GRADE 10 COURSES
AP CAPSTONE SEMINAR
Students must read TWO books:
This year’s school wide summer reading selection was nominated by the students!!! You may choose any title, regardless of grade level. This means that, even though you’re going into 10th grade, you can read the 9th, 10th, 11th, or 12th grade nomination. Your pick!
(All Novels are from the 2025 Reading Olympics List)
The 9th grade class nominated Life As We Knew it by Susan Beth Pfeffer
The 10th grade class nominated All American Boys by Jason Reynolds
The 11th grade class nominated- Everlost by Neal Shusterman
The 12th grade class nominated- Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
(All Novels are from the 2025 Reading Olympics List)
Purpose Statement: Conflict provides crucial tension in any story and is used to drive the narrative forward. It is often used to reveal a deeper meaning in a narrative while highlighting characters' motivations, values, and weaknesses. While reading focus on a conflict that forces a character to change in a meaningful way.
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Sophocles Antigone, Translated by Robert Fagles. Penguin Classics, ISBN-10 0142437697; Available for free at this link: Antigone weblink; Antigone Google Drive PDF
Purpose Statement: Antigone, much like the AP Seminar course itself, focuses on argumentation, asking questions, and prioritizing the truth over opinions. Students should be prepared to participate with an approach to logic, argumentation, and solving disputed questions that focuses on minimizing the influence of biases and approaches conflict through multiple points of view.
HONORS ENGLISH 10
Students must read TWO books:
One book must come from this list:
This year’s school-wide summer reading selection was nominated by the students!!! You may choose any title, regardless of grade level. This means that, even though you’re going into 10th grade, you can read the 9th, 10th, 11th, or 12th grade nomination. Your pick!
(All Novels are from the 2025 Reading Olympics List)
The 9th grade class nominated Life As We Knew it by Susan Beth Pfeffer
The 10th grade class nominated All American Boys by Jason Reynolds
The 11th grade class nominated- Everlost by Neal Shusterman
The 12th grade class nominated- Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
(All Novels are from the 2025 Reading Olympics List)
Purpose Statement: Conflict provides crucial tension in any story and is used to drive the narrative forward. It is often used to reveal a deeper meaning in a narrative while highlighting characters' motivations, values, and weaknesses. While reading focus on a conflict that forces a character to change in a meaningful way.
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Students MUST also read Books I through IV of the following:
The Odyssey by Homer Emily Wilson Translation. The Odyssey Paperback – Deckle Edge, ISBN-13 978-0393356250
Purpose Statement: After reading Books 1 through IV (known as The Telemachy), be prepared to discuss how the themes of maturation and hospitality are revealed through conflict. Focus on the questions of how the characters treat each other, and how Telemachus undergoes change through the guidance of Athena, Nestor, and Menalaus. Students will be assessed on their ability to show how theme is revealed through conflict in both the summer reading novel and books I-IV of Homer’s Odyssey.
ACADEMIC ENGLISH 10
Students must read:
This year’s school wide summer reading selection was nominated by the students!!! You may choose any title, regardless of grade level. This means that, even though you’re going into 10th grade, you can read the 9th, 10th, 11th, or 12th grade nomination. Your pick!
(All Novels are from the 2025 Reading Olympics List)
The 9th grade class nominated Life As We Knew it by Susan Beth Pfeffer
The 10th grade class nominated All American Boys by Jason Reynolds
The 11th grade class nominated- Everlost by Neal Shusterman
The 12th grade class nominated- Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
(All Novels are from the 2025 Reading Olympics List)
Purpose Statement: Conflict provides crucial tension in any story and is used to drive the narrative forward. It is often used to reveal a deeper meaning in a narrative while highlighting characters' motivations, values, and weaknesses. While reading focus on a conflict that forces a character to change in a meaningful way.