MAY, 2009
SUMMER READING For Upper School “There is no $igate like a book...�
-- Emily Dickinson
Rising 9th and 10th grade students: Read actively and mark your book(s) with thoughtful annotations. Annotations can include, but are not limited to, definitions of unknown words, interpretations of symbols, and questions about confusing passages. Select one quote $om each chapter (include page number where the quote is found), and write the quote on the first page of the chapter. Upon returning to school, you wi& be expected to be conversant with the text and should reference the significant quotes you selected. You should also expect to participate in activities, write creatively or analytica&y, and even take a test.
English 9 Required Reading The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
English 10 Required Reading 1984 by George Orwell
Rising 11th and 12th grade students: Read actively and mark your book with thoughtful annotations. Annotations can include, but are not limited to, definitions of unknown words, interpretations of symbols, and questions about confusing passages. Select and copy a passage of at least one fu& sentence in length for every 50 pages you read. A'er choosing a significant passage to copy, write a reflection on that passage. Select important passages that develop themes or characters; establish setting, mood, or tone; or advance plot. Each reflection should be typed, double-spaced, and at least a page in length. Upon returning to school, you wi& be expected to be conversant with the book and must submit your reflections. Teachers wi& also create activities, assign papers, and/or test students on the summer reading.
English 11 Required Reading Kindred by Octavia Butler
AP English Language and Composition Required Reading Kindred by Octavia Butler East of Eden by John Steinbeck
English 12 Required Reading Bel Canto by Ann Patchett Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
English 12 Required Reading Bel Canto by Ann Patchett Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
MAY, 2009 The Atlanta Girls’ School English department hopes to inspire its students to become lifetime readers, so we are careful to choose required books both for their literary merit as well as for their appealing themes. The following list contains additional reading suggestions for summer readers. Research shows that reading improves with practice, so choose as many of these books as you can find time for. Have fun. Adams, Richard, Watership Down Agee, James, A Death in the Family Alvarez, Julia, In the Time of the Butterflies Anaya, Rudolfo, Bless Me, Ultima Anderson, Sherwood, Winesberg, Ohio Baldwin, James, Go Tell it on the Mountain Barry, Lynda, One Hundred Demons Bolt, Robert, A Man for All Seasons Bronte, Charlotte, Jane Eyre Burns, Olive Ann, Cold Sassy Tree Cather, Willa, My Antonia, O Pioneers!, Death Comes For the Archbishop Chang, Jung, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China Christie, Agatha, And Then There Were None Clark, Walter Van Tilburg, The Ox-Bow Incident Pat Conroy, The Great Santini Cormier, Robert, The Chocolate War Doctorow, E. L., Ragtime, The March Dorris, Michael, A Yellow Raft in Blue Water DeLillo, Don, White Noise Esquivel, Laura, Like Water for Chocolate Faulkner, William, The Unvanquished, As I Lay Dying Fitzgerald, Scott F., This Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night Forster, E.M., A Passage to India Frazier, Charles, Cold Mountain Garcia, Cristina, Dreaming in Cuban Gaines, Ernest J., A Lesson Before Dying Ghosh, Amitov, The Circle of Reason Gopnik, Adam, Paris to the Moon Gordon, Mary, The Company of Women, Final Payments Greene, Graham, The Quiet American Gulland, Sandra, The Last Great Dance on Earth Guterson, David, Snow Falling on Cedars Heller, Joseph, Catch-22 Hemingway, Ernest, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls Hosseini, Kahled,, The Kite Runner Huxley, Aldous, Brave New World Irving, John, A Prayer for Owen Meany James, Henry, The Turn of the Screw Jones, Edward, The Known World Kesey, Ken, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Kincaid, Jamaica Annie John Kingsolver, Barbara, Prodigal Summer
Kingston, Maxine Hong Woman Warrior Krakauer, John, Into the Wild, Into Thin Air Lahiri, Jhumpa, Namesake Letts, Billie, Where the Heart Is Lewis, C. S., The Screwtape Letters, Main Street Malamud, Bernard, The Natural, The Fixer Mayle, Peter, French Lessons Maugham, W. Somerset, The Razor’s Edge McBride, James, The Color of Water McCourt, Frank, Angela’s Ashes McCullers, Carson, A Member of the Wedding McEwan, Ian, Atonement Melville, Herman Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street, Moby Dick Morrison, Toni, Sula, Song of Solomon, Mukherjee, Bharti, Jasmine Naipaul, V.S., A Bend in the River Naylor, Gloria, Mama Day Nichols, John, The Wizard of Loneliness Ondaatje, Michael, The English Patient Orwell, George, Animal Farm Parks, Gordon, The Learning Tree Plath, Sylvia, The Bell Jar Poe, Edgar Allan, Great Tales and Poems Potok, Chaim, My Name is Asher Lev Rand, Ayn, Anthem, Atlas Shrugged Roth, Phillips, Goodbye, Colombus Shaara, Michael, Killer Angels Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein Sinclair, Upton, The Jungle Steinbeck, John, The Grapes of Wrath Stewart, Mary, The Crystal Cave Stowe, Harriet Beecher, Uncle Tom’s Cabin Tan, Amy, The Kitchen God’s Wife Tsukiyama, Gail, The Samurai’s Garden Tyler, Anne, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Vonnegut, Kurt, Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat’s Cradle Walker, Alice, The Color Purple Warren, Robert Penn All the King’s Men Welch, James, Fools Crow Wells, H. G. The Time Machine Welty, Eudora, Thirteen Stories, One Writer’s Beginnings West, Nathaniel, Miss Lonely Hearts Wharton, Edith, The Age of Innocence, Ethan Frome White, T.H., The Once and Future King Wolfe, Thomas, Look Homeward, Angel Wright, Richard, Native Son