Friday, May 28, 2010

English, AP American History/AP Spanish - Required Summer Reading

The following required reading needs to be completed BEFORE the first day of class. Students will be quizzed during the first weeks of class.

ENGLISH
9th Honors
Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

10th Honors
Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate
James McBride, The Color of Water

11th Honors
Sebastian Junger, The Perfect Storm
Julia Alvarez, In the Time of Butterflies

11th AP
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Flannery O'Connor, The Complete Stories
Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

12th Honors
Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
Ian McEwen, Atonement

12th AP
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
Alice Walker, The Color Purple
Michael Frayn, Spies

AP AMERICAN HISTORY
David McCullough, John Adams
AP SPANISH
Rudolfo Anaya, Bendiceme, Ultima