English
Summer Reading
Natick High School English Department
Required Summer Reading 2010
Entering 9th grade:
? All incoming freshmen will read the Trouble with Lemons by Daniel Hayes. ? Students in English 10 classes (honors) will also read Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Entering 10th grade:
? All students entering sophomore year will readTuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom.
? Students in English 20 classes (honors) will also read The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers.
? Students in English 21 classes (college preparatory) will also read Proof by David Auburn.
Entering 11th grade:
? All students entering junior year will read ONE of the following nonfiction selections:
o Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
o An Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
o Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin
o The Teammates by David Halberstam
? Students in English 30 (honors) will also read The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.
Further information on the junior summer reading selections can be found at http://teachers.natickps.org/webpages/NPSCBernstein/index.cfm?subpage=17245
Entering 12th grade:
? All students entering senior year will read two books by the same author chosen from the proscribed list (based on the Massachusetts English Language Arts Frameworks) found below. These books will be the basis of the required Senior Literary Project.
? Students taking English 40 (honors) will also readA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce.
? Students taking Advanced Placement English 50 will also read Catch 22 by Joseph Heller and The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. [note: matriculating AP English students will also receive a packet of additional required summer work from Ms. Donnelly prior to the end of the 2010-2011 school year.]
Natick High School English Department: Senior Literary Project Authors
(Students must choose two books from these authors for the basis of their Senior Literary Project. )
Chinua Achebe
James Agee
Louisa May Alcott
Isabel Allende
Maya Angelou
Margaret Atwood
Jane Austen
James Baldwin
Jorge Luis Borges
Ray Bradbury
Emily Bronte
Geraldine Brooks
A. S. Byatt
Italo Calvino
Albert Camus
Raymond Carver
Willa Cather
Agatha Christie
Sandra Cisneros
Stephen Crane
Michael Crichton
Daniel Defoe
Don DeLillo
Charles Dickens
Annie Dillard
Isak Dinesen
E. L. Doctorow
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Margaret Drabble
Alexander Dumas
George Eliot
Louise Erdrich
William Faulkner
F. Scott Fitzgerald
E. M. Forster
Nicholas Gage
Ernest K. Gaines
Nikolai Gogol
William Golding
Nadine Gordimer
Sue Grafton
Thomas Hardy
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Robert Heinlein
Joseph Heller
Ernest Hemingway
Hermann Hesse
Victor Hugo
Zora Neale Hurston
Aldous Huxley
John Irving
Washington Irving
Kazuo Ishiguro
Sarah Orne Jewett
Ha Jin
James Joyce
Franz Kafka
William Kennedy
Jamaica Kincaid
Stephen King
Barbara Kingsolver
Maxine Hong Kingston
Jon Krakauer
Milan Kundera
Jhumpa Lahiri
Doris Lessing
Jack London
Naguib Mahfouz
Bernard Malamud
Cormac McCarthy
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Paule Marshall
Carson McCullers
Ian McEwan
Toni Morrison
Alice Munro
Vladimir Nabokov
V. S. Naipaul
Joyce Carol Oates
Tim O'Brien
Flannery O'Connor
Cynthia Ozick
Anna Quindlen
Robert B. Parker
Annie Proulx
Ayn Rand
Marilynne Robinson
Arundhati Roy
Salman Rushdie
Richard Russo
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Jane Smiley
Betty Smith
Alexander Solshenitsyn
Wallace Stegner
John Steinbeck
Elizabeth Strout
Amy Tan
J.R.R. Tolkien
Leo Tolstoy
Mark Twain
Anne Tyler
John Updike
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Alice Walker
Robert Penn Warren
Edith Wharton
Eudora Welty
Thomas Wolfe
Tobias Wolff
Virginia Woolf
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