Memorial High School Summer Reading List  2008

 

 

Gr. 9 Eng I Pre AP, GT 

Required Choose ONE from "Challenging Good Reads" list

 

Gr. 9 Eng I Academic

Required Choose ONE from either the "Challenging Good Reads" or "Good Reads" lists

 

Good Reads  
Twilight Meyer
A Northern Light Donnelly
Skelling Almond
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes Crutcher
Al Capone Does My Shirts Choldenko
Silent to the Bone Konigsburg

Chinese Cinderella

Yeh Mah
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Challenging Good

Reads

 
Ender's Game Card
Isaac’s Storm    Larson
Joy Luck Club Tan
The Glass Castle Walls
Zorro Allende
 

 

Gr. 10 Eng II Pre AP, GT

Required   In Cold Blood (Capote)   OR   Peace Like a River   (Enger)

 

 

Gr. 10 Eng II Academic

Required   Ironman (Crutcher)

 

 

Gr. 11 Eng III AP, GT, DC

Required  The Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne)

Note: As each student will be required to read at lest one critical article on The Scarlet Letter for an essay in the first 6 weeks, we recommend buying either the Bredford critical edition or the Norton critical edition of the novel.

 

 

Gr.11 Eng III Academic

Required Select one book from either list: "Good Reads or Challenging Reads 

Good Reads  
Shadow Divers Kurson
Devil in the White City Larson
Five People You Meet in Heaven Albom
Whale Talk Crutcher
In the Time of Butterflies Alvarez
Bag of Bones King
Dispatches From the Edge Cooper
Kitchen Confidential Bourdain
Freakonomics Levitt
Blessings Quindlen

 

Challenging Reads  
The Lovely Bones Sebold
Cold Mountain Frazier
Emma's War Scroggins
1776 McCullough
 Bel Canto  Patchett
 The Things They Carried  O'Brien
The Greatest Generation Brokaw
Slaughterhouse Five Vonnegut

 

 

Gr.11 Eng III Sheltered

Recommended Select one of the following:

The Great Gatsby   (Fitzgerald)

The Red Badge of Courage  (Cooper)  

 

Gr. 12 Eng IV AP, GT

Required Crime and Punishment   (Dostoevsky)

Required Arcadia   (Stoppard)

NOTE: We recommend buying the Penguin Classics, Norton, or Vintage translation of Crime and Punishment.

Teachers will select individual titles during the six-week periods for outside reading – titles will be left to the discretion of each teacher.  

 

 

Gr. 12 Eng IV Academic

RequiredEaters of the Dead    Crichton

 

Select one of the following: 

Good Reads  
Dune Herbert
Namesake Lahiri
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water Dorris
Under the Banner of Heaven Krakauer
Oryx and Crake Atwood
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time   Haddon
The Firm Grisham
The Poet Connelly
 

Challenging Reads  
Carmelo Cisneros
The Poisonwood Bible Kingsolver
A Confederacy of Dunces Toole
The World is Flat Friedman
The Innocent Grisham

 

*AP teachers at grades 11 and 12 may have students read one selection from the list of texts used on previous Literature and Composition tests instead of a text listed here. The list is hyper-linked at the bottom of the AP Curriculum.


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