Readings for American Literature (10^th English)

B. Martin

Summer Reading

Required

The Catcher In the Rye Salinger 0316769487

Lord of the Flies Golding 0399501487

Choose one

Adrift Callahan 0618257322

or

The House on Mango Street Cisneros 067943335X

School Year

Text:

Adventures in American Literature

Pegasus Edition Harcourt 0-15-334854-2

Any edition is acceptable

Novels to be purchased to be read as part of the class:

The Scarlet Letter Hawthorne 0-553-21009-2

The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail Lawrence and Lee 0-553-27838-X

The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald 0684801523

The Grapes of Wrath Steinbeck 0-14-004239-3

Assignment

Respond in the Writers’ Notebook at least three times for each of the three summer books. Entries may be a paragraph to as much as you feel like writing. It is your response to what you have read. You may illustrate as long as it is explained.

Note to Parents

The Catcher In the Rye has some explicit language, and you may want to discuss this with your student. However, it is considered a classic for American Literature in all schools.