Westminster Academy English Department High School Reading List 2011-2012


Westminster Academy®
English Department
High School Reading List
2011-2012
The required reading selections are listed for the 20112012 school year. Except for AP/Honors 12th grade,
students are encouraged to begin their outside reading
during the summer.
Evaluations of each book in the core lists and each outside
reading selection will be accomplished during the school
year by one of these methods:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Teacher constructed test
Book report/critique
Related project
Another approved evaluation
Index
9th Grade Reading List
10th Grade Reading List
11th Grade Reading List
12th Grade Reading List
DS – Directed Studies
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9th Grade Classical Reading List
9 Grade Regular Core List
Regular students will read each of the following books in class.
Title
Author
ISBN #
The Odyssey (Amsco)
Homer
9780374525743
Voice in the Wind
Rivers
9780842377508
The Lightning Thief (DS)
Riordan
9781423134947
9th Grade Regular Core List
Honor students will read each of the following books in class.
Title
Author
ISBN #
The Iliad (Amsco)
Homer
9780140445923
The Odyssey (Amsco)
Homer
9780374525743
The Republic
Plato
9780465069347
Antony and Cleopatra
Shakespeare
9780300124736
Oedipus and King
Sophocles
9780226768687
The Aeneid
Virgil
9780679729525
The Portable Dante (The Divine Comedy)
Dante
978014243754
9th Grade Outside Reading List
Each student must read at least one book from the following list. Additional outside reading books must be
approved by the teacher. Honors Classical students will write an essay on one of the following books during the
first week of school.
Title
Author
Title
Author
Valens
As Sure as the Dawn
Rivers
Hemingway
Covenant Child
The Wall: A Single Pebble
Hersey
God’s Smuggler (bio)
Aku-Aku
Brave New World
Fighting for Dear Life
Captains Courageous
Dr. Zhivago
Cry, The Beloved Country
Dialogues
Giants in the Earth
Any title by Dekker (except Red, White,
& Black)
All the King’s Men
Hinds’ Feet in High Places
Ethan Frome
The Tangled Web
Heyerdahl
Huxley
Gibbs
Kipling
Pasternak
Paton
Plato
Rolvaag
Blackstock
Brother
Andrew
Norris
McDonnall
Rushford
Moser
Hancock
Reeves
Gibbs
Aeschylus
Sophie’s Heart
Wick
Against All Odds: My Story
Facing Terror
Any title by Rushford
Any title by Moser
Legends of the Guardian King book series
In the Eyes of the Serpent
Fighting for Dear Life
Agamemnon
Friendly Shakespeare: A Thoroughly
Epstein
Painless...Bard
Favorite Folktales from Around the World Yolen
The Peloponnesian War
Thucydides
Facing Terror
McDonnall
Lives of Noble Grecians and Romans
Directed Studies (DS) may choose from this list
instead of the above list.
Gentle Touch
The Saga of the Sierras or Vienna
Prelude
Dandelion Wine
The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man in
the Moon Marigolds
Great Expectations (abridged)
Wings of Dawn
Any book from the Pendragon Cycle
One Corpse too Many
Out of this Silent Planet
Perelandra
That Hideous Strength
Firebird or any title by Tyers
An Echo in the Darkness or any title by
Rivers
Hunt
Title
Author
Thoene
The Railway Children
Nesbit
Bradbury
Men of Iron
Pyle
Zindel
Bimini Twist (any book in series)
Mansell
Dickens
Brower
Lawhead
Peters
Lewis
Lewis
Lewis
Tyers
The Golden Goblet
Mara, Daughter of the Nile
A Single Shard
Augustus Caesar's World
The Westing Game
A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver
McGraw
McGraw
Park
Foster
Raskin
Konigsburg
The Other Side of the Mountain (Part 1
& 2)
Farewell to Arms or The Sun also Rises
Dekker
Warren
Hurnard
Wharton
Hoff
Rivers
10thGrade Classical Reading List
10th Grade Regular Core List
Regular students will read each of the following books in class.
Title
Author
ISBN #
Romeo & Juliet
Shakespeare
The Hound of the Baskervilles∆
Doyle (Ballantine)
Song of the Silent Harp
Hoff
Lord of the Flies
Golding
10th Grade Honors Classical Core List
Honors students will read each of the following books in class.
