SUMMER READING RISING GRADES 9, 10, 11, and 12 Honors Courses AP Courses

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1 SUMMER READING RISING GRADES 9, 10, 11, and 12 Honors Courses AP Courses Dear English Students, Because reading is a fundamental part of everyone s education, we have assigned summer reading lists for all rising 9 th, 10 th, 11 th, and 12 th graders enrolled in honors and AP English courses. We have readings for you because over the course of the year your teacher will guide you on an exploration of different themes through reading assignments, writing prompts, group work, a research project, and other exciting activities. We want to ensure that all our students have a varied reading background to pull into the classroom activities. Included in this handout is a list of titles from each of the high schools for their honors/ap students. The list is just a summary of assignments. Please visit your school s website to obtain the specific assignment instructions. Note that XA beside a class denotes the assignments for students assigned to the Center at that school. We also hope that you will take advantage of Henrico County Public Library s summer reading program. This year, the public library is offering students the opportunity to record their summer reading books online at the YA Summer Reading Club. Please visit for more information. We hope you enjoy a summer full of wonderful books! Eric Jones, Executive Director of Secondary Education David Myers, Director of Secondary Education Erica Basnight-Johnson, Educational Specialist English/Language Arts/Reading

2 School Grade Level Titles Assignment Literature Evaluation for each - Girl with a Pearl Earring reading - October Sky - The Last Lecture - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 9XA - Crime and Punishment - Jane Eyre - The Count of Monte Cristo - The Tipping Point - A Streetcar Named Desire - As I Lay Dying - In the Heart of the Sea - Their Eyes Were Watching God - Editorial Assignment (8 articles of student choice) - In Cold Blood - Brave New World - Much Ado About Nothing - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - The Stranger - Tess of the D Urbervilles - The Kite Runner - The Stranger - The Bean Trees - Cold Sassy Tree - Fahrenheit 451 (required) - The Book Thief Double-entry Journal for each reading Dialectical Journal (10 entries) for each reading ~12 sentence summary per article Dialectical Journal w/ Rhetorical precise for novel Reading Journal for each reading Major Works sheet (for Tess only) Take notes on each reading Take notes on required reading and reading

3 10XA 9XA - A Prayer for Owen Meany - The Grapes of Wrath - The Professor and the Madman - Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - The Grapes of Wrath - A Prayer for Owen Meany - A Walk in the Woods - In the Heart of the Sea - Old School - The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allen Poe and the Invention of Murder - Out of Africa - The Devil in the White City - Decision in Philadelphia - All the King s Men - Gilead - Paula - Wuthering Heights - All the King s Men (required) (and pick two of these) - Gilead - Paula - Wuthering Heights - I Beat the Odds - Ron Clark s The Excellent 11: Qualities Teachers and Parents Use to Motivate, Inspire, and Educate Children - Steve Jobs Take notes on each reading Take notes for both readings Take notes using guiding questions for each reading Take notes using guiding questions for each reading Take notes on each reading Take notes on required reading and on each reading (no written item required) - Don t Look Now: Selected Stories of Du Maurier - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Rocket Boys - The Cat's Pajamas: Stories

4 10XA - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time (mandatory) - Marcelo in the Real World - The 5 People You Meet in Heaven - Frankenstein - Inherit the Wind - Maus I: A Survivor s Tale: My Father Bleeds History - The Road - A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories - Black Boy - Nine Stories - The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail: A Play - In Cold Blood - The Best American Nonrequired Reading A Room of One s Own - Pygmalion - The Stranger - The Poisonwood Bible (required) - Song of Solomon (required) - How to Read Literature Like a Professor (suggested reading) - The Book Thief - Hiroshima - True Grit - Lord of the Flies - Mockingbird - The Alchemist - The Old Man and the Sea - The Awakening - Confederates in the Attic Dialectical Journal for required reading and reading Short Compositions (2) for each selection Major Works Data Sheet for required reading (no written item required) Journal of Notes for each reading

