2007 Summer Reading

Dear Tremper Student:

As the summer vacation begins and you find yourself getting bored, check your local library or bookstore and do your recommended and required reading for the 2007-2008 school years in English.  The books, which are listed below, are categorized by course.  During the opening week of school, the book will be discussed, written about, and tested.  It is recommended that you purchase the required book and mark the text as you read.

*Books at the Advanced Placement (AP) and HONORS level are required summer reading.
*Books at the average level will receive 2 percentage points on the semester grade.
*Books are available at Barnes & Noble in Racine or order online

Freshman Class

*Honors English 9 Summer Assignment
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

English 9 Regular

The House on Mango Street   by Sandra Cisneros OR
The Old Man and the Sea   by Ernest Hemingway

Sophomore Class

*Honors English American Literature and Composition

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Summer Assignment

English 10 Regular: American Literature and Composition
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin OR
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller OR
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

Junior Class

*AP 11 Language and Composition Summer Assignment
Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene

Honors English World Literature and Composition Summer Assignment
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah

English 11 Regular: World Literature and Composition
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson OR
Dracula by Bram Stoker OR
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt OR
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Senior Class

*Composition 12 Honors Summer Assignment
1984 by George Orwell AND
Hamlet (summer viewing) the Mel Gibson version

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Summer Assignment

*Literature 12 Honors Summer Assignment
*The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

*Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Literature 12 Regular
DaVinci Code by Dan BrownOR The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton

Word document: Summer Reading 2007-2008.doc

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