Mandatory Summer Reading List
2007

Summer reading is mandatory for all Durfee High School students. The intent of summer reading is to continue the literacy skills of all students during the summer break. Students are encouraged to keep a journal of their reading so that they will be able to review prior to their class presentation.

Students are required to prepare a poster or collage depicting one of the following:

1. the theme or themes of a book they read
2. a character from the book and an event the character took part in
3. an incident that happened in the book

The poster should have written on it:

1. the name of the person who created the poster
2. the title of the book and its author

Students should be prepared to discuss their project in class during the first weeks of school.

The summer reading addresses the English Language Arts Standards:

ELA Standard 3: Oral Presentations: Students will make oral presentations that demonstrate appropriate consideration of audience, purpose, and the information to be conveyed.

ELA Standard 8: Understanding a text: Students will identify the basic facts and main ideas in a text and use them as the basis for interpretation.

ELA Standard 11: Theme: Students will identify, analyze and apply knowledge of the theme of a literary work and provide evidence from the text to support their understanding.

Books may be borrowed from the Fall River Public Library and its branches, or may be purchased at area book stores such as Barnes & Noble, Baker Books, Annie's Bookstore, etc.

ENTERING GRADE 9

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Twain
An American Childhood Dillard
Anne Frank Remembered Gies
As You Like It Shakespeare
Autobiography of Malcolm X Malcolm/Haley
Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman Gaines
Babyface Fox
Black Like Me Griffin
The Cat Ate My Gymsuit Danziger
The Chamber Grisham
Children of the River Crew
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Twain
The Contender Lipsyte
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time Haddon
David Copperfield Dickens
Downriver Hobbs
Dracula Stoker
Durango Street Bonham
Ender's Game Card
Ender's Shadow Card
Fallen Angels Myers
The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien
The Five People You Meet in Heaven Albom
Goodbye, Mr. Chips Hilton
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Rowling
The Hobbit Tolkien
Hole in My Life Gantos
Holes Sacher
Hoops Myers
The House on Mango Street Cisneros
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Angelou
Into Thin Air Krakauer
The Invisible Man Wells
Ironman Crutcher
The Little Prince Saint-Exupéry
Jane Eyre Brontë
Joy Luck Club Tan
A Lesson Before Dying Gains
The Martian Chronicles Bradbury
Monster Myers
The Natural Malamud
The Old Man and the Sea Hemingway
Oliver Twist Dickens
The Once and Future King White
Ordinary People Guest
The Ox-bow Incident Clark
Pardon Me, You're Stepping on My Eyeball Zindel
Pilot Down, Presumed Dead Phleger
The Prince and the Pauper Twain
Profiles in Courage Kennedy
Rescue Meltzer
Robinson Crusoe Defoe
Running Loose Crutcher
Seabiscuit: An American Legend Hillenbrand
Seventeenth Summer Daly
Shoeless Joe Kinsella
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Brashears
Snow in August Hamill
Something Wicked This Way Comes Bradbury
The Stand King
Stranger With My Face Duncan
The Sword in the Stone White
Tenderness: A Novel Cormier
Through a Window; My 30 Years with the Chimpanzees Goodall
Watership Down Adams
Whale Talk Cormier
While My Pretty One Sleeps Clark
Wish You Well Bradbury

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ENTERING GRADE 10

Around the World in Eighty Days Verne
Babe Cramer
Black Like Me Griffin
Cat's Cradle Vonnegut
Chinese Handcuffs Crutcher
The Chosen Potok
The Color Purple Walker
The Count of Monte Cristo Dumas
The Crystal Cave Stewart
Death Be Not Proud Gunther
The Dispossed LeGuin
A Farewell to Arms Hemingway
The Fifth Chinese Daughter Wong
Founding Mothers Cokie
Friday Night Lights Bissinger
Giants in the Earth: a Saga of the Prairie Rølvaag
Girl with a Pearl Earring Chevalier
Golden Apples Welty
The Grapes of Wrath Steinbeck
Growing Up Baker
Hot Zone Preston
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Alvarez
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Angelou
I, Robot Asimov
If Beale Street Could Talk Baldwin
In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle Blais
The Illustrated Man Bradbury
The Last Best League Collins
The Last Train to Memphis: the Rise of Elvis Presley Guralnic
Life of Pi Martel
Lisa Bright and Dark Neufield
The Lords of Discipline Conroy
The Lovely Bones Sebold
1984 Orwell
On the Street Where You Live Clark
Peace Like a River Enger
The Prince of Tides Conroy
Rifles for Watie Keith
The Right Stuff Wolfe
Rocket Boys: A Memoir Hickham
Savage Inequalities Kozol
The Secret Life of Bees Kidd
Sense and Sensibility Austen
Sound of Waves Mushima
A Streetcar Named Desire Williams
The Summons Grisham
The Tao of Pooh Hoff
10th Grade Weisberg
Tess of the D'Urbervilles Hardy
Their Eyes Were Watching God Hurston
Tuesdays With Morrie Albom
Voices from Vietnam Denenberg
While My Pretty One Sleeps Clark
White Oleander Fitch
Wuthering Heights Brontë
Women of the Silk Tsukiyama