9780374525743
9780842377508
9781423134947
0399501487
Title
Author
ISBN #
The Prince
King Lear
Paradise Lost
Cyrano de Bergerac
Crime and Punishment
10th Grade Outside Reading List
Machiavelli
Shakespeare
Milton
Rostand (Signet Classic)
Dostoyevsky
9780140449159
9780300122008
9780451529183
0451528921
9780553211757
Each student in regular English must read at two books from the following list. Honors Classical
students must read one book from the list over the summer and will write an essay on it during the
first week of school.
Title
Author
Title
Author
Alas Babylon
A Separate Peace
Anthem
Red Storm Rising
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Frank
Knowles
Rand
Clancy
Smith
The Trial
The Red and the Black
Silk
Under the Eastern Stars
Kingscote
Farewell to Manzanar
Houston
A Time to Heal and others in series
In the Court of the Sun King
The Princess
Any title by Dee Henderson
Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible
Voyage
The Book of Hours
The Testament/The Street Lawyer
Father Brown
The Daughter of Time
Whisper in the Wind
Glimpses of Truth (or any other in
Book of Book Series)
To Know Her By Name
To Love and Honor
The Emerald Ballad book series
Blood of Heaven
Threshold
Archon Conspiracy
Publish and Perish
The Cherry Orchard
The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Price of Liberty book series
Heirs of Cahira O’Connor book
series
The Shadow of the Almighty
Plays
Selected plays by Isben
Parson
Wick
Henderson
As Sure as the Dawn
The Zion Chronicles
Any title by Stahl
Kafka
Stendahl
Chaikin
Chaikin
Chaikin
Morris
&Funderburk
Rivers
Thoene
Stahl
Lansing
Any title by Macdonald
Macdonald
Bunn
Grisham
Chesterton
Tey
Hoff
Rebel With a Cause
All Things Possible
Return with Honor
Cape Refuge Series
Gadzooks (Bio)
Graham
Warner
O’Grady
Blackstock
Dobson
Cavanaugh
Gods and Kings
Austin
Wick
Hoff
Hoff
Myers
Myers
Hunt
Wright
Chekhov
Orczy
Morris
Hood
The Lazarus Trap
Imposter
Fire of Heaven
Eli
One by One (or others in series)
The Atonement Child
Lawhead
Bunn
Bunn
Myers
Myers
Morris
Rivers
Hunt
Elliott
Chekhov
Isben
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11thGrade Classical Reading List
11 Grade Regular Core List
Regular students will read each of the following books during the academic year.
Title
Author
ISBN #
The Great Gatsby
The Glass Menagerie
The Crucible
Choose one of the following three:
In My Father’s House
A Woman’s Place
Candle in the Darkness
11th Grade Honors and AP Classical Core List
Honors students will read each of the following books.
Fitzgerald (Scribner & Sons)
Williams
Miller
9780743273565
In literature book
9780140481389
Thoene
Austin
Austin
9781414301204
9780764228902
9781556614361
Title
Author
ISBN #
9780812504835
The Scarlet Letter
Hawthorne
9780553212747
Billy Budd
Melville
9780143039433
The Grapes of Wrath
Steinbeck
9780811214049
The Glass Menagerie
Williams
9780684801223
Old Man and the Sea
Hemingway
9780743273565
The Great Gatsby
Fitzgerald
9780060512637
Our Town
Wilder
9780449213445
The Chosen
Potok
9781580495868
The Red Badge of Courage
Crane
Each regular student must read at least two books from the following list during the summer. Reading will
be evaluated during the first week back. Additional outside reading books must be approved by the teacher.
Honors/AP students will write an essay on one of the following books during the first week of school.
