HONORS and ADVANCED PLACEMENT OUTSIDE READINGS

2007-2008

Carter High School

Contact school (933-3434) for assignment directions.

Honors 9

Select two of the following novels:

• Little Women by Louisa Mae Alcott
• When the Legends Die by Hal Borland
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• Where are the Children? by Mary Higgins Clark
• The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
• I am the Cheese by Robert Cormier
• Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
• The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
• Ice Castles by Leonore Fleischer
• The Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
• Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
• Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
• The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
• The Call of the Wild by Jack London
• The Natural by Bernard Malamud
• Christy by Catherine Marshall
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• Kidnapped by Robert Lewis Stevenson
• Treasure Island by Robert Lewis Stevenson
• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Other Side of the Mountain by E.G. Valens
• The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
• The Once and Future King by T.H. White

Honors 10:

Required:

• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain

Select one of the following:

• A Death in the Family by James Agee
• Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
• Looking Backward: 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy
• Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• My Antonia by Willa Cather
• The Awakening by Kate Chopin
• The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
• The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
• The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
• A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
• As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest Gaines
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Hurston
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
• Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
• The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
• Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
• Sula by Toni Morrison
• The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• The Chosen by Chaim Potok
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger *
• The Jungle by Upton Sinclair *
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck *
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut *
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker *
• The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
• Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
• Native Son by Richard Wright *
• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
• House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
• The Stranger by Albert Camus
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
• Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• Crime and Punishment by Feodor Dostoevski
• The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
• Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
• A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
• The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• The Tin Drum by Grass Gunter
• Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
• The Trial by Franz Kafka
• Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence *
• Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
• Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
• Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
• All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
• Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
• Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

AP 11:

• The Crucible by Arthur Miller
• Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut* or The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen
• Crane
• How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster

AP 12:

• Four Great Plays by Henrik Ibsen

*Warning:  Language and/or themes may be objectionable