Grade 12 Summer Reading List
Amesbury Public Library
SENIOR COLLEGE PREP: AHS SUMMER READING LIST, 2007
For students entering grade 12 in Fall, 2007: SAVE THIS SHEET UNTIL AUGUST!
All students who enter grade 12 are required to read TWO BOOKS in Contemporary Literature during the summer.
· The authors have been selected to help prepare you for Senior English which focuses on contemporary literature. discussions and activites using your reading will be an important part of your class.
· Students who are not scheduled for English first semester will turn in their journals during A Block or Lunch on Friday, Sept. 7.
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COLLEGE PREP ENGLISH: READ TWO BOOKS Go to the Amesbury Public Library or to a book store. Fiction is shelved alphabetically by author’s last name. These authors have written many different books. Find one you will enjoy. Ask librarian for help in locating titles if you need.
Choose two books by two different authors listed below:
Elizabeth Berg John Irving ian McEwan
Pat Conroy Anita Shreve Michael Shaara
Jack Kerouac Robert Ludlum Stephen Ambrose
Alice Walker Sebastian Junger JRR Tolkien
Kurt Vonnegut Amy Tan Anna Sebold
Anne Tyler Dan Brown Jodi Picoult
Jay Atkinson Richard Russo Andre Dubus, Jr. or Sr.
Bryce Courtenay The Power of One Bobbie Mason In Country
Frank McCourt Sue Monk Kidd Chris Paolini
Margaret Atwood
SENIOR HONORS ENGLISH SUMMER READING: 2007
If you decide to change your schedule to college prep English before July 15, you may change your summer reading to the requirements for college prep. HOWEVER, STUDENTS WHO CHANGE THEIR SCHEDULES AFTER JULY 15 ARE STILL REQUIRED TO COMPLETE THE HONORS SUMMER READING REQUIREMENTS. All seniors will read Contemporary Literature before entering their Senior course.
· Summer Reading Journals are due on Friday, September 7, 2007
HONORS ENGLISH: READ THREE BOOKS .
All students entering Honors English are required to read three (3) works. Complete Summer Reading Journal entries for each book.
1. REQUIRED TITLE: THE POWER OF ONE by Bryce Courtenay
2. REQUIRED TITLE: one work by Jodi Picoult
3. CHOOSE ONE WORK from list of contemporary authors :
Pat Conroy Anita Shreve Michael Shaara
Jack Kerouac Robert Ludlum Stephen Ambrose
Alice Walker Sebastian Junger JRR Tolkien
Kurt Vonnegut Amy Tan Anna Sebold
Anne Tyler Dan Brown John Irving
Jay Atkinson Richard Russo Andre Dubus, Jr. or Sr.
SUMMER READING: ADVANCED PLACEMENT ENGLISH LITERATURE, 2007
You have pre-registered for AP English. If you decide to change your schedule to honors or college prep English before July 15, you may change your summer reading to those classes’ requirements. HOWEVER, STUDENTS WHO CHANGE THEIR SCHEDULES AFTER JULY 15 ARE REQUIRED TO COMPLETE AP SUMMER READING REQUIREMENTS. Students who enroll in AP English are expected to be avid readers. They will read four works.
Students will write a Reader Response Journal for each work to be turned in on Friday, September 7, 2007.
DESCRIPTIONS OF FOUR WORKS:
1. ASSIGNED : CONTEMPORARY NOVEL/ CHOICE: Select one of the following. As part of your Reader Response Journal, photocopy two pages from the novel that describe setting or character.
THE POWER OF ONE by Bryce Courtenay ANTHEM by Ayn Rand
MUTANT MESSAGE FROM DOWN UNDER by Marlo Morgan OBASAN by Joy Kogawa
THE PACT by Jodi Picoult SNOW FLOWER AND THE SECRET FAN by Lisa See
2. ASSIGNED HISTORICAL NOVEL / CHOICE: Select one of the following to read; research historical information about the era and location of the novel. As part of your Reader Response journal, photocopy two pages from the novel that describe setting or character:
JANE EYRE by Charlotte Bronte **PRIDE AND PREJUDICE by Jane Austen
DAVID COPPERFIELD BY Charles Dickens (**copies not available through English Department)
3 and 4. Choose two works by authors on the recommended list below. Choose authors that you think you might like to read for your Senior Research project. (You may also read two books by the same author if you already know the author you wish to study.**All authors MUST be preapproved by Mrs. Hoyt, so discuss your choices with her. Browse to find someone new!)
Margaret Atwood John Irving Robert Penn Warren
Achebe, Chinua Hawthorne, Nathaniel Faulkner, William Updike, John
Alvarez, Julia Melville, Herman Oates, Joyce Carol Twain, Mark
Angelou, Maya Kingsolver, Barbara Marquez, Gabriel Garcia
Austen, Jane Morrison, Toni Woolf, Virginia Irving, John
Bronte, Charlotte or Emily Steinbeck, John
Defoe, Daniel O’Connor, Flannery Tolkien, JRR
Dickens, Charles Vonnegut, Kurt Salinger, JD
Dostoevski, Fyodor Tan, Amy Playwrights:
Faulkner, William Tolstoy, Leo Chekhov, Anton O’Neill, Eugene
Fitzgerald, F. Scott Walker, Alice Miller, Arthur Wilde, Oscar
Hardy, Thomas White, EB.. Shepard, Sam Ibsen, Henrik
Hemingway, Ernest Wharton, Edith Williams, Tennessee ______________________________________________________________
