Incoming 10th Grade Academic and College Prep English



Incoming 10th Grade Academic, College Prep, and Pre-AP English

Required Summer Reading 2017

Bellaire High School

Incoming 10th Grade Academic English

(total required reading: 1 book)

• Every student will read choose one of the following books to read. During the first week of school, students should be prepared for an exam over their chosen book.

o Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

o All American Boys by Brendan Kiely and Jason Reynolds

o You Don’t Know Me by David Klass.

o Gabi, A Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero

Incoming 10th Grade College Prep English

(total required reading: 1 book)

• Every student will read The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. During the first week of school, students will be tested over The Catcher in the Rye and will receive an additional assignment to complete. Several online versions of The Catcher in the Rye can be located via a simple internet search.

Incoming 10th Grade Pre-AP English

(total required reading: 2 books)

• Every student will read The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger and This Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolff. During the first week of school, students will be tested over The Catcher in the Rye and This Boy’s Life and will receive an additional assignment to complete. Several online versions of The Catcher in the Rye can be located via a simple internet search.

Students may contact the following teachers with any questions about the assignment:

10th Grade Academic and College Prep English

Ms. Blessington Jennifer.Blessington@

Ms. Oertli Gretchen.Oertli@

Mr. Olsen molsen@

10th Grade Pre-AP English

Ms. Broze lbroze@

Mr. Wolf bwolf@

All BHS required summer reading books are readily available at most major bookstores and on-line booksellers.

Please visit HISD’s Library Services website for additional lists of books that students may choose to read for pleasure or as part of HISD’s summer reading initiative, Every Summer Has a Story:

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