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February 13, 2008

Grade 12 Summer Reading List

by aplteen @ 8:42 pm

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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                                           ______________________________________________________________

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