CHAPARRAL ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
SUMMER READING FOR 2009-2010
FRESHMEN
English I-All teachers/All classes (except Honors). You will be assessed on these novels during the first week of school.
CHOOSE ONE NOVEL:
The House of the Scorpion Nancy Farmer
OR
Life As We Knew It Susan Beth Pfeffer
English I Honors-Read all of the assigned novels.
NOVELS:
Great Expectations Charles Dickens
The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway
A Separate Peace John Knowles
SOPHOMORES
English II-All teachers/All classes (except Honors). You will be assessed on these novels during the first week of school.
CHOOSE ONE NOVEL:
The Curious Incident of the Dog
in the Night-Time Mark Haddon
OR
Light on Snow Anita Shreve
English II Honors-Read all of the assigned novels.
NOVELS:
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
Brave New World Aldous Huxley
Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson
Gulliver’s Travels Jonathan Swift
JUNIORS
English III- All teachers/All classes (except Honors). You will be assessed on these novels during the first week of school.
CHOOSE ONE NOVEL:
Judgment Ridge (nonfiction) Dick Lehr and Mitchell Zuckoff
OR
Peace Breaks Out John Knowles
English III Honors-Read all of the assigned novels and play.
NOVELS:
A Lesson Before Dying Ernest Gaines
Ellen Foster Kaye Gibbons
A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway
PLAY:
The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams
SENIORS
English IV-All teachers/All classes (except Honors/AP). You will be assessed on these novels during the first week of school.
CHOOSE ONE NOVEL:
Long Way Down Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman
OR
Grendel John Gardner
OR
The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkein
English IV AP-Read all of the assigned novels and view the film.
NOVELS:
About a Boy Nick Hornby
The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver
Black Boy* Richard Wright
*Be sure to read parts one and two: “Southern Nights” and “The Horror and the Glory.”
Some editions are called Black Boy, but only have part one.
MOVIE:
Much
