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Accredited with – SACS/CASI/AdvancedEd - NIPSA Required High School Summer Assignment Summer Reading: (1) Read two books from this list, or one book from this list and one biography, memoir, or autobiography or other book of your own choosing. Any edition or translation is fine. These recommendations include many traditional “classics” of western culture, as well as suggestions for discovering other world masterworks. (2) Create a carefully designed and well executed product that will persuade others to read the books you chose. Due the first day of school! Homer, The Iliad Homer, The Odyssey Ovid, Metamorphoses Virgil, The Aeneid Dante, The Inferno Edith Hamilton, Mythology Thomas Bulfinch, Mythology Shakespeare, The Tempest, Julius Caesar, etc. Swift, Gulliver’s Travels Defoe, Robinson Crusoe Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden Poetry by Blake, Keats, Shelley, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Christina Rosetti Any work by Jane Austin, Mary Shelley, Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham, Evelyn Waugh, or Virginia Woolf Earnest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms, his Africa stories, etc. John Steinbeck, Travels With Charlie, etc. Patrick O’Brian, Master and Commander, The Far Side of the World Albert Camus, The Stranger Julia Alvarez, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents or other works by Alvarez Any book by Isabel Allende, especially her books for youth Poetry by Pablo Neruda Julia Butterfly Hill, The Legacy of Luna Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire Carl Hiassen, Hoot, etc. Patrick Smith, A Land Remembered Lucy and Steven Hawking, George’s Cosmic Treasure Hunt Helene Cooper, The House at Sugar Beach Any work by Edgar Allen Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, H.G. Ballard, or Ray Bradbury For more ideas, see Great Books for High School Kids edited by Rick Ayers and Amy Crawford. And see “Not-Your-Typical (High School) Summer Reading List” @ www.whatkidscando.org! (This site also recommends great films for teens.) 3675 San Pablo Rd. South, Jacksonville, Florida 32224 ● Phone (904) 493-7300 ● Fax: (904) 821-1247 www.FoundationAcademy.com .

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