2021 Summer Reading List for Rising 12Th Grade

2021 Summer Reading List for Rising 12th Grade

For all non-AP students, each teacher will administer open-note reading quizzes for assigned books during the first few weeks of school, as in years past. (Notes must be hand-written and will be checked by teacher.) AP students: you have instructions specific to your class in the information you receive from your teacher.

TH RISING 12 GRADE COLLEGE PREP - TEACHER: MRS. HOLMES

REQUIRED: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ...... Arthur Conan Doyle

ADDITIONAL OPTION (But not required): Heart of Darkness ...... Joseph Conrad Jane Eyre ...... Charlotte Bronte Middlemarch...... George Eliot The Mill on the Floss ...... George Eliot Bleak House ...... Charles Dickens Hard Times ...... Charles Dickens Tess of the D’Urbervilles...... Thomas Hardy The Brothers Karamazov ...... Fyodor Dostoyevsky Till We Have Faces...... C. S. Lewis

TH RISING 12 GRADE – BRITISH LITERATURE – HONORS - TEACHER: MR. GREEN

** STUDENTS – You will need to receive an email from Mr. Green ([email protected]) with instructions and questions specific to these readings to consider as you read these works this summer. After Mr. Green receives an official roster of students enrolled in British Literature – HONORS, he will send out the email. Please feel free to contact him with questions.

Regarding the NOVELS (titles in italics) ** The numbers in brackets are the year of the first publication and pages in a standard paperback printing of the novels named below.

Regarding the SHORT STORIES, (titles in quotation marks) ** I will copy and create Word documents featuring these works, which I will send to you via a working summer email address and expect you to read. I will also post on Moodle when a new British Literature – Honors Moodle page comes into existence.

REQUIRED for British Literature - Honors: 1. Pride and Prejudice [1813 / 350 pages] Jane Austen 2. Heart of Darkness [1899 / 150 pages] Joseph Conrad

Short Stories – This list is taking shape as we speak – After I make final selections, I will post the short stories on MOODLE and email to students enrolled in AP British Literature: 1. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes!) 2. James Joyce 3. Roald Dahl 4. Saki (H. H. Munro) 5. Agatha Christie 6. Zadie Smith 7. George Orwell 8. Rudyard Kipling Continued on other side… TH RISING 12 GRADE – BRITISH LITERATURE – AP - TEACHER: MR. GREEN

AP Students: Once the official AP Class Enrollment is settled, Mr. Green will send you specific notes about the Summer Reading. I will email and post (on Moodle eventually) the Word document versions of the short stories. Please purchase copies of the novels which you may bring to class as needed.

Regarding the NOVELS (titles in italics) ** The numbers in brackets are the year of the first publication and pages in a standard paperback printing of the novels named below.

REQUIRED for AP British Literature: 1. Pride and Prejudice [1813 / 350 pages] Jane Austen 2. Heart of Darkness [1899 / 150 pages] Joseph Conrad

FURTHER READING – Choose One More of These to Read: Jane Eyre [1847 / 350-375 pages] Charlotte Bronte Great Expectations [1860 / 500-525 pages] Charles Dickens Middlemarch [1872 / 800+ pages] (Yes – 800+) George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) Howards End [1908 / 325-350 pages] E.M. Forster To the Lighthouse [1927 / 200 pages] Virginia Woolf 2021 Summer Reading List for Rising 11th Grade

For all non-AP students, each teacher will administer open-note reading quizzes for assigned books during the first few weeks of school, as in years past. (Notes must be hand-written and will be checked by teacher.) AP students: You will receive instructions specific to your class from your teacher.

TH RISING 11 GRADE – AMERICAN LITERATURE – COLLEGE PREP - TEACHER: MS. McINTOSH

REQUIRED – Choose Two (2) from this Traditional List ~ OR ~ (see below) Billy Budd ...... Herman Melville Cold Mountain ...... Charles Frazier The Age of Innocence ...... Edith Wharton The Sun Also Rises...... Ernest Hemingway Their Eyes Were Watching God ...... Zora Neale Hurston To Kill A Mockingbird (if not read in 8th grade) ...... Harper Lee The Last of the Mohicans ...... James Fenimore Cooper

~ OR~ Choose a pairing of one traditional text with one contemporary book from the list below: (These are paired by theme, so please read them together).*

