ANTONIAN SUMMER READING
Words
are ideas…Reading is learning…Learning is growing…
During
the ten summer weeks, most young people have many more opportunities for free
reading – self-improvement and recreational reading – than is available during
the busy ten months of the school year.
Students
who use this time productively show impressive results. They learn more. They
get better grades later. They show improved aptitude test scores. They are
admitted to more selective colleges. They bring wider knowledge to their
employers. In short, the depth and breadth of their reading directly
influence their career ladders.
There
are many kinds of reading. Sports pages and romance novels are two kinds. But
the "best sellers" of today and yesterday, such as those on the
following pages, combine high interest levels with real self-improvement.
Attached
are master lists of books divided by grade. Each has been divided further into:
List A - Classics
List
List B - Diversity
List
List C - Leisure
List
Students
must select their books from the appropriate master lists according to the
following criteria:
o
Prospective
HONORS/AP students must read four (4) books: two books from List A, one book
from List B, one book from List C.
o
Prospective
College Prep students must read three (3) books: one book from List A, one book
from List B, one book from List C.
On
Friday, August 24, 2001, all students will be evaluated on their summer
reading. They will be required to complete an in-class essay in which they must
refer to each of the books read. We hope that students will find their summer
reading experience rewarding and enjoyable, so much so that they will continue
to read independently throughout the school year.
The
evaluation of the Summer Reading Books will include: Bibliographic information
on each novel, discussion about the conflict in each novel, protagonist
information, characteristics on the main character(s), setting and theme. Students will be allowed to use a 3x5 card
when evaluated on August 24, 2001.
READING LIST FOR PROSPECTIVE FRESHMEN
NINTH - List A
|
TITLE |
AUTHOR |
|
A Midsummer Night’s
Dream |
Shakespeare |
|
Robinson Crusoe |
Defoe |
|
Tarzan of the
Apes |
Burroughs |
|
Mythology |
Hamilton |
|
Watership Down |
Adams |
|
Their Eyes Were
Watching God |
Hurston |
|
To Kill a Mockingbird |
Lee |
|
Hiroshima |
Hersey |
|
Go Tell it on the Mountain |
Baldwin |
|
A Farewell to Arms |
Hemingway |
NINTH - List B
|
The Red Badge of Courage |
Crane |
|
The Kitchen God’s Wife |
Tan |
|
Night |
Wiesel |
|
Bury My Head at Wounded Knee |
Brown |
|
All Quiet on the Western Front |
Remarque |
|
The Bridge of San Luis Rey |
Wilder |
|
Dr. Zhivago |
Pasternak |
|
Talking God |
Hillerman |
NINTH - List C
|
The Great Train Robbery |
Crichton |
|
The Hot Zone |
Preston |
|
Ten Little Indians |
Christie |
|
The Call of the Wild |
London |
|
Firestarter |
King |
|
The Invisible Man |
Wells |
|
Fahrenheit 451 |
Bradbury |
|
The Yearling |
Rawlings |
|
The Little Prince |
Saint Exupery |
|
Lord of the Flies |
Golding |
READING LIST FOR PROSPECTIVE SOPHOMORES
TENTH - List A
|
TITLE |
AUTHOR |
|
The Count of Monte Christo |
Dumas |
|
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich |
Solzhenitsyn |
|
The Aeneid |
Virgil |
|
Anna Karenina |
Tolstoy |
|
Passage to India |
Forster |
|
The Power and the Glory |
Green |
|
The Odyssey |
Homer |
|
Brave New World |
Huxley |
|
Heart of Darkness in: Three Short Novels |
Conrad |
|
A Tale of Two Cities |
Dickens |
|
Once and Future King |
White |
|
Ivanhoe |
Scott |
|
The Republic |
Plato |
|
Don Quixote |
Cervantes |
