Prep and Form I
Summer reading, while not required for incoming Prep and Form I students, is encouraged.
The Good Earth, Pearl Buck
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
Animal Farm, George Orwell
The Time Machine, H.G. Wells
The Lord of the Rings Series, J.R.R. Tolkien
Any works of C. S. Lewis
Form II
The Chosen, Chaim Potok
Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
Form III
(Updated 6.6.11)
Read Willa Carther's My Antonia. After reading Cather’s novel, write a four page essay (1” margins & 12 Times New Roman) about your favorite character (excluding Antonia and Jim) in the novel. For your essay, use the standards you learned in Sophomore English. Send the essay to me by August 16 through my school e-mail: sandy.carroll@covingtonlatin.org. The essay will be Quarter 1’s first grade.
The second part of the summer reading involves reading Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay Self Reliance. E-mail me your favorite six sentences from Emerson’s essay by the start of school.
AP® Language and Composition
1984, George Orwell
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Form IV
Honors English: Survey of British Literature
Lord of the Flies, William Golding
1984, George Orwell
AP® Literature and Composition (Updated 6.6.11)
Everyone will read two novels:
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
We will have individual discussions about both novels during the first week of school. Contact me through my school email--sandy.carroll@covingtonlatin.org--with any questions.
AP® Language and Composition
1984, George Orwell
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