Title
Author
Title
Author
Tapestry
The Dream
The Portrait of a Lady
The Secret Life of Bees
Ben Hur
The Chosen
The Robe
The American Family Portrait book
series (any title)
Safely Home
Huck Finn
Return to the Heartland (any title)
Redemption book series
The Heirloom (any title)
The Last of the Mohicans
Minatra
Stahl
James
Kidd
Wallace
Potok
Douglas
The Last Hurrah
Matchmaker, Skin of Our Teeth
Moby Dick
Walden
The Lottery and Other Stories
The Presence or any other title by Bunn
The Book of the Dun Cow
Cavanaugh
Any biography of Lincoln
Alcorn
Twain
Bacher
Kingsbury
Minatra
Cooper
A Night to Remember
Lord
The Bridge Over San Luis Rey
Spoon River Anthology
Into Thin Air
Deadline
The Natural
The Newpointe 911 book series
Though None Go With Me
Gone With the Wind
My Antonia
An American Tragedy
Joy Luck Club
Autobiography
The Rocky Mountain book series
The Ugly American
Death of a Salesman
Wilder
Masters
Krakauer
Alcorn
Malamud
Myers
Jenkins
Mitchell
Cather
Dreiser
Tan
Franklin
Wick
Lederer
Miller
The House of the Seven Cables
Grapes of Wrath
Of Mice and Men
Peace Like a River
Hideaway book series
A Long Day’s Journey Into Night
Legend of Sleepy Hollow and
Other...Sketchbook
A Raisin in the Sun
Impeachment of a President
Dream Thief
In the Presence of My Enemies
Fahrenheit 451
My Losing Season
Little Women
The Right Thing
Driving Miss Daisy
Go Tell it on the Mountain
Cold Mountain
Siddhartha
Siddhartha
O’Connor
Wilder
Melville
Thoreau
Jackson
Bunn
Wangerin
Morris
&Funderburk
Hawthorne
Steinbeck
Steinbeck
Enger
Alexander
O’Neill
Irving
Hansbury
Trefousse
Lawhead
Burnham
Bradbury
Conroy
Alcott
Waddle
Uhry
Baldwin
Frazier
Hesse
Hesse
12thGrade Classical Reading List
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12 Grade Regular Core List
Regular students will read each of the following books during the academic year.
Title
Author
ISBN #
Beowulf
Canterbury Tales
Macbeth
The Screwtape Letters (R & H)
Unknown
Chaucer
Shakespeare
Lewis (Macmillian)
Bunyan (rewritten by
Hazelbaker)
In literature book
In literature book
In literature book
780684831176
0882707574
Title
Author
ISBN #
Hamlet
Night
Shakespeare
Weisel (Bantam)
Hardy (Penguin
Classic/Amsco)
Conrad (Bantam)
Orwell (Signet Classic)
Chopin (Bantam)
Ellison
0393956636
9780374500016
0553211684
Pilgrim’s Progress in Modern English
12th Grade Honors and AP Classical Core List
Honors and AP students will read each of the following books.
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Heart of Darkness
0553212141
1984
0451524934
The Awakening
055321330X
Invisible Man(AP only)
0679732764
12th Grade Outside Reading List
Students in Advanced Placement and Honors must read all books listed above during the school year (Honors,
note exception: Screwtape Letters instead of Invisible Man.) During the summer they are to read 4 of the
required books. For their critical analysis (paper), they may choose any other book EXCEPT those marked (R)
from the following list.
Each regular student must read Night and another book from the following list. Additional outside reading books
must be approved by the teacher.
Title
Author
Title
Author
Great Expectations
Six classics by C.S. Lewis
Pilgrim’s Progress (original)
Wuthering Heights
Any title by SigmoundBrouwer (R)
Dickens
Lewis
Bunyan
Bronte
Brouwer
Shelley
Bellemy
Butler
Carroll
Lawhead
A Tale of Two Cities
Dickens
Midsummer Night’s Dream
Tom Jones
Fielding
Vanity Fair
Pride and Prejudice
Shakespeare
Angelou
(Bantam)
Thackeray
Austen
Frankenstein
Looking Backward
The Way of All Flesh
Alice in Wonderland
Celtic Crusader’s book series
From Sea to Shining Sea or any title
by Marshall
Mill on the Floss
Greene
Hardy
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Kesey
Power and the Glory
Jude the Obscure
Return of the Native or any other title
by Hardy
Hurston
The American
James
Achebe
Vonnegut
Sons and Lovers
Of Human Bondage
Lawrence
Maugham
Faulkner
Paradise Lost
Milton
Hunt
Camus
Heller
Shute
Joyce
Woolf
North
Any play by Shakespeare
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Any title by Dekker
Any title by Higgs
Self Incrimination(R)
A Constant Heart(R)
The Kite Runner
Shakespeare
Nafisi
Dekker
Higgs
Singer
Mitchell
Hosseini
Crow
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Hosseini
Swift
The American
James
Why the Caged Bird Sings
Their Eyes Were Watching God or any
other title
Things Fall Apart
Slaughterhouse Five
Light in August or any title by
Faulkner
The Novelist
The Stranger
Catch 22
On the Beach
Portrait of the Artist…
Any title by Virginia Woolf
The Assassins or any title by North
Kensington Chronicles book series
(R)
Gulliver’s Travels
Marshall
Eliot
Hardy
12 Grade Classical Reading List, Cont.
The Help (R)
Stockett
Sister Carrie
Obasan
Dreiser
Kogawa
One Day in the Life of Ivan
Denisovich
The Women Brewster Place
Solzhenitsyn
Naylor