TENTH - List B
|
Farenheit 451 |
Bradbury |
|
I Never Promised you a Rose Garden |
Greenberg |
|
Murder on the Orient Express |
Christie |
|
Cry, the Beloved Country |
Paton |
|
The Stranger |
Camus |
|
All Quiet on the Western Front |
Remarque |
|
The Chosen |
Potok |
|
The African Queen |
Forester |
|
Gulliver’s Travels |
Swift |
|
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest |
Kersey |
|
When the Legends Die |
Borland |
|
The Bridge of San Luis Rey |
Wilder |
TENTH - List C
|
Around the World
in Eighty Days |
Verne |
|
Jurassic Park |
Crichton |
|
Animal Farm |
Orwell |
|
And Then There Were None |
Christie |
|
Rebecca |
Du Maurier |
|
ANY TITLE |
Louis L’Amour |
|
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy |
Adams |
|
Briar Rose |
Yolen |
|
The Catcher in the Rye |
Salinger |
READING LIST FOR PROSPECTIVE JUNIORS
ELEVENTH - List A
|
TITLE |
AUTHOR |
|
A Passage to India |
Forster |
|
Crime and Punishment |
Dostoyevsky |
|
Death of a Salesman |
Miller |
|
The Great Gatsby |
Fitzgerald |
|
Great Expectations |
Dickens |
|
The Invisible Man |
Ellison |
|
Moby Dick |
Melville |
|
The Grapes of Wrath |
Steinbeck |
|
Narratives of a Life of Frederick Douglas |
Douglas |
|
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin |
Franklin |
|
Walden |
Thoreau |
|
Babbitt |
Lewis |
|
Arrowsmith |
Lewis |
|
Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
Twain |
|
The Crucible |
Miller |
|
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
Albee |
ELEVETH - List B
|
The Accidental Tourist |
Tyler |
|
The Awakening |
Chopin |
|
The Bluest Eyes |
Morrison |
|
Bless Me, Ultima |
Anaya |
|
Cacciato |
O’Brien |
|
Having Our Say |
Delaney |
|
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent |
Alvarez |
|
The Natural |
Malamud |
|
Refiner’s Fire |
Helprin |
|
The Portrait of a Lady |
James |
|
The Trail |
Kaffa |
|
Death Comes for the Archbishop |
Cather |
|
Native Son |
Wright |
|
Song of Solomon |
Morrison |
ELEVENTH - List C
|
The Blessing Way |
Hillerman |
|
A Prayer for
Owen Meany |
Irving |
|
The Clocks |
Christie |
|
Songs in
Ordinary Time |
Morris |
|
In Search of Our
Mother’s Gardens |
Walker |
|
A Bell for Adano |
Hersey |
|
365 Days |
Herr |
|
Beyond the
Burning Time |
Lasky |
|
Under the Blood
Red Sun |
Salisbury |
|
Dancing on my
Grave |
Kirkland |
|
Cold Mountain |
Frazier |
|
Dinner at the
Homesick Restaurant |
Tyler |
READING LIST FOR PROSPECTIVE SENIORS
TWELFTH - List A
|
TITLE |
AUTHOR |
|
Pride and Prejudice |
Austen |
|
Jane Eyre |
Bronte |
|
Wuthering Heights |
Bronte |
|
Canterbury Tales |
Chaucer |
|
Moll Flanders |
Defoe |
|
David Copperfield |
Dickens |
|
Tess of the D’Urbervilles |
Hardy |
|
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
Joyce |
|
Candide |
Voltaire |
|
The Loved One |
Waugh |
|
Crime and Punishment |
Dostoyevsky |
|
Fountain Head |
Rand |
|
Brideshead Revisited |
Waugh |
|
The Warden |
Trollope |
|
David Copperfield |
Dickens |
|
Vanity Fair |
Thackeray |
TWELFTH - List B
|
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
Angelou |
|
Lost Horizon |
Hilton |
|
Brave New World |
Huxley |
|
War and Peace |
Tolstoy |
|
Humbold’s Gifts |
Bellow |
|
Othello |
Shakespeare |
|
A Room of One’s Own |
Wolf |
|
Beloved |
Morrison |
|
Boy’s Life |
McGammon |
|
Any
Title |
Faulkner |
|
Joseph Andrews |
Fielding |
|
All the Pretty Horses |
Cormac |
TWELFTH - List C
|
Cold Mountain |
Frazier |
|
Catch – 22 |
Heller |
|
Schindler’s List |
Keneally |
|
Harry Potter |
Rowling |
|
Slaughterhouse Five |
Vonnegut |
|
The House of Mirth |
Wharton |
|
To the Lighthouse |
Woolf |