Required by the English Department
2009-2010

This list is to be considered required summer reading in preparation for discussion in context, tests, and essays at the discretion of the assigning teacher. If there is a study guide associated with any reading, the study guide is an assigned activity due during the first days of class.

For the study guides: If you open the pdf or word files on your Tablet PC, you can use the pen tools or keyboard and text box to enter your reflections and answers. On a pdf file you will find the pen/pencil/text box tools at Tools -> Advanced Commenting.  Some study guides or book report forms are offered in Journal or Word format. You can choose on which you prefer to work.

Seventh and Eighth Grades: Please check the link on Edline, once you login, for the detailed reading choice list and direction for seventh and eighth grade selections under "Contents."  Select "More Contents" to expand the list.

Seventh grade:
Lowry, Lois - The Giver (ISBN: 0-440-21907-8)
Mass, Wendy - A Mango-shaped Space (ISBN: 0-316-05825-4)
Note: Use the reading list provided by the teachers for two additional selections. This list can be found on Edline, once you login.  There are links for the "book report" in both Journal or Word format.  You can choose on which you prefer to work.

Eighth grade:
Git, Irene Opdyke - In My Hands: Memoirs of a Holocaust Rescuer
Myers, Walter Dean - The Glory Field
Note: Use the reading list provided by the teachers for two additional selections. This list can be found on Edline, once you login.  There are links for the "book report" in both Journal or Word format.  You can choose on which you prefer to work.

Ninth grade:
Welcome to English 9 (Please read)
Burke, Jan - Dear Irene (Pocket Books ISBN: 0-7434-4449-3) (Essential Information)
Maier, Paul L. - The Flames of Rome (Kregel ISBN: 0 8254 3297 9)

Honors Nine:
Burke, Jan - Dear Irene (Pocket Books ISBN: 0-7434-4449-3)
Grimal, Pierre - The Dictionary of Classical Mythology. (ISBN: 0-631-20102-5)
Maier, Paul L. - The Flames of Rome (Kregel ISBN: 0-8254-3297-9)
McLaren, Clemence - Inside the Walls of Troy (ISBN: 13:978-0-689-87397-3)
McLaren, Clemence - Waiting for Odysseus (ISBN: 13: 978-0-689-86705-7)
(Study Guide) (Plot Devices in Fiction) *Updated*

Tenth grade:
Hosseini, Khaled - The Kite Runner  (Study Guide)
Maraire, J. Nozipo - Zenzele: A Letter for my Daughter. (ISBN: 978-0385318228) (Study Guide)
Marantz, Robert - The Ring of McAllister* (Simon and Schuster ISBN: 0-7432-6577-7)
     *The Ring of McAllister - Optional for Ms. Sperlo's classes only - Not required for Ms. Billhymer's and Ms. Tandler's classes
Tsukiyama, Gail - Women of the Silk  (ISBN: 0-312-09943-6)  (Study Guide)

Honors Ten:
Hosseini, Khaled - The Kite Runner (Study Guide-Billhymer) (Study Guide-Sperlo)
Maraire, J. Nozipo - Zenzele: A Letter for my Daughter. (ISBN: 978-0385318228) (Study Guide-Billhymer) (Study Guide-Sperlo)
Marantz, Robert - The Ring of McAllister (Simon and Schuster ISBN: 0-7432-6577-7)
     *The Ring of McAllister - Optional for Ms. Sperlo's classes only - Not required for Ms. Billhymer's and Ms. Tandler's classes
Tsukiyama, Gail - Women of the Silk  (ISBN: 0-312-09943-6)  (Study Guide-Billhymer) (Study Guide-Sperlo)

Eleventh grade:
Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice* (Penguin ISBN: 0-14-043426-7)
Bronte, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
Orwell, George - 1984 (Signet ISBN: 0451524934)
Wilde, Oscar - The Importance of Being Earnest*
*Selections have excellent film versions that you are invited to watch as an accompaniment to your reading

Eleventh grade AP British Literature:
Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice* (Penguin ISBN: 0-14-043426-7)
Bronte, Emily - Jane Eyre
Orwell, George - 1984 (Signet ISBN: 0451524934)
Wilde, Oscar - The Importance of Being Earnest*
*Selections have excellent film versions that you are invited to watch as an accompaniment to your reading

English 12:
James, Henry - The Turn of the Screw
Miller, Arthur - The Crucible
Steinbeck, John - Of Mice and Men
(Study Guide)

AP American Literature:
Cather, Willa - Song of the Lark*
James, Henry - The Turn of the Screw
Miller, Arthur - The Crucible
Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath*
*Students can choose to read either Song of the Lark OR The Grapes of Wrath
(Study Guide)