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MANDARIN HIGH SCHOOL
2008 SUMMER READING LIST
The following are
the summer reading texts for Summer 2008. All classes will be
completing activities that correlate with the required text(s) during
the semester. REQUIRED: Keep a dialectical journal to be turned in on
the first day of class. This includes character studies, plot
development, comments on literary techniques used (point of view,
narrative style, sensory details, authors tone, etc.)
ENGLISH I: Grade 9
Standard classes
Speak
by Laurie Halse Anderson
Honors/Pre-AICE
Classes*
A Tree Grows in
Brooklyn
by Betty Smith
A Raisin in the Sun
by Lorraine Hansberry
ENGLISH II: Grade 10
Standard classes
Things Fall Apart
by
Chinua Achebe
Runner
by
Carl Deuker
Honors classes*
Things Fall Apart
by
Chinua Achebe
Julius Caesar
by William Shakespeare
Pre-AICE classes*
Wide Sargasso Sea
by Jean Rhys
Julius Caesar
by William Shakespeare
ENGLISH III: Grade
11
Standard classes
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Raisin in the Sun
by Lorraine Hansberry
AICE /AP Language
and AP Language*
The Grapes of Wrath
by Steinbeck
Cry, the Beloved
Country
by Alan Paton
ENGLISH IV: Grade 12
Standard Classes
The Poisonwood Bible
by Barbara Kingsolver (Books One through Four)
How to Read
Literature Like a Professor
by Thomas C. Foster (will have assignments)
AP Lit and AICE
Classes*
Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern are Dead
by Tom Stoppard
How to Read
Literature Like a Professor
by Thomas C. Foster (will have assignments)
*Essay Assignment
will be completed on the first day of class.
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