Woodside High School REQUIRED Summer Reading Assignments 2007

Students entering A.S. and A.P. (honors) classes are required to read all of the titles listed for their grade level. All books must be read prior to the start of school; students can expect an assignment within the first week of school. Students entering mainstream and SDAIE classes are required to read one of the books listed at their grade level. Students will be tested within the first two weeks of school in their English class. A few of the books below have been made into major motion pictures. Students are required to READ the book. The writing assignments and tests administered at the beginning of the school year require a close reading of the novel. Students who have not read, but watched the movie, will not receive credit

A.S. students are REQUIRED to read all of the following: Ninth Grade: English I AS The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas (Abridged Bantam Classic, ISBN # 055321350-4) The Iliad: A New Prose Translation (Penguin Classic), Homer (translated by Martin Hammond) Tenth Grade: English II AS Grendel, John Champlin Gardner Beowulf, Seamus Heaney Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer (Oxford World’s Classics ISBN: 019283360X – read Introduction and Groups A and D) Eleventh Grade: AP Language Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass Herland, Charlotte Perkins Gilman Tortilla Curtain, T.C. Boyle Twelfth Grade: AP Literature The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien Catch-22, Joseph Heller

Mainstream and SDAIE students are REQUIRED to read one of the following: Ninth Grade: English I and English I SDAIE Monster, Walter Dean Meyer Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut The House of the Scorpion, Nancy Farmer The Color of Water, James McBride Tenth Grade: English II and English II SDAIE The Afterlife, Gary Soto The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon My Sister’s Keeper, Jodi Picoult Tortilla Flat, John Steinbeck Eleventh Grade: English III and English III SDAIE Pigs in Heaven, Barbara Kingsolver The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger Marley and Me, John Grogan One Thousand White Women, Jim Fergus Twelfth Grade: English IV and English IV SDAIE Zorro, Isabelle Allende Life of Pi, Yann Martel Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, Michael Lewis East Side Dreams, Art Rodriguez On the Road, Jack Kerouac

Limited copies of the above books are available for check out through the WHS library. Books may also be purchased at local bookstores- try Kepler’s in Menlo Park, Printers Inc. in Palo Alto, Barnes and Noble in Redwood City, or Tower Books in San Mateo. Local libraries are an excellent alternative. Call ahead for availability.

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