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A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
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Escape From Camp 14 by Blaine Harden *
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I am Malala by Malala Yousafazi *
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Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson *
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The Help by Kathryn Stockett
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness by Michelle Alexander*
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Sold by Patricia McCormick
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The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
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Honors English II
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Required:
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960)
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Choose ONE. Nonfiction selections are marked with an asterisk (*)
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All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
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*The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
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The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
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*The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness by Michelle Alexander
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College Prep/Advanced English III
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Choose one:
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A Raisin in the Sun – Lorraine Hansberry
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The House on Mango Street – Sandra Cisneros
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The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan
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How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents – Julia Alvarez
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Life is So Good – George Dawson and Richard Glaubman
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Money Hungry - Sharon Flake
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Netherland – Joseph O’Neill
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Steve Jobs: the Man Who Thought Different --Karen Blumenthal
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Honors English III
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Select one novel from each list:
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List #1
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Novel 2
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In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
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The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
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No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
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The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
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Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
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List #2:
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On the Road by Jack Kerouac
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The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
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The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
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The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
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Native Son by Richard Wright
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College Prep/Advanced English IV
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Required:
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The Last Lecture –Randy Pausch
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Honors English IV
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Required:
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The Stranger by Albert Camus
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Choose one:
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The Tales of Eva Luna by Isabelle Allende
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Wilderness Tips (stories) by Margaret Atwood
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Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat
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Of Love & Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Leaf Storm by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Dubliners by James Joyce
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The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
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The Tunnel by Ernesto Sabato
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Women of Algiers in Their Apartment by Assia Djebar
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AP English III-Language and Composition
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Required:
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Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
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CHOOSE ANY TWO of the following:
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Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
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Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
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Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
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Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowel
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The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
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In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
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A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
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Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll by Greil Marcus
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
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AP English IV- Literature and Composition
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Required:
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The Strangerby Albert Camus
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Choose three:
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Macbeth by William Shakespeare
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Heart of Darknessby Joseph Conrad
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Invisible Manby Ralph Ellison
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfby Edward Albee
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The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
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The Five Quarters of the Orange Joanne Harris
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The Sympathizer by Viet Than Nguyen
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The Buried Giantby Kazuo Ishiguro
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No Exitby Jean Paul Satre
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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Belovedby Toni Morrison
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Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
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