Haralson County High School

Honors American Literature Summer Reading Requirement

Students registered for eleventh honors American lit/comp should do a close reading of at least one book from the options listed below. Upon completion of the annotated bibliography forms, books read during the summer will count toward the Georgia 25 book reading standard as well as the graded reading requirement for the honors American literature class. Annotated bibliographies for books read over the summer are due on the first day of class, for either fall or spring semester.

Option one—choose at least one book length work by an American Nobel Prize winning author:

                Toni Morrison

                Saul Bellow

                John Steinbeck

                Ernest Hemingway

                William Faulkner

                Pearl Buck

                Eugene O’Neill

                Sinclair Lewis

Option two—Choose at least one of the following important works of American literature:

                Moby Dick by Herman Melville

                The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

                The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

                The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

                The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

                The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

                The Sea Wolf by Jack London

                Native Son  by Richard Wright

                There Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

                The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Special ambitious reader option—Read more than one book, choosing from either or both of the lists above.

Suggested Summer Reading For Secondary Students 

The 10 Most Recommended Authors by American Colleges and Universities

1.                  William Shakespeare

2.                  William Faulkner

3.                  Charles Dickens

4.                  Ernest Hemingway

5.                  Jane Austen

6.                  Homer

7.                  Mark Twain

8.                  Sophocles

9.                  Nathaniel Hawthorne                  

10.              F. Scott Fitzgerald

Novels and Short Stories

·   Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice; Emma

·   Baldwin, James. Go Tell It on the Mountain; Notes to a Native Son.

·   Bellow, Saul. Seize the Day.

·   Brontë, Charlotte. Wuthering Heights.

·   Camus, Albert. The Stranger.

·   Carroll, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland; Through the Looking Glass.

·   Cather, Willa. My Antonia; Death Comes to the Archbishop.

·   Cervantes, Miguel de. Don Quixote.

·   Chopin, Kate. The Awakening.

·   Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness. The Sharer; Lord Jim.

·   Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage.

·   Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe.

·   Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations; David Copperfield; A Tale of Two Cities.

·   Dostoevski, Feodor. Crime and Punishment; The Brothers Karamazov.

·   Eliot, George. The Mill on the Floss; Middlemarch.

·   Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man.

·   Faulkner, William. The Sound and Fury; “The Bear;” As I Lay Dying; Light in August; Absalom, Absalom.

·   Fielding, Henry. Tom Jones; Joseph Andrews.

·   Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby.

·   Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary.

·   Forester, E.M. A Passage to India; A Room with a View; Howard’s End.

·   Garcia Marquez, Gabriel. One Hundred Years of Solitude.

·   Golding, William. Lord of the Flies.

·   Hardy, Thomas. Tess of the D’Urbervilles; The Return of the Native.

·   Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter.

·   Hemingway, Ernest. A Farwell to Arms; The Sun Also Rises.

·   Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God.

·   Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World.

·   James, Henry. The Turn of the Screw; Portrait of a Lady.

·   Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; Ulysses; The Dubliners.

·   Kafka, Franz. The Trial; Metamorphosis.

·   Lawrence, D.H. Sons and Lovers; Women in Love.

·   Lewis, Sinclair. Babbitt; Main Street.

·   Malamud, Bernard. The Assistant.

·   Mann Thomas. Death in Venice.

·   Melville, Herman. Moby Dick.

·   Morrison, Toni. Sula; Beloved.

·   O’Connor, Flannery. A Good Man is Hard to Find.

·   Olsen, Tillie. Tell Me a Riddle.

·   Orwell, George. Animal Farm; 1984.

·   Paton, Alan. Cry, the Beloved Country.

·   Poe, Edgar Allan. Great Tales and Poems.

·   Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye.

·   Scott, Sir Walter. Ivanhoe; Heart of Midlothian.

·   Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein.

·   Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath; Of Mice and Men; Cannery Row; The Pearl.

·   Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver’s Travels.

·   Thackery, William Makepeace. Vanity Fair.

·   Tolstoy, Leo. War and Peace; Anna Karenina.

·   Turgenev, Ivan. Fathers and Sons.

·   Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

·   Updike, John. Rabbit, Run.

·   Voltaire. Candide.

