HONORS and ADVANCED PLACEMENT OUTSIDE READINGS

2007-2008

West High School

For assignment directions, contact school (594-4477) or visit the school’s website: http://96.4.97.14/westhigh/index.htm

Honors 9:

Required:

• A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines
• The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
• Choose two of the following selections:
• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd *
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger *
• Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini *
• All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
• Falling Leaves by Adeline Yen Mah
• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sujie
• Emma by Jane Austen
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
• Jim the Boy by Tony Early

Honors 10/Combined Studies:

Required:

• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• Mythology by Edith Hamilton

Choose one of the following selections:

• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
• The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
• Dubliners by James Joyce
• The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
• The Plague by Albert Camus
• A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest J. Gaines

AP 11:

• How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas Foster
• All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller*
• Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck*

AP 12:

• Crime and Punishment by Feodor Dostoevsky
• Macbeth by William Shakespeare
• Native Son by Richard Wright

College Credit 12:

Required:

• Timeline by Michael Crichton
• Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

Optional:

• The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell *