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Dear MHS Community:

Below are MHS summer reading assignments. The list is broken down by courses offered at the high school. Please scan through to see required readings and assessments. If you have any questions contact Scott Klepesch via email or at extension 2282.

English 1A and 1

Read the following and at the beginning of school students will develop a multi-media presentation that will include making a book trailer.

• The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party

English 1H

The following works should be read and annotated. The texts will be discussed in class as the basis for comparison with a core text. Additional details will be supplied in September.

• Things Fall Apart
• Edith Hamilton's Mythology Parts I, II and III

English 2

One of the following works should be read and annotated.

• Ransom
• Gallows Hill
• Twisted (Laurie Haise Anderson)

English 2A

Choose at least one of the following texts listed under this section. The works should be read and annotated. They will be discussed in class as the basis for comparison with a core text.

• 13 Reasons Why
• A Lesson Before Dying
• Tuesdays With Morrie
• The Boy Who Dared
• Chains (Laurie Haise Anderson)

2A Science Academy

Read the following:

• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

English 2H

Read the following texts. After July 15th, a forum discussion will open on Ms. O'Connor's Moodle page. Commentary can be submitted throughout the summer.

• Catcher in the Rye
• Ethan Frome

English 3

Choose one fiction or nonfiction text that focuses on an event or events in American History. Be sure to annotate as you read by using Post It notes or making notes in the margin of your book. This reading will be used as a reference point during the first marking period in conjunction with an in class text. The focus of the project will be on how history is told through literature. Particulars of the project will be announced in September; please note there is no written assignment for the summer.

*Suggested reads for the summer:

• To Kill a Mockingbird
• The Color of Water
• Where Men Win Glory
• Leaving Atlanta
• Cold Mountain
• Gone With the Wind
• The Feast of All Saints
• Maus I and II
• Night
• Snow Falling on Cedars
• Out of the Dust

English 3H

• Grapes of Wrath- a rhetorical analysis after the novel has been thoroughly discussed
• Read Either On the Road or The Things They Carried- a creative response to be determined and assigned at the end of September

English 4

English 4 is subtitled The Self and Civilization. Students will begin the class by examining their personal philosophy through a "This I Believe" essay in which they will then reflect on throughout the year. Many of the texts can be examined existentially, which loosely means the characters and plot elements focus attention on the nature and meaning of life. Since all students will be transitioning to life after high school, it makes sense for them to think about how to best make the move to college, trade school, work, volunteer or military service.

Some seniors may wish to jump start their personal inquiry through literature, and they may do so by selecting a text, not previously read, that deals with a character or social group transitioning from one phase of life or situation to another. The novel, biography or memoir may be from the current or any historical time period. Students will be required to submit a reader-response journal including a minimum of ten quotes from the text accompanied by a half-page of personal reflection per quote. Their personal reflections may not be summaries, but rather thoughtful response and analysis. The journal is due on the first day students meet with their English teacher. No late projects will be accepted. The project will count as a test grade for the first marking period.

AP Literature

Read the following:

• Bird by Bird
• A Thousand Acres

*Students can also check Ms. Laudadio's Moodle page for information about summer reading and assignments.

AP Classics Literature

Read the following

• The Odyssey- Fagles Translation
• Bird by Bird
  

*Students can also check Ms. Laudadio's Moodle page for information about summer reading and assignments

AP English Language

Readings will be discussed during class and students will reference works in a paper assigned during the year

• The Grapes of Wrath
• The Jungle

American Studies I

Read the following

• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close