 Westminster Academy® English Department High School Reading List 2011-2012 The required reading selections are listed for the 20112012 school year. Except for AP/Honors 12th grade, students are encouraged to begin their outside reading during the summer. Evaluations of each book in the core lists and each outside reading selection will be accomplished during the school year by one of these methods: 1. 2. 3. 4. Teacher constructed test Book report/critique Related project Another approved evaluation Index 9th Grade Reading List 10th Grade Reading List 11th Grade Reading List 12th Grade Reading List DS – Directed Studies th 9th Grade Classical Reading List 9 Grade Regular Core List Regular students will read each of the following books in class. Title Author ISBN # The Odyssey (Amsco) Homer 9780374525743 Voice in the Wind Rivers 9780842377508 The Lightning Thief (DS) Riordan 9781423134947 9th Grade Regular Core List Honor students will read each of the following books in class. Title Author ISBN # The Iliad (Amsco) Homer 9780140445923 The Odyssey (Amsco) Homer 9780374525743 The Republic Plato 9780465069347 Antony and Cleopatra Shakespeare 9780300124736 Oedipus and King Sophocles 9780226768687 The Aeneid Virgil 9780679729525 The Portable Dante (The Divine Comedy) Dante 978014243754 9th Grade Outside Reading List Each student must read at least one book from the following list. Additional outside reading books must be approved by the teacher. Honors Classical students will write an essay on one of the following books during the first week of school. Title Author Title Author Valens As Sure as the Dawn Rivers Hemingway Covenant Child The Wall: A Single Pebble Hersey God’s Smuggler (bio) Aku-Aku Brave New World Fighting for Dear Life Captains Courageous Dr. Zhivago Cry, The Beloved Country Dialogues Giants in the Earth Any title by Dekker (except Red, White, & Black) All the King’s Men Hinds’ Feet in High Places Ethan Frome The Tangled Web Heyerdahl Huxley Gibbs Kipling Pasternak Paton Plato Rolvaag Blackstock Brother Andrew Norris McDonnall Rushford Moser Hancock Reeves Gibbs Aeschylus Sophie’s Heart Wick Against All Odds: My Story Facing Terror Any title by Rushford Any title by Moser Legends of the Guardian King book series In the Eyes of the Serpent Fighting for Dear Life Agamemnon Friendly Shakespeare: A Thoroughly Epstein Painless...Bard Favorite Folktales from Around the World Yolen The Peloponnesian War Thucydides Facing Terror McDonnall Lives of Noble Grecians and Romans Directed Studies (DS) may choose from this list instead of the above list. Gentle Touch The Saga of the Sierras or Vienna Prelude Dandelion Wine The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man in the Moon Marigolds Great Expectations (abridged) Wings of Dawn Any book from the Pendragon Cycle One Corpse too Many Out of this Silent Planet Perelandra That Hideous Strength Firebird or any title by Tyers An Echo in the Darkness or any title by Rivers Hunt Title Author Thoene The Railway Children Nesbit Bradbury Men of Iron Pyle Zindel Bimini Twist (any book in series) Mansell Dickens Brower Lawhead Peters Lewis Lewis Lewis Tyers The Golden Goblet Mara, Daughter of the Nile A Single Shard Augustus Caesar's World The Westing Game A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver McGraw McGraw Park Foster Raskin Konigsburg The Other Side of the Mountain (Part 1 & 2) Farewell to Arms or The Sun also Rises Dekker Warren Hurnard Wharton Hoff Rivers 10thGrade Classical Reading List 10th Grade Regular Core List Regular students will read each of the following books in class. Title Author ISBN # Romeo & Juliet Shakespeare The Hound of the Baskervilles∆ Doyle (Ballantine) Song of the Silent Harp Hoff Lord of the Flies Golding 10th Grade Honors Classical Core List Honors students will read each of the following books in class. 