Reading Lists

Outside Reading Lists

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Baker

Outside Reading AP Language:

Albom, Mitch. Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson. New York: Broadway Books, 1997.

Chopin, Kate. The Awakening.1899. New York: Bantam Books, 1992.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. 1925. New York: Scribner, 2004.

Frazier, Charles. Cold Mountain. 1997. New York: Random House, 1998.

Wharton, Edith. Ethan Frome. 1911. New York: Popular Publishing, 2001.

Outside Reading English III Honors:

Chopin, Kate. The Awakening.1899. New York: Bantam Books, 1992.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. 1925. New York: Scribner, 2004.

Grisham, John. The Testament. New York: Island Books, 1999.

Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms. 1929. New York: Macmillan Publishing, 1986.

Wharton, Edith. Ethan Frome. 1911. New York: Popular Publishing, 2001.

Fugate

English III Honors

The Testament (Grisham)

Tuesday's with Morrie (Albom)

The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)

The Things They Carried (O'Brien)

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Foer)

The Road (McCarthy).

English IV honors

1^st Quarter: (College Admission information/your choice (CAN BE PRINTOUTS FROM WEBSITES) and Grendel

2^nd Quarter: Hamlet plus a second quarter reading choice of:

Wealthow by Ashley Crownover

1421 the Year China Discovered America by Gavin Menzies

Pillars of the Earth or World Without End by Ken Follett

The Boleyn Inheritance or The White Queen by Philippa Gregory

Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

Water for Elephants

My Name is Will by Jess Winfield

The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

3^rd Quarter: Another Shakespeare play of student’s choice not previously covered at BMS, BHS DUE JAN. 6, 2010, Candide

4^th Quarter: Wuthering Heights, Brave New World

Hoogewind

English IV standard - Any book with parent approval--

“ Literature for readers below high school level is not acceptable.”

Huddleston

English IV AP
Summer Reading

All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok

1^st Nine Weeks

The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene

Crime and Pinishment by Dostoevsky

2^nd Nine Weeks

The Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver

Hamlet and Hnery V by William Shakespeare
Both of these paperbacks MUST be THE FOLGER EDITION

3^rd Nine Weeks

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad *** **Purchase the Norton Critical Edition**

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

4^th Nine Weeks Students Choose Two from the list below.

Madame Bovary                                    Gustave Flaubert                             (French)
Fair and Tender Ladies                       Lee Smith                                        (American)      Buddenbrooks                                      Thomas Mann                                    (German)
Wuthering Heights                             Emily Bronte                                        (British)The Prince of Tides                                                         Pat Conroy                                          (American)
Anna Karenina                                      Leo Tolstoy                                       (Russian)
Tijuana Straits                                     Kim Nunn                                           (American)
The Crossing                                         Cormac McCarthy                              (American)

King

English II – Honors

1^st Nine weeks - Ordinary People (Guest)

A Gathering of Old Men (Gaines)

2^nd Night (Wiesel)

Becket (Anouilh)

3^rd Illustrated Man (Bradbury)

Hiroshima – (Hersey)

4^th. Shoeless Joe (Kinsella)

Life of Pi (Martel)

A Picture of Dorian Gray- (Wilde)

Klein-Kracht- Honors

English 4 Honors:

1^st Quarter: (College Admission information/your choice (CAN BE PRINTOUTS FROM WEBSITES) and Grendel

2^nd Quarter: Hamlet plus a second quarter reading choice of:

Wealthow by Ashley Crownover

1421 the Year China Discovered America by Gavin Menzies

Pillars of the Earth or World Without End by Ken Follett

The Boleyn Inheritance or The White Queen by Philippa Gregory

Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

Water for Elephants

My Name is Will by Jess Winfield

The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

3^rd Quarter: Another Shakespeare play of student’s choice not previously covered at BMS, BHS DUE JAN. 6, 2010, Candide

4^th Quarter: Wuthering Heights, Brave New World

Little

English AP:

Outside reading (purchased by student—except for #3 and #4). You can buy all of the following books used, for as little as $5-12 either new or used on Amazon.com, any edition—Also check with previous students who may have their copies to lend or give you.

1. The Crucible by Arthur Miller—in class Sept. 2nd

2. Excerpts from The Autobiography of Fredrick Douglass—in Norton’s anthology—Oct.

3. Excerpts from Walden by Henry David Thoreau—in Norton’s anthology—Oct.

4. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner in class Nov. 15th

5. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald—in class Jan. 5th

6. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger—in class Feb. 20th

7. Nickel and Dimed in America by Barbara Ehrenreich—in class March 15th

8. The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien—in class April 5^th

9. Choice: Complications by Atul Gawande, OR How Football Explains America by Sal Palantonio OR Always Looking Up by Michael J. Fox by April 21st

Standard Junior English

Copies are available at Amazon.com—Order in time, please, to be ready to have your book in class on the below dates.