5 - My Losing Season - Touch the Top of the World - How to Mark a Book - Is Google Making Us Stupid? - The Great Gatsby - My Losing Season - Touch the Top of the World - Nickel and Dimed: Or (Not) Getting by in America - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Cutting for Stone - Half Broke Horses - The Poisonwood Bible - Unbroken - The King Must Die (required) - Atonement - The Kite Runner - The Poisonwood Bible Animal Farm - Fahrenheit The Giver - The Catcher in the Rye - Great Expectations - Looking for Alibrandi - A Separate Peace - The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man - The Awakening - The Color Purple - The Glass Menagerie - Rhetorical Terms Handout - Editorial Assignment (8 articles of student choice) (no written item) Annotate & complete chart Annotate Annotate reading Quotation Journal (10 quotes per novel) for each reading Annotate & write essay for required reading Annotate reading Selected Lit. Chart for each reading define and give examples ~12 sentence summary per article

6 - Grendel - Til We Have Faces - Song of Solomon - The Stranger - How to Read Literature Like a Professor (required) - The Kite Runner - The Road - Things Fall Apart - A Farewell to Arms - Fahrenheit Forbidden City - Parrot in the Oven - Great Expectations - Huckleberry Finn - Pride and Prejudice - The Book Thief Angela s Ashes - Autobiography of a Face - Memoirs of a Geisha - How to Mark a Book - Chapters 1-4 of Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion - 3 articles from Arts and Letters Daily Articles of Note - A Thousand Splendid Suns - Memoirs of a Geisha - The Alchemist - The Art of Racing in Rain - The Handmaid s Tale Annotation/Response Journal for each reading Dialectical Journal Dialectical Journal Dialectical Journal (no written item) Annotate Text Annotate Text Dialectical Journal Dialectical Journal and Essay

7 Highland Springs High Highland Springs High Highland Springs High Highland Springs High Tucker High Tucker High - The Joy Luck Club - My Antonia - Native Son - In the Time of the Butterflies - No Country for Old Men - The Girl with the Pearl Earring - Great Expectations - A Raisin in the Sun - Ethan Frome - King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table - Lord of the Flies - Night - Martin Dressler: A Tale of an American Dreamer - Mississippi - The Great Gatsby - Of Mice and Men - Cold Sassy Tree - October Sky - Panther in the Basement - The Red Scarf - Emma - Peace Like a River - A Raisin in the Sun Dialectical Journals for both readings SQUID Dialectical Journals for both readings Reading Log for one book Dialectical Journal for one book Essay for either book Reading Response Double Entry Journal and Double Entry Character Analysis Journal for each book Tucker High - 8 articles from the editorial page of a newspaper - Puff the Magic Dragon - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (extra credit) Paragraph summary/argument essay using a song of your choice Extra Credit - ans. questions from study guide Tucker High - Lord of the Flies (required) - East of Eden Data Sheet for required reading Data Sheet and Questions for

8 - Native Son - The Poisonwood Bible reading Story Analysis Chart - A Raisin in the Sun Varina High - Of Mice and Men - The Piano Lesson - To Kill a Mockingbird Story Analysis Chart Varina High - Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man - Before We Were Free - Bless Me, Ultima Varina High - In Cold Blood Story Analysis Chart Varina High - Chronicle of a Death Foretold Story Analysis Chart Varina Communications Varina Communications Varina Communications Varina Communications 9XA 10XA 11XAP 12XAP - A Raisin in the Sun - The Pearl - Student Biography/Autobiography - Of Mice and Men - A Lesson Before Dying - Firehouse - Everything s an Argument - One Writer s Beginnings - Isaac s Storm - A Thousand Splendid Suns - The Kite Runner Reader s Journal for each reading Annotate & Letter to author for each reading Outline Everything s Reader s Journal for...beginnings Reader s Journal for Isaac s Annotate & Letters to author for each reading