Georgetown Middle High School Summer Reading List 2012

English Department

All students will read assigned books during the summer.  Next September (or January if you are taking a second semester course), English teachers will build upon themes developed in the books listed below for each grade and course level.  Students will be expected to demonstrate their familiarity with the texts and to discuss, both orally and in writing, their understanding of the major issues and themes.  Within one week after the start of the term, students will take a summer reading test; some teachers may add a class presentation on an aspect of the reading.

Grade 12

     AP:  

                 A Long Day’s Journey into Night, Eugene O’Neill

                 Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston

                 Oresteia, Aeschylus

     Mythology, Honors:     

                  The Life of Pi, Yann Martel

                 Oresteia, Aeschylus

     Mythology:   

                     The King Must Die, Mary Renault

     Creative Writing:

                  I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou

     Journalism:

                  The Greatest Generation, Tom Brokaw

                  Or

                  Play Their Hearts Out, George Dohrmann

    College Writing:

                  A Doll’s House, H. Ibsen

    Cineliteracy:

                  Making Movies Work, Jon Boorstin

                  Or

                  Conversations with Woody Allen, Eric Lax

Grade 11

     Level I (Honors):         

                  My Antonia, Willa Cather

                  Anthem, Ayn Rand

     Level II:      

                 The Reivers, William Faulkner

                  Or

                 Nine Stories, J. D. Salinger

Grade 11

  Level III:      

                 The Teammates, David Halberstram

Grade 10

     Level I (Honors):         

                 Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

                 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson

     Level II:       

                 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson

     Level III:      

                 The Invisible Man,  H.G.Wells

Grade 9

     Level I (Honors):         

                 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith

                 A Separate Peace, John Knowles

     Level II:       

                 The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins

                 Or

                 All My Sons, Arthur Miller

     Level III:      

                 Rumble Fish, S. E. Hinton

Middle School

Grade 8

     All Students:

              Blue, Joyce Meyer Hostetter

     You will be tested on the book during the first week of school, so you may want to keep your own chapter notes.            

Grade 7

     All Students:

              Gold Dust, Chris Lynch

      There will be a summer reading test during the first week of school, so you may want to keep your own chapter notes.          

 Grade 6

     All Students:

               The Young Man and the Sea, W. R. Philbrick

     There will be a summer reading test in the first week of school, so you may want to keep your own chapter notes.