Summer Reading

Summer Reading 2011

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become. – C.S. Lewis

Freshman Class

Freshman Class (Regents)
1. Christie, Agatha And Then There Were None
2. Anonymous Go Ask Alice
3. Smith, Betty A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
4. Tolkien, J.R.R. The Hobbit
Freshman Class (Honors)
1. Christie, Agatha And Then There Were None
2. Anonymous Go Ask Alice
3. Smith, Betty A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
4. Tolkien, J.R.R. The Hobbit
5. Bradbury, Ray Fahrenheit 451

Sophomore Class

Sophomore CLass (Regents)
1. Hansberry, Lorraine A Raisin in the Sun
2. Steinbeck, John Of Mice and Men
3. Williams, Tennessee The Glass Menagerie

In addition, choose one (1) book from the following list as your fourth selection:
Donnelly, Jennifer A Northern Light
OR
Hosseini, Khaled The Kite Runner
OR
Stockett, Kathryn The Help
Sophomore CLass (Honors)
1. Foer, Jonathan Safran Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
2. Hansberry, Lorraine A Raisin in the Sun
3. Steinbeck, John Of Mice and Men
4. Williams, Tennessee The Glass Menagerie
5. Choose one (1) of the following non-fiction works:
Ehrenreich, Barbara Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
OR
Kingsolver, Barbara Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
OR
Kristof, Nicholas and WuDunn, Sheryl Half of the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
OR
Skloot, Revecca The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Junior Class

Junior Class (Regents)
1. Austen, Jane Pride and Prejudice
2. Bronte, Charlotte Jane Eyre
3. Lawrence, D.H. "The Rocking-Horse Winner"
4. Choose one (1) of the following:
DeRosney, Tatiana Sarah's Key
OR
Zusak, Markus The Book Thief
OR
Shaffer, Mary Ann and Barrows, Annie The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Junior Class (Honors) A. P. Language and Composition
1. DuMaurier, Daphne Rebecca
2. Forster, E. M. Howards End
3. Golding, William Lord of the Flies
4. Greene, Graham The End of the Affair

Senior Class

Selected Topics in World Literature
1. Kidd, Sue Monk The Secret Life of Bees
2. Picoult, Jodi My Sister's Keeper
3. Sebold, Alice The Lovely Bones
4. Walls, Jeanette The Glass Castle
World Literature – A. P. Literature and Composition
1. Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi Purple Hibiscus
2. Lahiri. Jhumpa The Namesake
3. McEwan, Ian Atonement
4. McGregor, Jon If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
Optional Supplementary Reading
1. Alexie, Sherman The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
2. Kingston, Maxine Hong The Women Warrior
3. Lahiri, Jhumpa Interpreter of Maladies
4. Lunstrum, Kristen Sundberg This Life She's Chosen
5. O'Brien, Tim The Things They Carried
Gender Studies
1. Ibsen, Henrik Hedda Gabler
2. Morrison, Toni Beloved
3. O'Neill, Eugene Long Day's Journey into Night
4. Stockett, Kathryn The Help

*Check Mrs. Minogue's e-board for summer journal assignment.

Optional Supplementary Reading:
Ilibagiza, Immaculee Led by Faith
Shamir, Milette and Jennifer Travis- Editors Boys Don't Cry?
Showalter, Elaine Sister's Choice: Tradition and Change in American Women's Writing
Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America
Shakespeare
Required Reading:
1. Ibsen, Henrik A Doll's House
2. Shakespeare, William A Midsummer Night's Dream
3. Smiley, Jane A Thousand Acres
Required Film:
Much Ado about Nothing (1993 by director Kenneth Branagh)

*Check Ms. Holze's e-board for summer journal assignment.