Lakewood
High School Reading List
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Lakewood
High School Reading List |
9th grade || 10th Grade || 11th Grade || 12th Grade
All preparatory reading is due on the first day of the 2008-09 school year.
Entering Freshmen from Lakewood public schools:
Read one book from the Lexile reading list provided by your middle school teacher and complete the online quiz that goes along with the book.
Entering Freshmen from non-Lakewood public schools:
1. Choose one of the following novels:
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
I am the Cheese by Robert Cormier
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
The Chosen by Chaim Potok
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Advanced freshman:
A Walk Across America by Peter Jenkins (project required)(top)
Entering Sophomores
Choose one book from the list below:
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines
Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
More Than You Know by Beth Gutcheon
Advanced sophomores:
1. The Odyssey by Homer
2. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. Choose one from below:
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck(top)
Entering Juniors:
Lord of the Flies by William Golding (project required)
British Literature Advanced and English 11 Advanced Placement:
Required:
1. Read The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy and complete double-entry journal.
2. Read Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and complete double-entry journal.
3. Choose one from below, read and compete double-entry journal:
Dubliners by James Joyce
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
Howard's End by E.M. Forster(top)
Entering Seniors:
World Lit. :
Semester 1 -- Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
Semester 2 -- The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
Race in Literature -- see Mr. Wheeler for online reading
Speech --The Art of Public Speaking by Stephen Lucas
Drama -- The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds by Paul Zindel
Writing for College -- Fast Food Nation by Eric Scholsser
Practical Communications and Contemporary Reading -- Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
Journalism -- choose one from the following books:
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (Jeannette Walls’ memoir about her unique childhood with her dysfunctional parents who refused to conform to society’s views.)
All Over But the Shoutin’ by Rick Bragg (Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Bragg’s coming of age story of growing up poor in the South and dealing his alcoholic father.)
Growing Up by Russell Baker (who survived a rural Virginia childhood during The Great Depression to become a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist.)
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (Novelist Truman Capote spent 6 years investigating and interviewing the murderers of the Clutter Family of Kansas in this psychological portrait of true crime.)
How to Talk to Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere by Larry King (Larry King shares communicating secrets of value not only to future journalists, but almost everyone in every career.)
Creative Writing -- Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg (10 double-entry journals due)
Broadcast Media --
1. All My Sons by Arthur Miller
2. Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose
Great Lit./Great Film -- High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
English 12 Advanced Placement:
Required:
The Road by Cormac McCarthy -- reduction required
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood -- 10 double-sided journal entries required
Atonement by Ian McEwan -- 10 double-sided journal entries required
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe -- reduction required
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