* The summer reading assignment will provide students with the opportunity to select enrichment readings and allow them to prepare for the increased expectations that are inherent to upper level course work.* Parental input should be a component of students’ selections. Students should be sure to choose works that are right for them by consulting parents, teachers and local librarians for their recommendations. Parents can access book reviews using any Internet search engine (Yahoo, Search.com, Google), or by accessing any online book distributor.
* English 12 students will be required to read two (2) books: one require reading title and one work of the student’s choice from the attached list.
The English 12 required title is:
Cat’s Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
* Students must post a comment for the two book under the appropriate discussion topics.
Optional Twelfth Grade List
Snow in August, Pete Hamill
Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
Moby Dick, Melville
Walden, Thoreau
Oedipus, Sophocles
Lesson Before Dying, E. Gaines
Siddhartha, Herman Hesse
This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Travels with Charley, John Steinbeck
Catch 22, Joseph Heller
Born on the Fourth of July, Ron Kovic
Native Son, Richard Wright
Debt of Honor, Tom Clancy
Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
One True Thing, Anna Quindlen
Seize the Day, Saul Bellow
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig
Down These Mean Streets, Piri Thomas
Celestine Prophecy, James Redfield
In the Year of the Bull... Rick Telander
The Great Santini, Pat Conroy
Time Line, Michael Crichton
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Tom Stoppard
Junction Boys, Jim Dent
My Losing Season, Pat Conroy
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