Billy Budd (Melville)...... and ...... Speak (Laurie Halse Anderson) The Age of Innocence (Wharton) ...... and ...... Speak (Anderson) or The Poet X, (Elizabeth Acevedo) To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee) ...... and .... Just Mercy (Bryan Stevenson) or The Hate U Give (Angie Thomas) Their Eyes Were Watching God (Hurston) ...... and ...... The Hate U Give (Angie Thomas) The Sun Also Rises (Hemingway)...... and ...... The Sun Is Also a Star (Nicola Yoon)

*Why pair traditional literature with contemporary Young Adult fiction? The English Department at ACA is committed to teaching classic, time-honored literature that has stood the test of time and proven its enduring and artistic worth. However, as culture changes and reading is threatened by cultural shifts, it is also the goal of the department to encourage students to read for pleasure, enrichment, and growth. Inviting young adults to become life-long readers is at the heart of pairing older literature with books that are more accessible and inviting. Because these books deal with contemporary themes and use language that is more familiar to 21st century teenagers, students can experience the joy of being transported into the world of story and receive the benefits, both academically and personally, that reading brings. The pedagogical reasons for pairing are to provide high quality YA literature that will appeal to students and be more accessible but will also parallel themes in the older pieces so that students realize that humanity struggles with and enjoys the same kinds of experiences regardless of time or place settings. While it is true that contemporary YA literature often more explicitly tackles themes that are difficult and even controversial, our hope is that opening up dialogue about the hard issues we face in life will give teenagers space to discuss and think about the fallen world in a safe environment. Timeless themes connect us with people of all eras, ethnicities, and nationalities. Allowing our students to discover that some of the very issues they struggle with in our day have been part of the human condition throughout time and in every place, helps them realize that reading about historical times and events does indeed have value for them today.

Continued on other side… TH RISING 11 GRADE – AMERICAN LITERATURE – HONORS - TEACHER: MR. GREEN

A student entering Honors English 11 needs to have completed the reading of three titles listed below before the first day of school. I have estimated the length of the works based on standard editions of the books.

REQUIRED: Students must read BOTH of these works. Estimated # of Pages 1. The Awakening, Kate Chopin (1899) ...... 110 2. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)...... 150

ADDITIONAL REQUIRED – Students must read ONE (1) of these American novels or plays: 1. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain (1876) ...... 350 2. The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton (1920) ...... 350 3. The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway (1926) ...... 240 4. Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston (1937) ...... 220 5. A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry (1959) [A Play] ...... 150 6. The Moviegoer, by Walker Percy (1961) ...... 240 7. The Road, by Cormac McCarthy (2006) ...... 300

TH RISING 11 GRADE – AMERICAN LITERATURE – AP - TEACHER: MR. GREEN

Because the AP Language and Composition course coincides with the survey in American Literature, students will tackle a summer reading list that comprises classic American novels and a few landmark plays (or dramas). A student entering AP Language and Composition needs to have completed the following reading before the first day of school. The estimated length of these works is indicated, based on the editions of the books I have in my room.

** ACA will issue you a copy of a Dover Thrift Edition of The Scarlet Letter. That will be your book to read, highlight, takes notes in and have in class next autumn. Receive a copy from Mr. Green by arranging a visit to ACA to collect it. The visit will take only a minute or two. DO NOT READ the 30-page preface to The Scarlet Letter entitled "The Custom-House." The Scarlet Letter begins with Chapter One ("The Prison-Door") on page 33 of the Dover Thrift Edition.

** The Awakening and The Great Gatsby are easily found, but ACA will not be issuing copies. AP students will receive emailed instructions specific to your class from your teacher.

REQUIRED: Students must read ALL of these works. Estimated # of Pages 1. The Scarlet Letter*, by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850) ...... 150 Remember, do not read the 30-page “The Custom-House” preface. 2. The Awakening, Kate Chopin (1899) ...... 110 3. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)...... 150

ADDITIONAL REQUIRED – Students must read ONE (1) of these American novels or plays: 1. Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville (1851) ...... 500 2. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain (1876) ...... 350 3. O Pioneers!, by Willa Cather (1913) ...... 185 4. The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton (1920) ...... 350 5. The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway (1926) ...... 240 6. Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston (1937) ...... 220 7. Our Town, by Thornton Wilder (1938) [A Play] ...... 150 8. A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry (1959) [A Play] ...... 150 9. The Moviegoer, by Walker Percy (1961) ...... 240 10. Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson (2004) ...... 250 11. The Road, by Cormac McCarthy (2006) ...... 300 2021 Summer Reading List for Rising 10th Grade

For all College Prep students, each teacher will administer open-note reading quizzes for assigned books during the first few weeks of school, as in years past. (Notes must be hand-written and will be checked by teacher.) AP students: you have instructions specific to your class in the information you receive from your teacher.

