SUMMER READING REQUIREMENTS
| English Honors I (9th grade incoming freshmen) | |
| Alas, Babylon! by Pat Frank | |
| Death Be Not Proud, by John Gunther | |
| To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee | |
| 10th Grade English Honors | |
| A Tale of Two Cities, by Pat Frank | |
| All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Remarque | |
| Watership Down, by Richard Adams | |
| 11th Grade English Honors | |
| The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
| A Lesson Before Dying, by Ernest J. Gaines | |
| The Bean Trees, by Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 12th Grade English Honors | |
| Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse | |
| 1984, by George Orwell | |
| Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte | |
| AP Literature and Language |
| Total of 4 books |
| Mythology, by Edith Hamilton |
1984, by George Orwell |
| Choose ONE of these three: |
| The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver |
| Beloved, by Toni Morrison |
| Hard Times, by Charles Dickens |
* Read 1 biography OR 1 autobiography. |
| * The choice is yours as to what the individual book is about. |
| * Text and individual should be worthy of an AP class. |
| Incoming 9th Grade Pre IB Summer Reading and Research Assignments |
| Alas, Babylon!, by Pat Frank |
| AND...a non-fiction work of your choice, that you believe runs |
| parallel to the themes or social/political issues presented in |
| Alas, Babylon!. This non-fiction book can be any type of the following: |
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| * an historical study but not a history textbook |
| * a biography or an autobiography |
| * a collection of essays |
| * a collection of letters |
| * a commentary on or criticism of the post World War II |
| nuclear threat or modern dystopia |
| YOU DECIDE WHICH TYPE OF NON-FICTION BOOK TO READ. |