·   Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse Five; Cat’s Cradle.

·   Walker, Alice. The Color Purple.

·   Welty, Eudora. Thirteen Stories.

·   Wharton, Edit. The Age of Innocence; The House of Mirth; Ethan Frome.

·   Woolf, Virginia. To the Lighthouse; A Room of One’s Own.

·   Wright, Richard. Native Son.

Drama

·   Aeschylus. Orestia.

·   Aristophanes. Lysistrata.

·   Beckett, Samuel. Waiting for Godot.

·   Brecht, Bertolt. Mother Courage and Her Children.

·   Chekhov, Anton. The Cherry Orchard; The Three Sisters.

·   Euripides. Medea; TheBacchae.

·   Goethe, Johann von. Faust, Part I.

·   Ibsen, Henrik. A Doll’s House.

·   Marlowe, Christopher. Doctor Faustus.

·   Miller, Arthur. Death of a Salesman.

·   Molière. The Misanthrope; Tartuffe.

·   O’Neill, Eugene. Desire Under the Elms; The Emperor Jones; The Hairy Ape.

·   Shakespeare, William. Hamlet.

·   Shaw, George Bernard. Pygmalion; Saint Joan; Arms and the Man.

·   Sophocles. Oedipus Rex; Antigone.

·   Wilde, Oscar. The Importance of Being Earnest; Lady Windermere’s Fan.

·   Wilder, Thornton. Our Town.

·   Williams, Tennessee. The Glass Menagerie.

Poetry

·   Allison, Alexander, ed. Norton Anthology of Poetry (Shorter Edition).

·   Anonymous. Beowulf.

·   Anonymous. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

·   Chaucer, Geoffrey. Canterbury Tales.

·   Dante. Inferno.

·   Homer. The Odyssey; The Iliad.

·   Milton, John. Paradise Lost.

·   Vergil. The Aeneid.

·   Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass.

Miscellaneous

·   Aristotle. Poetics.

·   Augustine, Saint. Confessions.

·   Bible.

·   Darwin, Charles. Origin of Species; The Voyage of the Beagle.

·   Emerson, Ralph Waldo. “The American Scholar” in Essays; “Self-Reliance.”

·   Franklin, Benjamin. Autobiography.

·   Freud, Sigmund. Civilization and Its Discontents.

·   Hamilton, Edith. Mythology.

·   Machiavelli, Noccolò. The Prince.

·   Marx, Karl. Communist Manifesto.

·   Montaigne, Michel de. Selected Essays.

·   Plato. Republic; Apology.

·   Thoreau, Henry David. Walden; Civil Disobedience.

*Source: Reading Lists for the College-Bound Students, 3^rd edition, by Doug Estell, Michele L. Satchwell and Patricia S. Wright. (2000.) Lawrenceville, NJ: ARCO/Thomson Learning.

  OVERVIEW OF 10th GRADE HONORS LIT & COMPOSITION

Text – Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes

This course is designed to prepare students for college reading, writing, research and literary assignments.  Students in the honors program work toward taking advanced placement classes in the senior year.  Success in the honors program requires time for outside reading and completion of writing assignments.  Time management, academic attitude, and independent learning are required.

This is an outline of the work for this semester.  I will be more specific as we move through the year.

Unit 1   The Elements of Nonfiction

             Nonfiction Selections

             Media Analysis

             Career and College Research

             The Writing Process (Persuasive writing)

             Timed Writing Practice

             The Research Process

              Mini Research Assignment

 Original Nonfiction and Presentation

 SAT Prep

Unit 2    The Elements of Fiction           

              Fiction – Selected Short Stories

               Original Short Story

               Fiction -  Novel (To Kill a Mocking Bird)

               Chapter Analysis and Presentation

               Character Analysis and Presentation

              Summer Reading Assignment (Book Talk)*

Unit 3   The Elements of Poetry

            Poetry – reading, talking, and writing about poetry

             Original Poetry

Unit 4   The Elements of Drama

            Mini Research Assignment

            Antigone

            Julius Caesar

            Writing Assignment – Critical Essay

            Original Writing Assignment – Script++

             Writing Assignment – TBA

             Novel – Group Book Talk