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Summer Reading
Contact Person : Mr. Robert Petrillo, English Supervisor, 856-589-8500 ext.
7257
Click here for a Brochure of the Summer Reading List
You will need a copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader
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The Books : Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12 Faculty
Requirements:
All Grade Levels
and Courses
Honors English
AP Prep English 11 and AP English
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*indicates an Honors Selection
**indicates available as an audio book
^indicates available as an ebook (see below for instrcutions)
Grade 9
Literature and Composition, College Prep A and B, and Honors English
| Curtain - Agatha Christie | Parrot in the Oven - Victor Martinez** |
| *David Copperfield - Charles Dickens | The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants - Ann Brashares** |
| Lesson Before Dying - Ernest Gaines | *20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne^ |
| *Little Women - Louisa May Alcott^ | Walk Two Moons - Sharon Creech** |
Winning Every Day - Lou Holtz
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Grade 10
Literature and Composition, College Prep A and B and Honors English
| Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton**^ | October Sky - Homer Hickam |
| All But My Life - Gerta Weissman Klein | Once
the Acacias Bloomed - Fred Spiegel (To purchase this, see publisher's web site: www.ComteQpublishing.com) |
| *Dune - Frank Herbert** | *One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey** |
| *Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell | Prom - Laurie Halse Anderson |
| Hard Love - Ellen Wittlinger | *Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien - this is a challenging selection** |
| Lords of Discipline - Pat Conroy^ | Zee's Way - Kristin Butcher^ |
Grade 11
AP Prep English
| Beloved - Toni Morrison | Native Son - Richard Wright |
| The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan^ | Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck^ |
Literature and Composition, College Prep A and B and Honors English
| *All the Kings Men - Robert Penn Warren | *Light in August - William Faulkner |
| Anne Frank Remembered - Miep Gies | *The Native Son - Richard Wright |
| Bleachers - John Grisham** | *Oldest Living Confederate Widow - Allan Gurganu |
| The Car - Gary Paulsen | *Moby Dick - Herman Melville**^ |
| Death Wind - William Bell^ | *Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver** |
| *Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway | *Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison |
| The Joy Luck Club^ | *The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway^ |
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*The Jungle - Upton Sinclair |
This Boy's Life : A Memoir - Tobias Wolff |
Grade 12
Advanced Placement (AP) 12
Mr. Valerio's AP Writing Assignment
| Crime and Punishment - F. Dostoyevsky^ | Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley |
| Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy | Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte**^ |
College Prep A and B and Honors English
| *Doctor Zhivago - Pasternak | Le Morte d'Arthur - Sir Thomas Malory |
| Don't Look Behind You - Louis Duncan | The Lottery - Beth Goobie |
| The Great Train Robbery - Michael Crichton | *Mists of Avalon - M. Z. Bradley |
| Hard Times - Charles Dickens** | Scarlet Pimpernel - Emmuska Orczy |
| *Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy | Teen Idol - Meg Cabot**^ |
*Indicates Honors selection
**Indicates available as an audio book
^Indicates available as an ebook
All Grade Levels
All students in AP English, Honors English, Advanced and CP A and B
English and Literature and Composition courses are expected to obtain the
necessary books to fulfill the listed requirements. All area libraries, bookstores
and online bookstores have been asked to make copies of the books available for borrowing
or purchase. In addition, the IMC has "limited" quantities of many of
the books on the Summer Reading List, which are available for borrowing on a
first-come, first-serve basis. Those students going into AP 12 or
Honors 11 English will be asked to obtain books and assignments directly
from their teachers before school lets out for the summer
The summer reading must be completed before the first day of school in September. All students will be required to demonstrate their knowledge of their summer reading through an assessment in the early part of September. The grade on this assignment will comprise approximately 10-15% of the student's grade for the first marking period. The English teacher will provide students with specific instructions about the evaluation of their reading selection (s). Most assessments, however, will be of an objective nature (multiple choice, true-false, matching column, fill in the blanks). Some may include a short, open-ended written response. Generally, there will be about 50 questions..
Honors English 9-12
Students will read 2 books from the list. However, one of the two must be a
book that has been asterisked as an Honors selection.
College Prep English A and B
9-12
Students will read 1 book from the list. At the student's
option, that one book may be chosen from those which have been
asterisked as a required Honors selection.
Literature and Composition 9-11
Students will read 1 book from the list. It is recommended that
students in this course NOT read selections which have been asterisked.
AP English 11 and AP English 12
Students have a mandatory reading list and will be required to see their
individual teachers for receipt of the books. Students taking AP may also
be required to complete packets on ancient and classical literature.
HOT TIPS:
The IMC has copies of many of the summer reading books. You can check
these out before you leave school and June and return them in September.
The Margaret Heggan Library has several copies of each book. You can place
a hold on the book by using their online catalog.
Links to the IMC's WebCollection Plus catalog, Margaret Heggan's catalog and
Jersey Cat are found at the top of the page
If you are looking for plot summaries, do not forget the resources that are
available on the IMC's home
Use the Database Page for
Novelists,
Ebscohost's
Esco's
Literary Reference Center
Use the Reading Page for Book Reviews
If you read the book in May or June, there’s a chance you will not do so
well on the book test which occurs in September. Our suggestion is to begin your
reading towards the middle of summer (so that the book will still be fresh in
your mind when you take the test). Those who will be tested on multiple books (Honors,
AP Prep and AP courses) will obviously have to start sooner than the middle
of the summer, so try to time the reading as best you can.
EBook Instructions
The summer reading titles that are available in the ebook format may be one
of two types of ebooks, Follett ebook or an Over Drive ebook. Follett ebooks can
be previewed and checked out from Web Collection Plus. Click the links below for
further instructions.
Follett EBook
Instructions
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