For all students taking an honors Language Arts or English course in the fall. Please read the book for the class you will be entering this August. You may purchase a copy of the book if you prefer to read in hard copy.
Summer reading exams will be the Wednesday after Labor Day in all classes.
Honors Language Arts I & II:
7th grade: The Pearl (Steinbeck)
8th grade: Ghost (Reynolds)
Honors English and students in English IV:
Mr. Hooker’s Honors English I (9th grade): The Hobbit (Tolkien)
Mrs. Hardiman’s Honors English II and English II (10th grade): Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Mrs. Hardiman's Honors English III (11th grade): The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Mrs. Hopkins’s Honors English IV (2 required): Brave New World (Aldous Huxley) and How to Read Literature Like a Professor (Thomas Foster)
AP English (2 required): Frankenstein (Shelley) and How to Read Literature Like a Professor (Foster). These books must be purchased in hard copy, as annotating the text is part of the AP summer assignment.