Welcome, Incoming Eleventh and Twelfth 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 text title and edition noted by the instructor. 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 401A, AP English Language & Composition (grade 11)
Required Summer Reading: Please download the the PDF file (at right) titled "Guidelines AP Lang & Comp SR2020" for the assignment directions. There is no text to purchase; all of the readings are provided to the right for you to download. Should you have additional questions, or any problems with the provided files, please contact Mr. Cicoria at ccicoria@asparis.fr. |
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English 401B, IB English Y1 (grade 11)
Required Summer Reading: Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev (ISBN 978-0140441475). Please make certain to acquire the specified edition. Along with this, you are encouraged to read at least one other text from the recommended texts list at the bottom of this page. For specifics about the assignment, make certain to download and read the assignment guidelines to the right. Should you have additional questions, please contact Ms. Williams at bwilliams@asparis.fr. |
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English 401C, AP Seminar (grades 11 & 12)
Required Summer Reading: Please download the the PDF file (at right) titled "Guidelines AP Seminar Summer RDG" for the assignment directions. There is no text to purchase; all of the readings are provided to the right for you to download. Should you have additional questions, or any problems with the provided files, please contact Mr. Cicoria at ccicoria@asparis.fr. |
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English 402, Junior English (grade 11): please select one text from the list at the bottom of the page.
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English 501A, AP English Literature & Composition (grade 12)
Required Summer Reading: Select one (1) of the following texts: The American by Henry James; OR Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte; OR Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte; OR Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Please download and carefully read the "AP LIT SummerRdg Guidelines" PDF file (at far right) for suggested editions' ISBNs, assignment directions, and guidelines. Should you have any additional questions, please do not hesitate to contact Mr. Cicoria at ccicoria@asparis.fr. |
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English 501B, IB English Higher LevelY2 (grade 12)
Required Summer Reading: Othello by William Shakespeare, (Arden Edition, ISBN 978-1472571762). Please make certain to acquire the specified edition. To the right are instructions for what precisely you must do as you read the text. Should you have additional questions, please do not hesitate to contact Ms. Antoine at mantoine@asparis.fr for more information. |
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English 502, IB Standard Level Y2 (grade 12)
Required Summer Reading: For IBSL summer reading, you do not need to purchase a copy of the text, rather you will read the text online, using the MIT archive version of the text; the link is as follows: http://shakespeare.mit.edu/othello/. To the right are instructions for what precisely you must do as you read the text. Should you have additional questions, please do not hesitate to contact Ms. Burlow at aburlow@asparis.fr for more information. |
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English 503, Senior English
Required Summer Reading: You will read two (2) texts, the first of which is Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar (ISBN 978-0-06-114851-4). Please make certain to acquire the specified edition. Additionally, you will read one text of your choice from the list of recommended texts at the bottom of this page. To the right are instructions for what precisely you must do as you read the text. Should you have additional questions, please do not hesitate to contact Mrs. Schildge at sschildge@asparis.fr for more information. |
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RECOMMENDED TEXTS Adichie, C.N., Purple Hibiscus
Adiga, A., White Tiger Ali, M., Brick Lane Atwood, M., The Blind Assassin; Cat’s Eye; Alias Grace Austen, J., Pride and Prejudice; Mansfield Park Beah, I., A Long Way Gone The Best American Short Stories (latest) Beckett, S., Endgame; Waiting for Godot; Krapp’s Last Tape Capote, T., Summer Crossing Carr, N., The Big Switch; The Shallows (Nonfiction) Chabon, M., The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier and Clay Coelho, P., Zahir Coetzee, J. M., Age of Iron; Waiting for the Barbarians Conroy, P., My Losing Season Cunningham, M., The Hours Duncan, D. J., The Brothers K Ehrenreich, B., Nickel and Dimed Ellison, R., Invisible Man Enquist, P. O., The Story of Blanche and Marie Erdrich, L., Love Medicine Fadiman, A., The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down Ferrante, E., My Brilliant Friend Fitzgerald, F. Scott, The Crack-Up and Other Stories Franzen, J., The Corrections Graham, G., Travels with my Aunt Golden, A., Memoirs of a Geisha Ha, H., Brothers Haddon, M., A Spot of Bother Hamid, M., The Reluctant Fundamentalist Harari, Y.N., Sapiens, Homo Deus Hillenbrand, L., Seabiscuit Holden, C., The Jazz Bird Irving, J., A Prayer for Owen Meany; The Cider House Rules |
Ishiguro, K., Never Let Me Go; The Buried Giant
Just, W., An Unfinished Season Kadare, I., The Palace of Dreams; Broken April Kingsolver, B., The Poisonwood Bible Lee, A., Lost Hearts in Italy Lahiri, J., The Namesake Lessing, D., The Golden Notebook; The Grass Is Singing Levy, A., Small Island Lippman, L., What the Dead Know Maisel, E., A Writer’s Paris Mason, D., The Piano Tuner Mc Carthy, C., No Country for Old Men; All the Pretty Horses Mc Ewan, I., Atonement; Enduring Love Mc Inerney, J., Bright Light Big City Mengestu, D., The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears Minot, S., Monkeys; Folly Mistry, R., A Fine Balance Monk Kidd, S., The Secret Life of Bees Murakami, H., 1Q84 Murray, L., Breaking Night Pettersen, P., Out Stealing Horses Pink, D., A Whole New Mind (Nonfiction) Proulx, A., The Shipping News Roth, P., The Human Stain; American Pastoral Russo, R., Empire Falls Sedaris, D., Naked Smith, Z., White Teeth; On Beauty Somoza, J. C., The Art of Murder Stockett, K., The Help Strand, M., The Continuous Life Tan, A., Saving Fish from Drowning Toibin, C., Brooklyn Valdes, Z., Dear First Love Vowell, S., Unfamiliar Fishes Zafón, C., The Shadow of the Wind |
