Welcome, Incoming Tenth Graders!
Each course has specific texts and unique directions as to what you will complete for your summer reading assignment. Identify the specific course for which you have registered, and take careful note of the specific directions noted by the instructor. If you are asked to purchase a copy of the text, it will be your responsibility to purchase the specified edition of the required text (using the provided ISBN number) and to complete the accompanying assignment before the resumption of classes in August, so do not wait until the last minute! Should you have difficulties acquiring the specified edition, please reach out to the instructor listed for additional guidance. Have a great summer, and enjoy the reading!
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English 202
Required Summer Reading: Incoming English 202 students should also read The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (ISBN: 978-1526604736) over the summer. Students can read either an electronic or a hard-copy version of the novel and any edition is fine. Should you have any additional questions, please contact Ms. Burlow at aburlow@asparis.fr. |
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RECOMMENDED TEXTS
The English Department would also like to recommend any of the works below.
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Angelou, M., I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Capote, T., Breakfast at Tiffany’s; In Cold Blood Chen, D., China’s Son: Growing Up in the Cultural Revolution Brown, J., The Boys in the Boat Diaz, J., The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Dickens, C., Great Expectations Dybek, S., Childhood and Other Neighborhoods Garcia, C., Dreaming in Cuban Gladwell, M., The Tipping Point; Blink; Outliers (Nonfiction) Griffin, J., Black Like Me Gruen, S., Water for Elephants Gulland, S., The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. (Three books in series) Hemingway, E., A Farewell to Arms; The Nick Adams Stories Hosseini, K., A Thousand Splendid Suns Kingsolver, B., The Lacuna Lethem, J., Motherless Brooklyn Levitt, S., Freakonomics Martin, S., Born Standing Up (Biography) Mc Cullers, C., The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter; Ballad of the Sad Café |
Miller, A., All My Sons
Mitchell, D., Cloud Atlas Obama, B., Dreams from My Father Orwell, G., 1984 Patchett, A., Bel Canto Ryan, K., Selected poems Sebald, A., The Lovely Bones; Lucky Sedaris, D., Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim See, L., Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Shihab Nye, N., 19 Varieties of Gazelle:, Poems of the Middle East; Words Under the Words Spiegelman, A., Maus I; In The Shadow of No Towers Steinbeck, J., East of Eden Styron, W., Sophie’s Choice Tan, A., The Kitchen God’s Wife; Wild Swans Tashjian, J., The Gospel According to Larry Vonnegut, K., Slaughterhouse-Five Walker, A., The Color Purple Williams, T., The Glass Menagerie Wroblewski, D., The Story of Edgar Sawtelle Zusak, M., The Book Thief |
