2012 Honors and Advanced Placement Summer Reading
(Click on course title for written assignments)
Song of Solomon, Song of Solomon Study Questions (PDF) and TWO of the following:
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood
The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
The Marriage Plot, Jeffrey Eugenides
Persuasion, Jane Austen
Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, David Wroblewski
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
English 11 Honors (click for assignment - PDF)
Read TWO - one from each group:
Fiction choices: Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien
The Color Purple, Alice Walker
The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
Nonfiction/Memoir choices:The Glass Castle, Jeanette Walls
Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, Ishmael Beah
No Impact Man, Colin Beavan
Sickened, Julie Gregory
The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
Peace Like a River, Leif Enger
Count of Monte Cristo, Alexander Dumas
IMPORTANT NOTES:
* Completed Honors English 11 and Advanced Placement written assignments are to be postmarked or delivered to the Strongsville High School Main Office by 3:00 p.m. Wednesday, August 8, 2012.
Strongsville High School
Attn: Honors English Summer Reading
20025 Lunn Road
Strongsville, Ohio 44149
* Students should take notes, keep a reader's journal or write personal responses to their reading.
* Students are encouraged to obtain their own books from the public library or local book stores.
* It is each student's responsibility to obtain summer reading written assignments before the end of school in June.
