SUMMER READING PROJECT – ENGLISH

SENIORS – Advanced Placement Literature and Composition Class and Honors Classes

General Directions: Read two literary works of fiction and one nonfiction book from the list below, for a total of three books. Be sure that you read titles listed for your grade level as of September; ask the librarian if you are unsure. When reporting on your book, carefully follow the directions given for the system of reporting that your chose.

Due Date: Your reports are due to your English teacher by Monday, September 10, 2012. The mark you earn will count as ten points towards your first marking period report card grade.

Fiction

Directions for Fiction: Choose two titles that you have not previously read from the list below. Read the works carefully, closely, and thoughtfully, looking up words with which you are unfamiliar. In a three-page double-spaced essay, compare and contrast a major theme, or character or conflict in both works. Maintain an ongoing record of new vocabulary words; include the word, part of speech, and definition. This must be submitted with your essay.

Fiction

Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights

Kate Chopin: The Awakening

Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist

Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Brothers Karamazov

Euripides, Medea

Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D’Ubervilles

Christopher Marlow: Dr. Faustus

Ian McEwan: Atonement

Herman Melville: Billy Budd

Philip Roth: American Pastoral

John Steinbeck: Travels with Charley

Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina

Robert Penn Warren: All the King’s Men

Richard Wright: Native Son

Nonfiction

Directions: Read one work of nonfiction. Use one of the “Methods of Reporting on Your Summer Reading for English” to complete this portion of your project.

Nonfiction

Arthur Ashe: Days of Grace

Joel Best: Damned Lies and Statistics

Joseph Campbell: The Power of Myth

Da Chen: Sounds of the River: A Young Man’s University Days in

Beijing

Guy Delisle: Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea

Dave Eggers: What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak

Deng

David Halberstam: Summer of ‘49

Stephen Hawking: A Brief History of Time

Deborah Landis: Dressed: A Century of Hollywood Costume Design

Erik Larson: Lethal Passage

Barack Obama: Dreams of My Father

Mary Roach: Stiff

Marjane Satrapi: The Complete Persepolis

Charles Whelan: Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science