Required Summer Reading Lists Options

[straynote]

slaughterhouse-five.

i LOVE slaughterhouse-five

i adore kurt vonnegut.

though cat's cradle is better (in my opinion)


i want to go to your school
where vonnegut is required.

[freeflow]

I just have to read Jane Eyre.

[lojay]

For Honors English 10, we have to read To Kill A Mockingbird and Warriors Don't Cry. Plus, there's this FAT packet of work to go along with it.

Like other people on here I'm taking AP English.
So they're making me read:

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
A Lesson Before Dying
Catcher in the Rye
The Glass Menagerie
A Farewell to Arms

Dang, we had to read To Kill A Mockingbird and Catcher in The Rye for regular sophomore English -- not during the summer, during the class. Personally, I didn't like To Kill A Mockingbird, but then again I only read about half of it... As for Catcher in The Rye... Most people love it or hate it, personally, I thought it was good for a school read.

only remember 3 selections: catch me if you can, maus, and secret life of bees. i already have catch me if you can at my house so i'm probably doing that one. though, maus seems pretty cool.

I would suggest Secret Life of Bees. I just read that last month for my Contemporary American Lit class; it was such an easy read, and the book was pretty good. It has so much symbolism, it's ridiculous. If you need any help with some of it, you can google my school's site, they had a weblog for that book. Just google HCRHS Secret Life of Bees weblog.

[jennaaa]

I just took it from the Summer Reading thread in School.

I have five books.
I'm going to be a sophomore.

Honors English:

• Portrait of Dorian Gray
• Jane Eyre
• Silas Marner
• The Scarlet Pimpernel

and

AP Euro:
Either A History of the World in Six Glasses, A Distant Mirror: the Calamitous 14th Century, or A World Lit Only by Fire.

[angelrevelation]

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (heard it was creepy)
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

Not all too excited but at least I'll have some more classics under my belt.

Thankfully there's no real work. We just have to keep a journal of our reflections.

[Jeng]

Well right now I have to read 3, 2 fromthe list and one on my own.
At the moment I am reading:
The French Luitenents woman [sp] I know.
and another one but it wasn't at the library

[aznxRawr]

Honors English 11 for Junior year list:

Two books for the class curriculum itself
- Othello by Shakespeare
- To the Lighthouse by Virginia Wolfe

Two books for the entire Junior class to read
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

And one book for the entire school
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Finished the Little Prince, I enjoyed it . I'm reading Things Fall Apart right now.

[Crash2]

Senior AP English:

Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

I've finished the first one... it was good, but wasn't one of my favorites.