9780374525743 9780842377508 9781423134947 0399501487 Title Author ISBN # The Prince King Lear Paradise Lost Cyrano de Bergerac Crime and Punishment 10th Grade Outside Reading List Machiavelli Shakespeare Milton Rostand (Signet Classic) Dostoyevsky 9780140449159 9780300122008 9780451529183 0451528921 9780553211757 Each student in regular English must read at two books from the following list. Honors Classical students must read one book from the list over the summer and will write an essay on it during the first week of school. Title Author Title Author Alas Babylon A Separate Peace Anthem Red Storm Rising A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Frank Knowles Rand Clancy Smith The Trial The Red and the Black Silk Under the Eastern Stars Kingscote Farewell to Manzanar Houston A Time to Heal and others in series In the Court of the Sun King The Princess Any title by Dee Henderson Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage The Book of Hours The Testament/The Street Lawyer Father Brown The Daughter of Time Whisper in the Wind Glimpses of Truth (or any other in Book of Book Series) To Know Her By Name To Love and Honor The Emerald Ballad book series Blood of Heaven Threshold Archon Conspiracy Publish and Perish The Cherry Orchard The Scarlet Pimpernel The Price of Liberty book series Heirs of Cahira O’Connor book series The Shadow of the Almighty Plays Selected plays by Isben Parson Wick Henderson As Sure as the Dawn The Zion Chronicles Any title by Stahl Kafka Stendahl Chaikin Chaikin Chaikin Morris &Funderburk Rivers Thoene Stahl Lansing Any title by Macdonald Macdonald Bunn Grisham Chesterton Tey Hoff Rebel With a Cause All Things Possible Return with Honor Cape Refuge Series Gadzooks (Bio) Graham Warner O’Grady Blackstock Dobson Cavanaugh Gods and Kings Austin Wick Hoff Hoff Myers Myers Hunt Wright Chekhov Orczy Morris Hood The Lazarus Trap Imposter Fire of Heaven Eli One by One (or others in series) The Atonement Child Lawhead Bunn Bunn Myers Myers Morris Rivers Hunt Elliott Chekhov Isben th 11thGrade Classical Reading List 11 Grade Regular Core List Regular students will read each of the following books during the academic year. Title Author ISBN # The Great Gatsby The Glass Menagerie The Crucible Choose one of the following three: In My Father’s House A Woman’s Place Candle in the Darkness 11th Grade Honors and AP Classical Core List Honors students will read each of the following books. Fitzgerald (Scribner & Sons) Williams Miller 9780743273565 In literature book 9780140481389 Thoene Austin Austin 9781414301204 9780764228902 9781556614361 Title Author ISBN # 9780812504835 The Scarlet Letter Hawthorne 9780553212747 Billy Budd Melville 9780143039433 The Grapes of Wrath Steinbeck 9780811214049 The Glass Menagerie Williams 9780684801223 Old Man and the Sea Hemingway 9780743273565 The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald 9780060512637 Our Town Wilder 9780449213445 The Chosen Potok 9781580495868 The Red Badge of Courage Crane Each regular student must read at least two books from the following list during the summer. Reading will be evaluated during the first week back. Additional outside reading books must be approved by the teacher. Honors/AP students will write an essay on one of the following books during the first week of school. Title Author Title Author Tapestry The Dream The Portrait of a Lady The Secret Life of Bees Ben Hur The Chosen The Robe The American Family Portrait book series (any title) Safely Home Huck Finn Return to the Heartland (any title) Redemption book series The Heirloom (any title) The Last of the Mohicans Minatra Stahl James Kidd Wallace Potok Douglas The Last Hurrah Matchmaker, Skin of Our Teeth Moby Dick Walden The Lottery and Other Stories The Presence or any other title by Bunn The Book of the Dun Cow Cavanaugh Any biography of Lincoln Alcorn Twain Bacher Kingsbury Minatra Cooper A Night to Remember Lord The Bridge Over San Luis Rey Spoon River Anthology Into Thin Air Deadline The Natural The Newpointe 911 book series Though None Go With Me Gone With the Wind