Wheeler High School: Literature Summer Reading 2015-2016

ALL ON-LEVEL LITERATURE COURSES (9-12 GRADE)

1. Choose and read ONE book from your assigned grade level list below.

2. Complete your book before the FIRST DAY OF THE SEMESTER.

3. NOTE: ALL 12th

Grade students are expected to submit TYPED chapter notes on their

Summer Reading novel of choice to Turnitin.com the first week of the semester.

4. Be prepared to write an in-class essay the first week of the semester.

** During the essay, students may use one handwritten 4 x 6 index card containing notes on

characters, plot, setting, etc. The card is NOT required, but if students use a card, it will be

collected and kept at the end of the essay test. Typed and/or cut and pasted notes are NOT acceptable.

*Attention Parents: Some of the titles on the following lists contain mature content. Parental discretion

is advised.

9th Grade Reading List Hole in My Life—Jack Gantos

Bless Me, Ultima—Rudolfo A. Anaya

Monster—Walter Dean Myers

Speak—Laurie Halse

Tears of a Tiger—Sharon Draper

The Afterlife—Gary Soto

The Beast—Walter Dean Myers

The Skin I’m In—Sharon Flake

Sara’s Key—Tatiana de Rosnay

10th Grade Reading List An Abundance of Katherines—John Green

Copper Sun—Sharon Draper

Ender’s Game—Orson Card

Feed—M.T. Anderson

Hunger Games—Suzanne Collins

Into The Wild—Jon Krakauer

My Sister’s Keeper—Jodi Picoult

Obasan—Joy Kogawa

Sold—Patricia McCormick

Song of Solomon—Toni Morrison

The Color of Water–James McBride

The Fault in Our Stars—John Green

The Namesake—Jhumpa Lahiri

The Queen of Water—Laura Resau

11th Grade Reading List Black Boy—Richard Wright

Impulse—Ellen Hopkins

Kindred—Octavia Butler

Lovely Bones—Alice Sebold

Native Son—Richard Wright

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest— Ken

Kesey

Purple Hibiscus—Chimamanda Adichie

The Bridge of San Luis Rey—Thornton

Wilder

The Grapes of Wrath—John Steinbeck

The Sun Also Rises—Ernest Hemingway

Whale Talk—Chris Crutcher

12th Grade Reading List Angela’s Ashes—Frank McCourt

Catch 22—Joseph Heller

Donor Boy—Brendan Halpin

Glass Castle—Jeanette Walls

I Had a Hammer—Hank Aaron & Lonnie Wheeler

Invisible Man—Ralph Ellison

Spike Lee—Jim Haskins The Autobiography of Malcolm X—Alex Haley

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao—Junot Diaz

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time—Mark Haddon

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks—Rebecca Skloot

Three Cups of Tea—Greg Mortenson

Zorro— Isabel Allende

ALL HONORS LEVELS (9-12 GRADE)

9th Grade Honors 1. All students read and prepare outline (provided on Wheeler’s web site) on The Woman in White by Wilkie

Collins. **TYPED outline for submission to Turnitin.com the first week of the semester.

a) Each heading and subheading must have at least two parts. Do not exceed 2 pages typed using 1”

margins and Times New Roman 12 pt font.

b) Be consistent. Use either complete sentences or brief phrases, but do not use both.

c) This outline will be submitted to www.turnitin.com once information is provided by the teacher at the

beginning of class.

**Be prepared to discuss this novel and participate in novel-related activities the first two weeks of the

semester.

2. All students will select a second book to read from the On-Level 9th grade reading list, then be prepared to

write an in-class essay on the novel the first week of the semester.

** During the essay, students may use one handwritten 4 x 6 index card containing notes on

characters, plot, setting, etc. The card is NOT required, but if students use a card, it will be

collected and kept at the end of the essay test. Typed and/or cut and pasted notes are NOT acceptable.

10th Grade Honors (British Literature) 1. All students read and prepare chapter notes on Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

**TYPE chapter notes and commentary, including any questions you may have, for submission to Turnitin.com

the first week of the semester.

**Be prepared to discuss this novel and participate in novel-related activities the first two weeks of the

semester.

2. All students will select a second book to read from the On-Level 10th grade reading list, then be prepared to

write an in-class essay on the novel the first week of the semester.