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ENTERING GRADE 11

All Souls McDonald
All the King's Men Penn Warren
Andromeda Strain Crichton
Angels in America Kushner
Ball Four Bouton
The Bean Trees Kingsolver
The Bee Season Goldberg
Brave New World Huxley
Breathing Underwater Flinn
Childhood's End Clarke
Cold Mountain Frazier
The Day Lincoln Was Shot Bisho
Dracula Stoker
East of Eden Steinbeck
The Eater Benford
Flyy Girl Tyree
For Whom the Bell Tolls Hemingway
Franny and Zooey Salinger
Generation X Coupland
The Greatest Generation Brokaw
Grendel Gardner
Gullivers's Travels Swift
Hard Love Wittlinger
Heart of Darkness Conrad
In Cold Blood Capote
In the Heart of the Sea Philbrick
The Invisible Man Ellison
Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Baseball Simon
Jewel Lott
John Adams McCullough
Jurassic Park Crichton
The Kite Runner Hosseini
Manchild in the Promised Land Brown
My Losing Season Conroy
On the Bus with Rosa Parks Dove
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Kesey
Othello Shakespeare
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Dillard
Plainsong Haruf
Profiles in Courage Kennedy
Pygmalion Shaw
Ragtime Doctorow
Red Sky at Morning Bradford
She's Come Undone Lamb
Slaughterhouse Five Vonnegut
Snow Falling on Cedars Guterson
Sophie's World Gaarder
Tales of King Arthur Malory
The Time Machine Wells
Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod Paulsen
The Women of Brewster Place Naylo
Wuthering Heights Brontë
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water Dorrier

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ENTERING GRADE 12

Age of Innocence Wharton
All the Pretty Horses McCarthy
An American Requiem Carroll
Atlas Shrugged Rand
The Bell Jar Plath
Birdsong Faulks
The Bonesetter's Daughter Tan
Catch-22 Heller
Ceremony Silko
The Chamber Grisham
Coming of Age in Mississippi Moody
Confederates in the Attic Horwitz
Crime and Punishment Dostoyevsky
The Crossing McCarthy
The Crucible Miller
The DaVinci Code Brown
The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood Wells
Doctor Zhivago Pasternak
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight Fuller
Down and Out in Paris and London Orwell
Dreams from My Father Obama
Falling Leaves Mah
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail Thompson
The Fixer Malamud
The French Lieutenant's Woman Fowles
Frankenstein Shelley
The House of the Spirits Allenade
In the Company of Men: A Woman at the Citadel Mace
I Remember Mama Van Druten
The Invisible Man Ellison
Long Walk to Freedom Mandela
Memoirs of a Geisha Golden
Native Son Wright
Obasan Kogawa
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Solzhenitsyn
A Passage to India Forster
The Power and the Glory Greene
The Prince Macchiavelli
Reading in the Dark Deane
A Raisen in the Sun Hansberry
The Rule of Four Caldwell and Thomason
Song of Solomon Morrison
Soul of a Citizen Loeb
Stones of the Sky Neruda
The Stranger Camus
The Teammates Halberstam
A Thousand Acres Smiley
Tell No One Coben
The Turn of the Screw James
Undaunted Courage Ambrose
Warriors of God: Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade Reston
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Pirsig

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AP ENGLISH

Welcome to AP English. This will be a year of rigorous investigation, analysis and appreciation of all genres of Literature. The goal of the English Department is to guide you to an expertise and confidence in your written literary evaluation.

The summer project is an introduction to the responsibility of the student to read closely, critically and respond analytically.

The summer project is based on the course requirements of the AP Curricular Requirements and Evaluation Guidelines.

"The course teaches students to write interpretation of a piece of literature that is based on a careful observation of textual details, considering the work's structure, style and themes; the social and historical values it reflects and embodies; such elements as use of figurative language, imagery, symbolism and tone."

AP Curricular Requirements Guidelines 2007

Directions:

1. Choose two novels from the BMC Durfee AP Summer List above.
2. Compose a three page critical paper on EACH book you have chosen.
3. The paper should be your analysis based on a careful observation of the theme, author's tone and the historical and social values the novel reflects.
4. The analysis should be your own thoughts and ideas.
5. DO NOT PROVIDE A SUMMARY OF THE NOVEL.
6. The title, author and purpose of your paper should be stated in the first line.
7. Present a solid, organized analysis of the reading.
8. Do not present a paper that is less than two or more than three pages.
9. Papers must be typed, double spaced and 12 point font.
10. ****The paper must be entirely your original analysis.***

Plan your summer, no paper will be accepted late.

Any questions, please see Mrs. Antonelli in the English Department Office.

Empire Falls Ricahrd Russo
So Long, See You Tomorrow William Maxwell
At Weddings and Wakes Alice McDermott
We Were the Mulvaney's Joyce Carol Oates
Hope? Barack Obama
The Reluctant Fundamentalist Moshin Hamid

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