HONORS and ADVANCED PLACEMENT OUTSIDE READINGS

2007-2008

See also Summer Readings for Fulton High School

Fulton High School:

Contact school (594-1240) for assignment directions

Honors 9:

Required: 

• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Select two of the following titles:

• I Am the Cheese by Robert Cormier
• Stuck in Neutral by Terry Trueman
• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd *
• Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
• The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream by Sampson Davis

Honors 10:

Required

• 1984 by George Orwell
• Things Fall Apart by Achebe

Choose one of the following titles:

• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
• Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hossini *
• House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

AP English Language and Composition (11) (4 selections)

Read BOTH the following mandatory titles:

• The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard

Choose ONE from the following list of American fiction selections:

• Anderson, Sherwood Winesburg, Ohio
• Baldwin, James Go Tell It On the Mountain
• Cather, Willa My Antonia
• Clark, Walter Van Tilburg The Ox-Bow Incident
• Crane, Stephen The Red Badge of Courage
• Dorris, Michael A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
• Ellison, Ralph Invisible Man
• Faulkner, William As I Lay Dying
• Gaines, Ernest The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
• Heller, Joseph Catch-22
• Hemingway, Ernest A Farewell to Arms
• Kesey, Ken One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
• Lewis, Sinclair Main Street
• London, Jack Call of the Wild
• McCullers, Carson The Member of the Wedding
• Melville, Herman Billy Budd
• Morrison, Toni Sula or The Bluest Eye
• O’Brien, Tim.  The Things They Carried *
• Parks, Gordon The Learning Tree
• Plath, Sylvia The Bell Jar
• Potok, Chaim The Chosen
• Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye *
• Sinclair, Upton The Jungle *
• Steinbeck, John The Grapes of Wrath *
• Twain, Mark The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Vonnegut, Kurt Slaughterhouse-Five *
• Walker, Alice The Color Purple *
• Wells, H.G. The Time Machine
• Wharton, Edith The Age of Innocence or Ethan Frome
• Wolfe, Thomas Look Homeward, Angel
• Wright, Richard Native Son  *
  

Choose ONE from the list of the following American non-fiction selections:

• Asinof, Eliot. Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series.
• Brown, Dee. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
• Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring
• Dorris, Michael. The Broken Cord
• Freedman, Samuel G. Small Victories: The Real World of a Teacher, Her Students, and
• Their High School
• Fremon, Celeste. Father Greg & the Homeboys: The Extraordinary Journey of Father
• Greg Boyle and His Work With the Latino Gangs of East L.A.
• Hawking, Stephen. A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes
• Hersey, John. Hiroshima
• Junger, Sebastian. The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
• Kozol, Jonathan. Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools
• Sheehan, Neil. A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
• Spiegelman, Art. Maus: A Survivor’s Tale
• Thoreau, Henry David Civil Disobedience or Walden: or Life in the Woods
• Thomas, Lewis. The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
• Williams, Juan. Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965

AP Literature (12):

Required:

• The Trial and Death of Socrates by Plato
• Beowulf
• The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Choose one of the following titles:

• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
• Emma by Jane Austen

*Warning:  Language and/or themes may be objectionable

Summer Reading—Summer 2007—Fulton High School

AP English Literature and Composition (4 selections)

Read the following three mandatory titles:

• The Trial and Death of Socrates, Plato
• Beowulf, Anonymous
• The Inferno, Dante Alighieri 

Choose ONE of the following titles:

•  Frankenstein, Shelley
•  Wuthering Heights, Bronte
•   Emma, Austen

AP English Language and Composition (4 selections)

 Read BOTH the following mandatory titles:

•  The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
•  Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard

 Choose ONE from the following list of American fiction selections:

• Anderson, Sherwood Winesburg, Ohio
• Baldwin, James Go Tell It On the Mountain
• Cather, Willa My Antonia
• Clark, Walter Van Tilburg The Ox-Bow Incident
• Crane, Stephen The Red Badge of Courage
• Dorris, Michael A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
• Ellison, Ralph Invisible Man
• Faulkner, William As I Lay Dying
• Gaines, Ernest The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
• Heller, Joseph Catch-22
• Hemingway, Ernest A Farewell to Arms
• Kesey, Ken One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
• Lewis, Sinclair Main Street
• London, Jack Call of the Wild
• McCullers, Carson The Member of the Wedding
• Melville, Herman Billy Budd
• Morrison, Toni Sula or The Bluest Eye
• O’Brien, Tim.  The Things They Carried
• Parks, Gordon The Learning Tree
• Plath, Sylvia The Bell Jar
• Potok, Chaim The Chosen
• Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye
• Sinclair, Upton The Jungle
• Steinbeck, John The Grapes of Wrath
• Twain, Mark The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Vonnegut, Kurt Slaughterhouse-Five
• Walker, Alice The Color Purple
• Wells, H.G. The Time Machine
• Wharton, Edith The Age of Innocence or Ethan Frome
• Wolfe, Thomas Look Homeward, Angel
• Wright, Richard Native Son
  

Choose ONE from the list of the following American non-fiction selections:

• Asinof, Eliot. Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series.
• Brown, Dee. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
• Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring
• Dorris, Michael. The Broken Cord
• Freedman, Samuel G. Small Victories: The Real World of a Teacher, Her Students, and
• Their High School
• Fremon, Celeste. Father Greg & the Homeboys: The Extraordinary Journey of Father
• Greg Boyle and His Work With the Latino Gangs of East L.A.
• Hawking, Stephen. A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes
• Hersey, John. Hiroshima
• Junger, Sebastian. The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
• Kozol, Jonathan. Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools
• Sheehan, Neil. A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
• Spiegelman, Art. Maus: A Survivor’s Tale
• Thoreau, Henry David Civil Disobedience or Walden: or Life in the Woods
• Thomas, Lewis. The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
• Williams, Juan. Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965

Honors English 10 (3 selections)

Read BOTH of the following titles:

• 1984, George Orwell
• Things Fall Apart, Achebe

Choose ONE of the following titles:

• Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier
• Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
• The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
• House of the Scorpion, Nancy Farmer
• Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte

Honors English 9 (3 selections)

• Read the following mandatory title:
• To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

Choose TWO of the following titles:

• I Am the Cheese, Robert Cormier
• Stuck in Neutral, Terry Trueman
• The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
• Girl, Interrupted, Susanna Kaysen
• The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream, Sampson Davis