th 2021 Summer Reading List for Rising 12 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. 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. REQUIRED for AP British Literature: 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 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 th 2021 Summer Reading List for Rising 11 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