English
Summer Reading
Natick High School English Department
Required Summer Reading 2011
Entering 9th grade:
All incoming freshmen will read Bullyville by Francine Prose. Students in English 10 classes (honors) will also read Lay that Trumpet in our Hands by Susan Carol McCarthy .
Entering 10th grade:
All students entering sophomore year will read Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott.
Students in English 20 classes (honors) will also read History of Love by Nicole Krauss.
Students in English 21 classes (college preparatory) will also read Once Upon a Town by Bob Greene.
Entering 11th grade:
All students entering junior year will read Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, An American Town by Warren St. John Students enrolled in English 30 (honors) will also read one of the following:
Hot, Flat, and Crowded by Thomas Friedman In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan The Post-American World: Release 2.0 by Fareed Zakaria Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior by Temple Grandin
Entering 12th grade:
All students entering senior year will read two books by the same author chosen from the prescribed list found below. These books will be the basis of the required Senior Literary Research Paper which will be completed first semester. Students are expected to declare their choices by Thursday, June 16 by going to MY FORMS on Ms. Hagemeister's Web Site. Students who reconsider their choices and wish to change MUST do so no later than Friday, July 15 by emailing Ms. Hagemeister directly at mhagemeister@natickps.org.
Students taking English 40 (honors) will also read The Law of Dreams by Peter Behrens and City of Thieves by David Benioff.
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 Research Paper (SLRP)
Approved List of Authors
(Students must choose two books by the same author for the basis of their Senior Literary Research Paper.
Books may NOT be works studied as part of the existing NHS curriculum. )
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Classic
Louisa
May Alcott Jane Austen
James
Fenimore Cooper
Daniel
Defoe
Charles
Dickens
Fyodor
Dostoyevsky
Alexander
Dumas
George
Eliot
William
Faulkner F. Scott Fitzgerald
Thomas
Hardy
Ernest
Hemingway
Victor
Hugo
James
Joyce
John
Steinbeck
Mark
Twain
Edith
Wharton
Virginia
Woolf
Science
Fiction/Fantasy
Douglas
Adams
Isaac
Asimov
Ray
Bradbury
A. C.
Clarke
Michael
Crichton
Ursula
LeGuin
Christopher
Paolini
Terry
Pratchett
Philip
Pullman
JRR
Tolkien
H. G.
Wells
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Contemporary
Chinua
Achebe
Isabel
Allende
Sherman
Alexie
Maya
Angelou
Margaret
Atwood
Sebastian
Barry
Michael
Chabon
Robert
Cormier
Sandra
Cisneros
E. L.
Doctorow
Roddy
Doyle
Margaret
Drabble
Louise
Erdrich
Alice
Hoffman
Zora
Neale Hurston
John
Irving
Ha Jin
Barbara
Kingsolver
Jamaica
Kinkaid
Jhumpa
Lahiri
Naguib
Mahfouz
Cormac
McCarthy
Gregory
Maguire
Gabriel
Garcia Marquez
Carson
McCullers
Alice
McDermott
Ian
MacEwan
Toni
Morrison
Joyce
Carol Oates
Tim
O’Brien
Flannery
O’Connor
Jodi Picoult
Chaim
Potok
Annie
Proulx
Arundhati
Roy
Salmon
Rushdie
Amy
Tan
Anne
Tyler
Kurt
Vonnegut, Jr.
Alice
Walker
Tobias
Wolff
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Mystery
Angela
Carter
Agatha
Christie
Walter
Mosely
Dashiell
Hammett
Patricia
Highsmith
P. D.
James
Tony
Hillerman
John
LeCarre
Dennis
Lehane
Sharon
McCrumb
Robert
Parker
Ruth
Rendell
Josephine
Tey
Drama
Edward Albee
Anton Chekov
Brian Friel
John Guare
Lillian Hellman
Beth Henley
Moliere
Eugene O’Neill
George Bernard Shaw
Wendy Wasserstein
Oscar Wilde
Tennessee Williams
August Wilson
Lanford Wilson
Historical
Fiction
Jean
Auel
Geraldine
Brooks
Michael
Cadnum
Forest
Carter
Margaret
Craven
William
Martin
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