English Department 2003 Summer Reading

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT 2016 SUMMER READING BISHOP O’CONNELL HIGH SCHOOL . Students are required to read the assigned works and to annotate each text. In addition, students may wish to take notes that focus on character, theme, plot, setting, point of view, use of language, and symbolism. Students will take a test and/or write an essay on each work during the week of September 5. *English 3 AP Language, English 4 AP Literature, and English 1 Honors require written assignments. Separate handouts will be distributed by the teacher of each course.

English 1 The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

English 1 IBE Same requirements as English 1

English 1 Honors* The Chosen by Chaim Potok To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Mythology by Edith Hamilton (assigned sections only)

English 2 Night by Elie Wiesel The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

English 2 Honors Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (Fawcett Abridged Edition) Lord of the Flies by William Golding Night by Elie Wiesel

English 3 A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

American Studies Same requirements as English 3

English 3 Honors Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway The Moviegoer by Walker Percy

AP English 3 Lang* THE FOLLOWING THREE WORKS ARE REQUIRED: The Writing Life by Annie Dillard In Cold Blood by Truman Capote The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

CHOICE OF ONE OF THE FOLLOWING: 102 Minutes: The Unforgettable Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers by Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

English 4 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson English 4 Honors 1984 by George Orwell Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson The Once and Future King by T. H. White (BOOK 1 ONLY)

AP English 4 Lit* THE FOLLOWING THREE NOVELS ARE REQUIRED: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

CHOICE OF ONE OF THE FOLLOWING: Catch – 22 by Joseph Heller Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy The Stranger by Albert Camus