English 9 R
Select ONE title from the list below:

The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls
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The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson
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English 9 H
Required:  The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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Select ONE additional title from the list below:

The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls
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The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson
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English 10 R
Select ONE title from the list below:

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
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Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
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The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
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English 10 H
Required: A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
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Select ONE additional title from the list below:

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
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The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman
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And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
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A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
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Beloved by Toni Morrison
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One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
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The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
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The Color Purple by Alice Walker
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Lone Wolf by Jodi Picoult
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English 11 R
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
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English 11 Honors
At the 11th Honor level, we require students to engage in the active reading of the classics. It is important for our students to have experience with writers who have transcended time and whose topics are as relevant today as they were when the novels were written. We also believe that students should have an opportunity to choose something to read based on interest or curiosity.

Therefore, students entering 11 Honors for the school year 2019-2020 will be responsible for reading two required works and one work of their choosing from a list of suggested titles.

In addition, students will keep a reading journal, being sure to log characters, setting, conflict, point of view, and key moments of text. The reading journal will be checked and students will receive credit for the work they have done. This will help prepare students for our initial class discussions as well as the Regents exam.

Required:
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
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Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
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AND Select ONE additional title from the list below:

The Nickel Boys: A Novel by Colson Whitehead
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Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
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Every Day – David Levithan
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Orphan Train– Christina Baker Kline
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The Invention of Wings – Sue Monk Kidd
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The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower– Stephen Chbosky
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The Underground Railroad – Colson Whitehead
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Between the World and Me -Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
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The Awakening – Kate Chopin
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A Man Called Ove – Fredrik Backman
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The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
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The Color Purple – Alice Walker
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Go Tell it on the Mountain – James Baldwin
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The Fire Next Time – James Baldwin
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As an English Department we strongly suggest that our students read How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster

11 AP Language – Students are encouraged to keep a reading journal of responses for each of these titles. It should include information regarding the characters, setting, conflict, theme(s), literary devices, your responses/connections/reactions and questions you may have.

Required Titles:
The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute To His White Mother – James McBride
David and Goliath: Undergods, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants – Malcolm Gladwell
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

English 12 Literary Themes
Select ONE title from the list below:

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
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Educated by Tara Westover
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Journalism
On Writing: a memoir of the craft by Stephen King
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WISE English 12
Students are required to read Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell and then any work of their choice from the list below:

Science/ Behavior:
A Short History of Nearly Everything – Bill Bryson
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Origins Neil Degrasse Tyson
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry – Neil Degrasse Tyson
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void – Mary Roach

The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality – Brian Greene

The Whole Shebang: A State of the Universe(s) Report – Timothy Ferris

Silent Spring – Rachel Carson

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking

The Power of Habit – Charles Duhigg

What the Dog Knows – Cat Warren

Future Crimes – Marc Goodman

Alan Turing: The Enigma – Andrew Hodges

Medicine:
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – R. Skloot
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers – Mary Roach
The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
America’s Bitter Pill by Steven Brill
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

History/Humanities/Inspirational:
Unbroken– Laura Hillenbrand
Tuesdays with Morrie– Mitch Albom
A Walk in the Woods– Bill Bryson
The Boys in the Boat – Daniel James Brown
Every Day – David Levithan
Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina – Michaela DePrince and Elaine DePrince
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race– Margot Lee Shetterly
Moonwalking with Einstein-Joshua Foer
Into the Wild– Jon Krakauer
Blink – Malcolm Gladwell
A Long Way Home (DO NOT USE YOUNG READERS EDITION) – Saroo Brierley
Between the World and Me by Ta Nehisi Coates
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Educated by Tara Westover

Entrepreneurial:
Shoe Dog – Phi Knight
Tools of Titans – Tim Ferriss
The Power of Broke – Daymond John
Originals – Adam Grant
Hustle – Neil Patel, Patrick Vlaskovits, and Jonas Koffler
Grit – Angela Duckworth
The Emperor of all Maladies – Siddhartha Mukherjee
Geek Girl Rising – Heather Cabot and Samantha Walravens
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

College English
Required titles:
Native Son by Richard Wright
Time and Again by Jack Finney
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

12 AP Literature
At the AP level, we require students to engage in the active reading of the classics. It is important for our students to have experience with writers who have transcended time and whose topics are as relevant today as they were when the novels were written. We also believe that students should have an opportunity to choose something to read based on interest or curiosity.

Therefore, students entering AP Literature for the school year 2019-2020 will be responsible for reading two required works and one work of their choosing from a list of suggested titles.

In addition, students will keep a reading journal, being sure to log characters, setting, conflict, point of view, and key moments of text. The reading journal will be checked and students will receive credit for the work they have done. This will help prepare students for our initial class discussions as well as the AP Lit exam.

Students are required to read two texts and will have a choice of a third.

Students are required to read A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens and
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe AND must select a third title from the list below:
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
Emma– Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice– Jane Austen
A Lesson Before Dying– Ernest Gaines
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doer
Frankenstein– Mary Shelley
The Stranger– Albert Camus
As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Metamorphosis– Franz Kafka
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison