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SHS English Department: 2020 – 2021 Summer ReadingGRADE 9English 9 (Embedded Honors)English 9 students must read TWO books over the summer. One book is required (from two choices) and the other must come from an approved list of books. You do not have to take notes or write about your books, but it will be very helpful as you will be working with these books in the first weeks of 9th grade.#1 Choose between the following two books:The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Albom) ORThe Ocean at the End of the Lane (Gaiman)#2 Choose a second book to read from the following list:The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Alexie)The Devil at My Heels (Zamperini)Chains (Halse Anderson) I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (Sanchez)White Fang (London)All the Light We Cannot See (Doerr)The Book Thief (Zusak)Ender's Game (Card)To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee)Unbroken (Hillenbrand) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------9 Humanities Students must read China’s Son (Chen) OR Red Scarf Girl (Jiang) AND also one of the following:Does My Head Look Big in This? (Abdel-Fattah)I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (Sánchez)Absolutely True Story of a Part-time Indian (Alexie)Touching Spirit Bear (Mikaelsen)The Things a Brother Knows (Reinhardt)Note: We strongly encourage students to take detailed notes of important passages while paying close attention to themes and concepts related to identity.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Special Class English 9 – Students must read The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Albom) GRADE 10English 10R Students must read two books—one non-fiction and one fiction—from below:Non-fictionTen Days in a Mad-House (Bly)David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants (Gladwell)FictionThe Hate U Give (Thomas)Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury)The Giver (Lowry) Unwind (Shusterman)----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Special Class English 10Students must read The Giver (Lowry)---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanities 10Students must read David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants (Gladwell) and also one of the following:The Tattooist of Auschwitz (Morris)The Grief Keeper (Villasante)Internment (Ahmed) The Boy at the Top of the Mountain (Boyne) Educated: A Memoir (Westover)Soldier Boy (Hutton) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------English 10HStudents must read:The Hate U Give (Angie Thomas) OR Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor (Layla F. Saad).ANDONE of the below non-fiction works by Malcolm Gladwell. These will lead to small group discussions on the book when we return to school. These books all introduce thematic elements of the works we will study together in class this year:The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Gladwell)Outliers: The Story of Success (Gladwell)David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants (Gladwell)Grade 11English 11R Students must read any two of the following books: Monster (Myers) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Haddon)Twisted (Anderson) Between Shades of Gray (Sepetys)A Long Way Gone (Beah) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Special Class English 11Students must read one of the following books:Monster (Myers) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Haddon)Twisted (Anderson) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------IB English Year 1 (11th grade)Students must read TWO books over the summer. One book is required, and the other must come from an approved list of books which all touch on concepts we will explore this year. #1 (Required)The Glass Castle (Walls)#2 (Choose one)This Book Betrays My Brother (Molope)Dear Martin (Stone)Juan Pablo and the Butterflies (Flowers)American Street (Zoboi)The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project Ten Years later (Kaufman)NOTE: You are encouraged to take notes about your books as you will be working with them in the first weeks of school. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------English 11 AP Language and CompositionStudents must read:Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Levitt, Dubner)ANDAny book you choose. What have you been meaning to pick up that you haven't had the time to get to?---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Alternative High School 11/12 – Choose ONE book from any grade level list.Grade 12English 12R : Students must read two of the following: I am the Messenger (Zusak) Nineteen Minutes (Picoult) The Things They Carried (O’Brien) Room (Donoghue)Boy 21 (Quick)The Alchemist (Coelho) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Special Class English 12 : Students must read one of the following books:I am the Messenger (Zusak) The Things They Carried (O’Brien)Boy 21 (Quick)----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------English 12H Students must read The Alchemist (Coelho) AND pick one of the following: Homegoing?(Gyasi) Exit West?(Hamid)? A Thousand Splendid Suns?(Hosseini)? The Accidental Universe?(Lightman)? The Warmth of Other Suns?(Wilkerson)? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------IB English HL Year 2 (12th grade)All students must read Purple Hibiscus (Adichie)ANDEach book group (regions assigned in June) must read the following: Africa: The Girl with the Louding Voice (Dare)Asia: Memoirs of a Geisha by (Golden)Caribbean: In the Time of the Butterflies (Alvarez)Europe: The Perfect Nanny (Slimami) Latin/South America : My Father’s Ghost is Climbing in the Rain (Pron)Middle East: A Woman is No Man (Rum)---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12AP Required:Homegoing (Gyasi)Exit West (Hamid)A Prayer for Owen Meany (Irving)Optional:The Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Alternative High School 11/12 – Choose ONE book from any grade level list. ................
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