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CHARLES COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS HIGH SCHOOL SUMMER READING LISTS 2015 – 2016

The Charles County Honors/AP English La Plata High School Lackey High School McDonough High School program requires students to complete summer reading to prepare them for the Grade Knowles, A Separate Peace Grade Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees Grade Myers, Slam! upcoming school year and to give teachers a 9H 9H OR 9H OR common ground with which to begin Knowles, A Separate Peace Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees instruction. Summer reading will be assessed Grade Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 10H Achebe, Things Fall Apart Grade Stockett, The Help Grade Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 by tests, quizzes, and other methods when 10H Choose one: required 10H Marsden, Tomorrow, When the school reopens. Book lists will go to libraries Achebe, Things Fall Apart War Began and bookstores; students are encouraged to Grade Twain, The Adventures of Dumas, Funny in Farsi: A purchase individual copies, if possible, so that 11H Huckleberry Finn Memoir of Growing Up Iranian Grade Miller, The Crucible they can annotate the texts as they read. Dumas, Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of in America 11H Carson, Gifted Hands Please sign below, keep the top copy, and Growing Up Iranian in America return the bottom copy to your English Grade Carson, Gifted Hands Grade Tan (Amy), The Joy Luck Club teacher. Grade Camus, The Stranger 11H Pick one from Lackey’s 12H Tan (Shaun), The Arrival 12H *Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five approved book list (attached) I understand that enrollment in an honors or AP Allen, Only Yesterday: An AP English class entails completion of the Grade Kafka, The Metamorphosis Language Informal History of the 1920s Walls, The Glass Castle appropriate summer reading assignment. AP 12H Spiegelman, Maus I Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby Language Graff, Birkenstein, They Say, Corrigan, So We Read On: How I Say:The Moves That Matter in AP Strunk, White, The Elements of the Great Gatsby Came To Be ______Academic Writing (edition w/out Language Style And Why It Endures Student Name (Please print) readings) Choose two: required ______Cohen, 50 Essays: A Portable Junger, The Perfect Storm AP Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter rd Student Signature Date Anthology (3 edition) Krakauer, Into Thin Air Literatur Williams, A Streetcar Named ______Kozol, Amazing Grace e Desire Parent/Guardian Signature Date AP Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible *Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Roetzheim, The Giant Book of Literatur Chopin, The Awakening Road Poetry e Shakespeare, Macbeth ______AP Literature Kafka, The Metamorphosis Current Teacher High School Chopin, The Awakening Shakespeare, Macbeth

North Point High School Thomas Stone High School St. Charles High School Westlake High School

Grade Lubar, Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie Grade Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun Grade Lubar, Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie Grade *Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men 9H 9H 9H 9H Grade Dumas, Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Grade Dumas, Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Grade Orwell, Animal Farm Grade Orwell, Animal Farm 10H Growing Up Iranian in America 10H Growing Up Iranian in America 10H Achebe, Things Fall Apart 10H Homer, The Odyssey Achebe, Things Fall Apart Achebe, Things Fall Apart

Grade Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby Grade Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby Grade Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby 11H Miller, The Crucible Grade Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby 11H Krakauer, Into The Wild 11H Krakauer, Into The Wild 11H Miller, The Crucible Grade Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire Grade Wright, Native Son Grade Dunn, Ella Minnow Pea Grade Huxley, Brave New World 12H Orwell, 1984 12H Miller, Death of a Salesman 12H Huxley, Brave New World 12H Shakespeare, Othello

Krakauer, Into Thin Air AP AP Spiegelman, Maus I AP Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo AP Capote, In Cold Blood Graff, Birkenstein, They Say, I Language Language Strunk, White, The Elements of Language Graff, Birkenstein, They Say, Language Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed: On Say:The Moves That Matter in Style I Say:The Moves That Matter in (Not)Getting By in America Academic Writing (edition w/out Doctorow, Little Brother (edition w/out readings) Academic Writing Miller, The Crucible AP readings) Eggers, Zeitoun Literatur Twain, The Adventures of Eggers, Zeitoun AP Chopin, The Awakening e Huckleberry Finn Literature Williams, A Streetcar Named Shakespeare, Macbeth AP Shakespeare, Othello AP Chopin, The Awakening Desire Chopin, The Awakening Literatur Wilson, The Piano Lesson Literatur Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible Brontë, Wuthering Heights e Orwell, 1984 e Shakespeare, Macbeth

*This work has been approved by the CCPS Review Committee for its literary merit and its appropriate alignment with theme and course objectives. It may include, within its historical and/or cultural context, material or language such as violence, profanity, or sexual content that is intended for the mature reader. CCPS honors requests for alternative titles. H. E. Lackey English III – Choice Book List – Summer 2015

Choose one of the following novels as your second summer reading book.

Black Boy – Richard Wright

Ceremony – Leslie Silko

Dandelion Wine – Ray Bradbury

Dave Barry Does Japan – Dave Barry

Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America – Firoozeh Dumas

Game – Walter Dean Myers

Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin

The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

In the Time of the Butterflies – Julia Alvarez

A Lesson Before Dying – Ernest Gaines

Street Love – Walter Dean Myers

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain

The Perfect Storm – Sebastian Junger

The Piano Lesson – August Wilson

The Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane

The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway

The Virginian – Owen Wister

Wish You Well – David Baldacci