Academics
Summer 2008 Reading for English Classes
All students are expected to read at least one work from the recommended reading list, in addition to the assigned summer reading. Students should arrive in September prepared to discuss and/or write about their summer reading within the first week of school.
If you will be taking:
E-100 English I
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho, Harper San Francisco, 1993 ed. (in English), ISBN-13: 978-0061122415
The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver, Harper Perennial, 2005 ed. , ISBN-13: 978-0060786502
Students entering English I should read the first two sections of Poisonwood Bible, “Genesis” and “The Revelation,” before coming to school in September. Students should also read The Alchemist instead of an additional text from the recommended summer reading list.
E-200 English II
A Room with a View, E. M. Forster, Penguin, ISBN: 10: 0-1411-8329-2
E-300 English III
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Scribner, ISBN: 0743273567
E-340 The Hudson
Mohawk, Richard Russo, Vintage, ISBN: 0679753826
E-352 Questers Out of Time: Medieval Heroes
Don Quixote (trans. John Rutherford) , Penguin, ISBN: 0142437239
Students entering Questers Out of Time: Medieval Heroes should read Part I of Don Quixote, including the prologue, pages 11-479.
E-353 Writing Workshop: Truth to Lies
Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt, Scribner, ISBN: 978068484267
E-355 Paired Texts: Writers Under the Influence
The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri, Mariner Books, 2004 ed., ISBN: 9780618485222
E-357 Shakespearean Tragedy
Timon of Athens, William Shakespeare, Washington Square Press, ISBN: 0671479555
E-369 Playwriting
Take Ten: New 10-Minute Plays, Eric Lane and Nina Shengold, Vintage , ISBN: 0-679-77282-0
E- 376 The American South: Faulkner and His Fictional World
A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest Gaines, Vintage, ISBN: 0375702709
E- 378 Irish Literature
The Real Charlotte, E. Somerville and Martin Ross, J. S. Sanders & Co., 1999 ed., ISBN: 1879941465
E-389 Storytelling
Secret Life of Bees, Sue Kidd, Penguin, ISBN: 0143036408
