AUSTIN WALDORF HIGH SCHOOL 11th SUMMER READING 2018

Dear students,

Listed below are the summer reading requirements:

REQUIRED READING: 1. Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (all school summer reading for first day of school. Make sure to answer the questions). 2. The Gettysburg Address: A Graphic Adaptation by Jonathan Hennessey (for US History block)

3. Zero by Charles Seife (Chapters 1-4 required for Science in History block) 4. La Casa en Mango Street – Required for Advanced Spanish Students/ Optional for others

OPTIONAL SUPPLEMENTAL READING and Activities: (All are optional and not required. Book titles are relevant to 11th grade Humanities blocks). 1. Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 2. Shakespeare’s Sonnets by William Shakespeare 3. Lyrical Ballads and a Few Other Poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge 4. Go see a play, symphony or opera and write a brief commentary 5. Read a daily newspaper for a few consecutive days 6. Speak to someone in a different language

For your own enjoyment-student choice from the list below:

ELEVENTH GRADE RECOMMENDED READING LIST Fiction: The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven Sherman Alexie The City of Beasts or others Isabel Allende How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent or others Julia Alvarez Alias Grace Margaret Atwood Emma, Pride and Prejudice or any others Jane Austen Go Tell It On the Mountain James Baldwin Pere Goriot Honoré de Balzac Henderson the Rain King or Herzog Saul Bellow A Dry White Season Andre Brink Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte Collected Fictions Jorge Luis Borges My Antonia or The Song of the Lark Willa Cather In Patagonia Bruce Chatwin Woman Hollering Creek (Stories) Sandra Cisneros The Woman in White Wilkie Collins The Son of Laughter Frederick Buechner Great Expectations, David Copperfield, Bleak House or others Charles Dickens Ireland Frank Delaney A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Dave Eggers Invisible Man Ralph Ellison The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald A Passage to India or A Room with a View E.M. Forster Grendel John Gardner Catch 22 Joseph Heller The Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls and others Ernest Hemingway Narcissus and Goldmund, Demian Hermann Hesse Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving The Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro Native Speaker Chang-Rae Lee Einstein’s Dreams Alan Lightman Gilgamesh Joan London Palace Walk or any of Cairo trilogy Naguib Mahfouz My Traitor’s Heart Riaan Malan The Ancient Child N. Scott Momaday Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, or Jazz Toni Morrison Anil's Ghost Michael Ondaatje Bel Canto Ann Patchett Gilead Marilyn Robinson Bless Me, Ultima Anaya Rudolfo The Tale of Genji Murasaki Shikibu I Capture the Castle Dodie Smith Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift Silmarillion J.R.R. Tolkien Arthurian Romances Chretien de Troyes Away Jane Urquart A Story Like the Wind and others Laurens van der Post The Once and Future King Theodore H. White Native Son Richard Wright The Journey to the West (aka Monkey or The Monkey King) Ch’Eng-En Wu

Drama, Poetry, and Sacred Writing: Even a Fist Was Once an Open Palm with Fingers (poems) Yehuda Amichai Worldly Hopes (poems) A.R. Ammons Lorca & Jimenez: Selected Poems trans. Robert Bly Caucasian Chalk Circle, Galileo Bertolt Brecht The Ramayana, The Bhagavad-Gita, or The Mahabharata, trans. William Buck 100 Selected Poems e.e. cummings Death of a Naturalist (poems) Seamus Heaney The Rumi Collection ed. Kabir Helminski The Gift Hafiz How We Became Human, The Woman Who Fell from the Sky Joy Harjo Othello, Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare You and Yours or others Naomi Shihab Nye Miracle Fair (poems) Wislawa Szymborska

Non-fiction and biographies: Narrow Road to the Interior Matsuo Basho Silent Spring Rachel Carson My Land, My People: The Original Autobiography of His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet Darwin: the Life of a Tormented Evolutionist Adrian Desmond & James Moore An American Childhood Annie Dillard Waiting for Snow in Havana Carlos Eire Coal: A Human History Barbara Freese

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Fearful Symmetry- a Study of William Blake Northrop Frye The Essential Gandhi Louis Fischer, ed. Wild Health: Lessons in Natural Wellness from the Animal Kingdom Cindy Engel A Reason for Hope Jane Goodall Black Like Me John Howard Griffin The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts Maxine Hong Kingston Taking on the World: A Sailor's Extraordinary Solo Race Around the Globe Ellen MacArthur I, Rigoberta Manchu (Autobiography) Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod Gary Paulsen The Evolution of Useful Things Henry Petroski Mark Twain-a Life Ron Powers The Letters of Abelard and Heloise trans. Betty Radice Hunger of Memory Richard Rodriguez The Letters of John and Abigail Adams ed. Frank Shuffleton A Texas Cowboy, or Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony Charles A Siringo Every War Has Two Losers: William Stafford on Peace and War William Stafford The Devil's Highway: A True Story Luis Alberto Urrea

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