Reading lists:
Below are the book lists for 2010--2011. Parents: please be sure to have the books for students before classes begin. Students: please be sure to note the summer assignments at the end of each list.
Parents: most of these books may be purchased inexpensively. Please see the notes at the end of these lists.
The numbers after the book titles are the ISBN. Please buy these specific books unless the word suggested precedes the number.
Books followed by authors’ names may be purchased in any complete edition.
Latin I
Henle Latin (0829410260)
Latin Grammar (0829401121)
Latin First Year (0877205515)
Latin II
Henle Latin I (see above)
Latin Grammar (see above)
Latin Second Year (0877205558)
Summer assignment: Memorize the vocabulary on pages 217--224 of Henle Latin I. Know the principal parts of the verbs. Note cards recommended.
Latin III
Latin for Americans (provided by Mr. Minick)
Latin Third and Fourth Years (0877205582)
Summer assignment: Memorize the vocabulary in Henle Latin I, pages 473--488. Know the principal parts of the verbs. Note cards recommended.
Advanced Placement Latin
Pharr’s Aeneid (9780865165847)
Aeneid Workbook (0865166145)
AP Virgil Workbook (0738607061)
Latin in Three and Four Years (see above)
Aeneid (Mandelbaum)
Summer assignment: Read Mandelbaum’s translation of The Aeneid. Memorize the word list that was handed out in class. This same word list is the “pull-out” page at the end of the Pharr book. There will be a test on this list during the first class meeting.
3Rs (11--13)
Elements of Style (Strunk and White)
Harp and Laurel Wreath (Berquist)
The Bible
Calvin and Hobbes (0836220889)
Treasure Island (Stevenson)
Six Great Sherlock Holmes Stories (0486270556)
Very Good, Jeeves! (1585677469)
True Grit (Portis)
The Importance of Being Earnest (Wilde)
Animal Farm (Orwell)
A Christmas Carol (Dickens)
The Long Winter (Wilder)
Someone Named Eva (Wolf)
How to Eat a Poem (0486451593)
Summer reading assignment: Read Someone Named Eva. We’ll be focusing on the book the first day of class. Be prepared.
N.B. Buy the specific Holmes book above. Use the ISBN. We will be annotating this book. This is a good inexpensive copy to use for that purpose.
3Rs (13--15)
Elements of Style (Strunk and White)
Harp and Laurel Wreath (Berquist)
The Bible
Antigone (0486278042)
The Old Man and the Sea (Hemingway)
Animal Farm (1585677469)
I Capture the Castle (Dodie Smith)
The Hobbit (Tolkien)
Someone Named Eva (Wolf)
Johnny Tremaine (Forbes)
Very Good, Jeeves! (1585677469)
Importance of Being Earnest (Wilde)
Our Town (Wilder)
How to Eat a Poem (0486451593)
Summer reading assignment: Someone Named Eva. We’ll be focusing on the book the first day of class. Be prepared.
N.B. Order Antigone by the ISBN (it’s a Dover Pub.) We’ll be annotating this book.
World History and Literature
Elements of Style
The Bible
Middle East for Dummies (0764554832)
Carnage and Culture (Victor Hanson)
Cry, The Beloved Country (0743262170)
When No One Sees (1576831590)
Great Short Poems (0486411057)
Lives of the Greeks and Romans (Do not buy a book. We will use bartleby.com for this one).
Dr. Faustus (0451527798)
A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens
The Old Man and the Sea (Hemingway)
West with the Night (Markham)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch (045152097)
Medieval People (Power) Go to abebooks.com for cheapest prices.
Antigone (0486278042) N.B. Order this book by ISBN for annotation.
Summer assignment: Read Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea. Write a review--not a book report-- of the novel (300--400 words). Do not use online resources. In your review, you may choose to analyze any aspect of the book you choose: the style, Hemingway’s ideas of honor and manhood, his descriptive powers in regard to nature, the symbolism of the shark and the old man. Again, I want to stress that you should not use outside resources. Read the book and then react to it in a well-written essay.
Advanced Placement Literature
You must purchase the books below by the ISBN number, if the number is preceded by “required.”. Some of these books have important essays in them which discuss the work at hand. We will be reading these essays for class.
Cracking the AP English Literature and Composition (Princeton Review)
Literature (Kennedy) (ISBN 0316488763) Ask current AP students if you may a copy.
The Sun Also Rises (Hemingway)
Pride and Prejudice (Required: 0393976041)
The Great Gatsby (Suggested: O743273567)
The Power and the Glory (Suggested: 0142437301)
The Sound and the Fury (Required: 0393964817)
Hamlet (I suggest a copy with side notes on each page).
The Brothers Karamazov (Constance Garnett translation)
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (Tyler)
Wit (movie and play)
Other plays from text
Summer reading: After talking with your parents, choose a book from the list below (You will find analyses of all the books at amazon.com). Read the book and then write a review of the book (400--500 words). Do not write a book report, that is, a summary. Review the book in terms of its characters, its plot, its literary devices, but don’t simply offer a reply of the book.
The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath Possession, A.S. Byatt
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh
On The Road, Jack Kerouac Look Homeward, Angel, Thomas Wolfe
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
AP English Language and Composition
Cracking the AP English Language and Composition (Princeton Review)
Strunk and White’s Elements of Style
Lost in the Cosmos (Percy)
My Early Life (Churchill)
On Boxing (Oates)
Shooting an Elephant (Orwell)
Letter from the Birmingham Jail (King)
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Dillard)
A Line Out for a Walk (Epstein)
An Education for Our Time (Bunting)
Mere Christianity (Lewis)
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Stream-line Baby (Wolfe)
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman (Feynman)
Summer reading: Read An Education for Our Time and then write a review (400 words) of the book. Do not write a book report. Do not sum up the book. Write a review of the novel, analyzing its approach to the topic of higher education, telling the reader how the book was or was not valuable to you.
AP U.S. History
Cracking the AP U.S. History (Princeton Review)
The American Pageant (any edition since 1987)
A History of the American People (Johnson)
A Sense of History: The Best Writing from the Pages of American Heritage
(0828111758)
The Good Years (Walter Lord)
6 additional books--three each semester--from assigned lists
Added texts as needed
Selected internet readings
Summer assignment: Read The Good Years and then write a review of the book (300--400 words). Do not write a book report. Analyze the book. What attracts you to the book? Is it good history? What might readers find objectionable?
Notes: Nearly all of these books may be purchased secondhand. Go to amazon.com, abebooks.com, or alibis.com. You might also look in our local Mr. K’s bookstore, Barnes and Noble, Books-A-Million, or Montford Books.
Strunk and White’s Elements of Style: Do not buy the original Strunk’s. Buy the book as edited and expanded by Theodore White.
