HONORS and ADVANCED PLACEMENT OUTSIDE READINGS

2007-2008

Powell High School

Contact school (938-2171) for assignment directions

Honors 9:

• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Honors 10:

• A Separate Peace by John Knowles
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck *

AP 11:

• Twenty-Five Great Essays by Robert DiYanni
  Selections:     “Notes of A Native Son” by James Baldwin
                        “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell
                        “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan
                        “Beauty:  When the Other Dancer is Self” by Alice Walker
                        “Salvation” by Langston Hughes
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

AP 12:

• The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
• Reading Lolita in Tehran:  A Memoir of Books by Azar Nafisi