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Clear Falls HS Clear Lake HS English III and IV Advanced Placement students: Students, you have a required summer reading selection for AP English. While completing the reader’s journal is not required for this selection, it is recommended. Teachers will begin the year teaching the required selection but will not assess it until after the first three weeks of school. This assessment will count as a major grade, will be reported on the second progress report, and will be averaged as part of the first nine weeks grade. Required AP English summer selections by campus and level: Clear Brook HS Clear Creek HS English III English IV English III English IV Crime and Punishment The Crucible All the Pretty Horses How We Got to Now by Steven By Fyodor Dostoevsky by Arthur Miller by Cormac McCarthy Johnson Translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky Clear Falls HS Clear Lake HS English III English IV English III English IV Into the Wild Wuthering Heights To Kill a Mockingbird All My Sons by Jon Krakauer by Emily Bronte by Harper Lee by Arthur Miller Clear Springs HS Clear Horizons Early College High School English III English IV English III In Cold Blood East of Eden Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Truman Capote by John Steinbeck by Eric Schlosser Additionally, you may choose up to two other books from the suggested title list to read for extra credit. Read the book(s) Download and complete the appropriate reader’s journal on the CCISD website for each book you read. Turn in the assessment(s) prior to September 6, 2016. Receive the number of points equal to the number of non-plagiarized, satisfactory assessments submitted to your ELA teacher – up to two total points on your first nine weeks grade. Note: Regular level English III and IV students may read up to two books on the lists and complete the assignments for extra credit. Note to Parents: Some of the works by the authors below may contain subject matter that your family may find unsuitable. Clear Creek ISD encourages you to work alongside your children in selecting materials that are appropriate for them. Optional extra credit titles: Clear Brook HS English III English IV In Cold Blood Pride and Prejudice by Truman Capote by Jane Austen The Devil in the White City Wuthering Heights By Erik Larson by Emily Brontë The Awakening The Count of Monte Cristo by Kate Chopin by Alexandre Dumas Pilgrim at Tinker Creek The Historian By Annie Dillard by Elizabeth Kostova Their Eyes Were Watching God Lonesome Dove by Zora Neale Hurston by Larry McMurtry Into the Wild 1984 by Jon Krakauer by George Orwell To Kill a Mockingbird The Shipping News by Harper Lee by Annie Proulx The Red Badge of Courage Empire Falls By Stephen Crane by Richard Russo East of Eden by John Steinbeck Clear Creek HS English III English IV Zeitoun One Hundred Years of Solitude by Dave Eggers by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde by Jonathan Safran Foer The Kite Runner East of Eden by Khaled Hosseini by John Steinbeck Beloved by Toni Morrison Their Eyes Were Watching God and by Zora Neale Hurston Snowflower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See Brave New World The Poisonwood Bible by Aldous Huxley by Barbara Kingsolver Into the Wild Transit by Jon Krakauer by Anna Seghers The Devil in the White City A Confederacy of Dunces by Erik Larson by John Kennedy Toole How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster Transit and by Anna Seghers How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love With Poetry by Edward Hirsch One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest 1984 by George Orwell by Ken Kesey The Tenth of December by George Saunders The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg Clear Falls HS English III English IV The Awakening Things Fall Apart by Kate Chopin by Chinua Achebe Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Mansfield Park by Annie Dillard by Jane Austen An American Tragedy The Cherry Orchard by Theodore Dreiser by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov As I Lay Dying Lord Jim by William Faulkner by Joseph Conrad A Lesson Before Dying Great Expectations by Ernest Gaines by Charles Dickens Here Is New York Brothers Karamazov by E.B. White by Fyodor Dostoevsky Song of Solomon Catch-22 by Toni Morrison by Joseph Heller The Things They Carried One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Tim O’Brien by Ken Kesey Sophie’s Choice OR 1984 Reading My Father: A Memoir by George Orwell by William Styron The Color Purple The Shipping News by Alice Walker by Annie Proulx Empire Falls by Russo Richard Candide by Voltaire Clear Lake HS English III English IV The Last of the Mohicans Wuthering Heights by James Fenimore Cooper by Emily Bronte The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao A Tale of Two Cities by Junot Diaz by Charles Dickens Pilgrim at Tinker Creek A Raisin in the Sun by Annie Dillard by Lorraine Hansberry Invisible Man The Metamorphosis by Ralph Ellison by Franz Kafka Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Death of a Salesman by Jonathan Safran Foer by Arthur Miller King Lear OR A Farewell to Arms The Merchant of Venice by Ernest Hemingway by William Shakespeare The Kite Runner Pygmalion by Khaled Hosseini by George Bernard Shaw Their Eyes Were Watching God East of Eden by Zora Neale Hurston by John Steinbeck The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Changed America by Tom Stoppard by Erik Larsen The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Candide by Rebecca Skloot by Voltaire Slaughterhouse Five The Picture of Dorian Gray by Kurt Vonnegut by Oscar Wilde The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls Clear Springs HS English III English IV The Red Badge of Courage Waiting for Godot by Stephen Crane by Samuel Beckett Transit Middlemarch by Anna Seghers by George Eliot Salvage the Bones Love Medicine by Jesmyn Ward by Louise Erdrich Their Eyes Were Watching God As I Lay Dying by Zora Neale Hurston by William Faulkner Dead Wake Madame Bovary by Erik Larson by Gustave Flaubert Moby Dick Jude the Obscure by Herman Melville by Thomas Hardy Death of a Salesman Brave New World by Arthur Miller by Aldous Huxley Reading Lolita in Tehran A Doll’s House by Azar Nafisi by Henrik Ibsen Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Never Let Me Go by Annie Dillard by Kazuo Ishiguro Enduring Love The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass by Ian McEwan The Catcher in the Rye On Beauty by J.D. Salinger by Zadie Smith Invisible Man Waterland By Ralph Ellison by Graham Swift A Streetcar Named Desire Gulliver’s Travels by Tennessee Williams by Jonathan Swift Native Son The House of Mirth by Richard Wright by Edith Wharton The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Clear Horizons Early College High School English III Things Fall Apart One Hundred Years of Solitude by Chinua Achebe by Gabriel García Márquez Waiting for Godot The Sound and the Fury by Samuel Beckett by William Faulkner As I Lay Dying Candide by William Faulkner by Voltaire Madame Bovary Enduring Love by Gustave Flaubert by Ian McEwan A Doll’s House On Beauty by Henrik Ibsen by Zadie Smith The Metamorphosis The Stranger by Franz Kafka by Albert Camus The Kite Runner Invisible Man by Khaled Hosseini by Ralph Ellison The Picture of Dorian Gray Like Water for Chocolate by Oscar Wilde by Laura Esquivel Enduring Love by Ian McEwan .
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