English Summer Assignments
CP-A and CP-B English
English I and II Assignment (CP-A
and CP-B)
Students will select at least one book from the list below and prepare for a major assessment that will be given during the first week of school. These selections are the nominees for the 2008-2009 South Carolina Young Adult Book Award; they are nominated primarily by students and reviewed by a panel of media specialists from across the State of South Carolina.
English I and English II
Avalon High by Meg Cabot
Nature of Jade by Deb Caletti
Warrior Heir by Cinda Williams Chima
Hit the Road by Caroline B. Cooney
Copper Sun by Sharon Draper
Bad Kitty by Michele Jaffe
Sold by Patricia McCormick
New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
Dairy Queen by Catherine Murdock
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Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Dead Connection by Charlie Price Doppelganger by David Stahler
Trigger by Susan Vaught
Rules of Survival by Nancy Werlin
The Christopher Killer: A Forensic Mystery by Alane Ferguson
Monkey Town: The Summer of the Scopes Trial by Ronald Kidd
Firestorm: The Caretaker Trilogy: Book 1 by David Klass
Notes From the Midnight Driver by Jordan Sonnenblick
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English III Summer Reading Assignment (CP-A
and CP-B)
Students will select one book to read from the list below and prepare for a major assessment that will be given during the first week of class.
The Secret Lives of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
The Hunt Club by Bret Lott
Raising the Hunley: The Remarkable History and Recovery of the Last Confederate Submarine by B. Hicks and S. Kropf |
Sea Biscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
Bleachers by John Grisham
Gal by Ruth Bolton
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
19 Minutes – Jodi Picoult
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English IV Summer Reading Assignment (CP-A
and CP-B)
Students will select one of the British novels listed below, which will also be the novel used for a documented literary analysis paper during the first nine weeks. Students must maintain a Double-Entry Journal of quoted passages and reflections that describe the conflict, the turning point, the resolution, setting, character, point of view and theme (five quotations for each structural element). Students will also take a comprehension test on the novel within the first week of class.
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Once and Future King by T. H. White
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
1984 by George Orwell
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie |