Ninth Grade - Read any one book by authors listed below:

• Maya Angelou            David Baldacci
• Willa Cather               Nancy Farmer
• Ernest Hemingway  Madeleine L'Engle
• Walter Dean Myers  Mark Twain
• H. G. Wells

Ninth Grade - Honors - complete both

1. Read Mythology by Edith Hamilton

2. Read The Pearl by John Steinbeck

Tenth Grade - Read any one of the following books:

• The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
• Kitchen God's Wife or Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

Tenth Grade - Honors - complete both

1. Read The Color of Water by James McBride

2.Read Life of Pi by Yann Martell or The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Eleventh Grade - Read one of the following novels:

• Fahrenheit by Ray Bradbury
• Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
• My Antonia by Willa Cather
• The Awakening by Kate Chopin
• Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest Gaines

Eleventh Grade - Honors - complete both

1. Read five sources about life in Puritan New England in the 1600's.

2. Read The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Twelfth Grade - Read one of the following novels:

• Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
• All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

Twelfth Grade - Honors - complete both

1. The Once and Future King by T.H. White

2. The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

AP Language - complete both

1. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

2. The Sound and Fury by William Faulkner

AP Literature - complete both

1. Research & write a paper about one of the following:

  a. feminist perspective  c. deconstructional perspective

  b. Marxist perspective    d. psychoanalytical perspective

2. Read a novel by one of the authors listed below: See Guidance Department at school for list.