Summer Reading
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT REQUIRED SUMMER READING
Students entering the following grades and English classes must read the indicated books during the summer. During the first weeks of school, English teachers will require all students to deliver oral or written projects/reports on the books they have read.
ENG 9 and ENG 9 Honors
*American Born
Chinese –
Gene
Yuen Lang
*Brown Girl
Dreaming
–
Jacqueline Woodson
A Tree Grows in
Brooklyn
– Betty Smith
ENG 10
Emma – Jane Austen
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
ENG 10 Honors
Emma – Jane Austen
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
ENG 11
[Choose
TWO of five]
The
Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
– E. Lockhart
Eleanor
and Park
– Rainbow Rowell
Fangirl – Rainbow
Rowell
Fetch:
How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home
– Nicole J. Georges
The
Poet X
– Elizabeth Acevedo
11th Grade: AP English Language
Fiction:
Choose one.
The
Glass Menagerie
– Tennessee Williams
A
Streetcar Named Desire
– Tennessee Williams
Death
of a Salesman
– Arthur Miller
Nonfiction:
Choose one.
Bird
by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
– Anne Lamont
The
Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez
– Richard Rodriguez
Amusing Ourselves to Death – Neal Postman
Assignment
available via Dr. Amaya-Anderson
bamaya-anderson@ramonaconvent.org
English 12
(Please
read all three):
Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
The
Virgin Suicides
– Jeffrey Eugenides
One
“Mentor” Book – Ask a trusted adult that you look up to about a book that had a
powerful effect on him or her as a teenager. Read that book, and then have a
conversation with that trusted adult on what you read and what you thought
about it. Be prepared to share about the book you choose when you return in the
fall!
12th Grade: AP English Literature
Assignment
available via Dr. Vincent
mvincent@ramonaconvent.org