Summer Reading Assignment South Plantation High School Grades 11 and 12 2019

Due on Tuesday/Wednesday, September 3/4, 2019

Incoming eleventh and twelfth graders will choose one of the following novels and complete the assignment.

Homeland by Cory Doctorow The Martian by Andy Weir The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks Station Eleven by Emily St. John Once We Were Brothers by Ronald Balston The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursala K. LeGuin On the Road by Jack Kerouac Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton East of Eden by John Steinbeck The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer The Circle by Dave Eggers The Road by Cormack McCarthy The Color of Water by James McBride Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

NOTE: Some of the books may contain adult situations. We urge you to choose a book with a parent’s or guardian’s guidance. If a book makes you uncomfortable, abandon it and select another.

Choose one of the following assignments. The assignment must be handwritten on notebook paper in blue or black ink.

A. Imagine that the book you are reading has been challenged by a special interest group. Write a letter defending the book, using specific evidence from the book to support your ideas. B. As a literary agent, write a letter to the publishing company designed to persuade them to publish this book. C. You are the reporter. Write a front page news story or a report live from the scene of your novel. D. How does the protagonist OR a character of your choice grow and change through the conflicts encountered in the novel? What essential lessons does the character learn about life through these conflicts?