MHS LANGUAGE ARTS
SUMMER READING REQUIREMENTS FOR 2012-13            

 All Mandarin High students are expected by the first day of school to have carefully read the summer-reading selection(s) required for the English course they will be taking.

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9^th Grade Standard     Speak  by Laurie Halse Anderson  (1999)  208 pgs.

9^th Grade Honors        Fahrenheit 451  by Ray Bradbury  (1953)  176 pgs.

9^th Grade Pre-AICE      A Tree Grows in Brooklyn   by Betty Smith  (1943)  528 pgs.

10^th Grade Standard      The Secret Life of Bees   by Sue Monk Kidd  (2002)  336 pgs.

10^th Grade Honors      Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster

                                      by Jon Krakauer   (1999)   368 pgs.

10^th Grade AICE General Paper    1)Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest                   

                                                             Disaster  by Jon Krakauer   (1999)   368 pgs.

        READ BOTH                           2) Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard   by Kiran Desai

                                                                (1998)   209 pgs.

11^th Grade Standard     Copper Sun   by Sharon M. Draper   (2008)   336 pgs.
 

11^th Grade Honors             1) The Great Gatsby  by F. Scott Fitzgerald  (1925)   180 pgs.

           READ BOTH           2) The Old Man and the Sea  by Ernest Hemingway (1951) 128 pgs.
 

11^th Grade AP Language      1) The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of
and AICE Language                   Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba (2010) 320 pgs.

        READ BOTH                 2) Uncle Tom’s Cabin  by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852) 544 pgs.

12^th Grade Standard        Allusion Story Project  Click link for assignment.

12^th Grade AP Literature       1) The Kite Runner  by Khaled Hosseini   (2004)    372 pgs.
and AICE Literature

                                                  2) A Streetcar Named Desire (play) by Tennessee Williams

        READ BOTH                      (1947)   111 pgs.

IMPORTANT NOTE FOR ENGLISH IV STUDENTS:  The links below apply to Eng IV Standard and AP/AICE Literature classes.

Information sheet for Eng IV Students
Info for purchasing hard copy of Allusion Packet
Entire Allusion Workshop Packet (Note: This pdf file is 52 pages. You may want to purchase hard copy rather than printing out entire packet on your printer.)