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MANSFIELD
SUMMER READING LIST, 2010
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
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All
students at Mansfield High School are encouraged to
read one or more books for their enjoyment and for
their continued skill development during summer
vacation. The following link will give you the
information for suggested titles that are related
thematically to the different courses’ units. They
vary in levels of difficulty. These books should be
available at most bookstores and at the Mansfield
Public Library.
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All
students at Mansfield High School are encouraged to read
one or more books for their enjoyment and for their
continued skill development during summer vacation. The
following suggested titles are related thematically to
the different courses’ units. They vary in levels of
difficulty. These books should be available at most
bookstores and at the Mansfield Public Library.
Students
entering Grade 9:
Students
who are taking College Prep A or B, must read one of the
following choices below.
Students who are taking Honors must read two
books from the choices below; one of the choices must be
from the selections with asterisks. Students should
anticipate an assessment on the reading and take notes
on plot, characters, and theme. Notes must be
handwritten to use with the assessment.
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Sunrise
over Fallujah, Walter Dean Myers
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Son
of the Mob, Gordon Korman
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Speak,
Laurie Halse Anderson
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The
Chocolate War, Robert Cormier
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Hotel
on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Jamie Ford
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*A
Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
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*Something
Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury
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*I
Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
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Students
entering Grade 10:
Students
who are taking College Prep A or B, must read one of the
following choices below.
Students who are taking Honors must read two
books from the choices below; one of the choices must be
from the selections with asterisks. Students should
anticipate an assessment on the reading and take notes
on plot, characters, and theme. Notes must be
handwritten to use with the assessment.
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Parrot in the Oven, Victor
Martinez |
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Eleven
Seconds: a story of tragedy, courage, and triumph.
Travis Roy
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The
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Mark
Haddon
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Farenheit
451, Ray Bradbury
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Snow
Flower and the Secret Fan, Lisa See
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Run,
Ann Patchett
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*Kite
Runner, Khaled Hosseini
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*Jane
Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
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*My
Antonia, Willa Cather
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Students
in Grades 11 and
12 are encouraged to read one or more books for
their enjoyment and for their continued skill
development during the summer vacation.
The following suggested titles are related
thematically to the different courses’ units.
To receive extra credit for one of the selections, students must read
a book from their designated list, complete a reading
journal, and
submit their work
to their English teacher during the first week that
their English class meets.
The reading journal directions may be found on
MHS website under Summer Reading.
Students
entering Grade 11
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Into
the Wild, Jon Krakauer
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A
Lesson Before Dying, Ernest J. Gaines
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Lovely
Bones, Alice Sebold
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The
Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
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The
Help, Kathryn Stockett
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The
Road, Cormac McCarthy
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Devil
in the White City, Erik Larson
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Wait
Until Next Year: Summer Afternoons with My Father
and Baseball, Doris Kearns
Goodwin
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Students
taking 11 AP must read the following book and may choose
one of the selections above for extra credit. AP
students are encouraged to take notes on The Jungle to
help them review for their assessment.
*The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
Students
entering Grade 12
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The
Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
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Persepolis
(Part I), Marjane Satrapi
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The
Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir,
Bill Bryson
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A
Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, Ishmael Beah
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The
Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier’s Education, Craig Mullaney
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Angela’s
Ashes, Frank McCourt
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The
Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
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Three
Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson
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Students taking 12 AP must read the following book and may read one of the above books for extra credit. AP students are encouraged to take notes on Wuthering Heights to help them review for their assessment.
*Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
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Extra
Credit Reading Journal
Extra
Credit Reading Journal for Grades 11 and 12.
Answer
the following questions carefully and thoroughly.
Please use relevant textual evidence to support
your ideas. Be sure to identify the book’s title and
author’s name.
Due:
first week of English class
Length:
approximately 3 pages, handwritten neatly
(a)
Write a one-page reaction statement to
the book that you read.
Be specific in your thoughts about points that
you liked or didn’t like about the book, ideas that
intrigued you, etc.
Be sure to include specific
textual references. Include page numbers.
(b)
Cite a memorable passage of no more than
thirty words or three sentences from the book.
Include page number(s). Explain why
you have chosen this passage from the book.
(c)
Describe your first impression of one
character or event that you find interesting.
Give at least three
examples of textual evidence that supports or
generates this impression. Be sure to include the page
numbers.
(d)
**Identify what causes a significant
change in one character, and describe the results of
that change. This
change may be the consequence of a choice, a conflict
of some kind that has to be resolved, a display of
some outstanding trait like courage, or even the
result of an action or event that occurs during the
story.
**Students
who read The
Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid are to
answer the following question instead of “d”
(students must answer parts a, b, and c as well).
**Does
the childhood Bryson describes take place in a lost
America? He
paints a rich portrait of community ties and identity.
To what degree do those ties still exist?
What has been lost?
Consider the effects of TV and the computer.
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