Ontario H. S. 2016-17 English Department Reading Material

Freshmen Books:  Summer: Animal Farm  School Year: To Kill a Mockingbird Romeo and Juliet The Odyssey Sophomore Books  Summer: Of Mice and Men ...alternative The Pearl  Honors: Summer: The Hunger Games by Collins Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card  School Year: Dover Thrift edition of Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton Dover Thrift edition of Bullfinch's Mythology Julius Caesar by Shakespeare Lord of the Flies by William Golding Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah Junior Books:  Summer: Celia Garth by Gwen Bristow Recommended- not required: Celebrate Liberty! Famous Patriotic Speeches and Sermons Complied by David Barton Thomas Paine’s Common Sense  School Year: 1984 by Orwell The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain The Athena Project by Brad Thor Anthem by Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand Salem’s Lot by Stephen King  Advanced Placement: The Language of Composition: Reading. Writing. Rhetoric by Shea(2013)  5 Steps to a 5 AP English Language : McGraw Hill American Literature opposite College Credit +: Celia Garth by Gwen Bristow Senior Books:  Summer: No Fear Shakespeare: Hamlet by Shakespeare  School Year: Dover Thrift edition of Daisy Miller by James Dover Thrift Edition of A Doll’s House by Ibsen Dover Thrift Edition of Metamorphosis by Kafka Dover Thrift edition of The Importance of Being Ernest by Wilde Novel of Choice from the Multi-Genre book list (200+ books) Textbook: Literature and Composition: Reading, Writing, Thinking AP Seniors:  Summer: How to Read like a Professor by Foster Hamlet by Shakespeare A Thousand Splendid Years by Hosseini A Streetcar Named Desire by Williams Slaughterhouse Five by Vonnegut The Poisonwood Bible by Kingsolver  Textbook: Perrine’s Literature: Structure, Sound and Sense, 11th edition  School Year: This list changes based on student needs The Wild Duck by Ibsen Hedda Gabler by Ibsen A Doll’s House by Ibsen Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead by Stoppard The Casual Vacancy by Rowling A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens The Bluest Eye by Morrison (Upon student request) Pride and Prejudice by Austen Hocus Pocus and/or Slaughterhouse Five by Vonnegut Rhinoceros by Ionesco Canticle for Leibowitz by Miller Return of the Native and/or Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Hardy Jane Eyre by Bronte The Importance of Being Ernest by Wilde Things Fall Apart by Achebe