Summer Assignments
English 10
Summer Reading 2012-2013
English 2204-2206
Our summer reading program encourages students to read throughout the summer and is meant to reinforce the literature program during the school year. We strongly recommend that you become an active reader while reading these summer selections—take notes and highlight key passages as you read the assigned stories. This behavior will help you become a more capable reader and your notations will serve as a valuable tool when studying for tests.
Before next fall, each student is responsible for having read the book or books assigned to his class. Honors classes have an additional web search. Testing and writing about these books will be done during the first week of school and will not be prefaced by a review. The examinations over the text(s) or web searches will test the students’ comprehension of the main ideas relating to each assignment; each test will count as a MAJOR GRADE. It is important that each student complete the reading of the book(s) over the summer, as the test will be administered on the second or third day of school. Moreover, the summer readings will be used as discussion pieces throughout the year as they relate to various assignments and contexts of the class.
English 2204
Assigned Text:
Castaway Kid by R.B. Mitchell
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English 2206
Assigned Text:
1)Castaway Kid by R.B. Mitchell
2) Research Paper Book of Choice: In addition to Castaway Kid, Honors students will read a book for their major research paper which will be written during the 1st Quarter. The book must come from the provided list and be approved by Mrs. Conger and Mrs. Neal.
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10th Grade Research Paper Reading List
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Angelou, Maya
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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Baldwin, James
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
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Buck Pearl S.
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The Good Earth
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Camus, Albert
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The Stranger
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Cervantes, Miguel
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Don Quixote
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Chekhov, Anton
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The Cherry Orchard
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Conrad, Joseph
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Heart of Darkness
The Secret Sharer
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Defoe, Daniel
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Moll Flanders
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Dreiser, Theodore
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Sister Carrie
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Eliot, George
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Middlemarch
Mill on the Floss
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Eliot, T.S
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.Murder in the Cathedral
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Ellison, Ralph
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Invisible Man
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Euripides
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Medea
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Faulkner, William
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As I Lay Dying
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Forster, E.M.
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A Passage to India
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Hardy, Thomas
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Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Return of the Native
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Hemingway, Ernest
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A Farewell to Arms
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Hurston, Zora Neale
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Huxley, Aldous
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Brave New World
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Ibsen, Henrik
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Hedda Gabler
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James, Henry
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The American
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Knowles, John
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A Separate Peace
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Marlow, Christopher
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Dr. Faustus
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McCarthy, Cormac
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All the Pretty Horses
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McCullers, Carson
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Member of the Wedding
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Melville, Herman
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Moby-Dick
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More, Sir Thomas
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Utopia
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Morrison, Toni
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Beloved
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O'Neill, Eugene
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Mourning Becomes Electra
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Pasternak, Boris
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Doctor Zhivago
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Paton, Alan
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Cry the Beloved Country
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Remarque
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All Quiet on the Western Front
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Rostand, Edmond
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Cyrano de Bergerac
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Shakespeare, William
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All’s Well That Ends Well
As You Like It
Hamlet
King Lear
Merchant of Venice
Much Ado about Nothing
Othello
Taming of the Shrew
Tempest
Twelfth Night
Two Gentlemen of Verona
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Shaw, George Bernard
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Saint Joan
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Sinclair, Upton
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The Jungle
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Stowe, Harriet Beecher
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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Tolstoy, Leo
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Anna Karenina
War and Peace
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Twain, Mark
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Tom Sawyer
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Wharton, Edith
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The House of Mirth
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Wilde, Oscar
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The Importance of Being Earnest
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Our Town
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Williams, Tennessee
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The Glass Menagerie
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Wright, Richard
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Native Son
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I allow abridged versions of the extremely long novels like Don Quixote for example. I also recommend that student read the No Fear Shakespeare versions of any of Shakespeare’s plays. These books have the entire original play as well as the entire play in modern English. I recommend reading the modern English version to aid in comprehension. It is difficult to write an in-depth analysis of a drama without any understanding of what happened. If you have any questions, please email me at arneal@briarcrest.com or call me at 901-606-8647.
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