Upper School
Summer Reading Lists 2010
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Methuen Public Schools
Students Entering Grade 7
Students are encouraged to read more than two books from this list, but must read two books and complete a book talk sheet for two books.
The true confessions of Charlotte Doyle / by Avi
Tangerine / by Edward Bloor
Walk two moons / Sharon Creech
Nory Ryan's song / Patricia Riley Giff
Out of the dust / by Karen Hesse
Flush / by Carl Hiaasen
A year down yonder / by Richard Peck
Harris and me : a summer remembered / by Gary Paulsen
Joey Pigza swallowed the key / by Jack Gantos
Pride of Puerto Rico : the life of Roberto Clemente / by Paul Robert Walker
Students Entering Grade 8
Students are encouraged to read more than two books from this list, but must read two books and complete a book talk sheet for two books.
Ruby Holler . by Sharon Creech
A day no pigs would die by Robert Newton Peck
Roll of thunder, hear my cry by Mildred Taylor
Pictures of Hollis Woods / by Patricia Reilly Giff
Fever, 1793 / by Laurie Halse Anderson
The contender / by Robert Lipsyte
What would Joey do? / by Jack Gantos
Bad boy : a memoir / by Walter Dean Myers
Crash / by Jerry Spinelli
Milkweed / by Jerry Spinelli
Students Entering Grade 9:
Incoming freshmen may select from the following list. An assessment will be given in September.
Level 4 students must read two books.
Go and come back / by Joan Abelove
Tending to Grace / by Kimberly Newton Fusco
Ryan White: My Own Story/ by Ryan White and Ann Marie Cunningham
The gadget / by Paul Zindel
Students Entering Grade 10:
If you are taking Level 4- EN 124:
1984 : a novel / by George Orwell
If you are taking Level 3 - EN 123 (optional)
Wuthering heights. by Emily Bronte
If you are taking Level 2 - EN 122 (optional)
All quiet on the Western front / by Erich Maria Remarque
Students Entering Grade 11:
If you are taking Level 5 - AP EN 1245
The Tipping Point / by Malcolm Gladwell and Three Cups of Tea / by Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin
If you are taking Level 4 - EN 234
On the Road / by Jack Kerouac and
The Catcher in the Rye / by J.D. Salinger
If you are taking Level 2 or 3 - EN 222 & 223 (optional)
On the Road / by Jack Kerouac
The catcher in the rye / by J.D. Salinger
Students Entering Grade 12:
If you are taking Level 5 - AP - EN 345, you must read, write and prepare for an assessment on:
Blindness : a novel / by Jose Saramagio
The glimpses of the moon / by Edith Wharton
Complete the writing assignments available in the English Department and Guidence Office.
If you are taking Level 4 - EN 344, read and prepare for a test on:
Oedipus the King / by Sophocles
Sons and lovers / by D.H. Lawrence
If you are taking Level 3 - EN 343 (optional)
Frankenstein / by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
If you are taking Level 2 - EN 342 (optional)
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian/ by Sherman Alexie
Presentation of Mary Academy
Students Entering Grade 9
College Prep
A Raisin in the sun / Lorraine Hansberry
Of mice and men / John Steinbeck.
Honors
The good earth / Pearl S. Buck. --
A separate peace / by John Knowles. --
Students Entering Grade 10
College Prep
The catcher in the rye / J.D. Salinger.
Lord of the flies : a novel / William Golding
Honors
The catcher in the rye / J.D. Salinger.
Jane Eyre / Charlotte Brontė.
Students Entering Grade 11
College Prep
The adventures of Huckleberry Finn / by Mark Twain ; afterword by Alfred Kazin.
The old man and the sea / Ernest Hemingway.
Honors
The adventures of Huckleberry Finn / by Mark Twain ; afterword by Alfred Kazin.
A tree grows in Brooklyn / Betty Smith ; with a foreword by Anna Quindlen.
The great Gatsby / by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Students Entering Grade 12
College Prep
I know why the caged bird sings / Maya Angelou.
The kite runner / Khaled Hosseini.
Students will write a college essay.
Honors
The bell jar / Sylvia Plath ; foreword by Frances McCullough ; biographical note by Lois Ames ; drawings by Sylvia Plath.
Princess : a true story of life behind the veil in Saudi Arabia / by Jean Sasson.
Students will write a college essay.
Advanced Placement
A doll's house / Henrik Ibsen.
Students will write a college essay and complete related writing assignments.
Central Catholic High School
Summer Reading for Pleasure and Credit is an optional summer reading program. Students who choose to participate will be required to read three (3) books and to complete a reading response journal. The journal must be submitted and checked in at the Journal Table on Friday, August 13th between the hours of 8:00 am and Noon. Students who cannot deliver the journal on this date by noon must mail the journal so that the journal arrives by August 13th. Journals will not be accepted after Noon on August 13th. No exceptions.
Satisfactory completion of the journal will earn the students one-quarter (1/4) credit. In addition, students who complete the program satisfactorily will not be required to take their semester examination in English in January, 2011. A grade of A or A+ will be given for this exam if the program is completed satisfactorily.
The book list for all year levels is as follows:
Me, the Missing, and the Dead / by Jenny Valentine
A Difficult Boy / by M.P. Barker
Laughing Without an Accent / Firoozeh Dumas.
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