My Antonia An American Tragedy Joy Luck Club Autobiography The Rocky Mountain book series The Ugly American Death of a Salesman Wilder Masters Krakauer Alcorn Malamud Myers Jenkins Mitchell Cather Dreiser Tan Franklin Wick Lederer Miller The House of the Seven Cables Grapes of Wrath Of Mice and Men Peace Like a River Hideaway book series A Long Day’s Journey Into Night Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other...Sketchbook A Raisin in the Sun Impeachment of a President Dream Thief In the Presence of My Enemies Fahrenheit 451 My Losing Season Little Women The Right Thing Driving Miss Daisy Go Tell it on the Mountain Cold Mountain Siddhartha Siddhartha O’Connor Wilder Melville Thoreau Jackson Bunn Wangerin Morris &Funderburk Hawthorne Steinbeck Steinbeck Enger Alexander O’Neill Irving Hansbury Trefousse Lawhead Burnham Bradbury Conroy Alcott Waddle Uhry Baldwin Frazier Hesse Hesse 12thGrade Classical Reading List th 12 Grade Regular Core List Regular students will read each of the following books during the academic year. Title Author ISBN # Beowulf Canterbury Tales Macbeth The Screwtape Letters (R & H) Unknown Chaucer Shakespeare Lewis (Macmillian) Bunyan (rewritten by Hazelbaker) In literature book In literature book In literature book 780684831176 0882707574 Title Author ISBN # Hamlet Night Shakespeare Weisel (Bantam) Hardy (Penguin Classic/Amsco) Conrad (Bantam) Orwell (Signet Classic) Chopin (Bantam) Ellison 0393956636 9780374500016 0553211684 Pilgrim’s Progress in Modern English 12th Grade Honors and AP Classical Core List Honors and AP students will read each of the following books. Tess of the D’Urbervilles Heart of Darkness 0553212141 1984 0451524934 The Awakening 055321330X Invisible Man(AP only) 0679732764 12th Grade Outside Reading List Students in Advanced Placement and Honors must read all books listed above during the school year (Honors, note exception: Screwtape Letters instead of Invisible Man.) During the summer they are to read 4 of the required books. For their critical analysis (paper), they may choose any other book EXCEPT those marked (R) from the following list. Each regular student must read Night and another book from the following list. Additional outside reading books must be approved by the teacher. Title Author Title Author Great Expectations Six classics by C.S. Lewis Pilgrim’s Progress (original) Wuthering Heights Any title by SigmoundBrouwer (R) Dickens Lewis Bunyan Bronte Brouwer Shelley Bellemy Butler Carroll Lawhead A Tale of Two Cities Dickens Midsummer Night’s Dream Tom Jones Fielding Vanity Fair Pride and Prejudice Shakespeare Angelou (Bantam) Thackeray Austen Frankenstein Looking Backward The Way of All Flesh Alice in Wonderland Celtic Crusader’s book series From Sea to Shining Sea or any title by Marshall Mill on the Floss Greene Hardy One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Kesey Power and the Glory Jude the Obscure Return of the Native or any other title by Hardy Hurston The American James Achebe Vonnegut Sons and Lovers Of Human Bondage Lawrence Maugham Faulkner Paradise Lost Milton Hunt Camus Heller Shute Joyce Woolf North Any play by Shakespeare Reading Lolita in Tehran Any title by Dekker Any title by Higgs Self Incrimination(R) A Constant Heart(R) The Kite Runner Shakespeare Nafisi Dekker Higgs Singer Mitchell Hosseini Crow A Thousand Splendid Suns Hosseini Swift The American James Why the Caged Bird Sings Their Eyes Were Watching God or any other title Things Fall Apart Slaughterhouse Five Light in August or any title by Faulkner The Novelist The Stranger Catch 22 On the Beach Portrait of the Artist… Any title by Virginia Woolf The Assassins or any title by North Kensington Chronicles book series (R) Gulliver’s Travels Marshall Eliot Hardy 12 Grade Classical Reading List, Cont. The Help (R) Stockett Sister Carrie Obasan Dreiser Kogawa One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich The Women Brewster Place Solzhenitsyn Naylor