English Department Summer Reading '13

Rising 9th Grade: See Summer Reading for English I.

Western Reserve Academy English Department Summer Reading 2013

Rising 10th Grade: Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse) --ISBN # 0-553-20884-5 Into the Wild (Jon Krakauer)

Note: Students will complete an assessment of their reading of these texts on the first day of classes; moreover, the first writing assignment of the year will focus on these books.

Rising 11th Grade: an American novel of student's choice; for your convenience, see the Suggested American novels list)

AND Reservation Blues (Sherman Alexie) --ISBN # 0-8021-4190-0

Note: students will report on their chosen novels in class; they will also complete a written assessment on the Alexie text.

Rising 12th Grade:

(AP Literature) Agencies of Survival (Mrs. Campbell)

REQUIRED READING: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi (Random House Trade Paperbacks) --ISBN # 0812979303 or 978-0812979305

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (Oxford World Classics) --ISBN # 0199535590 or 978-0199535590 Note: students should read the first 10 chapters before classes begin.

CHOOSE ONE: The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (Scribner) --ISBN # 074324754X or 978-0743247542

OR The Dollmaker by Harriette Arnow --ISBN # 143915443 or 978-1439154434

(AP Literature) Law in Literature (Mrs. McKenzie) To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee) In Cold Blood (Truman Capote)

(AP Literature) Novel Voices (Mr. Morris) a novel of student's choice

AND A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving) --ISBN # 0-345-41797-6

(AP Language) Textural Crossroads: Self, Technology, Place, and Culture (Mr. Peterson) The Things They Carried (Tim O'Brien) Zeitoun (Dave Eggers)

(IV) Sifting through the Ashes: Contemplating Ourselves after the Holocaust (Ms. Evans) Lord of the Flies (William Golding)

(IV) Main Street America (Mr. Hoffman) Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson (1919) --ISBN # 0393967956 or 978-0393967951

(IV) Relocating Cultural Identities (Ms. Maseelall) The Woman Warrior (Maxine Hong Kingston)

(IV) Film in Literature --and How It's Done (Ms. Schnupp) No Country for Old Men (Cormac McCarthy)--required One book-film pair from the course description--encouraged

(IV) American Nature Writing and Environmental Issues (Mr. Warner) Ishmael (Daniel Quinn) --ISBN # 0553375407 or 978-0553375404

 ................
................

In order to avoid copyright disputes, this page is only a partial summary.

Google Online Preview   Download