Summer Reading/In-Class Major
Works/Texts:
Pre-IB English
9
Summer: Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan and Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolpho Anaya (Test first week of school on both.)
During Course: Black
Boy, The Grapes of Wrath, The Great Gatsby, The
Scarlet Letter
Primary Text: McDougal Littell American Lit.
English 10
Enhancement / Honors [Pre AP] English 10
Summer: The Pearl (Available in Adventures in Appreciation Text); From the Hebrew Scriptures (to be read from any established translation as Literature only): Genesis 1-3; Psalms 22, 23, 119; Ecclesiastes 3; Ruth. Students will be tested first week of class on all summer reading.
During Course: Macbeth,
The Great Gatsby, The Grapes of Wrath, The Catcher in
the
Primary Text: Adventures
in Appreciation
AP English
Language
Summer: Black Boy by Richard Wright and Night by Elie Wiesel (Test 1st week of school on both).
During Course: All Essays/Speeches from The Language of Composition, Some speeches on Audio and Video, Documentary Film Unit.
Primary Text: The
Language of Composition