2008 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 2008-2009 school year 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 or RK News or order online
*Honors English 9 Summer Assignment
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
OR
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
*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
*AP 11 Language and Composition (Summer Assignment)
The World is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the 21st Century by Thomas Friedman
Honors English World Literature and Composition Summer Assignment
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah (paperwork available in August)
This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women Edited by Jay Allison and Dan Gediman
Summer Viewing: Julius Cesear (Charlston Heston version)
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
*Composition 12 Honors Summer Assignment
1984 by George Orwell AND
Hamlet (summer viewing) the Mel Gibson version
The Plague by Albert Camus 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 Brown OR
The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
Word document: Summer Reading 2008-2009.doc
PDF Format: Summer Reading 2008-2009.pdf
