2012 Summer Reading and Writing for Choctawhatchee High School Students 9-12
All high school students are required to complete the following summer reading assignments prior to school in August. Please complete the accompanying assignments and turn in the first day of school. Be prepared to succeed; READ and WRITE!
Requirements
Students in grades 9-10 English must read TWO Books from the grade level list.
Students in grades 11-12 ENGLISH must read TWO BOOKS from the grade level list and accomplish TWO of the writing assignments listed below.
Students enrolled in AP or IB ENGLISH will receive a separate summer reading list.
9th Grade:
Fallen Angels, Walter Dean Myers
Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson
Autobiography of a Face, Lucy Grealy
Maus I and II, Art Spiegelman
The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch
Feed, M.T. Anderson
Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie, David Lubar
We Beat the Street, Davis, Jenkins, Hunt, & Draper
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
Call of the Wild, Jack London
The Invisible Man, H.G. Wells
A Soldier’s Play, Charles Fuller
“The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.” ~ Mark Twain
The Hot Zone, Richard Preston
The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
Slaughterhouse‐Five, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
10th Grade:
Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom
The Book Thief, Marcus Zusak
Bleachers, John Grisham
The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
Powers, Ursula K. Le Guin
The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
Way Past Cool, Jess Mowry
The Curious Incident of a Dog in the
Night‐Time,Mark Haddon
Anthem, Ayn Rand
Cry, The Beloved Country, Alan Paton
The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger
A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
Black Boy, Richard Wright
The Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper
The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
11th Grade:
Tortilla Flat, John Steinbeck
The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
The Color Purple, Alice Walker
Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card
The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
The Water is Wide, Pat Conroy
Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier
Up From Slavery, Booker T. Washington
Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
Native Son, Richard Wright
The Awakening, Kate Chopin
In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
Long Day’s Journey into Night, Eugene O’Neill
A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
12th Grade:
Catch‐22, Joseph Heller
Fences, August Wilson
1984,George Orwell
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
East of Eden, John Steinbeck
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
Life of Pi, Yann Martel
Senioritis, Tate Thompson
Beloved, Toni Morrison
Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
The Salt Eaters, Toni Cade Bambara
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey
The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston
The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
The Fault in our Stars, John Green
English I-IV, Regular and Honors 2012 Summer Reading
Choose one of the following assignments per novel.
Two of these assignments are due August 24th, 2012
Write an advice column to one of the minor characters in the novel.
- Using information about the chosen character, write an advice column like you would see in a newspaper. The column must include the character’s name, 2 physical characteristics and 2 personality traits. The column should pertain to the novel’s conflict. You must have 3 advice columns written in INK or typed.
Write a resume for the protagonist in the novel.
- Modeling a resume format, write a generic resume for the protagonist in the novel. The resume must include background information, education (if applicable), character attributes that would be ideal for hiring, and a minimum of one interesting fact. This resume should be no longer than one full page and written in INK or typed.
Create a Facebook page for the protagonist or antagonist in the novel.
- Include a picture, name, friends (characters in the book), a minimum of 5 wall posts that relate to the book, a quote by the chosen character, and an applicable status update.
Analyze 10 notable quotes from the chosen novel.
- Label and interpret the meaning of each quote. How can each quote be applied to the overall theme of the novel? This should be written in ink or typed.
Write an alternate resolution for the chosen novel.
- Using information from text, write an alternate ending to the novel. This new chapter could either pick up where the previous chapter left off, or give us a future glimpse into where the characters are now. Your chapter should be 300-500 words in ink or typed.