SUMMER READING 2007- 2008

WORLD LANGUAGE:

World Language	450	AP Spanish	Rosaura a las diez	Pearson Prentice Hall	0137832346
World Language	470	AP French	Le Comte de Monte-Cristo	McGraw Hill Glencoe	0658005537

SOCIAL STUDIES:

Social Studies	131	US History I Honors	The Unredeemed Captive*	Vintage	0679759611
Social Studies	140	US History II Honors	Maggie, A Girl of the Streets	Bantam	0553213555
Social Studies	130	AP US History	His Excellency: George Washington	Vintage Books	1400032539

*US History I Honors
Summer Reading Assignment

Please read The Unredeemed Captive, by John Demos. Be sure to read the Preface – this will help you to understand the author’s goals for the book. Your answers to the questions below are due on the first day of class. This assignment will be graded as a quiz. Please be sure that your answers are typed, double-spaced, and in well-organized paragraphs.

1. What is the author’s thesis? In other words, what is his main argument?

2. For the English, what does “civilization” of what they called “Indians” entail? (List and briefly explain)

3. Briefly, what are the details of the Indian raid on Deerfield, February 29, 1704?

4. What could happen to the colonists once they were captured by Native Americans?

5. Why is Eunice Williams never “redeemed”? That is, why is she never returned to her family in Deerfield?

6. Why did many colonial women choose to remain with their Indian captors?

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT:

We encourage our students,

• to discover the time of day when you read the best; use this time for your reading.
• to list in a notebook the characters and places from a different culture, for example, Japanese and Spanish.

Advanced Placement English

McCarthy, Cormac All the Pretty Horses

Proulx, Annie The Shipping News

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander One Day in the Life of Ivan

Denisovich

Steinbeck, John Grapes of Wrath

Free choice –must have instructor’s approval. No novel/play will be selected

by more than one person.

Masterworks

Allende, Isabel Daughter of Fortune

Hemingway, Ernest A Farewell to Arms

Wright, Richard Native Son

Free choice –must have instructor’s approval. No novel/play will be selected

by more than one person.

Short Story and Novel

Alvarez, Julia In the Time of the Butterflies

Hosseini, Khaled The Kite Runner

O’Brien, Tim The Things They Carried

Women In Literature

Alvarez, Julia How the Garcia Girls Lost

Their Accents

Bronte, Charlotte Jane Eyre

Diamant, Anita The Red Tent

British Literature Honors

Dickens, Charles A Tale of Two Cities

Hardy, Thomas The Return of the Native

Ishiguro, Kazuo The Remains of the Day

Shelley, Mary Frankenstein, or The Modern

Prometheus

United States Literature

Irving, John A Prayer for Owen Meany

McBride, James The Color of Water

Salinger, J. D. Catcher in the Rye

United States Literature Honors

Fitzgerald, F. Scott The Great Gatsby

Hurston, Zora Neale Their Eyes Were Watching God

Miller, Arthur Death of a Salesman

Salinger, J. D. Catcher in the Rye

English II

Chevalier, Tracy Girl with a Pearl Earring

Lee, Harper To Kill a Mockingbird

Tukiyama, Gail The Samurai’s Garden

English I Honors

Paton, Alan Cry, the Beloved Country

Sophocles Antigone

Wharton, Edith Ethan Frome

Nonfiction: free choice: biography/autobiography/journal/diary

subject: a woman who has significantly impacted society and is

worthy of emulation by a young reader.

English I

DuMaurier, Daphne Rebecca

Kidd, Sue Monk The Secret Life of Bees

Steinbeck, John Of Mice and Men