2008 Summer Reading Requirements
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Last updated:  06/06/08

 

Prep and Freshmen
None required but......... Suggested Summer Reading List for Incoming Freshmen

Pearl Buck's The Good Earth
Charles Dickens' David Copperfield
George Orwell's Animal Farm
H. G. Wells' The Time Machine
Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings Series
Any books by C. S. Lewis

Any of these works will be of value in the years to come, not only for English class, but because they are simply good books.

 

Form II

 

        Chaim Potok’s The Chosen
        Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer

  

Form III

 

        Yann Martel’s Life of Pi

        Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Self-Reliance” and “The Poet”(www.transcendentalists.com/1emerson.html)

 

Honors English

 

        William Golding's Lord of the Flies
        George Orwell's 1984

 

AP Language and Composition

 

        George Orwell’s 1984
        Frank McCord’s Angela’s Ashes

 

AP Literature and Composition

 

        Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina (though the Pevear and Volokhonsky translation is recommended, any translation will do)

        William Blake’s “Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience” (www.blakearchive.org--this site has both his poems and illustrations)