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AP and Honors Summer Reading

STRONGSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL
ENGLISH HONORS AND AP SUMMER READING
SUMMER 2007

English 9 Honors
Count of Monte Cristo, Alexander Dumas

English 10 Honors
The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
The Chosen, Chiam Potak

English 11 Honors
Read TWO books, one from each group:

Group 1:
The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien
The Awakening, Kate Chopin
Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
Native Son, Richard Wright
Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut

Group 2:
All Over But the Shoutin’, Rick Bragg
American Childhood or Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard
Into the Wild or Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer
Finding Fish, Antwone Fisher

Advanced Placement English
Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison (Song of Solomon Study Questions) and TWO of the following:

A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
Atonement, Ian McEwan
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
Empire Falls, Richard Russo
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte

(Click on links for written assignments - PDFs)

IMPORTANT NOTES:

  • Completed English 11 and AP written assignments are to be postmarked or delivered to the Strongsville High School Main Office by 3:00 p.m. Monday, August 6, 2007.
  • Students should take notes, keep a reader’s journal or write personal responses to their reading.
  • Students are encouraged to obtain their own books from the public library and local bookstores.
  • It is each student’s responsibility to obtain summer reading written assignments from their English teacher or the guidance department before the end of school in June.

    • Posted by David on May 30, 2007 12:45 PM |