Beachwood High School

English Department

 

Summer Reading Program 2003

 

 

In order to assure that students of Beachwood High School continue to read for pleasure and enrichment during the summer months, the English Department has developed the following required reading list for summer reading.

The goals of our Summer Reading Program are to:

 

Ø       encourage the enjoyment of reading;

Ø       help our students develop the habit of reading for pleasure, enrichment and information;

Ø       help our students maintain active reading skills;

Ø       help our students become reflective about what they read;

Ø       expose our students to new authors and choices they may not readily choose for themselves; and

Ø       provide the opportunity for students to read additional titles by authors that they know.

 

 

These titles have been complied by the English faculty of Beachwood High School and are available  at the Beachwood Public Library and in area bookstores. The books and assignments can also be found online on Beachwood City Schools homepage.  Students are encouraged to both read for pleasure and challenge themselves through the respective reading choices.

 

Some courses have required written work that accompanies the reading. The respective teachers of these courses expect that these assignments will be completed on the first Thursday of the 2003-2004 school year, August 28. Each student should consult the present teacher of the course about assignments that will be due in August.

 

Summer Reading is founded on the wish that you will become lifelong readers. Reading offers us time to escape from our immediate concerns in order to think through ideas, to learn about our world, to imagine ourselves in time and circumstance different from our own.

 

Enjoy the summer and enjoy reading!

 

 

 

 

v     Indicates that an assignment accompanies the reading

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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College Prep 9

 

 

To Kill A Mockingbird

 

 

Harper Lee

 

Honors I

 

 

The Once and Future King

 

 

 

 

E. B. White

 

 

College Prep 10
Of Mice and Men

 

Bone

 

 

 

John Steinbeck

 

Fae Ng

 

 

v      

 

HONORS II
The Power and the Glory

 

Things Fall Apart

Graham Greene

 

Chinua Achebe

 

 

American Literature
The Big Sea

 

Ordinary People

Langston Hughes

 

Judith Guest

v      

 

HONORS III

 

All the King’s Men

 

Robert Penn Warren

v      

 

Advanced Placement English
To the Lighthouse

 

Passage to India

 

The Stranger

 

Handbook to Literature

 

Virginia Woolf

 

E. M. Forester

 

Albert Camus

 

Holman (editor)

 

v      

College Literature

And Composition

 

 

 
The Color of Water

 

The Alchemist

James Mc Bride

 

Paulo Coelho

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