CHS English Department
2011 Required Summer
Reading List

Incoming NINTH Grade

None

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Incoming TENTH Grade

Regular English II - Click Here for English Summer Reading Requirements

Pre-Ap English II - Click Here for Summer Reading Requirements
Pre-Ap English II - Click Here for Rubric for Summer Reading Assignment

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Incoming ELEVENTH Grade

Regular English III – Click Here For the Summer Assignment

Pre-AP English III – Click Here For the Summer Assignment

AP English Language and Composition –
(1) In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote
and
(2) One of the following memoirs:
Angela’s Ashes, by Frank McCourt
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
The Glass Castle: A Memoir, by Jeanette Walls
Mississippi Solo: A River Quest by Eddy Harris
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster, by Jon Krakauer

Click Here for the AP English III Handout on "How To Mark A Book"
Click Here for the AP English III Summer Reading Handout

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Incoming TWELFTH Grade

For Both 12th Regular and IS English 12th Grade Regular Read – The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini

AP English IV Assignments:

How to Read Literature Like a Professor, by Thomas Foster

Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe

A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens

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