English Summer Reading and Supplies
English I Optional Summer Reading
Students who will be enrolled in English I may read a novel of their choice appropriate to their interest and reading level. This reading must be completed by August 22, 2016, and students are expected to bring the book to class. Students will have the opportunity to complete an extra-credit project over their summer reading.
English I students will read Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird during the school year and are strongly encouraged (but not required) to purchase their own copies of this novel.
English I Pre-AP Required Summer Reading
● The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros AND
● a book from the approved list on the back of this sheet
All summer reading must be completed by August 22, 2016, and students are expected to bring the books to class.
English I Pre-AP students will read Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird and Homer’s The Odyssey (Fitzgerald translation) during the school year and are strongly encouraged (but not required) to purchase their own copies of these works.
Supplies
Required
Options for English I Pre-AP Required Summer Reading
English I Pre-AP students should select one of the following works to read i addition to Cisneros’ The
House on Mango Street. Students should do some research to select from the list a book they will find
interesting. The parent-approved book should be one the student has not read or studied before.
Austen – Emma
Austen – Pride and Prejudice
Austen – Sense and Sensibility
Baldacci – Wish You Well
Bellow – Seize the Day
Benitez – A Place Where the Sea Remembers
Bronte, Emily – Wuthering Heights
Buck – The Good Earth
Burns – Cold Sassy Tree
Capps – A Woman of the People
Cather – My Antonia
Chua – Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Chopin – The Awakening
Clarke – Childhood’s End
Clarke – 2001: A Space Odyssey
Conrad – Lord Jim
Cooper – The Last of the Mohicans
Crane – The Red Badge of Courage
Dante – The Inferno
Dickens – Bleak House
Dickens – David Copperfield
Dickens – Great Expectations
Dickens – Oliver Twist
Dickens – The Pickwick Papers
Dickens – A Tale of Two Cities
Dreiser – Sister Carrie
Dumas – The Count of Monte Cristo
Dumas – The Man in the Iron Mask
Eliot, G – Silas Marner
Faulkner – As I Lay Dying
Flaubert – Madame Bovary
Frank – Alas, Babylon
Golding – Lord of the Flies
Gunther – Death, Be Not Proud
Harding – Tinkers
Hardy – Jude the Obscure
Hardy – The Mayor of Casterbridge
Hardy – Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Hawthorne – The House of Seven Gables
Hemingway – The Old Man and the Sea
Homer – The Iliad
Hugo – The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Kidd- The Secret Life of Bees
Kingsolver – The Bean Trees
Kipling – Kim
Knowles – A Separate Peace
London – The Sea Wolf
Malamud – The Fixer
Malamud – The Natural
Martel – Life of Pi
McCullers – The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
McDonald – Swallowing Stones
Melville -- Moby Dick
Oppel – Airborn
Orwell – Animal Farm
Patterson and Charbonnet – Witch and Wizard
Paton – Cry, the Beloved Country
Pearl – The Poe Shadow
Perry – Hold Autumn in Your Hand
Potok – The Chosen
Potok – My Name is Asher Lev
Remarque – All Quiet on the Western Front
Scott – Rob Roy
Sinclair – The Jungle
Shulman – West Side Story (novel)
Stewart – The Crystal Cave
Swift – Gulliver’s Travels
Tan – The Joy Luck Club
Trevor – Deathwatch
Twain – A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Uchida – Picture Bride
Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse Five
Warren – All the King’s Men
Werlin – Locked Inside
Wharton – The House of Mirth
White – The Once and Future King
Woolf – To the Lighthouse
English I Optional Summer Reading
Students who will be enrolled in English I may read a novel of their choice appropriate to their interest and reading level. This reading must be completed by August 22, 2016, and students are expected to bring the book to class. Students will have the opportunity to complete an extra-credit project over their summer reading.
English I students will read Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird during the school year and are strongly encouraged (but not required) to purchase their own copies of this novel.
English I Pre-AP Required Summer Reading
● The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros AND
● a book from the approved list on the back of this sheet
All summer reading must be completed by August 22, 2016, and students are expected to bring the books to class.
English I Pre-AP students will read Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird and Homer’s The Odyssey (Fitzgerald translation) during the school year and are strongly encouraged (but not required) to purchase their own copies of these works.
Supplies
Required
- composition notebook
- pens- blue, black, red
- highlighters- variety of colors (at least three)
- looseleaf paper
- no. 2 wooden pencils
- small pair of scissors
- notecards (3x5)
- a dedicated English section in a school binder
- a separate 1-inch binder for English class
- box of tissues
- sticky notes
Options for English I Pre-AP Required Summer Reading
English I Pre-AP students should select one of the following works to read i addition to Cisneros’ The
House on Mango Street. Students should do some research to select from the list a book they will find
interesting. The parent-approved book should be one the student has not read or studied before.
Austen – Emma
Austen – Pride and Prejudice
Austen – Sense and Sensibility
Baldacci – Wish You Well
Bellow – Seize the Day
Benitez – A Place Where the Sea Remembers
Bronte, Emily – Wuthering Heights
Buck – The Good Earth
Burns – Cold Sassy Tree
Capps – A Woman of the People
Cather – My Antonia
Chua – Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Chopin – The Awakening
Clarke – Childhood’s End
Clarke – 2001: A Space Odyssey
Conrad – Lord Jim
Cooper – The Last of the Mohicans
Crane – The Red Badge of Courage
Dante – The Inferno
Dickens – Bleak House
Dickens – David Copperfield
Dickens – Great Expectations
Dickens – Oliver Twist
Dickens – The Pickwick Papers
Dickens – A Tale of Two Cities
Dreiser – Sister Carrie
Dumas – The Count of Monte Cristo
Dumas – The Man in the Iron Mask
Eliot, G – Silas Marner
Faulkner – As I Lay Dying
Flaubert – Madame Bovary
Frank – Alas, Babylon
Golding – Lord of the Flies
Gunther – Death, Be Not Proud
Harding – Tinkers
Hardy – Jude the Obscure
Hardy – The Mayor of Casterbridge
Hardy – Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Hawthorne – The House of Seven Gables
Hemingway – The Old Man and the Sea
Homer – The Iliad
Hugo – The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Kidd- The Secret Life of Bees
Kingsolver – The Bean Trees
Kipling – Kim
Knowles – A Separate Peace
London – The Sea Wolf
Malamud – The Fixer
Malamud – The Natural
Martel – Life of Pi
McCullers – The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
McDonald – Swallowing Stones
Melville -- Moby Dick
Oppel – Airborn
Orwell – Animal Farm
Patterson and Charbonnet – Witch and Wizard
Paton – Cry, the Beloved Country
Pearl – The Poe Shadow
Perry – Hold Autumn in Your Hand
Potok – The Chosen
Potok – My Name is Asher Lev
Remarque – All Quiet on the Western Front
Scott – Rob Roy
Sinclair – The Jungle
Shulman – West Side Story (novel)
Stewart – The Crystal Cave
Swift – Gulliver’s Travels
Tan – The Joy Luck Club
Trevor – Deathwatch
Twain – A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Uchida – Picture Bride
Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse Five
Warren – All the King’s Men
Werlin – Locked Inside
Wharton – The House of Mirth
White – The Once and Future King
Woolf – To the Lighthouse