RISING 10TH GRADE – COLLEGE PREP & HONORS

TEACHER: MRS. HOLMES

REQUIRED: Things Fall Apart ...... Chinua Achebe

REQUIRED – Choose 1: The Stranger ...... Albert Camus Crime and Punishment ...... Fyodor Dostoyevsky I Have Lived a Thousand Years ...... Livia Bitton-Jackson A Gentleman in Moscow ...... Amor Towles Brave New World* ...... Aldous Huxley *Parents may wish to review this novel for content.

Continued on other side… 2021 Summer Reading List for Rising 9th Grade

TH RISING 9 GRADE – ANCIENT LITERATURE – COLLEGE PREP - TEACHER: MRS. ZACCARO REQUIRED READING: See Corresponding Reading Notes below for each Reading. Read each of the following: 1. Genesis Chapters 37-50 – your preferred translation 2. A Walk Across America – by Peter Jenkins We will refer to this work fairly extensively, so read it carefully and keep your copy nearby. 3. “The Hero’s Journey,” adapted from Joseph Campbell – please email [email protected]

TH RISING 9 GRADE – ANCIENT LITERATURE – HONORS - TEACHER: MR. GREEN REQUIRED READING: See Corresponding Reading Notes below for each Reading. Read each of the following: 1. Genesis Chapters 37-50 – your preferred translation 2. A Walk Across America – by Peter Jenkins We will refer to this work fairly extensively, so read it carefully and keep your copy nearby. 3. “The Hero’s Journey,” adapted from Joseph Campbell – please email [email protected]

4. “Rhetoric” – please email [email protected]

5. “The Rhetorical Triangle” – please email [email protected]

Reading 1. Genesis Chapters 37-50. I do not have a preference about which translation you read; many teachers here use the English Standard Version of the Bible, but you may read whatever translation you like.

Reading 2. A Walk Across America: Peter Jenkins was a disillusioned young man who needed many questions answered about America and his place in it when he set off on foot from his home state of New York and hiked – accompanied only by his faithful dog Cooper – southward along much of the Appalachian Trail and farther South. Along the way, Jenkins chronicles his adventures, challenges, new friendships, risks and, most memorably, his discovery of both a country he had mis-understood and the deeper, eternal part of himself. Jenkins’ A Walk Across America is worthwhile as it displays the Hero’s Journey and presents a person weighed down by cynicism wrestling with questions of faith and being surprised by hope and love.

Reading 3. “The Hero’s Journey” document provided by instructor and/or on Moodle. “The Hero’s Journey” is a concept that grew out of Joseph Campbell’s 1949 book of comparative mythology entitled The Hero with a Thousand Faces and posits that every hero travels the same path of adventure: departure from a known place to an unknown, a gathering of allies and friends, guidance from a mentor, battles against enemies and evil, a descent into hell or death, loss, redemption, victory … and more. We will apply this template to many stories we read this year, ranging from tales of Gilgamesh to Perseus to The Odyssey to a recent account of a man’s physical and spiritual journey across America in Peter Jenkins’ non-fiction A Walk Across America, which is a Summer Reading assignment. (please view the circular representation of the ‘Journey’).

Reading 4. “Rhetoric” document provided by instructor and/or on Moodle. Freshman English begins with an examination of Rhetoric and some of the Western philosophers (such as Socrates, Plato & Aristotle) whose work helped form classic rhetorical structure and strategies. Thus, students need to read and take notes on the reading called “Rhetoric” for discussion in August and September.

Reading 5. “The Rhetorical Triangle” document provided by instructor and/or on Moodle. The Rhetorical Triangle offers a visual depiction of some key terms of Rhetoric, and “The Chart” on Page 8 presents the three primary elements of Rhetoric: Ethos, Logos and Pathos – ideas you will come to know very well.