SW Guilford High School: Summer Reading 2013-2014
The following contains details and instructions for the 2013-2014 School Year Summer Reading. Because schedules often change during the first few weeks of school, it is expected that CP and Honors students will be prepared to test on summer reading during the first week of school regardless of which semester they are currently enrolled in English.
English 9 Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman Ernest J. Gaines Clover. A Novel Dori Sanders Great Expectations Charles Dickens I Heard the Owl Call My Name Margaret Craven I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou Jacob Have I Loved Katherine Paterson The Pearl John Steinbeck Cold Sassy Tree Olive Ann Burns The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates Wes Moore
English 10 The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Emmuska Orczy Hiroshima John Hersey Siddhartha Herman Hesse The Stranger Albert Camus The Iliad Homer Cyrano de Bergerac Edmond Rostand Ender's Game Orson Scott Card
English 11 Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe The Color Purple Alice Walker As I Lay Dying William Faulkner Pudd'nhead Wilson Mark Twain Native Son Richard Wright Beloved Toni Morrison Ferris Beach Jill McCorkle Red Prophet Orson Scott Card
English 12 The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien Angela's Ashes Frank McCourt Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad Passage to India E.M. Forster Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson
All AP English Students: READ and Please NOTE the Following! All AP English students are expected to complete a Major Works Data sheet for all novels.Please note that any outside sources used for your better understanding of these works needs to be documented or the assignment will be considered plagiarized. You are expected to cite where any additional sources were used to clarify the readings assigned. Please follow the MLA format to document any additional sources referenced for these assignments. You are expected to bring a copy of any assigned readings or novels on the first day of class. As an AP student you are expected to research and find copies of the essay and copies of the books for class.
AP English Language 11 "Resistance to Civil Government" by Henry David Thoreau http://www2.wwnorton.com/college/history/archive/resources/documents/ch13_04.htm
"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/frequentdocs/birmingham.pdf PICK TWO OUT OF THE FOLLOWING FOUR Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain The Things They Carry Tim O'Brian Native Son Richard Wright The Golden Apples Eudora Welty Complete a Major Works Data sheet for both novels and read both essays, and type a brief description of the author's purpose and describe their use of tone and syntax
AP English Literature 12 : All Work is Due the 1st day of AP English 12 1. You must read two works. You may select from the works below and from the English 12 list on this page for honors. Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger Grendel John Gardner Kite Runner Khaled Hosseinl 2. Write an essay for each book addressing the following prompt (two typed essays 500 words). Frequently a work of literature will concern itself with a major transformation in a character. Write a well-organized essay in which you discuss the nature of the transformation and its relationship to character and theme. (Question from 5 Steps to a Five on the AP English Literature Exam) 3. You must also complete a "Major Works Data Sheet" for each novel. This document is linked to the Summer Reading WebPage below this text box. Mrs. Davis has the rubric that will be used to grade the essays on her page.
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