First semester

1. Summer reading printed out copy due Aug. 21^st

2. The Crucible by Arthur Miller—in textbook—Sept.

3. See one of the options below to select from—or choose one you have not read from summer reading—In class Sept. 25th

2009 Alex Awards

The Alex Awards are given to ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18. The winning titles are selected from the previous year's publishing.

Three Girls and Their Brother by Theresa Rebeck, published by Shaye Areheart BooksThis witty satire of show-biz politics, told from the perspective of four New York teenage siblings in the eye of a publicity tornado, provides a fascinating insider’s look at the world of the rich and famous.

City of Thieves by David Benioff, published by Viking Penguin Two teenage boys encounter cannibals, murderers, prostitutes, and assassins as they struggle to complete an impossible task during the freezing Siege of Leningrad in this funny, shocking, and briskly written tome.

The Dragons of Babel by Michael Swanwick, a Tor Book

In this original steampunk fantasy, young Will embarks on a quest that takes him to the dizzying heights and gritty depths of the postindustrial world of Babel.

Finding Nouf by Zoë Ferraris published by Houghton Mifflin Company

After a 16-year-old girl from a wealthy Saudi family is found dead in the middle of the desert, a devout Muslim guide and a young medical examiner seek to unravel the mystery while facing the sanctions of Middle Eastern society.

The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti, published by Dial Press

In this suspenseful and unpredictable adventure, Ren, a one-handed eighteenth-century orphan, becomes apprenticed to a con man. Surprisingly, Ren seems born to it.

Just After Sunset: Stories by Stephen King, published by Scribner

Modern terrors abound—a porta-potty prison, class warfare on an apocalyptic afternoon—in this wickedly compelling collection of macabre, absurd, and gleefully vulgar stories. Scary, dirty fun.

Mudbound by Hillary Jordan, published by Algonquin Books

At the close of WW II, two soldiers return to their home in the South to find racial tensions as explosive as the battlefields of Europe. This beautifully written story casts a spell as inescapable as the mud fields of the Mississippi Delta.

Second semester:

4. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald—in class Jan. 8^th

5. A Time to Kill by John Grisham—in class Feb.15th

6. The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien—in class March 15^th

7. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer or The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

Mounts

English I

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde- Robert Louis Stevenson

Lord of the Flies - William Golding

The Iliad (Fagels’ translation is great)

Popovich

English II Honors:

One Thousand and One Arabian Nights (Oxford Story Collections) by Geraldine McCaughrean

The Poem of the Cid by Lesley B. Simpson (Translator)

The Song of Roland (Modern Library Classics) by W. S. Merwin (Translator)

Dante's Inferno (The Divine Comedy, Volume1, Hell) By Dante Alighieri (Author) Charles Eliot Norton (Translator)

Shahnameh: The Epic of Kings by Abolgasem Ferdowsi (Author), Helen Zimmern (Translator)

Oedipus Rex (Literary Touchstone Edition) by Sophocles (Author), J.E. Thomas (Translator)

Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali (Longman African Writers) by D. T. Niane

The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic (Penguin Classics) by R. K. Narayan

The Saga of the Volsungs (penguin Classics) by Anonymous, Jesse L. Byock (Translator)

Powell

English II Honors

1984 by George Orwell 1^st nine weeks

Multicultural book 2^nd nine weeks

Night by Elie Wiesel 3^rd nine weeks

Nonfiction book 4^th nine weeks (I’m considering doing JUST The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch)

Proffitt

Quarter	English II Standard
1^st Nine weeks	Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card The Devil’s Dream by Lee Smith All Quite on the Western Front by Erique Remarque Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
2^nd Nine Weeks	The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (Mature YA) The Tall Woman by Wilma Dykeman ‘Til We Have Faces: A Myth Retold by C.S. Lewis (challenge)
3^rd Nine Weeks	Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Caroline Alexander The Time Machine by H.G. Wells Dune by Frank Herbert (Mature YA) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (contains some racial language)
4^th Nine Weeks	My Antonia by Willa Cather The Once and Future King by T.H. White (challenge) Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (Mature YA) Foundation by Isaac Asimov

Quarter	English II Honors
1^st Nine weeks	‘Til We Have Faces: A Myth Retold by C.S. Lewis
2^nd Nine Weeks	The Life of Pi: A Novel by Yann Martel One Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn The Once and Future King by T.H. White Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury [Mature YA]
3^rd Nine Weeks	How to Read Literature Like a Professor: a Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines by Thomas C. Foster Hiroshima by John Hersey Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Caroline Alexander Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America by Barbara Ehrenreich [strong language, drug use]
4^th Nine Weeks	My Antonia by Willa Cather The Stranger by Abert Camus Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (honors challenge) The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (honors challenge)

Riddle

English I standard:

Fahrenheit 451

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Of Mice and Men

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