Summer Reading for Students Entering 9th Grade at St. Joseph High School:

 

All students must read 2 books this summer: Clemence McLaren’s Waiting for Odysseus (ISBN# 0-689-86705-0), as well as one of the books listed below.  You must complete the attached reading assignment for each book. The grades you earn on your summer reading assignment will count as 2 test scores first marking period grade.  Your summer reading assignment includes the “At-Home Assignment” on the back of this sheet, which is due on the first day of school.

 

(Choose 1 from this list.)

 

Mark Twain  The Prince and the Pauper

Charles Dickens Great Expectations

 Harper Lee  To Kill a Mockingbird

Daniel Keyes  Flowers for Algernon

 Jamaica Kincaid  Annie John

John  Knowles  A Separate Peace

Buchi Emecheta The Slave Girl 

J.D. Salinger Catcher in the Rye

 

 

Summer Reading for Students Entering 10th Grade at St. Joseph High School

 

10th Grade students must read Things Fall Apart, by Achebe Chinua and one of the books listed below. You must complete the reading assignment for each book (see the back of this sheet).  The grades you earn on your summer reading assignment will count as two test scores for first marking period. 

 

(Choose one from the list below, as well as Things Fall Apart.)

 

Jamaica Kincaid  Annie John

Ernesto Galarza Barrio Boy

Buchi Emecheta  The Wrestling Match

James McBride The Color of Water

John Griffin Black Like Me

Charles Johnson The Middle Passage

Isabel Allende The Infinite Plan

Julia Alvarez  How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

Sandra Cisneros The House on Mango Street

Ernest Gaines  Lesson Before Dying

Esmeralda Santiago  When I Was Puerto Rican

Rudolfo Anaya  Bless Me, Ultima

 

Summer Reading for Students Entering 11th Grade at St. Joseph High School

 

All students must read 2 books this summer: Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, as well as one of the books listed below.  You must complete the attached reading assignment for each book.

The grades you earn on your summer reading assignment will count as test score first marking period grade.  Your summer reading assignment includes the “at-home assignment” on the back of this sheet, an “in class” test & essay on both books.

 

Nathaniel Hawthorne  Scarlet Letter

Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God

Truman Capote  In Cold Blood

Willa Cather  Death Comes for the Archbishop

Ernest Gaines The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

Joseph Heller  Catch 22

Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms

Flannery O’Connor A Good Man is Hard to Find

Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse Five

Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn

Richard Wright  Black Boy

John Steinbeck  The Grapes of Wrath

Amy Tan  The Kitchen God's Wife

F. Scott Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise