Summer Reading List/ Assignment 2007

All students will be required to read the two selections chosen for their specific level. On the first Monday of the new school year, a test on this reading will be administered in English class, and it will count for 15% of the student's first quarter grade in English.

The test will be given over a two day span in the following manner: Day one will cover objective questions and prewriting on a topic which is relevant to the "pairing" of the two selections chosen; Day two will employ the prewriting material to complete a well organized and well developed essay.

The selections for summer reading are as follows:

FRESHMEN: CLASS OF 2011
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

SOPHOMORES: CLASS OF 2010
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
The Piano Lesson by August Wilson

JUNIORS: CLASS OF 2009
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Crucible by Arthur Miller

SENIORS: CLASS OF 2008
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen