SUMMER READING REQUIREMENTS FOR GRADES 9, 11

Students are to maintain a summer reading notebook with entries for each of your selected books. This notebook should contain the following information:

• Title and author, date and country of original publication
• Brief character sketch on each of the main characters
• Outline of significant events in the novel
• Any “golden lines” which you find particularly important along with the page number of the reference
• Theme statement for the novel

Although this seems like a very easy summer assignment, this material will be vitally important during the coarse of the year. You will be writing about these works of literature beginning the first week of school. Make sure you bring your notebook to class on the first day. They will be evaluated on that day. Don’t begin the year with a failing grade in English! Have a wonderful summer and enjoy your reading. I look forward to seeing you again in August.

9^th grade

REQUIRED: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho 0062502182

Plus one of the following:

The Hobbit by J.R.R.. Tolkien

The Once and Future King by T. H. White

Skystone by Jack Whyte

“Julius Caesar” William Shakespeare

11^th Grade

REQUIRED Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle 0486282147

REQUIRED A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt 0679728228

Plus one of the following

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Frankenstein Mary Shelley

Brave New World by Aldus Huxley

Dracula by Bran Stoker

AP English

ALL ARE REQUIRED

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky