Summer homework (note changes!)
All classes need to fill out a Major Works Data Sheet for each of the items read.
- Incoming 7th grade: HG Wells, War of the Worlds
- Incoming 8th grade: Diary of Anne Frank
- Incoming 9th grade: Twelfth Night by Shakespeare
- Incoming 10th grade: Antony and Cleopatra by Shakespeare and Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
- Incoming 11th and 12th Grade: Choose from the options below, depending on what class you are taking next year.
- Modern Literature (11th and 12th Grade): Dubliners by James Joyce and Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- AP Language (open to 11th and 12th graders):
Follow the instructions in the AP Summer Packet on Mrs. McAllister’s blog.
Then, read all 3 of these essays:
“Civil Disobedience”-Henry David Thoreau http://thoreau.eserver.org/civil.html
“Shakespeare’s Sister” – Virginia Woolf http://www.haverford.edu/psych/ddavis/psych214/woolf. room.html
“Education by Poetry” – Robert Frost http://www.en.utexas.edu/amlit/amlitprivate/scans/ edbypo.html
AND read one of the following books:
Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin or Walden by Henry David Thoreau
OR
a NON-fiction book by one of the following authors: Shelby Foote, Frank McCourt, Susan Orlean, Stephen Ambrose, Maya Angelou, Oscar Wilde, Christopher Hitchens, Malcolm Gladwell, Annie Dillard, Barbara Kingsolver, Paul Theroux
OR
a biography of one of the US Presidents or any of the Founding Fathers
