Western Reserve Academy English Department Required Summer Reading 2012

Rising 9th Grade: See the Summer Reading for English I document.

Rising 10th Grade:

Siddhartha (Herman Hesse) Into the Wild (John Krakauer)

Note: Students will complete an assessment of their reading of these texts on the first day of classes; moreover, the first writing assignment of the year will focus on these books.

Rising 11th Grade:

Choice of one of the following works of American drama:

Doubt (John Patrick Shanley) The Glass Menagerie (Tennessee Williams) Fences (August Wilson) August: Osage County (Tracy Letts)

AND

Choice of one of the following works of American fiction:

The Joy Luck Club (Amy Tan) The Road (Cormac McCarthy) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain) On the Road (Jack Kerouac)

See the English III Summer Reading Choices & Descriptions document which provides brief descriptions of these works (from Amazon).

Note: students will complete an assessment of their reading of the chosen texts on the first day of classes; it will include multiple-choice questions, short answer questions, and a short essay prompt.

Rising 12th Grade:

(AP) New York State of Mind (Mrs. Campbell) Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (Jonathan Safran Foer) One novel by Edith Wharton (to be determined)

(AP) The Postmodern and the Subjective Perspective (Ms. Kidera) Summertime (J.M. Coetzee) The Lives of Animals (J.M. Coetzee)

(AP) Law in Literature (Mrs. McKenzie) To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee) In Cold Blood (Truman Capote)

(IV) Sifting through the Ashes: Contemplating Ourselves after the Holocaust (Ms. Evans) Lord of the Flies (William Golding)

(IV) Behind the Poetry: The Poet's Life and Why Poetry Matters (Mr. O’Brien) Robert Frost: A Life (Jay Parini) --required (ISBN-10: 0805063412) The Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected Poems (edited by Edward Conroy Latham) --suggested (ISBN-10: 0805069860)

(IV) Relocating Cultural Identities (Ms. Maseelall) Netherland (Joseph O’Neill)

(IV) Film and Literature --and How It’s Done (Ms. Schnupp) No Country for Old Men (Cormac McCarthy)--required One book-film pair from the course description--encouraged

(IV) American Nature Writing and Environmental Issues (Mr. Warner) Ishmael (Daniel Quinn)