ORATORY PREPARATORY SCHOOL
SUMMER READING REQUIREMENTS 2010-11
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT – GRADES 7-12
GRADE 7: SCIENCE
FICTION
THE HOUSE OF THE SCORPION by Nancy Farmer
Click here for Gr 7 assignment instructions.
Click here for Gr 7 graphic organizer.
GRADE 8: DETECTIVE FICTION
AND THEN THERE WERE
NONE by Agatha Christie
THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
*Students
are to read the following stories from Sherlock
Holmes: “A Scandal in Bohemia,” “A Case of Identity,” “The Speckled Band,”
and “The Engineer’s Thumb.”
Click here for Gr 8 assignment instructions.
Click here for Sherlock Holmes graphic organizer.
Click here for Agatha Christie graphic organizer.
GRADE 9: CLASSIC LITERATURE
CP: TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee
HONORS: TO
KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee
ANIMAL
FARM by George Orwell
GRADE 10: AMERICAN LITERATURE
CP: ROCKET BOYS by
Homer Hickam
HONORS: ROCKET
BOYS by Homer Hickam
INTO THE WILD by Jon Krakauer
Click here for Gr 10 Honors journal assignment instructions.
GRADE 11: BRITISH LITERATURE
CP: ANGELA’S
ASHES by Frank McCourt
HONORS: ANGELA’S
ASHES by Frank McCourt
BRAVE
NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
AP: ANGELA’S
ASHES by Frank McCourt
BRAVE
NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
by Charles Dickens
Click here for Gr 11 AP journal assignment instructions.
GRADE 12: WORLD
LITERATURE
CP: THE KITE
RUNNER by Khaled Hosseini
HONORS: THE
KITE RUNNER by Khaled Hosseini
SIDDHARTHA
by Hermann Hesse
AP: THE KITE
RUNNER by Khaled Hosseini
SIDDHARTHA
by Hermann Hesse
A DOLL’S HOUSE by Henrik Ibsen
Students will be evaluated on these selections during
the first weeks of school in September.
** Specific assignments for 7th, 8th,
10 Honors, and 11 AP students are posted above.
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