Outside Reading Lists

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Fugate

English III Honors

First nine-weeks: 

·      Foster, Thomas.  How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and

                              Entertaining Guide to Reading between the Lines

·      Albom, Mitch.  Tuesdays with Morrie:  an old man, a young man, and life’s

                             greatest lesson 

Second nine-weeks:

·      Miller, Arthur.   The Crucible 

*Choose one of these titles.  It is due at the beginning of the third nine-weeks, the day we return from winter break. 

          Select one: 

·   Foer, Jonathan Safran.  Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

·   O’Brien, Tim.  The Things They Carried 

Third nine-weeks: 

·      Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

*Choose one of these titles.  It is due the day after spring break, near the beginning of the fourth nine-weeks.

          Select one:  

·   Steinbeck, John.  Grapes of Wrath

·   McMurtry, Larry.  Lonesome Dove

·   Brown, Dee.  Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Fourth nine-weeks:

·      Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby

·      Student choice from a list yet-to-be-determined. 

English II

First nine weeks: 

Ø      Kinsella, W. Shoeless Joe   

Second nine weeks:

                                      Select one: 

Ø      Bradbury, Ray.  Illustrated Man   

Third nine weeks: 

Ø      Wiesel, Elie.  Night 

Fourth nine weeks: 

Ø      You will choose a fiction or nonfiction selection

         from a list yet-to-be-determined.

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Hoogewind

English IV - Pick one book each nine weeks from the summer reading list by clicking the link below.

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Huddleston - scroll down for English IV Honors and English IV AP

English IV – Honors

Outside Reading  English IV Honors

First Nine Weeks

 Grendel                                John Gardner

Frankenstein                           Mary Shelley

Second  Nine Weeks  (Two Plays)

 Murder in the Cathedral              T.S. Eliot

Man for All Seasons                   Robert Bolt          

Third Nine Weeks

 Brave New World                     Aldous Huxley

Through Painted Deserts              Donald Miller

 Fourth Nine Weeks

 Chronicles                             Bob Dylan

The Color Purple                      Alice Walker

Woman Hollering Creek               Sandra Cisneros

English IV – AP

FALL

My Name is Asher Lev                    by Chaim Potok

Crime and Pinishment                      by Dostoevsky

The Prodigal Summer                      by Kingsolver

Henry V                                     Shakespeare

Fair and Tender Ladies                   by Lee Smith

                        SPRING

Heart of Darkness                       Norton Critical Ed  by Joseph Conrad

Things Fall Apart                        Chinua Achebe

                Students will choose two of the following:

Madame Bovary                          Gustave Flaubert                                   

The Power of One                      Bryce Courtney                             

Buddenbrooks                           Thomas Mann                          

Dr. Faustus                                      Christopher Marlowe                 

The Prince of Tides                     Pat Conroy          

Anna Karenina                           Leo Tolstoy                     
A Passage to India                      E.M. Forster                                   Tijuana Straits                       Kim Nunn                                                                            A Thousand Splendid Suns                  Khaled Hosseini

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Johnson  

Choose one of the following books for outside reading.  You must have it read by October 3^rd so that you are prepared for an assignment on Criterion.  This list is based on the approved county reading for the Man vs. Nature Unit from Williamson County Schools of English III.

A Death in the Family—James Agee

Tuesdays with Morrie—Mitch Alborn

Undaunted Courage—Stephen E. Ambrose

Go Tell it on the Mountain—James Baldwin

If Beale Street Could Talk—James Baldwin

Seize the Day—Saul Bellow

All Over But th Shoutin’—Rick Bragg

Family: A Novel—California Cooper

The Deerslayer—James F. Cooper

The Last of the Mohicans—James F. Cooper

A Lesson Before Dying—Ernest J. Gaines

Roots—Alex Haley

Animal Dreams—Barbara Kingsolver

Into Thin Air—Jon Krakauer

The Crossing—Cormac McCarthy

Lonesome Dove—Larry McMurtry

Moby Dick—Herman Melville

Beloved—Toni Morrison

***Students may choose another novel with teacher AND parent/guardian approval***

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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)

                        A Picture of Dorian Gray- (Wilde)

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Klein-Kracht

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Little

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Powell

1st nine weeks:

Choose any book from the Volunteer State Book Award List.

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Riddle -

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Wilson - scroll down for English I and English II Honors

English II - Honors

 “Properly, we should read for power.  Man reading should be man intensely alive.  The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.”

-Ezra Pound

Instructions:  You will read four outside reading books this year.  Select one of the books under each due date and complete the readings on your own time.  You must complete a parent approval form for each book.  Approval forms are available on my web site: teachers.wcs.edu/bhs/sarahw1.

October 2, 2007

Choose one of the books listed below. 

Asia:

·         The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini

·         Life of Pi, Yann Martel

North America:

·         Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer

Australia:

·         Mutant Message Down Under, Marlo Morgan

Antartica:

·         Ice Bound: A Doctor’s Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole, Jerri Nielsen and Mary Anne Vollers

Europe:

·         Maus: A Survivor’s Tale, Art Spiegelman

South America:

·         In the time of Butterflies, Julia Alvarez

Africa:

·         July’s People, Nadine Gordimer

December 4, 2007

Choose another of the above listed books from a different continent. 

March 1, 2007

Choose one of the autobiographies, below, by a global social revolutionary.

·         The Motorcycle Diaries, Ernesto Che Guevara (South America)

·         The Autobiography of MLK (North America)

·         Gandhi an Autobiography (Asia)

·         Long Walk to Freedom, The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela (Africa)

May 1, 2007

For this quarter, you may choose a book to read for outside reading.  You must get signed/written approval on ANY book by Mrs. Wilson AND your parents.  You will be assessed by creating a book talk and presenting to the class.  Instructions to follow.

English I - Honors

“Books are the quietest and most constant friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”

-Charles Eliot

“Properly, we should read for power.  Man reading should be man intensely alive.  The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.”

-Ezra Pound

“Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend.  Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.”

-Groucho Marx

Instructions:  You will read four outside reading books this year.  Select one of the books under each due date and complete the readings on your own time.  You must complete a parent approval form for each book.  Approval forms are available on my web site: teachers.wcs.edu/bhs/sarahw1.

October 2, 2007

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, Sean Covey

December 4, 2007

Please choose a book from the 2007-08 Volunteer State Book Awards List (http://www.discoveret.org/tasl/VSBA-2007-2008.html#ya).  More information and specifics to come.

March 1, 2007

For this quarter, you may choose a book to read for outside reading.  You must get signed/written approval on ANY book by Mrs. Wilson AND your parents.  You will be assessed by creating a book talk and presenting to the class.  Instructions to follow.

May 1, 2007

Please choose one of the following Coming of Age Novels:

·         Speak, Anderson

·         Catcher in the Rye, Salinger

·         A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Smith

·         Homecoming, Voigt

**A couple additional options to be added**

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