HONORS and ADVANCED PLACEMENT OUTSIDE READINGS

2007-2008

Bearden High School

Contact school (539-7800) for assignment directions

Honors 9:

• A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Shakespeare (Challenging)
• The Crucible by Arthur Miller
• Anthem by Ayn Rand
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck *

Choose one of the following:

• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd *
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence

Honors 10

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
• The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

AP 11:

• Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger *
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• Native Son by Richard Wright *
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Choose one of the followin:

• The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien *
• Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Hurston

AP 12:

• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• Beloved by Toni Morrison *
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck *
• Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (Challenging)

College Credit – English 12:

• How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas Foster

*Warning:  Language and/or themes may be objectionable