Summer 2020 Reading Program
SFP English Department 2020 Summer Reading Program
The English Department is pleased to announce that the following texts will be required for students entering the Senior AP course, the World Literature Honors course, the Junior AP course, the Junior Honors course, and the Sophomore Honors course as preparation for the beginning of the academic year in September 2020. Students are responsible to read the required text and prepare for discussion; however, the English department asks parents to monitor reading progress during the summer. During the first week of classes, students will be given an examination on the required books.
Seniors: Advanced Placement English in Literature and Composition
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
How to Read Literature Like a Professor (Revised Edition) Thomas Foster
Seniors: World Literature Honors
Rings (Ring Series, Book 1) by Koji Suzuki. Translated by Robert B. Rohmer and Glynne Walley.
English 11: Advanced Placement English in Language and Composition
A Raisin in the Sun- Lorraine Hansberry
English 11: Honors
The Assistant- Bernard Malamud
English 10: Sophomore Honors
The Day of the Triffids- John Wyndham
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SUMMER READING – 2020
The books listed below are suggestions for your Summer reading. No book is required; there will not be tests, quizzes, or projects on these books in September. The English department has selected these books because we think you will enjoy them and they will help you be well prepared for the new school year. More important than reading any particular book is that you keep reading.
INCOMING 9th-GRADERS and RISING 10th-GRADERS
The Hunger Games
Wait Till Next Year
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The Sun is Also a Star
Outcasts United
Murder on the Orient Express
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
The Book Thief
Things Fall Apart
Ordinary People
RISING 11th-GRADERS and RISING 12th-GRADERS
Ragtime
Song of Solomon
The Other Wes Moore
Ready Player One
The Moor’s Account
The Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Educated
Black Boy
All Quiet on the Western Front
Pride and Prejudice
All the Light We Cannot See