** During the essay, students may use one handwritten 4 x 6 index card containing notes on characters, plot,

setting, etc. The card is NOT required, but if students use a card, it will be collected and kept at the end of

the essay test. Typed and/or cut and pasted notes are NOT acceptable.

11th

Grade Honors 1. All students read and prepare chapter notes on The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

**TYPE chapter notes and commentary, including any questions you may have, for submission to turnitin.com

the first week of the semester

**Be prepared to discuss this novel and participate in novel-related activities the first two weeks of the

semester.

2. All students will select a second book to read from the On-Level 11th grade reading list, then be prepared to

write an in-class essay on the novel the first week of the semester.

** During the essay, students may use one handwritten 4 x 6 index card containing notes on

characters, plot, setting, etc. The card is NOT required, but if students use a card, it will be

collected and kept at the end of the essay test. Typed and/or cut and pasted notes are NOT acceptable.

12th

Grade Honors 1. All students read and prepare chapter notes on One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

**TYPE chapter notes and commentary, including any questions you may have, for submission to Turnitin.com

the first week of the semester.

**Be prepared to discuss this novel and participate in novel-related activities the first two weeks of the

semester

2. All students will select a second book to read from the On-Level 12th grade reading list, then be prepared to

write an in-class essay on the novel the first week of the semester.

** During the essay, students may use one handwritten 4 x 6 index card containing notes on

characters, plot, setting, etc. The card is NOT required, but if students use a card, it will be

collected and kept at the end of the essay test. Typed and/or cut and pasted notes are NOT acceptable.

AP LITERATURE

1. All students entering AP Literature must read and prepare chapter notes on How to Read Literature Like a

Professor by Thomas C. Foster. **TYPE chapter notes and commentary, including any questions you may have, for submission to Turnitin.com

the first week of the semester.

2. All students entering AP Literature read As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner.

3. Be prepared to write an in-class essay in the first week and participate in novel-related activities the first two

weeks of the semester.

** During the essay, students may use one handwritten 4 x 6 index card containing notes on

characters, plot, setting, etc. The card is NOT required, but if students use a card, it will be

collected and kept at the end of the essay test. Typed and/or cut and pasted notes are NOT acceptable

AP LANGUAGE

1. All students entering AP Language must read and prepare chapter notes on The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf.

**TYPE chapter notes and commentary, including any questions you may have, for submission to Turnitin.com

the first week of the semester.

2. Be prepared to write an in-class essay in the first week on a book from the On-Level 11th grade Summer

Reading list and participate in reading-related activities the first two weeks of the semester.

** During the essay, students may use one handwritten 4 x 6 index card containing notes on characters, plot,

setting, etc. The card is NOT required, but if students use a card, it will be collected and kept at the end of

the essay test. Typed and/or cut and pasted notes are NOT acceptable.

SPECIAL EDUCATION READING LIST (9-12 GRADE)

Each student will read ONE book from the assigned grade level list, regardless of course level. He or she

will read the book during the summer and take an essay test on it during the first week of the semester.

During the test, students may use one handwritten 4 x 6 index card containing notes on characters, plot,

setting, etc. which will help on an essay test. The card is NOT required, but if students use a card, it will

be collected and kept at the end of the essay test.

Teachers will focus their grading of the essay on content and the student’s ability to discuss the novel in

detail rather than on writing style or grammar.

Students are responsible for obtaining a copy of their reading choice. Sources for books include

bookstores, internet sources, public libraries, friends, and parents.

NOTE TO PARENTS: Some of the titles on this list contain mature content. Parental discretion is

advised.

9th grade Sunny – Diary 2 – Ann M. Martin

Speak – Laurie Halse Anderson

Make Lemonade – Virginia E. Wolff

10th grade Sweetgrass – Jan Hudson

Soldier’s Heart – Gary Paulsen

Tears of a Tiger – Sharon Draper

11th grade The Skin I’m In – Sharon G. Flake

When Zachary Beaver Came to Town – Kimberly Holt

Forged by Fire – Sharon Draper

Esperanza Rising – Pam Munoz Ryan

12th grade Swallowing Stones – Joyce McDonald

Copper Sun – Sharon Draper

Hope was Here – Joan Bauer