Summer Reading 2008– English III Honors, 10th Grade
Required Text: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Students will read Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, a tale of a lawyer and his family who struggle with racial conflict in a Southern town, in preparation for the first unit in the fall. Assessment (test and essay) will follow discussion of the novel. We should complete discussion and assessment within the first three weeks of school. It is suggested that students read the work late in the summer.
Choice Text One:
Students are required to read one of the following works. Students will be required to compose an in-class essay within the first week of school. Be prepared to address significant thematic issues. Identify a minimum of three passages that reflect upon theme. (Works have been chosen in an effort to touch upon a range of interests and are based upon popular choices in recent years; several are National Book Award winners. Selections are fiction and non-fiction. Most have adult themes and situations. Parents, please assist in the selection process.) Students are asked not to read a work they have previously read.
Maritime
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, Nathaniel Philbrick
Life of Pi Yann Martel
Western/Midwestern
Any of Cormac McCarthy’s The Border Trilogy (All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain)
Kent Haruf’s Plainsong or Eventide
War/Historical
The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien
Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier
Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
Irish/ Irish-American
Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes
Alice McDermott’s Charming Billy
Holocaust
All But My Life by Gerda Weisman Klein
Survival in Auschwitz by Prino Levi
Books to be read during the year:
Julius Caesar – William Shakespeare
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
The Crucible – Arthur Miller
The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene
1984 – George Orwell
These will be purchased on the first day of school from the teacher or at the Used Book Sale.
If a student uses any sources other than the books themselves, the information must be correctly cited using the MLA format.
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