2009 Required Summer Reading

12th Grade Reading List

AP English
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
Independent novel of student's choice from the AP reading list,
not already covered by course work.

World Literature and Composition
Demian by Hermann Hesse
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Students write their Senior Speech in lieu of reading a third book.

12th Grade Summer Reading Rationales

Why These Books?

11th Grade Reading List

Critical Reading and Writing
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Black Boy by Richard Wright
Over the Earth I Come by Duane Schultz (Social Studies)

American Studies
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
Black Boy by Richard Wright
1776 by David McCullough (Social Studies)

American Literature and Composition
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Over the Earth I Come By Duane Schultz (Social Studies)

11th Grade Summer Reading Rationales

Why These Books?

10th Grade Reading List

Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (Social Studies)

10th Grade Summer Reading Rationales

Why These Books?

9th Grade Reading List

Sport by Mick Cochrane
Lord of the Flies by William Golding

9th Grade Summer Reading Rationales

Why These Books?

8th Grade Reading List

Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo
Monster by Walter Dean Myers
Animal Farm by George Orwell (Social Studies)

8th Grade Summer Reading Rationales

Why These Books?

7th Grade Reading List

Redwall by Brian Jacques
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Don't Know Much About Planet Earth by Kenneth Davis (Social Studies)

7th Grade Summer Reading Rationales

Why These Books?